Yes, exactly.  I liked that line as delivered both to real and fake customers because it's such a ridiculous euphemism.  Basically it's the guy who wipes down your car and takes your tip, right?  Like Muy Bueno Martin a few weeks ago?

I think Walter bought his own.  When he's talking to Skyler about Walt Jr.'s birthday party, there's a rack focus at the end where we see the device in its packaging on his bedside table.  Hank told Walter that he got it at SkyMall.

Shit-struggle.  Noted.

I don't see the problem.  Because "weapon" and "Scylla and Charybdis" is a mixed metaphor?  Or because Homer is too highbrow for this show? (Former, yeah; latter, I disagree.)

I could be totally wrong, and you guys have thought this out more carefully, but I've been assuming that the "distribution center" Hank has the Google Earth pictures of is the laundry/Superlab location, and that it's what Jesse and Mike are cleaning up.  Walter delays Hank for 48 hours because he's connected to the…

Yep.  I'm with Paradox on this one.

Man, has there ever been a show that got so much out of the bare fact of what kinds of cars people drive?

It was actually bleeped on the screener I watched. I was wondering if they would air a bleeped or unbleeped version.

I'm glad somebody noticed the Wallabees mention.  I spent half an hour Googling to find the name of those shoes.

I'm not talking about tension, and I'm not talking about the whole season.  Just this episode, which didn't have repeated moody cuts to sunlight glinting off water or dust-filtered blood spreading out through same.

Wow, I have to say that it never occurred to me that Jesse might be lying to Walter about what Gus asked him to do, and upon reflection I think it's completely implausible.  Jesse's manner when he's explaining what he needs to Walter has no trace of scheming or lying — he's really worried about pulling this off and…

Not worse. I'm just grading it against its own clear standard now. We know what this show can do, it's bringing it week after week, but we still have not seen this season's "One Minute" or "Fly." Forget the grade, just read the review or make your own comments. Grades are impossible in this rarified territory,…

All good points, Multialias. To me the parallelism was less illuminating and surprising than I thought it should have been.  It felt a bit too pat.  Just didn't end the episode on the high note that the structure was setting up.  Nevertheless, two amazing setpieces (interrogation and tracking device) in this episode…

That's a great point, SSRC.

Oh, it's Victor.  Remember that the neighbors saw him at Gale's apartment.  And that he is now liquified and will never be found.

Not consciously, though I do imagine his marginalization is going to pay off in a huge way this season, and I'm looking forward to it.

I'm willing to entertain the possibility that the flashback may contain more than I saw in it.  For me, it didn't provide as much as other major setpieces this season, like Victor's murder.  It felt more schematic and more formulaic than I would have expected with that buildup  Your mileage may vary, of course.

I believe that is what Noel is delicately implying.

They did find a shrunken head once, but when they took it to the expert, he said it was a fake.

He's not moving back home, as Walter Jr. correctly intuited this week; his outburst about being a dangerous, dangerous man sealed that deal.