Also, Walt Jr. goes to school. And it's g-great.

"Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? I AM THE ONE WHO TWEETS!"

"Mr. White, we're dying to hear about the Iowa caucus results. How did everything turn out?"

But we also saw Rex and Colt (and Emma) at the storage lot building the bike, and that came outside of Michael's view too. It makes me think that both realities are real; whether the conspiracy exists in both, or just in the Hanna reality, has yet to be seen.

The introduction of the conspiracy did seem silly. But since the series trailer first premiered last year, people have wondered aloud how Michael was put in his situation. It only makes sense that Kyle Killen and Howard Gordon would want to answer WHO put him in the situation eventually. I worry that, like Laura…

From Stephen King's "On Writing:"

Best episode since the pilot. I love that Gus fell asleep in the middle of Ace's monologuing; I've been waiting for someone to do that since the show began. Meanwhile, Richard Kind is k-k-killing it, and some suit from Gettin' Up Morning's past apparently has Walter spooked. And Israel play the amateurish double agent…

"Awake" is, moreso than "Lone Star" in my opinion, a series that will have trouble topping its tremendous pilot. There are technical questions that I still have (like, when he falls asleep in his son's world but wakes up in his wife's, is it the next day, or the same day again?), and the idea that a conspiracy theory…

The dealer's hotness proves this is fiction. I've never been at a card table with a dealer that attractive.

I'm probably four years behind everyone else, but I had no clue that Gary Stevens was a legit jockey-turned-actor, and not an actor playing a jockey.

Even if I don't recommend this episode to my friends, I would direct them to the YouTube clip of Liam Neeson's scene from this episode. It was brilliant, the sort of single-scene appearance that deserves Emmy consideration in the Guest categories. Hilarious.

I don't know about the rest of you, but watching the last three episodes, I could tell I was watching a good show even if I wasn't necessarily connecting with it on any emotional level. But that horse race at the half-hour mark was wonderful — it made this series feel like the wide-scoped tapestry that it means to be.

I actually just pictured that and then LOL'd.

The killing of Jimmy was sad and surprising and kind-of thrilling. But it pains me that Manny lives and Jimmy is gone. With Darmody out of the picture, there is an enormous hole in the narrative of the series that the writers better be ready to fill. I hope that it is filled with some sort of retaliation plot…