Sure, he doesn’t know about Kim’s baffling accident yet, but Howard has consistently had his mind blown by her increasingly sketchy path from HHM to bootstraps-pulling solo work alongside Jimmy, and they got to have it out a couple of episodes ago over her out-of-place attempt to repay her debts.
Because Howard is still one of the only main characters with a healthy sense of morals, ideals and professionalism, and he’s witnessed the impact of what behaving like Jimmy has earned both Chuck and Kim.
During our chat, I’d asked Patrick Fabian if Howard’s approach to handling The Chuck Situation would hearken back to the ways that Howard has seen Jimmy take on Chuck’s stubbornness over the years, and I fully expected more of a denial.