I wonder if everyone at that Los Pollos is in on Gus’ operation. I would assume so, at least at the one Gus is at all the time. This could be relevant if the authorities start to snoop around and ask questions.
I presumed the no-smoking mandate had more to do with the car than health. he looks like a guy who was meticulous with it, and you never get smoke out of those velour seats.
Maybe he’ll do a reverse Walt and Break Good. Turn against Gus and try and right some of his past wrongs.
I think if that was true, he wouldn’t have told him to “smoke up” after the fake attack. I think the no smoking arose from his total disrespect for and disgust with Jesse. After the attack, that changed (or at least he pretended it changed on orders from Gus).
Nitpick: It’s “Skyler” with an “e”. I don’t know why it annoys me, but I’ve resisted correcting the ~50% of people that have been spelling it that way up until now. I can simply no longer remain silent, it’s Skyler damnit! 
The number could be an account number…in Gale’s notebook there is a note saying:
20% DOWN, PER DIEM 80% ON COMPLETION (OFF - SHORE ACCOUNT)
I found it strange that on the very last pick up, Mike left the keys in the car and the car running when he had been very careful (there was even a close-up shot of it) to turn the car off at every other pick up. I wonder if Jesse will ever realize it or wonder why.
One of my few complaints about this episode and the show in general: when you have a cutie like Aaron Paul on the staff, why is it always Bryan Cranston they’re showing naked? He’s done rear nudity on Big Love and other projects after all.
(Nude butt shots of Aaron Paul)
Badass episode. Walter is an idiot, but that’s nothing new. He’s always been erratic and unpredictable in his behavior - one of the many reasons this show is so stellar.
I still gotta say though, what the hell was he thinking charging up into Pollos carrying a strap?! Was he seriously planning on shooting Gus then and there? Even if the cameras weren’t there… it’s broad daylight in a public place with tons of witnesses. Come on, Walt.
This clip from next week’s episode has the most mundane possible scene twixt Jesse and Mike (though Jesse does some good acting in it) and yet it’s tense. That’s what this show is a master of: poignant mundanity. When David Lynch or other arthouse/alternative directors do a prolonged shot of somebody eating a doughnut or closeup on a bottle of Palmolive it makes me role my eyes as lazy filmmaking, but the directors of this show- like Tarantino- can do an equally mundane shot and it’s tense as hell.
If anyone’s looking for the driving song, it’s Ana Tijoux - 1977.
Along the same lines, it’s JESSE. Not Jessie.
Favorite bit from this episode: The shout-out to “Aliens,” with New Victor operating the forklift, cooly leaning from the cab, and asking Walter “Where do you want it?” Just a very clever, subtle visual joke.
A good episode, for the most part. Walt is off the reservation, but he pretty much has to be in order for Hank to get back in the picture. Is Skyler pregnant in real life? She’s looking pretty porky. The whole resolution with Jesse required some serious suspension of belief. Anybody else notice that the rear of Mike’s car had no damage after plowing into the parked car? Also, he hit it squarely on the driver’s door, which would mean hospitalization (at least) for the guy sitting there. At least Jesse is back and providing a foil for Walt, which is good.
It had some damage, but I did expect more.
Get your hands on the original Danish series of “The Killing” - absolutely top notch stuff, and you will see how the American adaptation was made by idiots who randomly tore apart and reconfigured a perfectly designed story for no apparent reason.
He was on a suicide mission to save Jesse, hence the “I love you” message.
Companion to the Terminator shout out in Season 3: the cousin crawling from the bed with no legs towards Walt.
And may I say that RJ Mitte is becoming incredibly hunktastic.
I didn’t even think about Aliens. And I’m pretty sure that was his first-ever spoken line of the series. Reminds me of the cholo brothers who didn’t have a word of dialogue until some 4-5 episodes in (though this new guy isn’t nearly as cool).
I thought the Salamanca brothers never said one word the entire time.