And for that I tip my hat.
I’m sticking with my theory that the church was real and that Jimmy and Kim put up a fake web page for it. As easy to do as making one up, especially if Coushatta is Huell’s home town. Hell, it could even have been Huelll’s family’s church.
And the fundraiser was key to explain to the ADA who was paying for Kim’s associates. Once she saw the total “raised” the ADA realized that she was outgunned.
New Episode Tonight S4 E9 Wiedersehen
Jimmy and Kim unburden themselves, risking their relationship in the process; Nacho is forced to make the rounds with Lalo; Mike has cause to worry.
Based on the title, I’m guessing that one or more of the Germans are going bye-bye.
I totally expected Jimmy McGill, Esquire, The Return there. In fact, the whole episode was very unexpected. From the high point to the low point of the Wexler McGill relationship in less than 45 minutes.
And can you disable security cameras with a laser like that? Did Werner and crew really leave without getting paid? Why? If it was just because Werner missed his wife, why did the others go along with it? I’m not sure I’d give up a million dollar (?) payday for sex. I myself was young, male and horny and did not one but two year-long dry spells in Iraq. And the pay wasn’t nearly as good.
I can only guess Werner didn’t expect to survive the job. But if so, why did he take it in the first place?
Did the crew leave as well? Or just Werner? I got the impression that he went awol all on his own.
Yeah. the other guys sleeping during the day came out of their little houses, wondering what was going on, when Mike and the security people were looking for the escapee. Werner did a runner all alone, his name is now ‘mud’. Fool.
ting ting ting ting ting…
Time and again this season has successfully faked us out by making us think that something the Germans did will wind up having more dire consequences than it actually does. A lot of people on the show’s Reddit are predicting horrific consequences for the entire German crew, post-completion of the project, or at the very least, for Werner. (Hey, you know who else had the first name Werner?) I’m not so sure about that. I’m not saying I have a better theory about what’s going to happen to them, just that this show has trained me to expect the plot lines to go in unpredictable directions.
At this point, the lab-construction storyline is my favorite part of this season, because with Werner and Mike and the Germans they’ve brought back the same sense of “hands-on problem-solving ingenuity” that was always my favorite thing about Breaking Bad: watching the characters come up with unique projects or clever work-arounds for obstacles. Obviously a big part of the show is Jimmy and Kim doing the same kind of thing to further their own objectives, but the lab subplot re-introduced the science/engineering angle of Breaking Bad…this, combined with the increased presence of Gus and the Salamancas, means that they’re starting more and more to feel like the same show, rather than just “two shows set in the same universe with some overlapping characters.”
I wasn’t expecting Jimmy’s appeal to tank…but I did know right away that their question about his “influence” was testing him about Chuck and that he was stubbornly refusing to bring acknowledge Chuck out of his own pride. His explanation to Kim - “I don’t think about Chuck…why would I mention him?” is clearly false, obviously Chuck still weighs heavily on him and he made a very deliberate choice to not give him any credit during that interview.
See, I got the opposite impression. The warehouse looked deserted. They didn’t show a single German worker waking up and saying “where’s Werner?”. Or a shot of the other guys still sleeping. But I guess they could have let the ambiguity lie until next episode on purpose. It does make more sense for only the one guy to leave.
Yes, they did. There was a shot of the Germans coming out of the houses asking “what’s going on?” when Mike and the security guys were searching the warehouse.
BTW, I wanna know where all the sewage from those little houses goes.
There was a scene with Mike and security guy moving around and Germans coming out of the houses asking ‘what’s going on’ and them responding ‘go back to your rooms’. There was only one brief scene though, so you probably missed it. Subtitles help quite a bit with spotting things like this.
I presume that part of setting them up was connecting them to the building’s water and sewer lines. Seems like the easiest solution, and wouldn’t need ‘superlab’ secrecy - there’s lots of legit reasons to want water hookups inside of a warehouse, so you’d just do any big digging legally, then sneak in the last bit to connect the house.
I’ve found a lot of scenes in the last couple of episodes really painful to watch, especially the Jimmy/Kim conflicts - I almost turned off the TV during the Jimmy/Kim argument, and winced when Jimmy was waiting for the interview. This isn’t a complaint that they’re bad, they’re doing a great job at evoking an emotional response. The scene with Werner checking the blasting was also extremely intense, I felt like the dynamite was going to explode when he fixed the connection.
Jimmy really dropped the ball at the reinstatement hearing by not mentioning Chuck, I realized what the interviewer was going for with her questions during the scene, and Kim confirmed it. Jimmy has his Chuck feelings buried too deeply to realize how off that looks to people, he really should have had a “My brother and I had our conflicts, but he taught me about the law/inspired me to study law, and I miss him now” speech instead of the awful “go land crabs” joke. Jimmy is so insanely self-destructive with his explosion at Kim as the latest example, and both of his bad situations this episode are things that he would be able to handle MUCH better if he had followed her advice and gone into therapy.
If Jimmy hadn’t blown up the Kim/Jimmy pairing so dramatically, I think they were still headed for trouble. The Kim schemes seem a lot bigger and riskier than the Jimmy schemes, and also seem more greedy. Jimmy’s generally involve scamming someone who’s already dirty, who won’t notice (the hummel copier guys), or in a way that closes the door (squat cobbler), while Kim’s seem to be focused on professional people with resources (the ADA, permits office) and don’t end up neatly wrapped at the end (we talked about the church scam, the permit scam is less risky but still has things someone could poke at). And conning a guy who wants to steal a passed-out man’s watch by making him think he’s getting tone over on you, or making a fake injury claim against a store owner who goes back on a deal with you to force him to see the deal through has a really different feeling than playing on the sympathies of a low-level employee to get them to risk their job for additional bank space. Jimmy was right to question her ‘only for good’ claim - Jimmy’s scams mostly fit that in his moral compass, but getting a bank 14% more floor space doesn’t, and that was going to blow up eventually.
I have no idea what Lalo is really up to with his overtures towards Gus. There’s obviously layers of BS in what he’s saying, but it’s not clear if he really wants to bury the hatchet (or at least turn down the heat) on the Fring/Salamanca conflict or if he’s just poking for weaknesses. He’s a smiling psycho, seems equally friendly talking about chicken and reminiscing about torturing a retired professor to death, and I’m sure he’s going to do a lot next season. Also Hector’s Bell now has more backstory than Badger!
It will be interesting next episode when we probably see what was on Werner’s note and hear whatever he’s keeping secret. I wonder if the coughing and dizziness when he went back to fix the blasting wire indicates that he’s got some kind of fatal illness that prompted him to take this job to leave something for his wife. Would not surprise me at all to see that they’re doing a play on the full name of Werner Heisenburg by giving him a story somewhat parallel to Walt’s. Mike is almost certainly going to be forced to kill this crazy old German that he likes.
I still don’t like the inconsistent security. Why they put in a constantly monitored security camera setup and ‘airlock’ door, but just lock the other exists with a cheap internal padlock just befuddles me. This just isn’t the kind of security I expect from the guy who spent an entire day neatly disassembling his car when he thought it was bugged. It doesn’t make sense either in a realistic or narrative perspective, it’s just as easy to show the aftermath of Werner bypassing a stronger locking mechanism as it is to show the cut padlocks.
I think the security lapse can be explained by the passages of time. They get complacent and sloppy.
What did Kim say after Jimmy said he still wanted to be a lawyer? She spoke fast and my closed-captioning missed it. It sounded like “Sure, we can do that” or something.
I think she said “we can start there” or “we can start with that” as in we can start patching things up and also start getting Jimmy back on track.
Now I happen to think the Huell con is a done deal, but I have the distinct impression that the bank construction scam will come back to bite Kim, hard.
I don’t have any complaint about the security guy getting complacent and going ‘yeah, there was a random voltage spike on just one camera at a time, that’s certainly not worth investigating.’ That’s a thing real people do. The bit that bugs me is that padlocks are extremely insecure. They are great to keep kids from casually opening your fence or shed, making someone spend the time/noise to open something like a lockbox on your pickup truck, keeping people from casually using an entrance you want closed, and forcing someone to actually commit the ‘breaking’ part of breaking and entering if they want to come inside. They don’t stop anyone determined, though, as they’re really easy to pop or pick if you know what you’re doing - and I’d expect a crew of construction people to know what they’re doing.
Putting a deadbolt, bar, or even just a padlock on the outside of the door would be a trivial cost in time and effort but much more effective. And narratively you’d just show some lockpicks or removed hinges or something else to show the escape, you wouldn’t need to fundamentally alter the story. What they did just makes it look like Mike chose to ‘spare no expense’ for most of the elaborate security, but for the roof doors just said ‘screw this, I’m done for the day’ and dropped $20 on a pack of locks and a bit of leftover chain. And he would have done this at the beginning of the project when it was fresh and new, not now when people are getting fatigued and sloppy.
I agree, I think that if the Huell con wasn’t a done deal, they would have used it in this episode if they were going to make it fail. I don’t really think Kim is going to get caught by scams, I think it’s going to be the dynamic between her and Jimmy that causes problems.
“We can start with that.” Kim’s going to help Jimmy with his appeal, though whether they stay together is still up in the air.
FYI you can watch the episode on AMC’s site if you have a login for a cable provider.
I think that was me. And the whole point is that he touched each and every card multiple times before it went into the envelope. that was kinda stupid.
Ponch-eh-train, right? How do you say “Coushatta?”
And you are correct about “y’all”, but the question is,would an Albuquerquian ADA know that?
I’m sure he didn’t go into it suspecting that. And I further think that if he’d begun to suspect it, he wouldn’t have gone without his crew. I predict he will come back, thinking everything is fine because he left a drawing and instructions so the work wouldn’t suffer. He’s a decent and naive man, who has trouble understanding bad people.
Kim was basically saying that hers would be the only acceptable thought process re:what to do and what not to. Jimmy doesn’t have much of a moral compass, but he does have a mind of his own.
Lalo is pure chaotic evil. He’s an opportunist testing the waters. I predict he’s going down hard. Chaos is the one thing Mr. Fring can not abide.
Werner: I think we are watching the genesis of Mike’s “No half measures” rule. It’s going to be ugly, and it’s going to wipe out what’s left of Mike’s soul.
I found this very confusing. Was she changing her mind about the move out? Was she just breaking him down in order to force a shift in behavior? I dunno.