You along with others have spent countless pages justifying Howard's murder (and other malignant shit) by saying Kim and Jimmy are blameless. It's odd you choose to apply a moral sense to Kim when her confession was not one of good conscience and to make amends, but rather to get ahead of Jimmy who was implicitly threatening her. Kim ruined a man for fun. Moral people don't do that. Kim is a bad person and she's not going to fuck you.
Are you mentally ill? No one said Kim is not partially to blame for Howard's murder. You are making up strawmen and are deeply disturbed by these imagined arguments that no one is making. You are arguing with yourself and no one else in this thread.
Lalo pulled the trigger. He takes pretty much ALL of the blame. Lalo killed Howard for no reason other than to shock Jimmy and Kim. Lalo murders others because he is a murdering maniac. His body count by the end of the show is formidable.
Kim is to blame for ruining Howard's reputation, destroying HHM, and framing his suicide. Jimmy is the one who made Lalo his client and brought Lalo into his home before. Kim is told by a cartel hired murderer, Mike, to keep Lalo's falsely reported death a secret. Jimmy might have told Kim that Mike is a cop killer and highly dangerous at some point in their relationship. You think Kim should have told Jimmy about Lalo when she is already paranoid about people following her? She is just a lawyer and not a cartel hitter. She panicked because she is not equipped for these kind of events. Kim sees Jimmy's shot up coffee mug and knows that they are in a bad place.
Kim ruined Howard not for fun. It was because he messed with her and Jimmy's lives with Chuck. So she messes with him in revenge. And helped take down Chuck as well for revenge. They are all pieces of shit in the end. But Howard apologizes for it all and admits it all to Jimmy. Howard goes to therapy and wants to help Jimmy. Kim does not care and wants major revenge because of how Howard and Chuck treated her. Howard tries to turn his life around and offers Jimmy a job. Jimmy refuses and he and Kim plot to destroy Howard. They destroy HHM but Kim clearly regrets it. To the point where she moves away from ABQ, gives up law, and gives up the Sandpiper money.
But they never plotted to murder Howard.
They are nearly blameless. Howard lives without Lalo showing up. End of story. Sure Kim could have told Jimmy or the police. But Lalo is shown to be willing to kill random strangers and was unstable. Lalo just shows up at the PERFECT moment when Howard is there. If Howard leaves one minute before he lives. If Howard hits a few more green lights instead of reds he lives.
Kim is immoral. But so were Chuck and Howard. Chuck lied to Jimmy's face his entire life. Howard lied to both of them for their entire careers. Did Chuck deserve to go out the way he did? No. Did Howard deserve the harassment and murder? No. But things were always escalating between Jimmy and Kim and Chuck and Howard. And without a ceasefire someone was going to get hurt really badly. They were all negative losers to each other. Howard was turning his life around. Kim wants to turn hers around and seems willing to sacrifice Jimmy to get it.
We have no idea if Skyler got that money Walt left with the Schwartzes. When last we saw her, she was working some shit job and living in a shit apartment. I hope she did get it and I hope both her kids got to go to college on it.
Of course she got the money. Hello? She is an expert at laundering money and washing money. She gets the money from Gretchen and Elliott and knows exactly how to make it look like Gray Matter money. You forget that she was a criminal accountant and money launderer on her own without Walt? We literally see her able to wash money and make drug money look legit multiple times on the show. There is no question she takes the money.
But since she's an evil piece of shit, I'm sure she spent it all on slippers made of kitten skins she uses to stomp the life out of baby pandas as she laughs maniacally while sipping the blood of puppies from a solid gold chalice.
Again you seem very angry at yourself because no one has made an argument that Skyler drinks puppy blood. The only one saying that is you. Calm down and argue the points that people are actually making.
