8 Ways Better Call Saul Can Bring Breaking Bad Characters Back
5. Uncle Jack
Out of all the disreputable allies Walt made during his rise to power, none emphasised his moral decline so much as Uncle Jack Welker, leader of a desert-based gang of white supremacists. With a body count to rival anyone elses on the show - he killed Hank and Gomie! - Welker was no doubt a nasty piece of work. Walt underestimated him, to his cost, though it seems unlikely that the more cautious Jimmy would make the same mistake. Nevertheless, Jimmys certainly already found a certain kinship with the crackpot political types - remember Ricky Sipes and his home-printed currency? While theres no reason to necessarily believe this would extent to Welkers Nazi contingent, Jimmys certainly going to be making connections in the prison system; as the Kettlemans recently said, hes the sort of lawyer that makes you look guilty by association and, as they've learnt by experience, some cases are pretty much indefensible. Welker and his gang of Aryan scumbags might not, however, be the right tonal fit for Better Call Saul, which has so far distanced itself from much of the criminally-minded nastiness of its predecessor; no bodies dissolving in bathtubs for Jimmy McGill (yet). For Welker, though, all it would take was the right tattoo on a wrong-looking guy to summon up his ghost in the audiences memory. He probably wouldnt appreciate Jimmys future sobriquet, anyway.
