

On his way out of the courthouse parking lot to meet a prospective client, Jimmy is stopped by parking attendant Mike Ehrmantraut. After representing three teenagers as a public defender, Jimmy is frustrated to be paid only $700. In May 2002, Jimmy McGill is a struggling Albuquerque attorney. In his apartment that night, he tearfully watches a VHS tape of his old television advertisements. In Omaha, Nebraska, a balding, mustached Saul Goodman, now called Gene Takavic, is working as the manager of a shopping mall Cinnabon. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, and at the time, it became the most-watched series premiere for a scripted series in U.S. Jonathan Banks reprises his role as Mike Ehrmantraut, a retired cop working as a parking lot security guard, as does Raymond Cruz as Tuco Salamanca, a high-ranking Mexican drug dealer. In "Uno", Jimmy McGill (Saul), is a struggling lawyer working at the back of a nail salon. The series mainly takes place in 2002, approximately six years prior to the title character Saul Goodman ( Bob Odenkirk) meeting Walter White ( Bryan Cranston). Outside of the United States, the episode premiered on streaming service Netflix in several countries. In the United States, the episode aired on February 8, 2015, on AMC. The episode was written by series creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, and directed by Gilligan. " Uno" is the series premiere of the television series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad.
