Rhea Seehorn has her own ideas on what happens next after the Better Call Saul series finale.
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Last year, the Breaking Bad spinoff series Better Call Saul came to an end after six seasons. While wrapping up the story that took place in the years before Breaking Bad started, the finale also brought some closure to the characters of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn). Unlike most of the other characters, their ultimate fates had still been unknown before it was revealed that the former is spending the next 86 years in prison – but with the respect and forgiveness of the latter, the love of his life.
What happens after the finale remains a mystery, and that’s how the Better Call Saul producers wanted it. It’s up to the viewers to decide if Kim’s visit to Jimmy in federal prison is her way of seeing him one last time to say goodbye before moving on with her life for good, or if it’s the start of the two maintaining some kind of relationship again, even from opposite sides of prison walls. But while speaking with Rich Eisen in a new interview, Seehorn shared her own theory about what happens next. As a sucker for romance, she believes the two are working on getting a reduced sentence for Jimmy and that the two are making the best of their new relationship, despite its challenges.
As Seehorn said during the Rich Eisen Show interview:
“I am a hopeless romantic, so even though I know that the series… Peter (Gould) nailed the ending as far as like, ‘I want their lives to live on, and for them to continue to have questions, the audience.’ And I said, ‘Well, I think you did that, but I’m a hopeless romantic, so if anyone asks me, I’m gonna say she definitely tries to figure out how to reduce his sentence.'”
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An Alternate Ending Teases More of Kim and Jimmy’s Continued Relationship
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In the actual episode, Kim takes one last look at Jimmy before walking away from the prison following their visit. Before he leaves her view, Jimmy flashes her the finger guns, a throwback to the good old days when they were having fun together years before. Seehorn tells Eisen that there was an alternate take where Kim does the finger guns back to Jimmy, but co-creator Peter Gould was concerned that this would have some viewers believing that this meant Kim had slipped back to her scamming ways.
“I don’t think she scams. We did have, you know the finger guns? We shot me giving them back, and they took it out. At first I was really sad, and then Peter and Vince (Gilligan) said, ‘Well, it was important to us that it not look like she just went right back.’ You know, car tire just went right back into the rut. She is different. She is changed forever. And she truly might get back into practicing law, and figure out how to do something about this, but it won’t be by scamming this time.”
Kim may be working on getting Jimmy out of prison sooner, but what of their romantic life in the meantime? Seehorn’s not entirely sure, but she has an idea.
“I don’t know. Conjugal visits?”
With no plans to do any more spinoffs set in that world, fans may never know for sure. Meanwhile, Seehorn is set to reunite with Gilligan for their next series. Not yet titled, the sci-fi series is in the works at Apple TV and has already been given a two-season order.
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