Jimmy McGill explains to Kim Wexler that the "Saul Goodman" alias from his prepaid cell phone business gives him an instant client base for a criminal law practice.

He generates more publicity by using his camera crew to fake a confrontation with Deputy District Attorney Bill Oakley.

Gus falsely says Werner was constructing a chiller under Mike Ehrmantraut's supervision at the Los Pollos Hermanos farm but fled after stealing cocaine.

Mike sends Werner's men home, warned to remain silent, and fully paid for the half-completed job.

[1] Kim's pro bono client faces years in prison but rejects a favorable plea bargain, so Jimmy offers to trick him into accepting.

As his writing team found a way to do so within the fifth-season premiere, he learned that Vince Gilligan had written in the character for El Camino.

[2] The background music used during the quick-cut montage in which Saul sits in a tent and gives away his remaining phones is trumpeter Lee Morgan's 1964 soul-jazz hit "The Sidewinder", and the song played during the flashforward is "Welcome to My World" by Jim Reeves.

The site's critical consensus is, "Jimmy McGill is dead, long live Saul Goodman in a doom-laden premiere that wrings heartbreaking juxtaposition between the 'Magic Man' himself embracing his sleazy stride and the haunted fugitive he will inevitably become.