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***Official "Space Blanket" for Better Call Saul*** (3 Viewers)

Loved the Abbey Road look of Jimmy's film crew crossing the street on their way to location.

 
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McJose said:
I thought Mike said he was making a soaker hose for his plants?  Are they just going to die now?

What happened to all that ice cream?  Did it just melt?

Where did those dentist chairs come from?  Did Jimmie steal them?  Are they symbolic?

Does Chad's chemical sensitivity cause dyslexia?  What was up with the screwed up addresses? 

Pretty sure teachers would know who wrote the Pina Coloda song.  That's what we drink after work to blow off steam.

So that stoner guy at the end runs an office and just lets people come in and use their copiers?  Is that even legal?
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this is never funny btw

 
I actually thought this may have been the worst episode of the series...

Chuck nailing Jimmy's whole Plan from top to bottom & Mike taking a nice long mid-day car jacking killed the ep for me.  It was still pretty good but IMO it wasn't the shows best...

 
Bigboy10182000 said:
I actually thought this may have been the worst episode of the series...

Chuck nailing Jimmy's whole Plan from top to bottom & Mike taking a nice long mid-day car jacking killed the ep for me.  It was still pretty good but IMO it wasn't the shows best...
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What was there to nail?

he started out thinking he couldn't possibky be mistaken.  Which leads to "somebody messed with the files" which leads to " it had to be Jimmy" which leads to " when did he have access to them" which leads to the only place he could have altered them in the middle of the night.   

It it flows very easily and logically.

 
Bigboy10182000 said:
I actually thought this may have been the worst episode of the series...

Chuck nailing Jimmy's whole Plan from top to bottom & Mike taking a nice long mid-day car jacking killed the ep for me.  It was still pretty good but IMO it wasn't the shows best...
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Maybe it is because I am from a densely populated area but the idea that Mike took his sweet time taping the guy and looking in tires for money was nutty to me. It would have been more realistic if there is a stretch of that highway with more trees and the truck could have been somewhat hidden while the deeds were done. 

 
Walking Boot said:
Great parallel construction in the stories. Asking if the driver can ID Mike, then Kim gets Jimmy thinking the same thing. Then they both got an innocent person hurt. 
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Yes, 2 innocent people hurt. Shame.

The helpful bystander was hurt bad from the sounds of it. Probably going to need a face transplant ... assuming they can find him in the desert and unbury him in time. 

 
brun said:
Getting an innocent person killed was gross miscalculation. Buying that round was probably a conscious decision to bring the attention of the bad guys' leader to himself.
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Buying a round for the house shouldn't draw attention from the cartel. They just paid him $50k to take the gun rap from Tuco.

Why would he want attention knowing the cartel has knowledge of, and is willing to harm his granddaughter if they sense Mike wronged them?

 
Fariq said:
Maybe it is because I am from a densely populated area but the idea that Mike took his sweet time taping the guy and looking in tires for money was nutty to me. It would have been more realistic if there is a stretch of that highway with more trees and the truck could have been somewhat hidden while the deeds were done. 
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You ever been to the desert?  

 
JaxBill said:
I was wondering if it was counterfeit cash coming into the country and he was seeing if it would spend.
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Compass on the Helado truck clearly was reading "South" before the soaker took out all 6 tires.

Mike would have been more interested in cash heading south than drugs heading north.

So, not counterfeit and wasn't coming INTO the country.

 
You roll up on a hi-jacked truck and a Hispanic guy hogtied on the side of the road in the desert and you don't call the police?  Maybe you don't need to be around to breed anymore.  Mike did a good thing here.

 
Hov34 said:
You roll up on a hi-jacked truck and a Hispanic guy hogtied on the side of the road in the desert and you don't call the police?  Maybe you don't need to be around to breed anymore.  Mike did a good thing here.
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Maybe the Samaritan was savvy enough to know it might not be wise to call the cops.  

 
Bossman said:
Buying a round for the house shouldn't draw attention from the cartel. They just paid him $50k to take the gun rap from Tuco.good point  

Why would he want attention knowing the cartel has knowledge of, and is willing to harm his granddaughter if they sense Mike wronged them? I don't see Mike as a social person who would celebrate by buying a round for a bunch of strangers at a bar. I see Mike as a character who is methodical and unlikely to act without purpose. So, I think the bar scene is part of a conscious plan.
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chauncey said:
Gus Fring, the Chilean Colonel Sanders, might be making an appearance in the finale. Probably something related to the Mike/Hector Salamanca story line.
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I hope the first shot of him is stepping out of an RV carrying a barbed wire-wrapped box cutter. 

 
Fariq said:
We know from watching the show that the driver was not going from desert point A to desert point B. 
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Should have nailed the truck at the Northern Mexico Redwood Preservation ... or at the Albuquerque state forest. Would have made loads more sense.

I bet Mike just couldn't find a billboard to hide his bright blue "everyday driver" behind.

(baffles me that other viewers in here can watch the show and not know that Mikes car is a brown pos Chrysler looking sedan ... not the robins egg blue pos that he pulled the heist in. "Oh no, ... the truck driver saw Mikes car!".

 
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I wouldn't be surprised if the heist was a job interview to Mike - he conspicuously spent the money in that bar to attract attention in hopes of word getting back to Hector; Nacho just figured it out making it superfluous.  

Mike wants to,walk in there with the money and tell them that their operation is so shoddy that he was able to pull that off with two days of work.  He will then offer to come on board as a security / operations consultant.  Gus will enter the story originally through his cartel connection - it's extremely unlikely he built his empire without their involvement / permission.

 
it amazes me the lengths that people will go to NOT enjoy a show of this caliber ....what do you do ? sit in front of the tv while watching with a note pad in your hand looking for the littlest detail you find questionable? soooo strange 

 
It all makes sense if Mike can show the cartel/Hector that he is more valuable alive then dead.  

Thing is if they know Mike is a shark then Nacho is dead.  Obviously Mike wasn't a random encounter with Tuco.

 
I will admit this season has not been as good as season one and has dragged on a bit but this last episode was amazing and one of my favorite of the series. Good stuff.

The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is in BB, Mike tells Walt the story about when he was a cop in Philly and how he no longer takes half measures after that yet he continues to take half measures in this series.

 
Daywalker said:
It all makes sense if Mike can show the cartel/Hector that he is more valuable alive then dead.  

Thing is if they know Mike is a shark then Nacho is dead.  Obviously Mike wasn't a random encounter with Tuco.
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Pretty sure we :know: Nacho isn't dead though from some throwaway lines in Breaking Bad.

 
Walking Boot said:
Great parallel construction in the stories. Asking if the driver can ID Mike, then Kim gets Jimmy thinking the same thing. Then they both got an innocent person hurt. 
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I agree that it is cool but I hardly consider Chuck an innocent person.   

 
Harry Manback said:
But not savvy enough to know to GTFO before anyone else comes by.
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It happened off-screen so no one knows why the good samaritan stayed with the driver. One easy explanation would be the driver said "hey thanks man, if you stick around you'll get a huge reward for saving me". 

it doesn't really matter though, IMO

 
shadyridr said:
I will admit this season has not been as good as season one and has dragged on a bit but this last episode was amazing and one of my favorite of the series. Good stuff.

The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is in BB, Mike tells Walt the story about when he was a cop in Philly and how he no longer takes half measures after that yet he continues to take half measures in this series.
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A very fair point about half measures.

But I don't think we yet know what Mike's end goal is.  They may not appear so half-measured in time.

 
Seems like Mike's best option is to find a way into the cartel to gain the protection of the cartel so that his family is safe and he can (once again) attempt to hide them.  I agree that his heist was more like a job interview than anything else.  I doubt he expected the Good Samaritan collateral damage though.

Excited for the finale.  I'm hoping that we get to see Gustavo to close out the season.

 
BustedKnuckles said:
it amazes me the lengths that people will go to NOT enjoy a show of this caliber ....what do you do ? sit in front of the tv while watching with a note pad in your hand looking for the littlest detail you find questionable? soooo strange 
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Sorry for possibly being lumped in with those people. I don't take such notes on shows I like. I just happened to agree with the Eagles avatar guy/gal on something minor from this week's episode.

 
shadyridr said:
I will admit this season has not been as good as season one and has dragged on a bit but this last episode was amazing and one of my favorite of the series. Good stuff.

The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is in BB, Mike tells Walt the story about when he was a cop in Philly and how he no longer takes half measures after that yet he continues to take half measures in this series.
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define his half measures

 
shadyridr said:
Didn't kill Tuco. That blew up in his face. Didn't kill the driver and an innocent good Samaritan got killed because of it.
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good points ....maybe his outlook on half measures hasnt taken hold yet ....BB is way down the road ...he could stop taking half measures after what you just brought up ...that could be his turning point

 
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BustedKnuckles said:
good points ....maybe his outlook on half measures hasnt taken hold yet ....BB is way down the road ...he could stop taking half measures after what you just brought up ...that could be his turning point
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But that was my point. According to the story he told Walt in BB, his turning point was the half measures he took as a Philly cop which allowed a domestic violence victim to get murdered.

 
BTW I realize this is a prequel and written after BB so I understand everything may not be entirely consistent. It seems they are reinventing Mike's storyline a little bit which is fine.

 
shadyridr said:
BTW I realize this is a prequel and written after BB so I understand everything may not be entirely consistent. It seems they are reinventing Mike's storyline a little bit which is fine.
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Possibly Mike learned from all his mistakes here and told Walter a story that sounded better (more powerful) later based on those experiences.

 
shadyridr said:
But that was my point. According to the story he told Walt in BB, his turning point was the half measures he took as a Philly cop which allowed a domestic violence victim to get murdered.
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but he seems pretty smart ...always one step ahead  in most situations ...maybe he thinks to much ...not sure thats a half measure or not ...just careful but even careful can back fire ...if he killed Tuco who knows what kind of #### storm that would have caused ...maybe way worse than what happened...as far as the driver goes leaving him alive was part of the plan ...he expected the cops to show up and then go after hector ...it was a plan not a half measure IMO

 
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Didn't kill Tuco. That blew up in his face. Didn't kill the driver and an innocent good Samaritan got killed because of it.
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Are either of these necessarily half measures?  Tuco....we don't know for sure at this point.  Good Samaritan....it's a casualty, which will make him feel guilty, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not something that will "blow up in his face".

 
We know that Jimmy will get involved with Nacho at some point, given the line in BB when Walt and Jesse kidnapped him, but will it involve Hector?  Remember when Saul told Jesse's idea about how to get to Gus, through Hector?  The way Saul talked, it was clear he had no idea who Hector was prior to Jesse's mention of him. Then again, they could always do a little tweaking to the story here, since they didn't know then they'd be doing a Saul prequel, and I'd be fine with it. 

 
Tiger Fan said:
Are either of these necessarily half measures?  Tuco....we don't know for sure at this point.  Good Samaritan....it's a casualty, which will make him feel guilty, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not something that will "blow up in his face".
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Agree, oversight not a half measure. I don't think killing the driver would have gotten the result he wanted, but it was on him to make sure it's the cops who discover the tied up driver, that's where he went wrong. 

 
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