The Better Call Saul series finale included a moment of Jimmy McGill firing off some finger guns... which Kim Wexler very subtly returned.

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 13. Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) very subtly returned Jimmy McGill's (Bob Odenkirk) finger guns sendoff in the Better Call Saul series finale. After six seasons across seven years, Better Call Saul season 6's ending brings the show to a close in typically brilliant fashion. After theories ranging from a happy ending to character deaths, it ultimately came down - as it had to - to Jimmy and Kim. The duo had come to define the show's story, particularly after Chuck McGill's (Michael McKean) death in season 3, and so it was fitting that the final scene of the series was given over to the pair of them.

The final moments between them were particularly poignant; living up the episode's title, Saul Goodman was gone, and Jimmy had fully returned. That allowed for a much more heartfelt sendoff, one that said everything despite such little dialogue, but also had some room for referebces as well. That included them leaning against the wall and smoking a cigarette, a callback to Better Call Saul season 1, episode 1, and there's also Jimmy's finger guns to Kim as she walks out of the prison (and perhaps his life).

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That was, of course, a reference to Better Call Saul season 5's ending, in which Kim's finger guns were a sign of her breaking bad, heading down a bad choice road that would lead her to working for a sprinkler store in Florida. Kim didn't return the finger guns properly - which admittedly would have been a strange thing to do with the guard standing right next to her - but did very briefly make a gun with her right hand down by her side. It comes after the camera zooms out and then comes back in on Kim, meaning Kim's finger gun is only briefly in shot, but it's a suitably subtle way of acknowledging it without having her fully do it.

Aside from it looking a bit suspect to be making finger guns at a prisoner who is supposedly your client, there's good reason not to have Kim fully do them. Their fate is left on a somewhat ambiguous note, in terms of whether that's the last time they see each other, or if Kim will make visits to Jimmy and there'll be a bit more of a relationship there again. Having Kim fire back could have tipped the scales too far in the latter direction, lessening some of the impact. Similarly, an alternate ending for Better Call Saul did have Kim shoot back, but they decided not to use it. As Seehorn explained:

"Well, we shot a couple of different iterations – including ones where she shoots finger guns back at him. It was very small and not animated or with a smile, but still – in the end, [co-creator Peter Gould] decided that it looked too much like they were saying, ‘Kim is back in the game,’ and we really didn't want to give that impression."

Rather than more outright doing it, the subtle finger gun Kim gives in the Better Call Saul series finale is more fitting for the ambiguity of the ending. It gives just the tiniest hint of the old Kim, the briefest flash that she still exists. It's important that it doesn't go too far with it, because that's not someone she can return to, but in this moment it shows that, with Jimmy, there remains a special part of her that's only for the two of them. Whether she ever sees him again or not, Kim and Jimmy are able to find a sense of peace, closure, and even happiness, of a bittersweet kind, which closing moments of Better Call Saul's series finale really bring home.

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