Better Call Saul: 6 Reasons Kim Wexler Won't Die In Season 6
Send Kim Wexler to Belize?
As a prequel to a landmark drama series, Better Call Saul is far better than it has any right to be. It could have easily rested on its laurels and delivered us six more seasons of Saul, Mike and Gus getting into shenanigans with the cartel and Albuquerque's underbelly of drug addicts and grifters.
Instead, it's flipped the central premise of Breaking Bad. Where Walter White was an upstanding member of society who 'breaks bad', Jimmy McGill is a con-man who repeatedly tries and fails to become an upstanding member of society.
As much as Better Call Saul is an origin story, it's also introduced a number of new characters who never appeared in Breaking Bad. Jimmy's brother Chuck or Gus and Mike's cartel insider Nacho are ultimately disposable, and it's that knowledge that lends tension to a story for which we know the ultimate outcome. This tension feeds into the biggest question that runs through Better Call Saul. What happens to Kim?
Many think that she'll be killed by the cartel, but her death would be a cheap trick, a "dead love interest" to complete Saul Goodman's origin story. The show's better than that, Kim is better than that...
6. Her Death Would Not Complete Jimmy's Transformation Into Saul
The death of a loved one has already fundamentally shaped the journey of Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman. The death of his brother Chuck allowed Jimmy McGill to shed the family name and finally step out of the shadow of his worthier brother. It's easy for him, because he knows that Chuck never believed in him. Kim does, in spite of everything.
As the fourth and fifth seasons play out, Jimmy's unpredictable actions and loosening of morals as he transitions into the role of Saul Goodman simultaneously horrify and excite Kim. However, if Saul Goodman's business practices were to result in her death, wouldn't it derail him? Whatever Jimmy McGill is, he still has a heart and feels guilt.
Whilst he's able to shift the guilt of Chuck's death on to Howard, would he really be able to do the same if Kim died? The ordeal in the desert didn't harden Jimmy, it almost broke him completely and it's Kim who picked him up. A second death close to Jimmy would halt his transformation stone dead. Better Call Saul is an origin story, it's not a tragic tale of hubris and downfall.