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Originally Posted by FlyWf
See, the lawyer thing is like the dilution thing. You need to make an ENORMOUS amount of assumptions to have it count as a plot hole that he flipped.
1) You don't know what the DEA could charge him with
2) You don't know how good their evidence was
3) You've only seen the character for like 2 scenes
But if you assume they can't charge him because of your personal(and based on nothing) belief that it is legal in American to BRIBE MEMBERS OF A CRIMINAL ****ING CONSPIRACY WITH ENORMOUS SUMS OF CASH, yes, I suppose that is a "plot hole".
From what we saw, at some point the DEA decided to tail him around, then they caught him with a big bag of cash, then he flipped. Clearly there was more to this story.
Some of your points go back to my timeline points. How much time has passed... what we see on screen, no more than a couple of days right? How frequently does he make drops? Every 2 days? Why is this something that occurs more than once every 2 weeks... seriously. I get paid every 2 weeks, not that unreasonable... but all we see on screen is one cook and Hank being like, Yo tail lawyer ???? profit
How good was their evidence. Well let's think about the lawyer. This was a lawyer IMO hired by Fring (he knew of the legacy accounts that were secret...). Would Fring hire a careless lawyer? Would Fring hire a lawyer that the DEA would already have some type of evidence on? If you don't believe that Fring would, would Mike?
Then what do they see, him dropping money off in a safety deposit box? Is there no way he can skew this for legitimate means? If he got into a traffic accident and they found that much money on him, would he immediately roll on Mike???? I mean seriously, would he? Was this whole thing held together by the thinnest of strings? Mike is a guy that routinely dispenses with 50 pounds of meth a week, you think he could do better than a guy that rolls over on him in like 2 hrs.
You're right, maybe we didn't see them sweating him and Jack Bauer putting a gun to his head screaming give me Mike. There was more to the story I missed.
I'm not a lawyer, maybe someone can make this more clear for me. I'm not trying to bash BB, I really enjoy it. Just this plot line was so rushed and the sequence had to be perfectly contrived.
That's fine, just I'm not buying it. I bought a lot of the other stuff, and shrugged it off. This one just didn't sit right with me. That's my opinion and all there really is to it... but I see it as a plot hole / god in the machine.
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Other references of time:
Mike saying to take the bug out immediately (t1), Walt showing up in Hank's office to do just that (t2). A drop occurred at time 1 and before time 2.
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i am clearing being a nit here... i really do enjoy BB don't want to sound overly hostile, i just felt cheated a bit
Last edited by BlackJesusLuvU; 08-28-2012 at 08:03 PM.