What Happens To Kim Wexler After Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul made Kim Wexler an icon, but its final episode left her fate uncertain. In the first season of Better Call Saul, Kim was introduced as a supporting character in Jimmy McGill’s life, with similar footing in the story to Chuck, Nacho Varga, and Howard Hamlin. However, as the series went on and Kim became more and more popular, her role in the show expanded. By the end of Better Call Saul, Kim was practically a co-lead. She was as important to the series and its central antihero’s journey as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad.

The series finale of Better Call Saul — season 6, episode 13, “Saul Gone” — makes Jimmy’s fate pretty clear. After talking his way down to an absurdly reduced sentence, Jimmy had a crisis of conscience, waived that reduction, accepted a life sentence to repent for his past misdeeds, and went to prison a superstar. As bleak as it is to imagine, Jimmy will likely die in prison after the end of Better Call Saul. But Kim’s fate after the series’ ending is more ambiguous. She’ll sporadically visit Jimmy behind bars, but what else does the future hold for Kim?

Kim Wexler Slowly Rebuilds Her Life After Better Call Saul's Finale

Rhea Seehorn Said Kim Would Relish A Second Chance

Obviously, it’s impossible to know exactly what happened to Kim after Better Call Saul ended, because the story was over and she never came back in her own spinoff series. But Kim’s actor, Rhea Seehorn, has speculated on her character’s fate in an interview. The last time audiences see Kim in Better Call Saul, she’s visiting Jimmy in prison and sharing a cigarette with him, just as they did countless times before. It’s a bittersweet moment, because it shows that they rekindled their relationship, but Jimmy’s imprisonment means they can’t properly be together.

Rhea Seehorn was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series twice for her portrayal of Kim in Better Call Saul.

Seehorn mentioned Kim’s hairstyle in her final scene as an indication of where she ended up. She points out that Kim didn’t have her classic blonde hair or even her signature ponytail. Seehorn said that, after Jimmy confessed to his crimes and Kim came clean about her involvement in Howard’s death, that doesn’t mean that “now, everything’s fine and Kim’s just going to become Kim again.” She believes that Kim will undergo “a rebuilding of sorts” and “relish any kind of second chance at life that is more truthful” after getting swept up in Jimmy’s duplicitous antics.

Are Kim And Jimmy Together At The End Of Better Call Saul?

It's Complicated

Jimmy and Kim sharing a cigarette during the Better Call Saul series finale

After Howard’s death, Jimmy and Kim had a bitter breakup. They both dealt with the guilt in totally different ways: Kim exiled herself to a mundane, miserable existence and eventually came clean, while Jimmy regressed further and further into the Saul Goodman persona. By the time Kim came to Jimmy’s office to sign the divorce papers, he had embraced Saul so fully that he didn’t even address her as himself. But he clearly came to regret that. He was inspired to tell the truth and accept a just sentencing when he saw Kim in the courtroom.

When Kim visits Jimmy in prison, it’s clear she appreciated that change and rekindled her relationship with him. But it’s unclear if they’ve actually gotten back together as a couple, or if they’re just hanging out as friends. They obviously love each other, but it would be difficult for Kim to maintain a relationship with a man who’s destined to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Jimmy probably wouldn’t even want that for Kim; he’d want her to live her life and be happy. The finale leaves Jimmy and Kim’s relationship status ambiguous, so this is all speculation.

Kim Most Likely Practices Law In Some Form Again After Better Call Saul

Seehorn Said Kim Might Even Get Jimmy's Sentence Reduced

Kim sitting in court in Better Call Saul season 5 episode Namaste

After saying that Kim would embrace a second chance at leading a more truthful life, Seehorn elaborated on what that truthful life would entail. She said that this would, indeed, involve practicing the law in some form or another. She would go back to “actually helping people” with the law, like she did when she started taking on pro bono clients who wouldn’t normally be able to afford a lawyer of her caliber. Kim was born to be a lawyer — she’s a modern-day Atticus Finch — so it’s comforting to think that she’ll eventually get back to it.

She would go back to “actually helping people” with the law, like she did when she started taking on pro bono clients who wouldn’t normally be able to afford a lawyer of her caliber.

Seehorn joked that she’s “a hopeless romantic,” so she pictures Kim using her skills as an attorney to get Jimmy’s sentence reduced. She acknowledged that some fans think that Kim’s visit to the prison in the Better Call Saul finale is the last time she’ll ever see Jimmy. She didn’t confirm that those theories are untrue, because the ending is open to interpretation, but her personal feeling is that that’s not “the end of their relationship,” and that she will see him again. However, that’s partly because the thought of Kim never seeing Jimmy again makes her “cry too hard.”

Where Kim Wexler Was During The Events Of Breaking Bad

Kim Was Living A Boring Life In Florida During The Rise & Fall Of Heisenberg

Walter White looking shocked in Breaking Bad

During the first five seasons of Better Call Saul’s run, the most pressing question on viewers’ minds was: what horrible fate will befall Kim? She’s a huge part of Jimmy’s life all throughout Better Call Saul, but she’s nowhere to be seen in Breaking Bad, and she isn’t even mentioned. So, the expectation was that, much like Hank Schrader, Jane Margolis, and Gale Boetticher, she would suffer some terrible, untimely demise. Better Call Saul’s answer to Kim’s whereabouts during Breaking Bad ended up being totally unexpected, but just as sad.

Although the majority of Better Call Saul is a prequel to Breaking Bad, the black-and-white sequences all take place after Breaking Bad when Walter White’s empire has fallen and Jimmy has gone into hiding in Nebraska under the alias “Gene Takavic.” Jimmy goes full Saul and lands a mild-mannered chemistry teacher-turned-meth cook as a client shortly after Kim leaves him. This means that Kim is living a boring life in Florida during the events of Breaking Bad. The most exciting chapter of Jimmy’s life ran concurrently with the least exciting chapter of Kim’s.

The most exciting chapter of Jimmy’s life ran concurrently with the least exciting chapter of Kim’s.

It’s interesting to imagine how the events of Breaking Bad would’ve turned out if Kim was still in Albuquerque and in contact with Jimmy. She’s one of the few people who might’ve been able to outsmart Walt and get one step ahead of him. Kim would’ve been deeply disturbed by some of the things Jimmy did in Breaking Bad — namely, helping Walt poison a child. If Kim was in Walt’s orbit, there’s a good chance she would’ve gotten killed, so it’s probably for the best that Better Call Saul got her out of Albuquerque before the rise of Heisenberg.