The episode centers on Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) being forced to use his fast-talking "Saul Goodman" legal personality to arrange for the release of Domingo Molina (Max Arciniega) from prison at the request of Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton), while Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) is pulled off her pro bono public defense work to deal with a stubborn client for the Mesa Verde bank.

Kim Wexler has a full day of pro bono cases, but Rich Schweikart demands she take care of pressing Mesa Verde business.

This episode features the appearance of Dean Norris reprising his starring role on Breaking Bad as DEA agent Hank Schrader, along with Steven Michael Quezada reprising Hank's partner Steven Gomez; Norris is the first of the leading cast credited through the entirety of Breaking Bad's run to appear on Better Call Saul.

[3] Gould himself spoke of the need to have "some very smart law enforcement people who are worthy opponents" for Jimmy that would push him into using the Saul Goodman persona even deeper without necessarily recognizing the full consequences of those actions, and thus where it made sense to bring in Norris to play Hank.

[4] Norris found it easy to fall back into character, particularly as the version of Hank prior to his post-traumatic stress disorder from killing Tuco in "Grilled", as well as acting alongside Quezada, whom he has remained friends with since their Breaking Bad days.

[3] The show opens and closes on scenes involving a mass of ants swarming over an ice cream cone that Jimmy dropped when he was picked up by Nacho in "50% Off".

The shots were made with about two thousand live red harvester ants, collected from and returned to the wild by animal trainer Jules Sylvester.

The site's critical consensus is, "Better Call Saul gifts viewers with a welcome hunk of Hank Schrader in an otherwise ominous chapter that illustrates how the forces of darkness are enclosing around Jimmy and Kim like ants on an ice cream.