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Bad Choice Road....I am guess there will be a road in which a choice was made that was not good. It might even be Saul's pet name for the road out to the desert he was on. Or maybe it will just be a symbolic name. Let's find out!

Doing the splitscreen thing again. Less impactful this time around, but no less amusing. Particularly when Kim goes to grab a drink of water. Only for it to instantly stop the second Saul gets a phone signal. Nice.

Back in civilization, Lalo casually congratulates Saul on his wife being hot.

Hah, Saul so fixated on the money to show Kim it was worth it, he forgets that the cup keepsake is close by and also proof that more happened out there than he told Kim. Or to put it another way, it puts a bullet hole in his story :p

Here Mike is informing Gus about fear and motivation. Now where have I heard something similar....

Did Kim just...quit? Sure seems like she just skedaddled from S&C.

Mike's talk about how Saul one day will have the capacity to forget once he realizes he hasn't thought about this trauma in a while, it reminds me of when Mike was attending those group therapy meetings and one person was on a sob story about how they woke up one day and realized they hadn't thought about a person close to them. For them, it was a tragedy, butt for Saul, it would be salvation.

Pretty interesting though, that Saul and Mike have this shared connection with this experience in the desert. You knew they had a working relationship in Breaking Bad, but this definitely pulls them together a bit closer than they've generally been here in Better Call Saul.

It is both amazing, and slightly annoying, that all the baddies are smart enough to pick up on the smallest of details. Here Lalo is, ready to be picked up by the cousins, when he's all 'wait a minute, lawyer guy mentioned his car broke down' and goes looking for it. Slightly absurd, yet still plausible enough given we know Lalo is clever.

He's also some kind of superhero as he just casually leaps down onto the car without worrying about pesky things like physics. He spies one bullet hole, so probably knows exactly how many people were after the money and what their heights and weighs are.

Ah, so 'Bad Choice Road' is Saul mangling Mike's wisdom, using it to explain how he feels about Kim doing what she did. He's so good at seeing other people's problems, not so much his own.

Lalo shows up...Mike's in a hurry, presumably to get there before something unforgivable happens.

...and it hits me that the next episode is literally called 'Something Unforgivable'. Step on the gas, Mike!

Oh, ok, whew. Lalo just wants to hear the story about how his lawyer bravely survived the desert to free him. Sure had me worried for a bit there! What a cool guy this Lalo is, but man that ambient background music sure is ominous...

I don't like how very close Kim is to Mike's line of sight.

Yet...Lalo backs away. Gets in a car. Leaves. Just like that. Quite a lot of tension there for not a lot of resolution, gonna leave me with blue balls for everything to wrap up next episode eh?


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