Season 5, Episode 7: ‘JMM’

Dearly beloved. We are gathered here today to contemplate the nuptials of Jimmy and Kim, and to ask this question as they commence their life of matrimonial bliss:

What just happened?

The pair seem to have talked themselves into this union purely with professional upsides in mind. Under the law, a wife can’t be compelled to testify against a husband, and vice versa. Fine. Thing is, nobody is compelling Kim to testify against Jimmy.

Maybe one day she will, and then she’ll save Jimmy from a long stint in the pokey. But this marriage seems conceived by two people who want to get married and have collaborated on a cold, unromantic rationale for doing so. They even hash out the full-disclosure rules of their wedded life outside a courthouse, like two lawyers negotiating a plea deal.

For workaholic lawyers, this might be what passes for a bended knee and a diamond ring. Jimmy can’t even get a post-nuptials lunch.

“Sorry, I just can’t get away,” Kim says, off to a meeting.

Jimmy is soon face-to-face with Lalo Salamanca, newly arraigned and facing murder, arson and other charges. After he’s denied bail, Lalo asks about the monogram on Jimmy’s briefcase, unaware that they are his lawyer’s initials from his native incarnation. Now it’s his motto, “Justice matters most.”