Cheat Work Thursday

The aftermath of the stroke and the fire We’re all frogs in the boiling water. At some point we should’ve stopped rooting for these characters, but we never did. Following Hector’s stroke, Bolsa orders Nacho and Arturo to look after the Salamancas' business. Gus has Victor tracking and following Nacho, and Victor sees Nacho throwing the meds over the bridge. Bolsa also instructs Gus to run a dummy distribution to catch the perpetrator of the recent incidents and outsource a new supplier, which they know Eladio doesn't approve. Unbeknownst to the cartel, Gus has already been making a move, getting Gale Boetticher to test new products for him. Mike quits his parking attendant job, but he’s restless at home and doesn’t want to be just on Madrigal’s books. He physically goes to the company’s warehouse and advises on its security weaknesses. Howard tells Jimmy that he doesn’t think Chuck’s death was an accident, and he blames himself for it – having pushed Chuck into ret...

The beginning of an end The recording is probably not going to hold in court, and Mesa Verde’s never coming back to HHM, but Chuck has another plan for it. And Ernie is the first piece of the puzzle, walking right into the trap: accidentally playing the tape when Chuck asks him to replace the battery. As the Air Force captain from the "Fifi" episode warns Jimmy, Jimmy may think that he doesn’t have to play straight with anybody, but the wheel is going to turn. The beginning of Mike and Gus Fring The people who put the “Don’t” note also put a tracker on Mike’s car. He replaces the tracker with a new one to reverse-track them. This brings us to Los Pollos Hermanos and the first meeting between Mike and Gus in the middle of a secluded road. Gus tells Mike that it’s not in his interest for Hector to die – at this time – although he won’t stand in the way if Mike wants to disrupt Hector’s supply line again. He later tells Mike, “A bullet to the head is far too humane”...

Jimmy drinks the cucumber water and quits law Every time Jimmy tries to grab a cup of Mrs Nguyen’s “Customers only!” cucumber drink, he’ll get yelled at by the landlady and stop himself. Back from declining the offer from Davis & Main, he rebels fearlessly and drinks the water straight from the dispenser. This new Jimmy is quitting law altogether and now lazing in a hotel pool too. Kim looks for him and tries to understand this new life crisis of his. Jimmy says he's done getting Chuck’s approval, and he could use his talent elsewhere, not only for law. To prove that, he tricks a loud stockbroker at the bar to pay for their expensive drinks, introducing himself as Viktor. Kim, reluctantly at first, plays along as Viktor’s sibling Giselle, both apparently have just received a huge inheritance. Thrilled with the experience, Kim kisses Jimmy and they spend the night together. Pryce drives a Hummer and Mike leaves Pryce is too clueless to crime, so he buys a flashy H...

“Who TF is this?” – me, every time I start a new season of a TV series. So I’m going to rewatch and recap the series before the finale in August. The year is 2002, six years before Breaking Bad , and Saul Goodman is Jimmy McGill Jimmy’s a struggling lawyer, mostly chasing public defender works for $700. As he notes, the colour of his car’s door is not even the same as the rest of its body. And his law office, also his living quarters, is a tiny room behind the supply closet in a nail salon. We are officially back in the land of Vince Gilligan, in awe with the details of his work. The Kettlemans The Kettlemans, who eventually become his clients, describe Jimmy as “the kind of lawyer guilty people hire.” Craig Kettleman is guilty, of course, of embezzling $1.6m of public money. Shopping for lawyers and pursued by Jimmy, they choose Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM), and the case is handled by Kim Wexler, Jimmy’s longtime best friend. The skater twins, the con and Tuco...