@avclub-550aaa225455d513d55aa1a0db984d71:disqus Thanks!

@avclub-6ca57d2774f04ac8acf3d2b10f0338f4:disqus  Yeah, Lydia was the psychopath in that scene.  Remember, she had tried to kill him.  Mike wasn't going to kill her daughter.  Lydia threatened to scream, and get her daughter killed, rather than let her daughter survive and think Lydia abandoned her.
Mike spared them…

SouthofHeaven, I floated the idea of ricin as suicide for Walt a couple of weeks back.  I don't think he would do it in police custody (he was free, after all).  Instead, he would make it look like he died of cancer while his grieving family sat by his side.  Then, he would be controlling his own exit.  He will have…

Pining for the for the fjords

Remember Mike's monologue in Half Measures about taking the guy out to the desert but not finishing the job?  Gus did the same thing when he took Walt out to the desert, and now Hank has made the same mistake.  "No more half measures."

Hank starts working with Walt.  Note similarities between Hank and Mike.  They fight Jesse together, giving Hank a victory—maybe setting up Jesse as Heisenberg.  Walt takes the ricin, which would look like cancer, and leaves on his terms after killing Meth Damon's uncle.

I was kind of joking.  I have in mind something like Godfather III, where the corporations are run by the Mafia.  The higher up Walt goes, the more crooked they become.

Well, he took out the guy who took out the Cartel.  It is his to take over if he wants.  Probably Skyler will do the books.

Paul Schafer, the sect leader, fled to Chile along with other ex-Nazis.

Nazi money?

Madrigal is a German conglomerate.  Gus' secret past is in Chile.  Nazis hid in S. America.  Maybe Madrigal is owned by Nazis that Gus met in Chile.  That would explain how Gus was able to completely scrub his records from there and why Eladio didn't take him out 20 years ago.

Well, he lied to Walt to lure him to his death, although Walt knew it was obvious BS.

Another thing to consider is that Gus and Mike needed Jesse to be cooperative during the pool scene.  He was already pissed off about being sold into slavery.  If he threw a tantrum, he could have messed up the plan.

But Breaking Bad doesn't do sloppy.  They didn't show us the the shooter until after Mike raised his gun.  Plus, he raised it very deliberately.

Watch it normally, again.  The gunman was not his target.

Look again, he clearly raises the gun towards Jesse.  At the moment he could have shot him, he was shot.

I thought the guy Jesse wasted was the same guy Mike strangled?

Would someone upload a snapshot of Gus watching Mike strangle that guy while Eladio is dying.

The pics you linked to make it clear.  Mike raised his gun.  It was not a natural movement.

Because Jesse could have died before Gus had a chance to throw up.  Also, they needed Jesse until they broke out of the compound.