It does, though. We’re seeing the aftermath of the raid on the hacienda several different times to see how each character got through it. We see Nacho going out the gate, running, contacting Fring’s people, making his way across the border and getting to the motel. Then we go back and see Lalo getting out of the hacienda, going to set up his doppelganger and, I would assume, Lalo and his stooge go back to the hacienda (knowing it’s safe, the entire raid team is dead) and Lalo kills the guy, makes it look good then splits to go track down Nacho. The authorities arrive eventually (and wasn’t there a throwaway line that they took their sweet time about it?) and there’s a bunch of dead people including Lalo’s stooge all ready to be identified as Lalo. That’s how I parsed it–Lalo has been prepared for possibly YEARS to have a loyal subject lined up to be his standin and he cashed that check in without waiting even one second because that’s how Lalo is–indecisiveness has no part in his character.
I may be misremembering that and I don’t have time right now to go back and check, but I thought we were shown the cops and twins at the hacienda before we saw Lalo with the farmers.
And, by the way, Nacho has not crossed the border. The motel is in Mexico.
You’re likely right about the location of the motel, but regardless we’re seeing the same day[s] repeatedly through different character’s POV. The shifting timelines are a common theme in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and it’s always been an interesting puzzle trying to figure out what things happened before or after other things. I’m having a fun time with that currently, because I binged through all of BCS in preparation for the new season then couldn’t quite leave the world behind so started a binge of BB and I’m almost done with the last season–and boy howdy, trying to keep all those timelines straight is a brain bender.
You’re right, that’s probably all there is to it. It doesn’t matter when we see Lalo with the farmers, for it to make any sense it must have happened first thing in the morning. And yes, of course Lalo would have gone straight there, because he had groomed (wink) the guy for this exact contingency.
Dude, as soon as they started talking about the dentist work I was like “Oh no, no, he couldn’t possibly be…!” because damn, that is a level of cold that puts Antarctica to shame. That’s nearly zero Kelvin level cold. And all with that kind and charming smile and twinkle in his eye as he takes the scissors apart. Just…dayum. Lalo is one of the scariest villains ever–too bad we never got to see a matchup between Lalo and Walter White because they’re both a similar kind of chaotic psycho when in extremis.
Yeah, he’s awesome! The acting is top-notch, too.
I just want to see more Gene but I suspect that we’ll have to wait a while.
I’m curious about where Gene got his diamonds and where he goes when he goes on the run again.
He was a multi-millionaire criminal. Of course he bought things that were easy to smuggle in case he had to run.
Last we saw him he said he wasn’t going to run again, no?
Indeed he did. And if we know anything about Saul Goodman by now, it’s that he’s a man of his convictions.
Sure, but not everything he says is bs. It seems more likely to me both from realistically and dramatically that he’s not going to run.
You imagine he’s going to try to solve the taxi situation, it’s going to go poorly, and he’ll run again? Or just run without attempting it?
I don’t know why but when Kim was telling Jimmy he should drive a different car and then brought up Howard this thought popped into my head, Kim is playing Jimmy this season. It won’t be her getting killed or going to jail, but fucking over Jimmy and walking away.
Weird for him to keep the tequila stopper in that case, but we’ll see.
I’ve been scratching my head at all the people who seem puzzled about why Kim would want to get the Sandpiper case settled and it seems pretty straightforward to me–they even spelled it out to the Kettleman’s. They’re MARRIED and half that money comes to Kim one way or another, which will quite handily finance her pro bono defense attorney career. I’m not sure she’s intentionally planning on screwing Jimmy but I can sure see her coming to a decision point and electing to toss him under the bus. I think she truly loves him, but at the same time he’s made her life difficult in many ways and she probably thinks he owes her for her trouble.
They do seem to have switched roles though–Jimmy’s now the one wanting to be more cautious and slow things down and Kim is full tilt boogie. They’re basically the same person, travelling in opposite directions and now they’ve crossed in the middle on their way out to their various ends.
I don’t think that’s the thing that doesn’t sit right with people. Kim robbing a bank would also finance her pro-bono career. However, that would be out of character from what we’ve seen.
Initially them getting married after Jimmy fucker Kim over was a WTF? moment for me, but after reading testimony saying that felt real I’ve come to accept that Kim’s background isn’t my experience and I’ll have to get over it. Her heel turn though? Haven’t been able to suspend my disbelief for that one. Previous scams were either against bad people or didn’t have real victims. She was always the angel on Jimmy’s shoulder, pulling him back from his bad instincts. The show is showing her rationalize it by saying she’d do more good in the long run with her pro-bono work, but she’s come across as very principled and that rings false to me. YMMV, but that’s probably the only thing that really bugs me in the 5.2 seasons so far.
It looked to me as her having finally had it with Howard’s condescending attitude and his failure to acknowledge her strong and independent personality. She was very insulted by his notion that Jimmy was somehow behind everything she did.
Snapping back at Howard isn’t a heel turn. She’d done that before over her loans and Chuck’s will. I bought her reaction in that specific scene you’re referencing, btw. Howard was 100% correct, not condescending, and speaking in Kim’s interest. However, Kim is a very stubborn person and lord knows I’ve gotten my hackles up over well meaning innocuous comments plenty of times.
I did not, then, try to ruin someone’s life over it. That’s the heel turn.
Y’know I went looking for an old post where I explained why I bought her getting vicious with Howard, but turns out I was replying to you, so I guess you have already seen my argument 
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Fair enough if it doesn’t work for you, really. But for me this is a case where the character development does feel more natural than forced. If it were anyone else, some innocent, I might balk. But Kim has a plethora of reasons for very specifically hating Howard, a strong financial incentive to screw him over, and years of Jimmy’s well-meaning but de facto malevolent influence slowly eroding her moral fiber. From lying to her ignorant pro bono client to get him to do the right thing and plea out, to screwing her own corporate client to play Robin Hood for the little man, Kim has very slowly broken bad in a believable way. For me 
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She’s still well-meaning, but her morality is now tied entirely to saving her destitute clients. Professionalism and respect for the corporate world is out the window. I think she absolutely has grown to loath Howard and if she does in the future screw over some innocent as “acceptable” collateral damage after this I will probably find that believable as well, as corruption of the soul can indeed be a slippery slope.
On another board, they call him “Evil Burt Reynolds.”
I didn’t recall that post, but you frame it in a way that intellectually makes sense if not viscerally, for me personally.
My prediction is that Kim will eventually need the vacuum cleaner guy. My hope is that Gene finds her in the end.