Mijo
| "Mijo" | |
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| Better Call Saul episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Michelle MacLaren |
| Written by | Peter Gould |
| Original air date | February 9, 2015 |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
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"Mijo" is the second episode of the first season of Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad. The episode aired on February 9, 2015, one day after the series premiere. The episode was written by series creator Peter Gould, and was directed by Michelle MacLaren. The title refers to the Spanish term of endearment mijo [ˈmi.xo], a contraction of mi hijo ("my son").
While Tuco Salamanca is preparing salsa in his kitchen, his grandmother returns home followed by Cal and Lars. The twins, irate, begin to adamantly state the seriousness of the injury caused by the grandmother's hit and run. They begin to argue loudly and insult Tuco's grandmother, which agitates him. After sending her upstairs, Tuco reaches for a cane and violently beats the twins unconscious. After arranging for his henchmen, Ignacio "Nacho" Varga, No-Doze and Gonzo to pick up the twins with their van, Tuco answers his front door with a gun, dragging Jimmy McGill inside.
Under interrogation, Jimmy insists that he did not target Tuco's grandmother. He attempts to barter with Tuco to save himself and the twins, who are tied up and gagged in Tuco's basement. Just as Tuco allows Jimmy to untie the twins, when Jimmy removes one of the brothers gag, he immediately outs Jimmy's role in the scam. Enraged, Tuco and his henchmen takes Jimmy and the twins, all bound and gagged with duct tape, to the desert to question him further. Thinking quickly to save himself and the twins, Jimmy tells Tuco he's a lawyer, but when Tuco doesn't believe him and threatens to cut off his finger with pruning shears, Jimmy desperately claims he's an FBI agent, to satisfy Tuco. Nacho is suspicious of this answer, and when he threatens Jimmy, he changes his story back to the truth - he is a lawyer who intended to scam the Kettlemans. Nacho convinces Tuco this is actually the true version, and Tuco frees Jimmy, but moves to kill Cal and Lars in revenge for insulting his grandmother. Jimmy manages to convince Tuco to spare their lives, and talks him into merely breaking one leg on each of the brothers to make an example of them.
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