"Speaking of good hearts… Missandei of Naarth!"
"Hmmm?"
"Yes, she has two… GREAT big hearts."

That was a fitting end for Nikki Swango, who was never as clever as she thought she was. It seems that Mr. Wrench is doomed for a life of hooking up with badass partners-in-crime and then losing them.

“The truth is you never mattered all that much to me.”

"If I have to look that thing in the eye sober one more time… a Moscow mule and make it ornery!"

I thought that the first half of the episode — starting with the bus crash and ending with Yuri at the bowling alley — might have been the best sequence that the show's ever done. And I know that they're not good people, but I was still glad to see Nikki and Mr. Wrench escape for the time being.

I sat up in my seat when the camera panned over from Nikki and the Wrench and Numbers theme started playing. That beat!

You mean that the guy who campaigned on doing horrible things has, in fact, been doing horrible things? Who'da thunk it?

I've been waiting for Hector's stroke all season, but I wouldn't have guessed that Nacho would be complicit in causing it. (I assume that's what the show is foreshadowing.) I thought that Gus — however implausible — would have caused it. Because Gus is just. that. good.

Some great sight gags this episode:

This season's been off to something of a slow start, but this episode felt like real Fargo to me. I particularly liked the scene where Sy is trying to get the policewoman to leave the office, and he's sweating bullets because he doesn't want the two thugs to think that he's squealing to the cops.

I fall more and more in love with Kim Wexler every episode.

Part of me is concerned that the Breaking Bad stuff is taking over the show. I mean, the entire opening flashback featured characters who hadn’t appeared on BCS before. But another part of me isn’t that worried, especially because Gus is such an engaging presence. Even the stuff with him and the Pollos Hermanos…

*rubs hands together gleefully*
Good… good…

Can’t say that I expected to see a montage of piss streams tonight.

Bye, asshole.

So Jimmy picked up the “give me a dollar” trick in Breaking Bad from Kim? Nice callback (or call forward, I guess).

Man, I could watch Mike do old man spy stuff all night. Especially if it meant that we could get even more time lapses and montages.

IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY
SGT PEPPER TAUGHT THE BAND TO PLAY

Good thing that David Thewlis has those fancy metal teeth so he can chew all that scenery.

I'm still surprised that Scott Buck was ever allowed near a writer's room again, given how terribly Dexter ended.