Thanks. My DVR hiccuped just a bit during that transition.
I hope we find out Chuck’s wife left him to go on tour with the Electric Light Orchestra, but if she died of cancer and had to go through radiation it might explain some of his obsession with electrical currents.
That would be a nice touch.
So…did anyone else think…that Chuck might actually die?
Aside from that, I can’t wait to see how Mike’s and Jimmy’s story lines tie together in the finale next week.
And on a slightly unrelated topic, a few episodes back, Mike was playing with Kaylee and he gave her a pink plush toy.
Same toy he used in BB season 5 to fool Lydia’s hitman at his house?
You don’t have to spoiler tag speculation imnsho.
The imdb page for season 3 episode 1 says “Mike’s new boss teaches him some chicken recipes.” I expect it’s just some smartass; the thing is basically a wiki.
Do you think that Hector is put in his wheelchair by gunshot wounds or by a stroke? I assumed stroke or other natural causes malady when I was watching BB, but I’m wondering how Mike could intentionally maneuver him into stroking out.
I always assumed a stroke or something similar. Hard to see a bullet taking away speech but still let you live and ring a bell.
I suspect they might not wrap up Hector’s character just yet - at least not entirely in the finale.
I believe in Breaking Bad they said he had a stroke while in prison.
Mike will sneak into his house at night and transpose the address numbers on some important drug dealing application.
ETA: Or Jimmy will do it for him.
Wasn’t it implied that Gus was gay (he and Max being longtime lovers), or was I reading to much fan speculation?
If Gus was gay, I would tend to doubt that he has children of his own.
A good episode, but while New Mexico has some desolate roads, they are not that desolate. Mike had to have had a plan to deal with a good Samaritan that might have shown up while he was cutting the tires. Doubt that plan would have been all sunshine and rainbows for the good Samaritan.
Absolutely. Her questioning of Chuck was not about figuring out whether Chuck was right; it was about figuring out whether Chuck had evidence.
Yes, Odenkirk was great in that scene. And if it was Michael McKean who executed the fall to the ground–that was amazingly, frighteningly realistic. (Odds are that the producers wouldn’t let McKean risk himself and that it was a stunt double, though.)
So why didn’t Ernesto–or someone–phone 911 right away? Was that just a plot device to let Jimmy emote and risk being discovered? Does Ernesto fancy himself an amateur medic?
Yes, that was a plotting weak point (that Mike really wanted the police to find the truck and driver, but failed to phone in a tip).
I liked the fact that Chuck was being gaslit…with a gaslight.
IIRC it was pretty clear that he had a long time male lover, but that doesn’t mean he couldn’t have kids. He could be bi-sexual, he could maintain a family just for appearances sake, he could have adopted kids from relatives, he could have had a surrogate mother.
What would you expect her to do differently if she didn’t believe that Jimmy did it and was challenging Chuck on whether this allegation could be true? Asking what evidence he has makes perfect sense to me if she doesn’t believe it (even if it’s willful disbelief). I think what she did there was consistent both with her deciding to jump in with Jimmy and help him, being forced to sort of jump in with Jimmy while she considers what’s going on, or her solidly disbelieving Chuck and only later realizing what’s up.
I think the whole Kim part of the episode was written and acted in a way that supports several vastly different interpretations of what is going through Kim’s head. It is certainly possible that they’ll go for the straight up ‘Kim realized Jimmy did it, ran cover for him, then offered help that night’, but I can see several other reactions that are consistent with what she did on the show.
Earlier when Chuck collapsed at HHM and Ernesto brought him home, Chuck was very insistent he not call a doctor. Probably just carryover from that long standing request.
I’m aware of all the ways he could have children (biological or otherwise), I’m just not buying into the plot line speculation that he does. It seems too easy.
Question 1: Why does Chuck call Kim and not the police?
Again…he attempts to hurt his brother- the ultimate payback: take away the woman his brother (and maybe he, himself), loves.
Question 2: Why does Kim react as she does to Chuck?
Kim, as we saw with the stock broker, has a bit of larceny in her heart. Will she overlook the entity Saul Goodman? This might indicate she will.
Gomez said that he was in the Wheelchair because of a stroke. But he also doesn’t talk to authorities, so Gomez probably doesn’t have first hand information. The stroke story could be because he didn’t want to discuss a fight with police, or to not admit that he got shot or injured. I think it’s safe to say that it’s probably a stroke, but the door is open for them to have something else happen.
Side note: I liked Chuck’s weird stilted questioning of the copy machine guy with all of the dates and ‘on or abouts’. It fits his character and his weaknesses - he’s an experienced corporate lawyer but has no recent criminal practice and isn’t good at conversing with regular people, so completely blows the questioning (I’m not sure the guy even understood exactly what he was asking). And his “I am an officer of the court” bit was precisely the kind of thing that would make stoner graveyard shift guy want to stop talking.
Jimmy in the same position would do a much better job at interrogating the guy without weird legalese. And he could also come up with a much more credible threat from the police, especially since he’d just make up whatever he thought would scare the guy.
Also, Chuck believes in The Law almost like a religion and probably thinks other good lawyers do. I think he really did expect her to go ‘falsified documents? I must report this right away’ and didn’t expect that she would be hesitant to do so. Even if she’s not throwing in with Jimmy, it would not be in her interest to completely blow things up and alienate her only rather lucrative client, but Chuck doesn’t really get that kind of pragmatism.
Fair enough. Certainly the way this show handles ambiguity is one of its strengths.
Good point about Chuck’s past prohibitions on calling a doctor. Jimmy, watching in agony from across the street, would have known that this was a likely development, too.