Better Call Saul 5.09

Bad Choice Road

Saul and Mike return from the desert. Saul takes the cash to the detention facility and bails out Lalo. He doesn't mention Mike or the men who tried to kill him. He says that he got the money and then headed back but his car broke down about six or seven miles into the drive back. He walked back, across the desert. That's the story he tells Lalo.

Lalo accepts the story. Nacho picks up Lalo and they leave. Jimmy goes home to Kim. He doesn't tell her the full story. She finds his coffee mug which has a bullet hole in it. She says he's lying to her. He admits that he had to drink his own pee but he doesn't tell her about the men with guns or Mike. She doesn't tell him that she found the coffee mug.

Kim goes into the office and quits Schweikart & Coakley. Jimmy goes to court the next day, despite needing more time to recover, and loses a case that he probably should have won.

Mike meets with Gus. He suggests that they cut Nacho loose, let him move on. Gus refuses to do that.

Lalo makes plans to go south to Mexico. Nacho drives him to the same spot where Saul picked up the money. Lalo has second thoughts and has Nacho help him look for Saul's car. They find it where Saul and Mike left it. Lalo sees the bullet holes in it and decides to head back to Albuquerque.

Lalo shows up at Jimmy and Kim's apartment just as they are having an argument about her quitting Schweikart & Coakley. Lalo asks Saul to tell him about what happened in the desert, more than once. Saul does. Mike is across the way watching through the scope of his sniper rifle. He can hear the conversation through Saul's phone.

Things get very tense. Kim gets angry at Lalo and tells him that he shouldn't be giving Saul such a hard time and that he should have sent one of his own men to pick up the money. Lalo backs off and leaves.

Thoughts

I love the music in the final scene in this episode. It isn't the sort of music I am used to hearing in this show but it definitely helped to set the mood and made it clear that anything was possible.

The title refers to a conversation that Mike and Saul have after they have returned from the desert and Saul has gone back to work. Saul regurgitates some of it when he is talking to Kim about quitting Schweikart & Coakley, just before Lalo shows up.

 

How is it that Mike was there when Lalo showed up? I think he must have been keeping an eye on Saul.

I wasn't worried for Saul but I was worried for Kim and at one point I was a bit worried for Nacho. They are the expendable characters in this show.

This was an excellent episode and a great follow up to what happened in the previous episode. I'm not sure what's coming in the season finale but I'm sure that there will be some surprises.