Good enough for the story, but IRL the search would be much more thorough.
Really? As a presumably routine stop of a truck? There’s a difference between “we have intelligence that this truck has drugs, let’s look for them” and “we routinely search hundreds of trucks each day, this is one of them”. In the latter case you can’t disassemble the truck to the ground level just to be thorough…
Star nails would have been easier, cheaper, and far more covert.
I’m a big fan of Weiner dogs. Enjoyed the first part and even one of the commercial breaks.
Wrong address= no longer valid or legal. A MAJOR screwup!I It’ll be blamed on the nutjob… of course.
Pay closer attention: you can hear the power tools after the truck is pulled into the building: drugs are being extracted.
I think this statement I highlighted is a good time to mentiomn something I enjoyed but forgot to mention in an earlier episode. Chuck told Kim about the money missing from their father’s business. Posters commenting on that episode queried whether Jimmy did indeed steal their father’s money, or whether their father was being done out of money by others. Well, in the next episode we saw it was both. Jimmy was stealing after he saw what a soft touch his father was. That’s what I love about this show. Most of it is a grey area. In most other drama series the young Jimmy would have been shown completely innocent.
One thing I didn’t get about the scene in which Jimmy sold two packs of cigarettes to the grifter and pocketed the money; wouldn’t his father have noticed the inventory shortfall, without seeing a corresponding amount of money in the till? Or was the accounting so sloppy that it would not be noticed?
Didn’t Jimmy not only pocket the money from the smokes but also took the cash in the till?
More thorough than a couple of knocks on the panels. Quick inspections can be done without pulling into the high bay. I do appreciate the artistic effort of the opening shot, but it was only 4 minutes long.
Of course, every now and then a border agent is in on the smuggling. But if that were the case here they would have had a popsicle too.
The previews for next week’s episode gives a lot of clues to where this thing is going.
My recording stopped before the previews - I’ll have to look.
What bothered me about the somewhat cursory inspection was that they also had a dog walking around the outside of the truck. Not sure how things are done at the border, but on more than one occasion I’ve seen local LEOs using dogs following traffic stops, and they sure work to encourage those dogs to give a reaction. So I was imagining whatever smuggling scheme would have to somehow evade detection by the dogs.
I’m thinking that the wrong building could end up being at least partly demolished because of the address change.
I’m wondering about paper watermarks. The law firm may use a brand with a watermark that wouldn’t match the paper from some random copy store.
Regarding the preview (don’t open if you like to avoid previews):
The preview shows Jimmy going back to the store and talking to the clerk. Which makes me think that maybe someone figured out what was done and he’s now concerned that the clerk can identify him. Maybe he’s planning to bribe the clerk.
He did ask for a very specific quality of paper for the copying and he was going over his changes with a magnifying glass but I guess a watermark still might have snuck by him.
I’m looking at that part of the episode. In Chuck’s house we see that one of the documents is labeled “Real Estate Purchase and Sales Agreement”. In the copy place, if you step through slowly you can see that the address is 1261 Rosella Dr Scottsdale, Arizona. Thinking that either this address or the 1216 address might be some real location I did a search. It appears to be entirely fiction since there doesn’t seem to be a Rosella Drive in Scottsdale.
My search did turn up this, on amc.com: http://images.sync.amctv.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MVfiles_2up_small.pdf
It’s a bunch of documents showing side by side each document before and after the 1261 / 1216 transposition. I assume it’s all of the documents that Jimmy changed. Mesa Verde bank is opening a new branch at 1261 Rosella Dr in Scottsdale.
He worked there for quite a while, if they used a watermark, I’m guessing he’d know it.
That place was some sort of machine/industrial/mechanics/truck shop. That fact that you heard a pneumatic wrench hardly implies that they were disassembling the truck that just pulled in to remove drugs from it. I’m not saying it’s not the case, just saying that it’s a leap.
I hear those guns all the time at service stations, doesn’t mean they’re removing the tires (or even drugs) from the last car I saw pull in. The have drills, they use drills.
Though I have to say I don’t remember hearing it myself, I just recall the door closing and Hector standing outside smoking.
Mike gives a small laugh to himself when the drills start. I think it’s definitely signalling that the truck was being disassembled to get at the drugs.
I was wondering whether they might take BCS to the start of BB and then jump ahead to Gene’s story (since we all know what happened during the BB period). That would be quite good because then they could reintroduce a lot of the characters who survived BB eg Jesse. And BCS could then almost become a continuation of BB
But we don’t all know. If they want this to be a stand alone series they can’t do anything like that without a couple of BCS episodes that gets everyone caught up as needed on BB.
Also, imho I don’t think it would be that cool to draw this series out that long and make it a continuation of BB. Maybe they could finish it with Gene somehow breaking bad at the Cinnabon but no way reintroduce BB characters.
I speculated about Gene’s future back here. The scene we got this season of Gene being locked in a room with the trash bins showed just how far he’d fallen. He waited for hours to be released rather than walk out a door that would’ve set off an alarm. Can you imagine Jimmy or Saul hesitating for a second?
If you’ll forgive an old hippie, some Bob Dylan lyrics come to mind. The whole thing is here, but the most important part is the first few lines.
Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm"
She, of course, being Kim Wexler.
Non-compete clauses are strictly forbidden in the legal profession.
The idea is that the client has an absolute right to hire an attorney of his or her choice. If Mesa Verde wants the services of Kim Wexler, it would be unethical for HHM to deny them their preferred choice of counsel.