The fifth season of a surprisingly fantastic TV spinoff, Better Call Saul, premieres tomorrow evening. There were moments during that first season that it felt as if the show was trying to figure itself out, but ultimately it has never skidded too far off course.

I wanted to return to this scene from the end of Season 1, one of those moments when you the viewer have the epiphany, not unlike Jimmy McGill, that you’ve been viewing the show through a skewed prism the entire time. Before we go further, the acting in this scene is just phenomenal, both by Bob Odenkirk (Jimmy McGill) and Michael McKean (big brother Chuck). I had to piece these two YouTube videos together to catch most of the scene and even then I’m unable to show you the :30 or so before it begins, where Jimmy is on the couch and pretending to be grateful to Chuck as Chuck pretends to be empathetic to Jimmy’s plight.

Of course, Jimmy has already figured out that it was Chuck who stabbed in the back, not Howard Hamlin. And Chuck of course knows it is he who has always put the kibosh on Jimmy working at HHM, even though he always behaves as if Howard is the heavy.

If you could see the clip :30 or so prior to the above, there’s this wonderful moment where Jimmy, in that raspy, vulnerable voice, acts as if he’s grateful for all that Chuck has tried to do for him (“Gee, thanks, Chuck”). But he already knows that he’s about to destroy his highly regarded, brilliant older brother because Jimmy has the truth on his side. Who’s the good lawyer?

This second clip gets the end of the scene, where Chuck unleashes his famous line: “Slippin’ Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun.”

This rhetorical tussle between these two will act as a precursor to a much more impactful one at the end of Season 3, of course. Jimmy will win that sparring match, too (the great part about this scene, if you clicked on it, is that Chuck is right about everything, except the electrical current disease; but who would believe him?).

What I also love about this scene is that it delivers a secondary epiphany: Howard Hamlin may be well-coiffed and well-dressed, too handsome and polished for words but, and this is big, he’s not the ginormous douchebag we all though he was. He was just following orders.

That scene an episode earlier, I believe, that opens the show in which Howard enters the mail room and, behind a closed glass door so that we, the viewer, cannot hear what’s being said but can infer that Howard is informing Jimmy that he won’t be offered a job as a lawyer at HHM? That’s not Howard’s doing, that’s Chuck’s. Howard’s just delivering the news so that Chuck won’t look like an ogre. That scene in the conference room where Howard tells Jimmy he can’t have an office at HHM even after he delivered the RICO case to them on a silver platter? Again, that’s Howard doing Chuck’s dirty work.

So as Jimmy’s learning the truth about his brother’s feelings for him, we are also learning that Howard is not quite the pr*ck we thought he was. One of the better scenes in the history of a tremendous show.