Jimmy McGill is practicing under the Davis & Main fallout and his own slip-and-slide ethics.
Chuck McGill's electromagnetic sensitivity and legal brilliance still dominate Jimmy's life.
Kim Wexler is Jimmy's partner in love and a rising force at Schweikart - torn between caution and thrill.
By the end of Season 2, Jimmy has tasted both legitimate firm life and the rush of cutting corners. The Mesa Verde switch and other cons strained Kim even as they bound the couple in shared risk.
Chuck engineered traps to prove Jimmy unfit; Jimmy answered with the tape of Chuck's unhinged monologue. That recording is a nuclear option sitting in Jimmy's pocket as Season 2 closes.
Mike's plotline has him taking blood money jobs, building moral ledgers of his own, and brushing the edges of Gus Fring's careful world without the full Breaking Bad endgame in view.
Nacho's attempt to remove Tuco created new dangers with Hector Salamanca. The cartel pressure cooker is heating.
Jimmy's elder law and Chuck conflict establish the moral board.
Tuco and desert danger; Nacho enters.
Kim is the moral and romantic center.
Davis & Main experiment fails ethically for Jimmy.
Chuck tape leverage; Kim co-conspirator energy rises.
Season bridge: everything above is end of Season 2. S03E01 ("Mabel") has not started.
Cutoff discipline: every fact above ends at S02E10. Do not import anything from S03E01 ("Mabel") or later.