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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I also think the warmth of the letter from Chuck hit her a bit hard.
Kim's a smart person; she's absolutely put 2 and 2 together and even if she won't fully accept it, she knows deep down that Jimmy is the catalyst behind Chuck's death (and worse, that he did so for her). That was part of the blank stare during the Mesa Verde meeting; a combination of guilt (knowing that she got that account due to the shenanigans) and anxiety over being able to keep up with the expansion. If I'm betting, I'd say it's more the former than the latter. Staffing up isn't that tough; dealing with the nagging belief that your boyfriend indirectly led to the death of his brother for your benefit....well that's a little tougher.
And when she hears the letter from Chuck and it's not the fire and brimstone she'd expected, the 'Chuck is a villain' narrative in her head took a blow. Now I'd imagine she recovers from it just fine, but in that moment Chuck was offering genuinely kind words and was a legitimately sympathetic figure. It rattled her, coming so quickly off the Mesa Verde meeting where she'd had her nose rubbed in that guilt a little bit.
She'll steel back up soon enough, but every moment like that will push them away just a little bit and when they bounce back, it won't be quite as close. Every one of those moments of doubt will make her resolve that much weaker even when she recaptures it. It's like surgery - even when you feel 'right', your body will never be exactly as it was ever again.
With every bobble, Kim and her relationship with Jimmy will be just a little bit more strained even when they don't exactly realize it.
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I think you overestimate Kim's level of awareness regarding the level of skullduggery between the brothers.
She's aware that Chuck actively tried to put Jimmy down professionally, and she knows Jimmy was fighting back.
But I don't think she's at the place where she's worrying about what Jimmy did to fight back. Chuck was being a bastard older brother and she was on team Jimmy, end of story.
Her emotion doesn't come from sneaking realizations that Jimmy is evil. Her emotion comes from being bewildered how to handle Jimmy's emotional state. She wants to share his straightforward grief and anger, and he's sky high on Nofuxatall. She's waiting for the other shoe to drop. Jimmy can't keep being this cheery and blase based on what she's seen. But until he breaks down on his own, it's not her place to force him into grief.