but women who worked as pros and dancers, etc. made their money by showing flesh. it would be strange to me if they weren't undressed to some degree - that's what earned them money. the men didn't pay them or keep them to keep their clothes on.

lol. before I read a comment here I had a "huh?" moment about the word "seduced" in quotation marks. I think this woman's story needs to be given its due - she's not just there for T&A. She has a story too that is just as compelling as her son's. creepy, too, that she did the Louis XVI to her infant son.

I don't think you need quotes around "seduced" regarding Gillian. She was raped. She was a child. She has two faces in this show, as well. The one that recognizes how she has to survive and the one that gets to do a little bit of what she wanted to do for years to her rapist.

I am really, really tired of this simplistic bullshit that fits every story into a box of hero and pretends this somehow makes the story better. bullshit.

at the very, very, very end of the episode, just before it cuts to black - is that a camera like the one in the lab looking down on Walt?

ooh, I think it would be great if Ted didn't die (oranges or not) and, instead, broke his neck and was confined to a wheelchair and ended up watching tv with Hector. Then Hank brings Walt along when Hank wants to question Hector and Ted tries to get away in his wheelchair…

Yeah, I wonder if Gus didn't set up a fake cartel meeting with the one guy - Jesse got to be on the team then -  and tonight that guy pretended to go after Gus. Gus got to look like a badass and Mike got to save Jesse's life. Getting Jesse to ask for the formula would give Gus a way to get rid of Hank and Walt and…

Hank is a low-level grunt, in the big scheme of things. He and Gus don't have much in common at all, beyond, maybe, using the War On Drugs to make money.

c.f. The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens and the movie, Missing, about the reality that Americans were also murdered with the complicity of the U.S. govt. during the coup in Chile.

great episode - it seems like this one was setting up next season, too. Hank's bit of detective work lays the ground for moving up the ladder in the business world of drug dealing and manufacturing.