Here's how perfect casting brings a whole new meaning to Better Call Saul season 6's Kim Wexler flashback.

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Better Call Saul season 6 revisits Kim's past with "Axe & Grind." Set sometime around her season 5 flashback, a young Kim is caught shoplifting by a store detective.

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Kim's mom actually displays pride in her daughter's audacious theft, then reveals she swiped the earrings her daughter was caught stealing in the first place.

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Better Call Saul season 6's flashback sequence shockingly proves Kim's criminal streak began way before she encountered Jimmy McGill, and by pulling scams in the present day

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The purpose of season 6's 1980s visit is to flip the script and reveal Kim actually followed in her mom's footsteps.

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