I think they've done the sensible thing and are running The Firm as a whacky new comedy.

She lost me after she mentioning Sandra Bullock.

Speaking as an avid Quicken user, I don't think laundering money in a business currently under investigation by the IRS would be a great idea.

Gale would've got capped after spending the day setting up the coffee making apparatus and reciting whitman in spanish

I think they gave Walt a bit of light and shade in this episode too - to try to avoid a "team Walt" v "team Jess/Guss/Mike" situation.

I think having the flashback scene to Gus's past (which some people thought was uneccesary) totally paid off this episode.  The scene took on so much more because you knew what had happened there.