Chuck McGill
Character from Breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan
Jimmy's older brother — a brilliant, respected lawyer whose electromagnetic hypersensitivity was psychosomatic, whose contempt for Jimmy was pathological, and whose suicide was the match that lit Saul Goodman.
Also known as: Chuck, Charles McGill
What They Know
- Co-founded HHM (Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill) — one of Albuquerque's most respected lawyers
- Electromagnetic hypersensitivity was psychosomatic — a physical manifestation of psychological need
- Secretly blocked Jimmy's advancement at HHM while maintaining a supportive facade
- Died by suicide — kicked over a lantern in his tinfoil-lined home, starting a fire
- His death created Saul Goodman — Jimmy's grief and anger consumed his remaining ties to legitimacy
- Told Jimmy: 'You're not a real lawyer' — the wound that never healed
Connections
- sibling_of — saul
- partner_at — hhm
- rival_of — saul
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