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Originally Posted by JudgeHoldem
Help me settle argument please...
Is mike getting back in game to:
A. Get money for granddaughter
b. Get hush money for others
C. Both (if you choose this then what % of a and b?)
It's C. But in driving the future plot lines of the show, B is more relevant. I would say A(20%), B(80%).
They definitely threw in A. for a reason and mostly for exposition reasons and partly to set up B.
Mike is old, but he would still have time to set up a fund for his granddaughter with whatever job he gets in the future.
We see it's the chaos of his soldiers' money getting taken and potential for flipping is what sends him to tell Walt he is "in". This is an immediate conflict he has to resolve and is time sensitive.