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He realizes Lalo was creating a distraction and now is probably at the laundry so he goes there himself.
This is what I was questioning before:

Am I forgetting how Mike & Gus are aware of Lalo knowing about the laundry?

I know we as the audience know Lalo knows about it, I would think Gus's first instict would be his chicken biz.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I think 5
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wease wrote:I think 5
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elliseamos wrote:
He realizes Lalo was creating a distraction and now is probably at the laundry so he goes there himself.
This is what I was questioning before:

Am I forgetting how Mike & Gus are aware of Lalo knowing about the laundry?

I know we as the audience know Lalo knows about it, I would think Gus's first instict would be his chicken biz.
Mike puts it together when he asks Jimmy how long Lalo has been gone. He knew when Kim arrived at Gus’s and put it together the laundry was within that radius.

When Gus put on the sham chicken freezer to try and throw Lalo/Bolsa off the lab trail, Lalo mentions how the south wall was gonna be great. Gus knew that Lalo was looking for the lab.
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What a heart-wrenching moment
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I loved that episode!!!
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All my guesses for how they would handle that were completely wrong, and I really loved how they did it. A beautiful episode. Maybe favorite of the season so far
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Jorge wrote:All my guesses for how they would handle that were completely wrong, and I really loved how they did it. A beautiful episode. Maybe favorite of the season so far
With context, that may be the best episode of the series.
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I think there’s a version of that episode they could’ve done with absolutely no dialogue and would lose nothing. Nothing more was needed than the visual performances by every single actor.

I suspect we’re going fully to present day from here on out. That final shot of Saul at his desk seems like a clear signal the pre-BB phase of the story is complete.

Lone caveat is that Walt and Jesse are still due for an appearance but I could easily see that being a blink and you’ll miss it news story on a TV in present day.
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The disconnect between BCS Jimmy and BB Saul doesn't feel as irreconcilable to me anymore. All thanks to one really clever cut and the realization that it wasn't an act like many of us thought it was
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I'm guessing the scenes at his new house means it's a year or so later and the Sandpiper money came in.
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Seems like a lot longer than that
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Jorge wrote:Seems like a lot longer than that
Yeah, that bald spot grew too much for a year
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yeah, i loved everything about that episode...Gus being confident after his victory, Mike going to Nacho´s dad...and damn that scene was brilliant and heart breaking.

I also believe its been more than a year yeah.
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So interesting to see Gus on his own Bad Choice Road
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Im guessing Kim is coming back in the Gene timeline.
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