If there’s one thing I took away from the flashback scene with Gus and his then partner-in-crime, it’s that Walter hasn’t seen the worst of his situation yet — not by a longshot. In a way it’s a similar situation to Walt and Jesse, as they work for Gus. What would happen if Gus simply had Mike put a bullet in Jesse’s head, spraying Walt with his blood, as Gus told him that he’s done fucking around? Walter threatens Gus with not working if Jesse’s not there to help, but maybe something that close would convince him that his threat is a joke, especially if his family is next.
Perhaps this is a way of modeling how things might go down with Gus and Jesse. Mike takes out Jesse, then Walt takes off on his own and is then in Gus’s shoes, Gus in Don Eladio’s?
I read in an interview somewhere with Dean Norris (Hank) where he was saying Bryan Cranston (Walt) plays the “shitting pants” look the best, and this just had to be the episode he was talking about. Hell, I was shitting my pants when Walter saw Mike in the car next to them, as Hank’s asking him to place a tracker on Gus’s car!
During Gus’s questioning with the DEA and Hank, one detail I was surprised didn’t come up was the supply store that was connected to Los Pollos Hermanos, the one Gale had bought some of the lab equipment at. My thinking is that Gus would had likely had a very credible reason for having a connection to that company, and possibly relate it back to why Gale approached him in the first place.
The fact that Walter is afraid of Gus being caught puts a snag in my previous theory. I still believe that Walter has plenty of opportunity to virtually wipe any trace of his existence at the lab, without even Gus’s surveillance noticing anything peculiar going on. It’d even be easy enough to time something to cause the lab to go up in flames or in an explosion without much difficulty, wiping their slate clean. Besides Walter perhaps still wanting to take in money, I’m not sure why he wouldn’t be mulling these ideas over himself.
Skyler. Even with very little involvement in this episode, she continues to irritate me. There were times I thought she was thinking very smart about how to be safe, and then she goes and vacuum seals cash into bags with clothes, then hides them under the floor. What the hell? What is that supposed to accomplish? If anyone finds the bags — and an investigation easily would — does she think they’d pass them off a simple clothing? Hidden clothes? And does anyone else shudder at the thought of all that cash simply going up in flames at some point, thus causing Walt to have no choice but to continue making the blue meth?
Seeing Gus nervous was something else, but does he have reason to stay nervous with Hank’s case so flimsy right now?
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Sep 05, 2011 @ 00:03 EST5EDT
well this whole episode seemed to be about “who is gus?”.
like to see his chilenian heritage in the next (last of this season) episodes…