Another early role we’ve probably all seen him in many times without (possibly) noticing: Gunderson in Airplane!
I don’t know for sure what age she is in BCS. I was guessing based on appearance. Maybe she’s as young as 3 or 4, but I don’t think any younger.
I’m thinking that Jimmy’s acquaintance with Nacho may lead to Mike connecting with Gus somehow.
Nacho is connected to Tuco, and Tuco is connected to the cartel.
Anyone recall the exact relationship between the cartel and Gus? Was the cartel originally helping Gus sell his meth, or did he just have an agreement with them divvying up the territory? Obviously Gus and the cartel ended up completely at odds, but they had some sort of agreement at first.
Gus and his buddy set up Los Polos Hermaos in Mexico, as a front to their meth manufacturing operation.
Since they had no distribution network Gus identified and gave some free samples to some of Don Eladio’s men, with the intent that they take the samples to Don Eladio, and Gus and his partner could get an introduction and a sit-down for a business meeting.
Done Eldaio instead took great offense, and had Gus’s partner killed right in front of Gus (by pre-stroke Hector Salamanca).
I’m guessing that since the Juarez Cartel didn’t want anything to do with the meth business, Gus went Norte and set up his operation.
Later, when it got to be very profitable, the Cartel changed its mind and began muscling Gus’s operation (S4?), which ended with Gus, Mike, and Jesse in Mexico teaching the Cartel’s chemist how to cook Walter’s “Blue,” before Gus poisoned and killed the top leadership of the Juarez Cartel (and almost himself in the process).
I know… she should be younger. It’s been bugging me too. Still a great episode.
I only wondered how the cops stay dry when it rains.
Something I was forgetting, though, is that even though the show (BB) was on for 5 years, it only took place over, what, 2 years. So if Kaylee was 10 at the end of the show, she wasn’t 5 at the beginning (and not born now), she was 8. Throw in the fact that they’ve been playing with the time line and an actor that’s older than the character and maybe that gets us a little closer to being reconciled.
Can I get some help with the timeline?
Mike’s son is killed. Wife moves to NM.
A few months later Mike does what he did and moves to NM. Daughter-in-law picks him up at train station. There is obvious tension but she is willing to have him in her and his granddaughter’s lives.
Previous week’s episode, near “current” time, Mike sits in car outside DIL’s house and has a nonverbal stare moment before she and then he drives off.
Sometime around then or just before DIL calls Philly cops with information about the money she found.
“Current” time - Philly cops come, Mike uses Jimmy to get the notebook. Mike is let into DIL’s house without fuss and accuses her of calling the Philly cops and stating that her husband had been a bad cop. Narrative exposition ensues.
That italicized part does not seem to fit in with the rest. What am I missing?
I watched it tonight.
Brilliant planning and execution by Mike.
He even waited until the guy tried to kill him before he opened up.
I understand what you’re saying. Maybe he came to NM sometime between Matty being killed and him killing the cops, just to ‘check up’ on her and the grandkid.
Maybe that ‘stalking’ scene happened after their blowout in her living room.
On the podcast for this episode they mentioned that they’ve put a lot of thought into how much they need to explain to the audience when they move around in time.
Last week, showing Mike sitting outside of her house and then the cops at his door was clearly meant as misdirection. IMO, that was meant to suggest that the cops were looking for Mike because he followed this girl (or his daughter, we didn’t know yet) across the country. Perhaps they [the writers] needed to explain that a bit better this week. It would have just taken a quick a quick ‘and what were you doing when I saw you last month in front of my house?’.
And don’t forget Banks’ stellar performance as Zone Kommander Nuveen Kroll on “Otherworld”.
Seems we’re very much on the same wavelength. I had to roll my eyes a bit at the way Vince Gilligan was gushing on this week’s podcast about how Kerry Condon is such a fantastic actor, did a brilliant job, blah blah blah. It cheapens the praise he gives others who have acted on his shows (who really were deserving), to know that he apparently just says that about anyone the first time they play a character.
That was a mistake. Not only did it get him shot, but he morally had the right to fire the moment they stated they were about to murder him. Not sure about legally, but he definitely had the high ground morally - it was kill or be killed. He needed to shoot the first cop in the back of the head and get the other one while he’s trying to turn around.
(he should have aimed for the younger one first, since the older one had his dud gun in his hands and would have had to drop it before drawing his own gun)
Honestly, the moment they took him to a deserted area, he should have killed them both the very second they opened the door to the squad car. There’s only one reason for them not to take him home.
Real life isn’t a movie. If your life is really at stake…and you’re facing 2 armed opponents with training and body armor…you don’t give them a sporting chance.
That could be it, although I can think of examples of Brits having no troubles in that department. A great current example is the Welshman Matthew Rhys, who kind of blows my mind every time I hear him talking in that sprightly, elfin manner in interviews after being used to his character’s way of speaking on The Americans. He’s apparently known as an accent master, though: you can see him do some others here.
He sure looked a lot like Mark Knopfler back then.
Agreed, good point.
I did think that perhaps he wasn’t absolutely certain they killed his son.
Please remind me, why did Mike break into the police car?
To hide the second gun in the back seat.
Of course, thanks. I thought he had hidden it somehow on his person, and slipped it in the seat when they first put him in.
Thanks.
As to the storyline: I don’t think the daughter-in-law knew that the cops had died when Mike showed up. They seemed to be talking about them in the present tense.
Sometime after that, I can guess, she found out about the cops’ deaths, had a falling out with Mike. So, when he did the stake out thing and she saw him, she called the Philly cops.
When did she find the money hidden in the suitcase? That would have been a contributing factor to her increasing unease about Mike. Money, phone call, cop deaths. She knew something was up with him, just not sure what until he tells her.
In particular, she knew Mattie was talking to Mike on the phone. She was pressing him to tell her about it. But if he denied it was him, then she knew Mike was involved. He denied, things deteriorated.
That makes sense, ftg.
WTH did she do with the money, make a down payment on a house in New Mexico?