Having Jimmy and the brothers take the same turn off the highway, drive 31.6 miles into nowhere, and then exchange the money, makes absolutely no sense. At that point you might as well do it at a Stuckey’s. I think Gilligan’s taking liberties with geography and actually has the two meeting from opposite directions.
For what started as a simple appearance on Breaking Bad, they have to be thrilled with all the work they’ve gotten from both shows. 
Patch,
Yeah, it seems like a lot but it’s $7million. Probably don’t want any spectators. That area IS remote. The Rio Salado and the Sevilleta grant prevent any access from the south.
Swapping luggage in the airport parking lot wouldn’t attract any attention either. Of course they have video cameras - don’t want that.
If you ever take a BB tour put Escondida Mountain on your list of things to see. There’s a large ruin on top (~1300AD) and petroglyphs around the base. And the Los Lunas Stone.
Same for Jonathan Banks. The only reason he was cast in BB is because Bob Odenkirk was unavailable for a particular scene.
If the maps say there’s no road, that’s probably just what the Cartel want you to think
I think this is the final turnover for Saul. When he gets back, having fully - urine drinkingly - committed to Kim as his one and only motivation in life, she is going to say “Adios! I’m not up for this.” He put her in a position to have to beg for help from a man she despises. She values her independence and integrity above all else. She’s not going to let this slide continue.
She also knows that Lalo knows she is Jimmy’s weak point. She is smart enough to know if she stays she becomes a constant pawn to control Jimmy. She has to leave, and if he won’t leave with her she’s going alone. What I don’t see yet, is why he won’t go with her.
Re: Gus/Mike knowing about the pick-up vs an opportunistic robbery, I see no reason why it can’t be both.
Then why did she propose to Jimmy?
Because she’s co-dependent, the adult child of an alcoholic mother. Unless she gets into Al Anon or has some other epiphany, she’ll continue to enable Jimmy and not tend to her own interests.
Who’s Gene?
Gene is the guy working at a Cinnabon in Nebraska, some time after the Breaking Bad episode “Granite State”
Could you fit $7mill in $100s in those 2 duffels?
On edit I guess so.
The car flip and roll seemed realistic to me. I figured Mike shot the driver, which caused him to jerk the wheel. If you do that in a top-heavy vehicle driving fast down a dirt road, you’re gonna have a bad day.
Right. Like I said upthread, if a stuntman caused it to do that just by turning the steering wheel, no reason it couldn’t happen when someone gets shot.
Stanislaus, I think you’re looking to make it twistier than it needs to be. IMO some gang with a mole inside that money warehouse got a tip that there was a large amount of cash on the move and went after it. They got killed and we’ll never hear anything about them again. I don’t think they knew anything about any of our characters. Your ruling out an “opportunistic robbery” neglects the fact that Mike was tracking Saul with his gas cap.
I would say his downfall came because he crossed paths with Walter White. Just like Hank, Jane, and so many others. He seemed to be doing fine when we first met him on BB.
It’s really wild how differently different people watch this show–it’s something I’ve noticed at least since S2, maybe earlier. I could not disagree more: I’d actually rather see the show be almost entirely about Kim! Or like Alan Sepinwall said, I’d watch the heck out of a legal show a la The Good Wife/Fight about Kim Wexler practicing banking/real estate law. One of my favorite stretches of the show was when she was stuck in dock review and went out to that stairway to put Post-It notes on the windows as she called various prospects.
On the podcast, they said they figured out each duffel bag would weigh 75 pounds, but they didn’t play it as though it was quite that heavy, as Saul just would not be able to make it all that way if it were really that bad.
I wouldn’t go that far. I mean, there’s a reason it’s done as a montage.
But I will say, every courtroom scene has been A+, while still managing to be far more realistic than almost any other show. Not just the criminal trials but Mesa Verde’s site approval thing, Jimmy’s hearing etc etc.
I would love the show to focus more on that side. But I guess there’s a destination for Saul and only so much time to get there.
Aside from still being completely scared shitless of the cartel. (When Walt and Jesse first threaten to shoot him he assumes he’s being executed by the cartel.)
They had him tied up with guns trained on him and a shallow grave prepared. He had reason to be scared shitless just because of that, and obviously had to figure it came from somewhere. The rest of the time he seemed pretty happy-go-lucky, until being involved with Walt made things come apart for him toward the end.
Right so he’s living a life where kneeling above his shallow grave is an explicable turn of events which he can readily attribute to a specific set of people he’s involved with. Whereas you or I in the same situation would be thinking “What the fuck, who are these guys, I have no idea what the fuck is happening” Saul is naming the people he knows who are most likely to do this to him. This is not an awesome life. It is a life that is self-evidently one step from disaster.
You can say that it was Walt that brought him down but he made the choice to be on Walt’s team. Unlike Hank, who came to grief by trying to do the right thing and oppose Walt the murdering drug lord, or Jane, who unwittingly got in Walt’s way, Saul signed up to help Walt and was on-board with the whole “sell illegal drugs to hopeless addicts and kill people who get in the way” programme from the get-go.
In any case, if it wasn’t Walt it would have been someone else. Criminal lawyer involved with the cartel is an inherently unstable position and the idea that Saul was going to be able to keep making the decisions that would lead to a peaceful retirement is out of character - if he were able to make those kind of decisions, he wouldn’t be Saul Goodman, he’d be Jimmy McGill. Sooner or later he’d have greedily got into bed with the wrong person and that would be him done.
If I have learned anything from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, it is that New Mexico is the land of desert shootouts involving millions of dollars in cash.
I guess that’s a bit too long to fit on a license plate.
Where do we see Nacho’s car in the teaser?
why didn’t Mike tell Jimmy that dragging the bags would lose the money