Breaking Bad
With the final season ofBetter Call Saulbringing the tension from season 5 to a simmering point , fictional character are take to think very tight to get out of deadly situation . Luckily , the show is full of highly intelligent characters , and watch them opine is one of the serial ' majuscule joy .
update on May 12th , 2022 by Mark Birrell : In the high - powered worlds of business people , lawyers , and criminal in Albuquerque , lineament have to be smart to get by , and it ’s these clashing intellects that terminate up becoming the most interesting share of the show . So much of Better Call Saul orb around multitude sustain arcanum or not saying what they really mean that the audience is often forced into the judgement of the chief characters , and they ’re always fascinating places to be . Some quality , however , exhibit more complexity than others .
Tuco Salamanca
In bothBreaking BadandBetter Call Saul , Tuco Salamanca is the first big league deplorable player that both the independent fibre and the interview are introduced to , as well as being their introduction to the grave Salamanca family line . Tuco is established quite steadfastly as both the least intelligent and the most volatile of the whole family , produce him a major but inconsistent threat .
Jimmy is capable to talk him down from polish off two of his accomplice in the second installment of the series and , after , Mike is capable to corral Tuco into a position that assign him in prison house for a meaning amount of time . That said , during his rarified moments of comparative calmness , Tuco seems very capable at his patronage of being a dread drug lord .
Kevin Wachtell
Kevin Wachtell may be the chief operating officer of Mesa Verde Bank and Trust but it ’s a spot that he ’s implied to have inherited rather than earned . Kevin is no fool and , at the very least , can convincingly play the part of the directly - talking leader , but he ’s almost entirely reliant on his stave to do the real work for him .
Though Kevin is able to see all of Jimmy ’s lowest timbre quite clearly , he ’s unable to see Kim manipulate him during the incident with the call shopping mall construction site in Tucumcari .
Stacey Ehrmantraut
Stacey in spades demonstrates a lot of intelligence as a hard - work mother and suckle though she is n’t shown to be overly perceptive . It took her a while to piece together that her husband conspire with a group of tainted pig , including her own Father of the Church - in - law , Mike .
Even after Mike admits this to her , she still does n’t agnise that Mike continues to be ask in illegal activities . However , it remain a possibleness that Stacey knows about Mike ’s illegal activities and choose to ignore them since she necessitate his help with her daughter , Kaylee .
Howard Hamlin
Howard Hamlin , a elderly pardner at Hamlin , Hamlin & McGill , is very book smart and a talented lawyer but he has no street smarts . Despite eventually cottoning on to Jimmy ’s mean plan against him , Howard is mostly seen as one step behind Jimmy and Kim .
Part of the reason for this , which is also part of the rationality why Jimmy and Kim come along to hate Howard so much , is that Howard is distinctly self - absorbed . Nevertheless , he does seek to do right by multitude in world-wide , specially his employees , though it ’s difficult to see what he really place upright for .
Clifford Main
Cliff Main is one of the fourth-year partners at Davis & Main , a successful and well - respected law firm in Santa Fe that partners with HHM on the Sandpiper Crossing case . away from this , Cliff seems to be an previous and trusted friend of Howard Hamlin , often lunching with him and sharing thinking – if uninteresting – conversations about the legal globe .
Though Cliff is often made to be a pawn in both Jimmy and Kim ’s dodge , he seems more unconcerned by their dangerous side than he seems oblivious to it . Cliff is perhaps a touch old - fashioned but not heartless or stunned , he understands what Jimmy is doing when he deliberately assay to get fired from Davis & Main so that he can take the air away with his fillip , and Cliff complies to edit Jimmy off from him as soon as possible . Overall , it ’s a saucy move .
Paige Novick
Paige is the extremely levelheaded and professional older counselling for Mesa Verde , effectively acting as Kevin Wachtell ’s right paw , and she had the right sense to fight for hiring Kim to help represent them in legal topic .
But when things started to go awry with the construction of a new call center in Tucumcari , Paige seemed unaware that Kim was working against her from behind the tantrum . It ’s possible that Paige , like Rich Schweikart , really could see what was going on and just chose not to speak out due to her friendly relationship with Kim , but she ’s mostly seen as a kind of corporate lackey .
Hector Salamanca
Hector is dangerous , cagey , and resourceful , but he is n’t chic enough to know when to hold back and how to run his byplay using anything other than fear manoeuvre . That ’s why he was only ever the right - paw man to Don Eladio . While he ’s shew asa high - outrank member of the combine , he was never considered good enough to take over .
Hector is also not sassy enough to see Nacho ’s program to bolt down him despite it being at once under his nose for a long time , not to remark Gus Fring , who Hector suspects for a longsighted time but is never able to let out .
Rich Schweikart
A carbon monoxide - laminitis of the natural law firm of Schweikart & Cokely , Rich begin out as jolly of a villain in the series , be Sandpiper Crossing despite them con seniors . Over metre though , Rich becomes a much friendlier figure and even mentors Kim , take her into his very successful firm .
Of the hoi polloi involve , Rich is the only person to see through Kim ’s Trygve Lie in the Tucumcari situation and say something about it , and to Kim ’s face no less . However , he treat the site with tact and regard , whilst still being unbendable . Rich is a realist who ’s both charming and experient , seeming to escape any major fallout from Jimmy and Kim ’s actions .
Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Varga
Nacho teeters on the moral line , act as a double broker and taking risks to attempt to get himself out of the cartel concern and keep open his father from harm . He is impudent and calculate , as a right - hand adult male to Tuco Salamanca . He is , in many ways , the brains behind the operation .
But he has made some mistakes , such as his botched attempt at kill Hector . Still , he has a way of calming the often impulsive Tuco and others . He ’s the voice of reason among the more terrific criminals , making him sassy enough to work with all of the show ’s characters . In the ending , however , he ’s sadly just a cat’s-paw .
Mike Ehrmantraut
Always with a seemingly calm demeanour , Mike is constantly scan every view and mortal , analyzing the situation . It ’s the result of year of working as a constabulary police officer and even though he was corrupt , it took a lot of attainment and smart to pull off the things he did .
He continue to apply his noesis , skillset , and suspicion to engage in vicious demeanor , always one step forwards of law enforcement and his competition .
