No, author Dan Brown will not be involved in the third season of the American crime drama TV series “Better Call Saul” on AMC.
The angels and demons being referred to are the ongoing battle of good and evil in the thoughts of Jimmy McGill, played by Bob Odenkirk, after he has been betrayed again by his brother Chuck McGill, played by Michael McKean, during the second season.
It can be recalled that Chuck made his first betrayal on Jimmy during Season 1. Jimmy stumbled upon a major class-suit case against Sandpiper Crossing retirement home and he brought Chuck in to help him develop a major fraud class suit.
Chuck helped out at first but when he realized that the case was just too big for him and Jimmy, they endorsed it to HHM law firm. HHM is Hamlin Hamlin & McGill law office with the McGill being that of Chuck’s. He temporarily left the law firm because of his medical condition where he is not to be as close to light or electronic devices at all.
During the meeting at HHM, Jimmy wanted to be an associate for the case and demands a room at the law firm for him to work on the case too. But Howard Hamlin, the firm’s big boss, played by Patrick Fabian, denied it outright and offered Jimmy $20,000 and a 20% commission of whatever income that can be derived from the class suit.
Jimmy, later on, learned that it was Chuck who told Howard not to take him to the law firm because Chuck believes that his brother is not a real lawyer. He just can’t believe that he graduated from a good school and worked his way up to become a partner of HHM while Jimmy managed to become a lawyer via distance learning from a non-descript law school even though he was just working on the mail room of the law firm.
While Jimmy stayed with Chuck through and through while dealing with his medical condition, delivering his groceries and all the things he needs, he did not reciprocate his brother’s service and instead still thought lowly of him.
That had Jimmy quite devastated. However, during Season 2, Jimmy was ready to forget about what Chuck did to him but his older brother did it again, pushing Jimmy to the brink of his expected transformation into the criminal lawyer Saul Goodman.
Giving the transformation a push
With the confirmation of the appearance of Gustavo ‘Gus’ Fring, played by Giancarlo Esposito, in the upcoming third season of “Better Call Saul,” there are reports saying that his meeting with Jimmy shall further push the lawyer into his eventual transformation to Saul Goodman, notes Game & Guide.
While Gus Fring shall only be appearing in the latter part of Season 3 of “Better Call Saul,” he will reportedly be instrumental in pushing Jimmy McGill into the world of drug trading and crime and eventually turn him into Saul Goodman.
In a previous interview, Bob Odenkirk said that Jimmy will come to a point when he can no longer tell the difference between good and evil that he would turn to become Saul.
It seems that his meeting with Gus Fring will set him up to reach such mental condition the way the criminal mastermind did to Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul, and Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, in the critically-acclaimed parent TV series, “Breaking Bad.”
Willing to appear in the TV series
In a recent interview, Bryan Cranston said that he is willing to make a cameo appearance as his character Walter White in “Better Call Saul,” but everything would depend on executive producers Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould.
Cranston will be directing an episode of “Better Call Saul” Season 3 but he is not guaranteeing his character’s cameo appearance on the TV series because it has yet to be green-lighted by Vince Gilligan.
“Better Call Saul” is the prequel to “Breaking Bad” so it would be a challenge to find a storyline for Walter White having that chance meeting with Jimmy McGill because White only met Saul Goodman during Season 2 of “Breaking Bad.”