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She tries her best to cheer Jimmy up by breaking out a bottle of Zafiro Añejo tequila. Jimmy’s not listening as Howard rattles off Chuck’s many accomplishments, and Kim has to take the phone and tell Howard it’s fine. He notices that all of Chuck’s electrical appliances are piled up in the backyard, and says he seemed fine just a few days ago: “Something made him relapse.” Jimmy is still lost in thought when Howard calls later to run his glowing obituary of Chuck by him. Howard leaves an urgent message on Kim’s machine, though: “It’s Chuck.” Jimmy and Kim speed over to Chuck’s house, just in time to see the house’s charred remains… and the coroner’s van driving away.Ĭhuck died of smoke inhalation, the fire chief tells Kim, so he didn’t suffer, but that’s not much comfort to a stunned Jimmy. He gets a call on his flip phone from Howard, but ignores it to fetch a cup of coffee for a still-injured Kim. Jimmy gets up and starts his morning routine: feeding the fish, making coffee and circling help-wanted ads in the newspaper. (A hired thug who knows his true identity?) He throws some cash at the guy and ditches the cab to walk home - and his heart rate is back up again.īack in good old ABQ, we see embers flying through the air - a reminder of Chuck’s fiery demise in the Season 3 finale - as Jimmy and Kim snuggle blissfully in bed together.
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He rushes out of there and into a taxi… but the cab has an Albuquerque Isotopes air freshener, and the driver is eyeing him intensely.
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Finally, she lets out a relieved laugh: She typed an “O” instead of a zero, so that explains the error. The computer keeps kicking his information back, she says, and Gene starts to sweat as he gives her an obviously phony social security number. Just as Gene is about to make a clean getaway, though, he gets called back by the receptionist, who wants a closer look at his driver’s license. His heart rate quickens when he notices a cop lingering near his bed, but the doctor tells him he didn’t have a heart attack and sends him home. Last we saw Gene, he was passed out on the floor, and here, we see paramedics revive him and take him to the hospital. The season starts, as they all do, by checking in on Omaha Cinnabon manager “Gene” with another black-and-white flash-forward.