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Kim Wexler has fully found herself.
That’s what the fifth season of Better Call Saul was all about. She had scaled the mountaintop of the professional lawyering class, using her intelligence and grit to persuade Schweikart & Cokely to open a banking division with her as the lead attorney. But she quickly discovered that the type of law she was practicing, like clearing out residents for a Mesa Verde call center, thoroughly repulsed her, putting her on the wrong side of the people she wished to help. Her departure from Schweikart & Cokely, coming after a long scheme where she and Jimmy sabotaged Mesa Verde’s efforts to boot an old man from his home, was also a recommitment to helping “the little guy” beat a system that’s rigged against them.
And so when Kim takes a long look at an old woman shuffling away from Sweet Liberty Tax Services, unaware that her friendly third-party tax-preparers have stolen a chunk of her refund, she feels fresh resolve about “the stick” she’s about to bring down on their head. She cleared her schedule for it. She…
