Better Call Saul: Talk

 "The one after that, she stabbed her boyfriend over a grilled cheese sandwich..."

Just realised the judge in this, whose hearings are being "observed" by Kim for some reason, is Neelix from Star Trek: Voyager. Wow. (And yes, I do plan at some point to do the whole Star Trek marathon thing, but let's not rush...) 

Anyway, this is one of those quietly fascinating characterisation-based episodes that usually means it's all about to kick off. Everyone gets some sort of development here.

Mike gets a little support group plot, eposing a fraud and flirting a bit with Anita, while showing just how good he is at this security consultant lark. But, inevitably, he's summoned by a superbly menacing Gus, and is clearly about to start Tthe kind of work for him that we recall from Breaking Bad. Impressively, he's low key accused of not being open about the Nacho thing... and gets to maintain his alpha male status in front of Gus himself. Impressive.

Then there's Jimmy, moving a little apart ftrom Kim, waking symbolically alone and reacting in a very Jimmyish way to her suggestion of a shrink. Interswstingly, he self-sabotages a job offer only to reverse course and take up a soul-destroying job... only to make a hell of a lot more money from the illicit exploits from last episode. Legitimacy, it seems, doesn't pay. Jimmy's immediate reaction is, shall we say, interesting.

But Nacho. Oh, Nacho. The webs we weave. We get to see, all from his POV, the deaths and the bloodshed madevnecessary by his lies. And, as we realise at the episode's end, Gus knows. But we always knew, didn't me? From Giancarlo Esposito's facial acting alone. What a show.