When the Hummer first pulled up, I thought it was Nacho; that perhaps Mike got hooked up with him and that was Mike's introduction to the drug game.

Nope.

Not quite clear on what happened at Pill Guy's house:



I don't know what the spoiler protocol is in this thread.

Yeah, I didn't get the aha moment the cops had when they knew to look behind the couch

there was crap all over the floor except in an area that would be covered by the couch if you pulled one end away from the wall. so it had been pushed back against the wall after the trashing of the house.

If you are dumb like me and missed it, you can watch ep 1 here (with ads but better than nothing)

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Good start to the season. I'm just as interested in Mike's storyline as I am in Jimmy's.

Regarding the Pill guy apartment scene (my interpretation): Once he found his apartment trashed, he checked his secret hideout to see if his pills/money was gone. He had to move the debris on the floor out of the way of the couch so he could move it. He checked the hideout, and then moved the couch back to it's original spot without putting the debris back, leaving that clean space. Guessing the cards are real. Regardless, it appears he isn't too bright.

pill guy reminds me a lot of Jerry Lundegaard

That was my interpretation as well but I thought it was straining credibility to believe that average patrol cops would pick up on that to the point where they are taking the wall apart. Hated that scene in fact, just not believable.

Also not a big fan of too many BB elbow nudges like "Ken Wins". I loved BB as much, or more, than anyone but this show is doing fantastic, let's not distract too much with the wink wink nudge nudge.

Lol it was like the perfect shape and explicitly shown that way even before they looked behind the couch. I somehow didn't see it coming but I thought that scene was pretty good as a whole and definitely believable.

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Pill guy goes to Mike, Mike gets his money back?

I expected him to reject Law Firm B but was blindsided when he suddenly took the gig.

I figured that ship had sailed when he removed himself from consideration. I'm interested to see where that goes from here.

So I'm wondering whether the debris is clear from the front of the couch because: 1) Nacho found and stole the money 2) Pill Guy checked for the money when he got home (and possibly moved it before the cops showed up for some reason) 3) Both.

It seemed pretty clear that nothing was in there when the police looked.

Didn't you get the sense that Mike is done with that guy once the guy insisted on driving a pimped out Hummer to a drug deal?

This seems like a pretty decent bet to me.



Nah, Mike's only issue was with the Hummer. He'll do the job if the job pays and I assume doing it on his terms will be part of the deal.

From previews:

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It's common courtesy to put preview stuff in spoilers FYI. I don't care at all but a lot of the nittery crowd here does.

Assuming Nacho did find the money/drug stash, it is weird to me that he would take the card collection. If all he takes is the stash, Playuh can't call the cops at all. That is in keeping with Nachos "steal from criminals because they have no recourse" line. Once Nacho takes something that is of value and legal to have then Playuh has less reason not to call the cops.

What was with the light switch at the end? Was I missing some callback or something?

If Nacho just stole the money or pills in the wall, Pill Guys doesn't call the cops, right?

My take is that someone did steal the guy's baseball cards...and Pill Guy checked the wall to see if his stash was still there - it was - and he put it somewhere else before calling the cops.

Or, Nacho did steal the stash, trashed the place, and stole the baseball cards?? Why would he do that? To cover the pills being missing? Like it was a random robbery so it doesn't look like someone targeted only the pills/cash?

It's confusing.

At the beginning of the episode, we see a flash-forward of Saul being locked in the garbage room - and he can't go out the alarm door because he can't risk alerting the police.

It's ironic, because at the end of the episode, Jimmy has now decided to be a lawyer - but on his own terms - he will not fail to take advantage of a windfall again like he did last season. The light switch is a metaphor for Jimmy not giving a **** - he will do what he wants now. But the flash-forward shows the consequences of that decision, many years later - he is not free to "flip the switch now."

Or something.

Baseball card guy is a riot.

Isn't he the zimzam yoyo guy that went around a fooled a bunch of TV stations claiming to be a world champion?

Edit, yes he is:

This is part of the reason why Mike hated the Hummer so much.

I´m guessing that nothing would have happened to Pill guy if the cops just pull over and see a Prius or something parked in front of the house.

Instead they see the douchiest of all cars and a "PLAYUH" name plate to make them resent the victim of the crime instantly.

And this is before they run into a complete idiot who tells them what they´re supposed to do, and it all just gets worse and worse ...

I guess it´s kind of silly but I just thought about how Walter White would have dealt with the kind of problem "Playuh" has to face. I mean, call Mike, let him deal with it and that would have been the end of it, right? Then again, Walter White is not an idiot like Pill guy.