It's been a while since I've seen the last season of Breaking Bad and I can't remember why Saul Goodman (formerly known as Jimmy McGill) had to change his identity and leave New Mexico.
Salamanca and Fring were both dead and I can't remember who else would have been after Saul to kill him. Did he skip town for no reason?
Aside from any stragglers still shuffling along in the crime syndicate, Saul was chiefly afraid of the feds. He would be wanted by the law for taking an active part in a criminal drug empire, money laundering and aiding and abetting criminals.
If caught, Saul (or Pastry Gene) would go to jail for the rest of his life.
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I haven't watched this at all. How did he keep practicing law with a fake identity? Did he have to forge a new college degree, bar membership, etc.?
shareThat's pretty much the whole story this series is telling. If you're interested in the answers to those questions, it's well worth just watching the series.
shareTruth be told, a lot of why Jimmy becomes Saul and how he's able to continue practicing law out in the open like that, as we see him in Breaking Bad, is still unknown and remains to be a story told in the seasons and episodes ahead.
sharelegally, he could change his name or, i suppose, just use SG as a fictitious business name.
the show is about the process by which his character transforms from a man battling conflicting motivations becomes, ultimately, close to amoral. he was always a con, but had aspirations to respectability at the outset.
He's already changed his identity as Saul Goodman, commercial promoter and then drop phone salesman. I think he continues this because he going to become a 'criminal' lawyer; We have to see what leads him to do that as a lawyer. As for changing his identity to Gene, it has to do with the DEA being after all of Walter White's associates.
shareSaul was Walt and Jesse's accomplice. He was in on everything virtually from the beginning. He wasn't worried about being killed. After Walt was exposed he would have gone to jail for the rest of his life.
shareI'm sure Skylar told the feds all about him as part of her immunity deal.
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