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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
She was crying at the end because she's trying to 'be there' for Jimmy, but Jimmy is so checked out that she has no idea what to do. Remember all that righteous anger at Hamlin? She had steeled herself for Chuck's letter to be mean and for Jimmy to be crushed. Instead it was a nothingburger and Jimmy doesn't give a shit.
She still knows something's wrong, perhaps worse than ever. She just doesn't know what, or what to do about it.
As for the models, I'm just speculating but it might be that she doesn't want Mesa Verde's expansion to get too close to her old life. Stating to think 'what if I have to file legal papers back in Iowa/Nebraska?'
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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.