Breaking Bad: Bug

 "A guy this clean has got to be dirty..."

This entire season, as I've said more than once before, is something of a multi-dmensional chess game between Gus and Walt. There's a lot going on, you have to pay attention... yet the narrative is superbly done. And Gus is clearly winning.

All is not well with Gus as he is, seemingly, under siege by the rival gang. But literally everything with this is seen from Jesse's subjective point of view and we're left to question whether events are happening quite as he perceives them. This is a theme throughout the episode. Skyler, for example, sees the car wash becoming profitable and sees a possibility of Walt being able to give up his "other" job. She doesn't see the reality: Walt has two possible trajectories, taking over from Gus or death, and it's squeaky bum time.

Ted is back, and he's under investigation by the fraud people from the US equivalent of HMRC, who seem scarily powerful. Yet Skyler, cleverly, puts on a performance and makes the accounting dodginess look like incompetence rather than fraud, saving him from prison... and herself from dangerously prying eyes.

Then there's Hank's car tracker, which has its own point of view which is equally subject to manipulation, except at the end where Walt knows exactly where Jesse was the previous night and that he failed, yet again, to kill Gus, putting Walt in peril. Yet it's all so cleverly orchestrated by Gus- perhaps more of it than we realise- to divide and conquer yet again. And this time, it seems, for good.

I'm loving this season. Breaking Bad gets better and better.