Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

the only thing that bugged me about that scene is how Jessie knew right where Mike was going to be when he pulled up in his car. but whatever, it's just one of those TV show things.

he couldve been driving around looking for him for a while

jesse and gus cooked it up together. it's along con aimed at mike.

a long

jesse is gus think abt it

Minor pet peeve was Mike pulling out the shovel out of the trunk only to do nothing with it.

IT'S A SHOVEL! UH OH! HAHA J/K HE JUST PULLED IT OUT TO MAKE YOU THINK HE WAS GOING TO SHOVEL SOMETHING! PSYKE!

... 'psyke'?

FACE!!!

uhhh he dug up the money?

i thought it was funny

I can sort of see the writers making it a shovel...if he'd pulled out a more-appropriate crowbar, Jesse definitely would have gone for his eyes with the keys.

He used it to pry a corner of a piece of plywood which he then pulled up with his hands.

ah, but he needed the shovel to recover the cache

Yeah you're right he couldn't just have used his hands to pry up the corner.

he actually shoved some dirt off before prying the corner.
god, ppl. chill.

"recover" as in "cover up again" afterwards -- xp to self

how is Mike "the real asset"? he's an enforcer, those guys aren't really that hard to come by - neither are Jesses but the point stands, Mike isn't really a key to the operation

I'm not seriously bothered by it, but there couldn't have been much dirt to shovel off cuz he pulled the cover off and threw it aside without actually clearing it.

I just thought it seemed like a slightly cheesy bit.

xp as evidenced by Gus basically casually disposing of Mike's partner.

mike is valuable imho, dead guy was his sidekick

I'm not sure why people are more focused on the dinner scene than the fact that Gus is trying to turn Jesse against Walt by making him "useful" but I guess I haven't read absolutely all the thread.

mike is a fucking ninja

also lol @ marie's purple wine opener

how is Mike "the real asset"? he's an enforcer, those guys aren't really that hard to come by

ones as good and proven reliable as Mike surely are, Gus can't just call up an unemployed roadie from the Pump tour cos you know he's got broad shoulders and will look impressive standing in a doorway dude

Yeah you're right he couldn't just have used his hands to pry up the corner.

TS: getting dirt on your fingertips that you can wipe off on your pants, or getting it dug right in under your fingernails on the first drop of the morning, where it's going to irritate you all day, when you've already got that ear throbbing away at you and this dipshit kid endlessly yammering with his bullshit

Mike's kind of a Winston Wolfe type, a fixer or whatever. My imaginary crime lord instincts tell me that is, indeed, much harder to find than just a simple killer.

Mike was blatantly quite enjoying freaking Jesse out with little gangster flourishes such as the fetching of the shovel.

We haven't seen any evidence that Mike gives a shit about the dead guy have we? Considering how most inept most of the muscle in Breaking Bad has been you'd imagine his instincts would be invaluable to Gus. That scene when he was in the truck while they were shooting at it shows how good he is.

Also he's not just muscle, he's a spy as well.

Well, clearly Mike was not expecting Jesse to drive off with his car, trunk full of money, so conceivably all sorts of other stuff could have gone wrong, too.

Well, it almost did - Mike made the call about needing a pickup, remember? But in a situation where Jesse is the game and Mike is the hunter there isn't really any contest.

(Plus Jesse may be stupid but I don't think he's stupid enough to try running off with Gus "I Kill People With My Bare Hands" Fring's money.)

also lol @ marie's purple wine opener

And purple bag of coffee!!!

purple kettle

The fixers I've employed have been nowhere neat as adept as Mike. I'd kill for a fixer that good.

My new (based on nothing) prediction: At some point Walt, having renewed Hank's dogged interest, will have to kill Hank. Later, Marie, finding purpose in life after going through Hank's stuff, will be the one to ultimately bust Walt, setting up a showdown between her and her sister. (That would be a true jump the shark moment, of course).

last season's warehouse scene was enough to establish mike's black ops cred

Screw the warehouse. How about hunkering down in a cold trailer, waiting to ambush cartel dudes, not flinching when he gets his ear blown off by a machine gun, then popping out of the trailer to get the job done with just a couple of shots?

Wondering when Mike left the police actually. He's the only player who Hank hasn't come face-to-face with, to my knowledge. It's possible they might actually have met.

Good point. I bet they're saving that connection in their back pocket for later.

Was it Mike who put the call in that saved Hank? Can't quite remember, or remember why they cared whether Hank died or not.

We haven't seen any evidence that Mike gives a shit about the dead guy have we?

When Jesse was going on about how he should get a gun to help 'guard' Mike because he was 'that guy' or something, Mike kind of snapped 'you're not that guy, I had a guy but I dont any more', and he seemed kind of pissed off or upset. I assumed he was talking about Victor.

Maybe, I assumed Jesse was just annoying the fuck out of him.

being a bit pissed off about losing the guy bc of jesse and walt is not the same as 'giving a shit' rly

I dunno if you noticed but Mike isn't exactly the most expressive character. I think it qualifies as giving a shit

The fact that he said 'I had a guy, you're not that guy' rather than just 'you're not that guy', just made me think that he was pissed off about it, rather than just pissed off with Jesse.

Surely if he didn't give a shit he wouldn't be pissed off? I'm not saying he's going to turn on Gus or anything, we saw them chatting later on and he was totally normal, I just think he is maybe a little more unsettled than we have seen him up to now.

Well it's pretty obvious Mike is pissed off about something, he punched Walt in the face. I think it's maybe more than Mike doesn't like being punked, and Walt managed it.

Well Mike essentially knowingly had Victor killed when he spoke with Gus on the phone after Victor had gone to get Jesse, maybe seeing it done so brutally right in front of him has made him feel remorse?

i think it's more him questioning his own loyalty to gus than anything else.

yeah i found the dinner scene excruciating (not bad tho) but rather than what actually happened i was expecting the fall out to be skyler finding out that this chemistry genius meth cook was shot dead in his home and thus finally realising the level of danger walt and his family are really in. this show is not gonna have a happy ending.

That might still happen.

i'm assuming she will make the connection next episode yeah

not reading the thread, because of spoilers, so won't really be able to make much of a contribution, but i just finished the second series. jesus christ this show is dark. also i don't really have any sympathy for walt anymore whatsoever. no idea how they're going to go from here.

xpost Skyler is already pretty far down the River Denial.

They can't stop now anyway unless the inexplicably cut off Hank's medical bills. But Skylar is enjoying every minute of it so far.