re: Official Better Call Saul Season 2 Episode 3: "Amarillo"

What if Nacho wants up and comer and drug competitor Gus Fring dead?

And when Mike goes to do that, Gus counters with an even better and more stable offer?

I watched the scene many times. NOTHING makes me believe that Mike believed that the noises he heard were gunshots. The slow speed of the car, time of night, and unknown noise surely spooked him to reach for his pistol, but it was not because he mistook that unknown repetitive thud sound for gunshots. Just one man's opinion.

I guess the one bit of poetic license we must give the writers is the age of Mike's granddaughter.

She's about four when his DIL moves to ABQ. This is, at the least, about four years before Walter White's fiftieth birthday party, which sets off the events of BB.

Heisenberg's exile in New Hampshire lasted a few months. Mike's storyline wrapped up before that. So let's add another year and a half.

Mike's granddaughter would have been close to 12 on the day the DEA came for him and he had to leave her on the park swing.

Instead, she's the exact same age on that day as she was over five years earlier when her mother first brought her to ABQ.

Funny, such a big plot hole in a show so tightly written.

The last scene got my tinkle maker numb


Mike is a top 5 character in tv history for me. I could see him slowly taking over as the main character as they introduce the NM/Mexico drug trade and Gus/Tuco. Sal storyline would just be a backseat, and it would be badass.

Throw in some uncle Tio and shite will hit the fan.

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Wut?

I'm mean to you?

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I was just kidding road.

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I guess Mike wanted to believe the daughter-in-law's story so much that he was practically hallucinating to find some truth in it. Even when she lied the next day about the nick in the wall, he still went along. He'll do anything not to lose the granddaughter, so he's become her bitch. That's the only way I can make sense of it.

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Either that or it was more for the audience's benefit for shock value.

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What if Nacho wants up and comer and drug competitor Gus Fring dead?

And when Mike goes to do that, Gus counters with an even better and more stable offer?

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This is what I'm thinking. Except I think that Tuco has delegated the duty of making Gus "go away" to Nacho. Isn't there was a connection to Hector Salamanca's immediate family and Gus with the Tequila/pool incident.

Maybe I got my lines crossed somewhere.

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What if Nacho wants up and comer and drug competitor Gus Fring dead?


Gus was already doing this in New Mexico for almost 20 years. "Up and Comer" lol

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Yea, I'm pretty sure Tuco was/is a Gus underling...

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Do we get a Gus cameo soon?

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I hope so, because it seemed like Mike had a stronger relationship with Gus than with Saul. It would be intersting to see how Saul came to know of Gus and how Saul protected Gus' organization. They could do six seasons just of that relationship. I think without Jessie and Walt in the picture Better Call Saul has so much more potential than BB.