I am baffled why Gene went BACK to the cancer guy’s house.
Even if you dismiss moral concerns about the victim having cancer, as a practical matter it would have been smarter to cut your losses and move on rather than risk the victim waking up or something else going wrong.
Yeah - he’s gone rogue. Carol Burnett is on to him, he’s breaking and entering, and as Jeffie said - the timing was all wrong. Pretty out of character. I could see the third guy going to the police to try to cut a plea deal.
I wonder if Kim applied to the bar in Florida… who knows, maybe her next case will be to defend Gene? Yeah, unlikely, but it would be fun.
Anyone else catch the Ozymandias reference Saul made in the RV?
Gene was pretty pissed during his conversation with Kim (or whoever was on the other line). It would be an interesting symmetry to the BB/BCS world if she was sick (cancer?), and he’s trying to stockpile cash to go take care of her.
To the poem or the TV episode? I must admit I didn’t pick up a reference to either.
I think he means when Saul said “Are they gonna find us buried in a sandstorm a thousand years from now.”
Ah, got it. Kinda subtle that.
You do not go back…ever. That’s what get you caught. Or getting too greedy or being so pleased with yourself that you can’t resist telling the wrong person.
I suppose they could do a similar parallel if Kim was pregnant when she left, and Saul was planning on leaving a nest egg for the kid. That doesn’t really feel like how they’d write it, though. But either that or Kim being sick would give a motivation for Gene to get back into running the scams, once Francesca informed him that all his stashed accounts got seized.
Otherwise I guess he’s just in pure self-destruct mode.
Yeah, I think he’s in pure self-destruct mode. He talked to Francesca, and found out that Albuquerque is still way too hot for him, and always will be - the whole point of that scheduled call was for him to find out if he’d ever able to come back. But then he got a glimmer of hope when Francesca said Kim called her, and asked about Jimmy. I’m guessing he’s always known where she is, but never tried to contact her. But with that glimmer, he tried to call her, and that call did not go well. So his last hopes of either getting his SG/BB life back, or getting back with Kim, are gone forever, so he’s just flaming out. Like the mark with cancer said - “You only go around once.”
I’m thinking the breaking and entering may finally be the one that does for Jimmy.
For some reason Kim’s “Palm Coast Sprinklers” job reminded me of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping thing from a couple years ago.
After the series is over I look forward to someone making a timeline graphic that shows in time, left to right, the sequence of events over the past 16 or 20 years in the Vince Gilligan ABQverse.
I couldn’t remember what kind of company it was, and I came up with landscaping…and went to the same place as you.
I read into that call was whether they’d found all his hidden money. I think he was running low and was hoping some overseas accounts got past the DEA. With those gone, he had to go back to making money again.
It was a very bad choice for Gene to go to the cancer-man’s home for a number of reasons.
Before this, there was no connection with the bar and the taxi. Whoever robbed them was someone who’d not be recognised if there was CCTV (and there’s a decent chance there could be in at least one), if they were rich enough. If just one person goes back to try and work out (but CCTV might have rolled over).
The proof something was stolen that night, because of the broken window, even if nothing was. If three months down the line the cancer man is alive and sees his money disappear, he’s got the night it happened, and the person to look at in the book of police mugshots. Also the CCTV might be kept for that night too, or looked at.
Also for the 1st point, Saul is famousish as a criminal, and a few keen eyes on a camera around the area could name him, and it would be known he was around the area and what he looked like roughly.
Probably what happens next episode. Man wakes up. Shit happens.
He’s just too well known to police to take these risks. He might be caught with that face, but that face means he’s not just a burglar to catch, but now might bring the clump onto the ground of the DEA and FBI in the area.
I think the Walt/Jesse cameos were one of very few missteps this series has made. It didn’t seem to add anything but a corny reunion feel. The rest was good though. I did wonder if Gene turning to clumsy brute force at the end was a sign he was going to be caught; but more likely it was to show the depths he’s sinking just to finish a scam.
Once you’ve conned everyone else, your last mark is always yourself.
What if instead of turning Jimmy in she wants in on the next con? She could be the next “Giselle”.
What it showed was that Walt and Jesse would have stayed relatively small time until Saul had the ideal to help them go to the next level. Walt was still teaching high school and then we see Saul paying him a visit and this after Mike strongly advises him not to do so. This is juxtaposed with Gene going back to the cancer guy’s house against the advice of Jeffie.
The first time set things into motion that eventually took him down. The second time probably will too.
I thought it put a whole new spin on BB, as the producers said it would. It emphasized just how Saul launched Walt and Jesse into The Game, despite Mike’s observation that they were just bumbling amateurs.