Off Brand
Nacho start to hate his job, working for Hector Salamanca. He tries to let one of Hector's men off easy when he comes up short but Hector overhears the conversation and does not approve. Nacho is forced to administer some punishment.
Jimmy gets off easy. His license is suspended for a year. He has to call all his clients and tell them about it. He also has television ad time that he needs to offload but the agreement he signed prevents him from selling the ad time. Kim wants to ditch the office. She thinks it is too much since Jimmy won't practicing law for the next year. Jimmy insists that they need to keep it and that he will pay his portion of the rent.
Chuck is not well. He hides in his house and won't open the door when Rebecca knocks. She turns to Jimmy for help but he refuses to help Chuck. Howard stops by and Chuck finally opens the door. He urges Chuck to stop dwelling in the past and look to the future.
Mike's daughter-in-law talks him into agreeing to help build a new playground for the kids including his granddaughter. He really didn't want to do it, tried to claim he didn't know how but she reminds him that it is no different than another job he did decades before.
Jimmy finds a way around selling the television ad time. He starts a commercial making business. He throws in the television ad time for free. It doesn't catch on as quickly as he wants it to. The first small businesses he approaches aren't interested.
Chuck struggles to get help. He exposes himself to power sources. He calls a doctor who treated him in the past. It isn't easy but he pushes himself to do these things.
Nacho goes to pick up a shipment that came in a Los Pollos Hermanos truck. He takes more than he is supposed to take. A fight almost breaks out but Gus says to let him take the extra.
Nacho learns that Los Pollos Hermanos is just a temporary ploy. Hector wants a new way to get drugs from Mexico into the United States. Hector suggests that Nacho's father's business could be the answer. Nacho tries to shoot down that thought but Hector seems to have already made up his mind. Nacho does not look happy.
The episode ends with Jimmy showing Kim the commercial he made for his new business. He wears a fake beard in the ad and calls himself Saul Goodman.
Thoughts
Mike is in this episode but he doesn't do very much. Presumably that scene is prologue for something upcoming.
There is scene which felt like fan service. Gus inspects a site which looks very much like the site where Walt and Jesse wind up working during Breaking Bad. After he leaves the site he gets in a car with Lydia and says that the place has possibilities. I say this is fan service because I think this is just a nod to Breaking Bad. I don't think they are going to do much with this location in this show.
I don't see good things in store for Nacho. It looks like he is headed for a conflict with Hector. Maybe Nacho is the one who puts Hector in a wheelchair. Either way, I wouldn't be surprised if Nacho isn't around at the end of the season.
What is going to happen to that pill that Hector dropped? What is Nacho going to do with it? I think he is going to use it to poison Hector.
I think this episode has grown on me. I wasn't crazy about it when I finished watching it but now that I have written a few words about it I'm starting to appreciate it more for what it is, the start of something new. I'm not convinced that everything is over and settled between Jimmy and Chuck but they both at least seem to be attempting to move on.
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