Cheat Work Thursday

The aftermath of Chihuahua Nacho hides in a motel as instructed by Tyrus. He’s to wait for a pickup in a few days. There are money, gun, clothes, food and bed – and there’s someone secretly surveilling him from a small building across the room that he’s aware of, but not sure who and why. Meanwhile, Lalo goes to a house in the village belonging to a man whom he’s helped pay for dental treatment recently. The wife treats Lalo's wound and serves him coffee. Then Lalo kills the couple, burns the man’s body and plants it as his own back in his compound. As far as the world’s concerned, dental records checked out and all, Lalo Salamanca is dead. “The mercenaries are dead. And yet their mission was a success.” – Gus Fring Bolsa tells Gus that Lalo’s dead, killed by hired gunmen, which could be the Colombians – or traitors close to home. “We know this much. Ignacio Varga is a rat. Don Eladio has put a price on his head. Every man we have is searching for him,” Bolsa says. G...

Gene Takavic of Cinnabon, Omaha, Nebraska The flash-forward of Gene has always been a combination of wariness and mundane routine until now, when a cab driver named Jeff recognizes him from his old TV ad. Gene calls for a new Vacuum but changes his mind, telling the seller he’s fixing the problem himself. Lalo and Gus Lalo’s obsessed about untangling the Werner Ziegler mystery. He asks Nacho if he’s noticed anything off in their operation. Nacho says they may have received complaints about their products not being on par lately, but complaining is what buyers do, so that’s not really strange. Lalo checks the products at one of the dealers’ places – Mouse and Arlo’s – and true enough, some of the drugs turn out not to be the cartel's. He goes to Gus and Bolsa with this. Gus “confesses” that he had to outsource some of the drugs after running into some trouble recently: an engineer who did a construction work for his legit business stealing the products. The engineer’s n...