I mean, as an audience, we knew Jimmy would practice law again since he became Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad, but enough craziness happened during that period in Better Call Saul, viewers could’ve been fooled.
Look, we can debate all day what Kim’s greatest achievement in Better Call Saul is.
Jimmy’s odds of reinstatement weren’t great, and if it wasn’t for Kim helping Jimmy appear more sympathetic to his brother Chuck’s death in public, he might have never been able to practice law again.
She’s stunned after learning, shortly after his reinstatement, that it all was an act and that Jimmy wasn’t all that broken up about his brother’s death at all.