Well, if that’s your thing, watch the first series of the UK programme Spooks (broadcast in the US as MI-5). It happened in the second episode.
I don’t see why you’d say it is at all out of character. Even just within this show, Gus is clearly an obsessive control freak who is used to executing his own plans. When his plans are in disarray from Lalo and he can do nothing about it, he lashes out in a minor way at Lyle. This is a guy who tortured an animal to death for stealing food from him - he didn’t kill it to keep it away (which is pretty normal), he tortured it for revenge even though it doesn’t understand the concepts of stealing or revenge. And when we include Breaking Bad, we see him slit his subordinate’s throat when he can’t punish the two people who’s throats he would actually like to slit.
I initially thought the old man was played by Wilford Brimley but apparently I am mistaken.
It feels to me like it is too direct to comply with ‘leave Gus alone’ orders and too nice and planned out to fit with the Salamanca tendency towards extreme, spur of the moment action and brutal violence. I wouldn’t say that it’s impossible for the doctor to be Lalo’s man, but it isn’t what I think happened. I also can’t see Gus leaving Mike without a tail, it’s clear to Gus that Mike is losing his grip and unreliable. I don’t see Gus letting the Salmancas take Mike out of the country, I think his tail would have orders to kill Mike rather than let that happen.
Also: (I tend to spoiler stuff about future episodes even though this is a spoiler-allowed thread)
Incidentally, your wording sounds like you think Lalo is taking orders from Hector. My impression is that Lalo is helping at Hector’s request, sharing information and taking advice, but that he’s a peer in the family hierarchy. People like the cousins or Tuco do take orders from Hector, but Lalo is more like another manager brought in to fix a problem.
It was Maurice from Northern Exposure.
Thanks. I’ve said before that the limited number of shows and widely spaced seasons causes me serious problems keeping up. OK - so Gus is a crazy unpredictable fuck.
My ‘thing’? Do you have trouble parsing sentences? I said I marvel it hasn’t happened, which I am deeply thankful for.
Glad you had more luck in searching out a deep fryer scene, though, enjoy.
You don’t need to have any fears on that score. The restaurant(s) are Gus’s legit cover and he is painstaking at keeping that business isolated from the criminal enterprise. He would never allow any kind of violence, still less cranial deep-frying, to happen on those premises.
That’s what I figured. But if he was not able to restrain himself from convincing his trusting manager that he is irrational and unreasonable…
Turns out this is a real thing that has happened, but pretty rare as judges tend not to like it:
It surprises me if a defendant is not required to acknowledge they are present in the courtroom and identify themselves before the trial starts.
I never watched “Boston Legal” so it couldn’t have been there. Maybe Matlock did it once.
I’m pretty sure that on the Boston Legal ep they said it was an oft-used trope, and actually cited Matlock and Perry Mason. 
Judges may not like it, but I think it should be a regular feature of courtrooms as eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
I thought that maybe the ringer did say he was … whoever the name of the real defendant was. And that this was why the judge was so mad
It probably wouldn’t be difficult during the trial process to have the defendant and the ringer switch places sometime after the defendant might have to identify himself and before the witness testifies.
Shenanigans like this might work in the short term but very quickly the local judges are going to all find out about it and Saul’s going to get less and less leeway in court and from DAs, I figure is what would happen.
I’m confident that by the BB era, Saul is well-known to all of the judges and DAs in the area and anyone they talk to about their experience. He’s already started getting that reputation and he’s only been working as Saul for like two weeks (if I’m estimating the time right).
So is Kim being led to the dark side? Or when is she going to get off the ride? How does this bode for her ending? Probably not well?
Will we see a Gus Fring back story episode next? And what did Kim see at Kevin’s “boring” home?
So how does Saul know the PI again? From the Hummel heist? Wasn’t he also the loudmouth bodyguard for Squat Cobbler who Mike disarmed? And also Trevor from GTA V?
So who was Max?
And what did Kim see in the photos, and what was her play in publicly confronting the other lawyer?
Gustav’s best friend, possible lover, and original partner in drug manufacturing, whom Hector Salamanca killed years ago.