Bryce Lynch

What cities or regions don't have a large, commercial laundry? Also, knowing it was a laundry might help the workers track down the location, when and if they got home. But, if all their calls home were monitored, they would not have been able to pass that on to their families. This would be all the more reason for Fring to kill them, rather than send them home. The soil may or may not be very different in different cities. It also might be that the soil is SW El Paso resembles the soil of NE ABQ more than the soil of Central ABQ does. But, regardless of all that ,the diggers would have zero frame of reference to know. El Paso might sound or smell very different from ABQ, but if you have never smelled or heard either town, the sounds and smells would provide you no information about your location.

But if 10 American workers left on separate flights from different cities, not knowing what their final destination was, and with their families having only a vague knowledge of them going off on a secretive job, somewhere in the EU the locals would have no idea anything had happened. If the American families reported them missing, the EU authorities would have almost nothing to go on. They wouldn't know if they were dead or alive or where they might be. In a nation as vast as the US, with no State border checkpoints to cross, it would be even more of a needle in a haystack.

So, drugs are only produced South of Denver and West of San Antonio? You should tell the DEA so they can close all their offices outside of the Southwest I seriously doubt diggers are experts in identifying their exact location, based upon dirt they have never seen before. Do you think an American digger could tell the difference between Munich dirt, Dresden dirt and Hamburg dirt, if he had never been to Germany? They might have a guess about where they were, but that is all it would be. And they wouldn't be able to relay their guess to their families. They could disappear and their families would only know they were (probably) somewhere in the US, probably working for some unknown drug dealer. At any rate, the R&R episode made all the early security into waste of time and resources.

I thought they had an excellent plan. They had a remote warehouse, with no windows and tight security, where they housed the men. They brought drove the men for many hours, in the darkness and disoriented so they would not know where they were. They transported them in the back of a truck from the living space to the work space at night. They screwed up with the idiotic decision to do the R&R at a strip club and bar that was obviously in ABQ. That is some of the most annoying writing in all of BB and BCS. Usually everything the characters do makes sense on some level, even if it is based upon irrational anger or stupidity by a stupid person. But, Fring and Mike are both very smart and very cautious men. It would have been better to bring hookers to the warehouse and even to fly Werner's wife into say Phoenix and take Werner on a long, blind ride, circling for hours to make it seem longer, to meet her in a hotel for a weekend.

The Germans probably lost all track of time while being transported blindly from Denver to NM. I also doubt they could tell the difference between soil in ABQ or other parts of NM, or CO, AZ or many other States, if they had any clue at all. Unless one has studied regional soil samples, I doubt he could recognize soil from 5,000 miles away from their homes. For all they knew they could have driven around in circles for hours and still be in the Denver area. It was a big mistake for Gus and Mike to let Werner know where he was and who Gus was. If they had kept it a secret, he probably would have lived and the basement would have been finished within a few more months.

How would the cartel find out he murdered the diggers? They could have been killed underground, loaded onto an LPH refrigerated truck, and driven into the desert to be buried in pre-dug holes. Or, he could have fed them to the chickens. :)

Right. Remember how the Marco and Leonel shot and then burned a whole truck full of illegal aliens because one of them had painted cars for the cartel and recognized their skull tipped boots? I don't think Fring is quite as cavalier about killing innocents (though he was ready to kill Walt's wife, his son and his infant daughter), but the Germans were at least somewhat "in the game", by agreeing to build a secret drug lab, for huge some of money. But, I think the whole plot line was botched. Fring would have been much more careful. Werner would never have seen his face or heard his name and the crew would have never known where they were digging. It started out so well, with all the secrecy, but once they did the R&R at a local strip club and everyone knew where they were, it became kind of ridiculous.

Lalo feels like character from The Princess Bride or Shrek to me. He is more like a caricature. His lines and his acting just don't ring true to me. I thought this from the first moment he met Nacho and describing the taco he offered him, said in Spanish, "Your'e gonna die." Such an obvious and corny double entendre seems like something written by a much less talented group of writers for a far inferior show. He is probably the character I have enjoyed the least on BB or BCS.

Walt was originally coming out of hiding to turn himself in. When Walt Jr. rebuked him on the phone, he realized there was no way to get money to his family and have them accept it, he no longer had any reason to live and I believe he was finally taking Saul's advice at the vacuum store and turning himself in to make things easier on Skylar. When he saw Gretchen and Elliot on TV, a light bulb went off and he thought of a way to get his money to his family. I think he also enjoyed terrorizing them, and making them do his bidding, but that was just gravy. I'm not sure Saul would like a quiet life in Alaska. He likes excitement and drama. He went nuts in the empty cell phone store.

I'd have to watch it again, but I took compensated to mean compensated with a large settlement.

At the end of Season 4, I took it that Mike allowed Werner to call his wife to get her to go straight back to the airport so she wouldn't be killed.

I am sure Kim believed she was acting in her client's best interest. But, that is not her call and she had no right to deceive him. She strongly advised him to take the deal, and he made an informed decision to refuse it and roll the dice. I think Kim did you Huell scam, mostly because she thought the ADA was being unreasonable and demanding way too much prison time. But, I also think she took it personally that the ADA hated Jimmy and she also enjoyed the scam. I got zero vibes that Kim scammed her client for the thrill of it. She regretted it right away. I think this is an example of when following your own morals instead of ethics can get you in trouble.

I would think one or more of the Germans might snitch out of loyalty to Werner. I don't think anyone except maybe Mrs. Werner would have had any idea where the German workers had gone. I think Mike and Fring could have trusted the hole in the desert or under the lab they left them in a lot more than they could trust the Germans to keep quiet. Plus, they could have done it anonymously. The knew Mike's last name and I would bet chatty Werner probably let Fring's name slip to his men over beers in the compound, at least once. The APD would recognize Mike's name from the Tuco Salamanca assault case and the Philadelphia PD investigation and all kinds of red flags would have been raised. Honestly, they probably would have sent Mrs. Werner to Belize instead of letting her go back to Germany. Werner suddenly dying in a "construction accident" after missing their rendezvous at the spa, and ordering her so abruptly and angrily to go back to the airport would have made her very suspicious. IMO, there were a bunch of plot holes bigger than the hole under the laundry in that story line.

I am guessing that the cab driver was pretty sure he recognized him, and realized he could blackmail him, so he went to the mall to confirm it was really Saul Goodman. I don't think he was just a starstruck fanboi of Saul's. I took it that Gene realized he was about to be blackmailed, so he called Best Quality Vacuum to be relocated, before changing his mind and deciding to handle it himself. I am guessing the cabby and his buddy might be taking a trip to Belize.

Honestly, I think the whole Germans plot was botched. First, there was ultra tight secrecy, where they went to great lengths to keep Werner and the other prospective engineer, from even knowing where they would be digging. Then, Fring meets Werner fact to face and tells him his real name. That seemed like a totally unnecessary risk on Fring's part, and Fring is usually an extremely cautious man. Mike should have been the face of the Fring organization to Werner. But, what was truly absurd was them taking the whole crew to a local ABQ strip club and bar for there R&R. If secrecy was so important, they should have either brought hookers, blindfolded or in the back of a truck with no window, to and from the warehouse. Or, they could have driven all the men to and Vegas or some other city hundreds of miles away, in a similar manner, to get their R&R. Once they took the crew to the local strip club, I don't see how Werner going AWOL to spend a weekend with his wife at a spa was a big deal. The secrecy had already been totally breached. I also don't think Mrs. Werner would buy the construction accident story, without a body and autopsy. Was the story that he fell into a vat of acid and was disintegrated? I also don't really get what is keeping the Germans quiet, back in Germany. They got their money and they are home. Does Fring have that much reach in Germany? Does Peter Schuler? It would seem like any of them could anonymously contact German authorities or the DEA and tip them off. Fring having Werner killed would make this far more likely, IMO. I think the logical resolution to that story would be the Germans all being buried beneath the super lab.

I think it would be great storytelling if Kim got destroyed by her idiot client and her reluctant, well meaning, impulsive decision to go along with the plan her idiot boyfriend pushed on her. I think that would be so much more unexpected, ironic, and unfair, than if she was taken down by one of her own, thrill seeking scams. You would think it would have been obvious to her, and especially to Saul, that she could never get away with it. He knows that he plans to become a famous face among the criminal element of ABQ, and he had already been on TV with his "Gimmee Jimmy" ads. How could he think that her client or his wife wouldn't eventually recognize him? I'm going to be annoyed if this doesn't come back to haunt Kim, because IRL it almost certainly would. I wonder if the sequence with Gene getting recognized as Saul, after all those years, was a hint that he was going to be recognized by Kim's client.

Another thing about Kim deceiving her client was that she did it front of a witness, his wife. I have to think that was intentional on the part of the writers. It won't just be her word against her criminal client's. I am thinking either she gets disbarred over this, or Saul takes some extreme measures to silence the client, like having him killed or threatening his wife and child. I wouldn't be surprised ADA Ericsen uses this to take revenge on Kim for the Huell letter writing scam. It would be ironic if Kim gets destroyed by a relatively well meaning, spur of the moment scam, that Saul talked her into, as opposed to the elaborate Huell and Mesa Verde blueprint scams that she came up with, or her working with Jimmy to destroy Chuck to save his career.

I would guess that Lalo died somewhere between episode 2:8, where Saul is afraid he has sent men to kill him, and 4:11, when Fring taunts Hector about the Salamanca name dying with him. My best guess is they will say he died in 3:8, along with Juan Bolsa, during the Federales' crackdown on the cartel, following the assassination attempt on Hank.

Good point. But, I couldn't care less af this point. All the back and forth with Kim torn between wanting to be an honest lawyer and a con artist is played out. The more I think about it, I think it would be horrible writing for this not to come back on Kim. How could her client not eventually recognize Saul from his ads? Maybe she could convince him that she lied for his own good or there could be a darker resolution to the problem. But, I can't see any scenario in which he doesn't discover Kim duped him.

Lalo is such a poorly written and acted character. I wish they would kill him. But, he has to be alive in BB, because when Walt and Jesse kidnap Saul, he thinks Lalo sent them.

Yawn. They make us wait 2 years and then almost nothing happens in the season premiere. I find Lalo's character to be both tedious and unrealistic. He feels like a character from a whole different show outside of the BB, BCS universe. I was also unrealistic that they didn't kill all of Werner's men. If killing Werner was necessary, killing them was just as necessary. This was probably the worst episode of the series.

Are they doing duels or truels nearly every week to eliminate someone for good? Or can voted out players hang out on EOE for the whole game and get 2 chances to get back in, as it was on EOE? At least with RI you had to win challenges to stay in. I think that makes it worse. They were voted out, they should go home, and not be on the jury. Giving voted out players power over the players are still in the game is an insult to the game. Votes mean next to nothing now. Why even have them? I think they should just hand out participation trophies to everyone in the first episode and let them have a beach party for the rest of the season.

I don't see why they needed EOE for an all winners game. Everyone is a winner, so everyone has a target on their back. Plus, most viewers probably have several players to root for. If they really needed a gimmick to keep people's favorites alive longer, they could have done a Redemption Island. At least with that, somebody get eliminated nearly every week. I think I'll just tune in for the final EOE challenge to find out who the Sole Survivor will be.

For the first time in many years, I didn't watch. I DVR'd it from my phone at the last minute, but when I got home I had zero interest in watching it. With EOE, nothing matters until the final EOE challenge. Why bother to watch?

Can they even get a spousal visa under the new travel restrictions? Is their an exception for spousal visas? IIRC, with the original travel ban, it was upheld after being modified to make exceptions for people with a pre-existing close relationship to the US. If Mycull and Grangela got married a few days before the new restrictions were announced they might still be eligible.