As he and Marco leave, Jimmy takes the Band-Aid tin with him (" Slip"). Marco expresses genuine remorse for Jimmy's parents losing their store though Jimmy doesn't and he goes on to say that his family were better off not owning the store, saying that his father was only popular because he was too generous with money and implies it was his fault for its eventual closure (completely ignoring his own role in its demise).
Jimmy explains that he hid his collection after his father tried to give back a rare George Washington half dollar. He finds an Indian-head penny that he hopes to use in a con game. Jimmy retrieves an old metal Band-Aid box from the ceiling tiles, from which he retrieves his childhood coin collection. In a flashback, Jimmy and Marco break into the McGill family's abandoned store in Cicero, Illinois. Receiving Marco's pinky ring from his mother and remembering his last words, Jimmy ultimately decides not to take a job with Davis & Main, as he no longer feels obliged to "do the right thing" (" Marco"). During the scam, Marco suffers a heart attack and his final words are telling Jimmy that the week they just had was the best one of his life. Marco begs Jimmy to pull off one more scam using the last fake Rolex watch, to which Jimmy reluctantly accepts. The concern for his elderly clients, Chuck, and a job offer from the law firm of Davis & Main in Santa Fe sways Jimmy to return to New Mexico. The two friends decide to return to their old ways of scamming people again.Īfter a long week of successful scamming, Jimmy says that he needs to go back home to his clients but Marco tempts him to stay. Marco bemoans Jimmy’s decision, arguing that the move is a waste of Slippin’ Jimmy’s talents – but Jimmy’s mind is made up, and he leaves to Marco's disappointment (" Marco").įollowing Jimmy's leaving, the two friends did not stay in touch much and Marco eventually started working for his brother-in-law as a standpipe installer, a job he clearly despised.Īfter suffering a nervous breakdown while ranting to a bingo parlor about the state of his life, Jimmy returns to Cicero for a sabbatical and is reunited with Marco. He tells Marco that he’s moving to Albuquerque to work in the mail-room at Chuck’s law firm. In one of their scams, Slippin' Jimmy (using the alias "Saul Goodman") works with Marco to trick others into trading cash for fake Rolex watches (" Hero").Īfter Chuck McGill helped secure his brother's release from jail, Jimmy stopped by a local bar to say farewell to Marco. They would often extort money from people through various scams. Marco was Jimmy's closest friend in Cicero and attended high school with him (" Slip").
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