Jimmy McGill has no shortage of scurrilous schemes, but the events of Season 3, Episode 9, "Fall," are hard to watch, as opined by several Redditors in multiple threads. With the class-action lawsuit against the Sandpiper nursing home stalling out, Jimmy is quickly running out of options. But when he realizes a settlement will net him a cool million, he embarks on a campaign to coerce the suit's main representative, an elderly woman named Irene, to take it.
For Jimmy, the scam is an art form, and some of his plots are delightful to watch. This one, by contrast, was "incredibly heartbreaking and cruel," according to u/itsasecretidentity. Jimmy's first step is to intercept Irene's mall-walking group and gift her with a pair of expensive walking shoes. Irene is grateful, but the shoes are a Trojan horse. Jimmy proceeds to point out the shiny new shoes to all of Irene's friends behind her back, convincing them that she's riding high on the settlement money she kept hidden from them.
As Jimmy really does seem to care for the elderly, it's a break in character for him, another step down the slippery moral slope toward Saul Goodman. But he doesn't stop there. Jimmy rigs bingo balls and gives Irene — whose friends have chosen not to sit with her — the winning board. When she inevitably wins, no one claps, and Irene runs from the room in tears. Jimmy follows her to her room and convinces her that taking the Sandpiper settlement is the only way to win back her friends.
Jimmy is so caught up in the thrill of winning that he doesn't consider the damage he's done to a sweet old lady. He buys a bottle of tequila to celebrate and asks Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) to have a shot before reminding her to be on time for her meeting. As u/internetrando12 wrote, this was another example of how Jimmy was "on a roll" with his cruelty in the episode.
