Love, love, love the still shot used in this recap. Great symbolism.

Yes, but…how about the multiple instances of solicitation?

Thanks. S'all good, man. Ding!

Pygmalion effect. Can be used for good or evil. Mwa haha!

Kim liked Jimmy's ad.

The source of resentment is bigger than that, I suspect. It's grown more because Chuck works hard and probably studied hard to achieve his goals, but Jimmy's unsavory shortcuts variously yield something for nothing and reward bad behavior. The worst cases that stick in Chuck's craw are instances when Jimmy so easily…

Good observation.

If the store had a track record for being even modestly profitable, and Charles McGill, Sr. were truly squeaky clean, then the store should have easily qualified for a small business loan to supply either a one-time working capital injection or an ongoing line of credit. Therefore, a penny-ante $14,000 deficit,…

Chuck's talk with Kim parallels Hector's talk with Mike.

Mike's providing for his granddaughter. His daughter-in-law is a collateral beneficiary.

Because he made them an offer they couldn't refuse.

But later, when pissed off and feeling threatened, Shell slashed at Maggie's abdomen. So Carol's revelation backfired, too.

Yeah. I, too, thought of Otto's brutal use of a crucifix to stab the nurse to death, in "Sons of Anarchy". I also wondered what plan she might have to use the lit cigarette to either escape or maim her captors. I didn't foresee her using Moll's lighter to burn to death those Saviors on the Kill Floor.

And so is the horse you rode in on.

What I'm looking forward to is seeing Rick & Co. return to Hilltop, telling Hilltop they've killed every last Neganite, and demanding the next installment of food rations. Only, the Hilltoppers won't deliver, because while Rick & Co. were killing Saviors in their sleep, and Carol and Maggie were eliminating their…

Yep. Hearing, but not seeing, her last ep. was like hearing from the Great and Powerful Oz. Seeing her in person,this ep, was like pulling the curtain on the wizard.

Yep. So do Alicia Witt and Lauren Cohan.

And now, Rick's group is the one who knocks.

This episode deftly showed what Carol fears: becoming Paula. And it made clear Carol's reasons for not wanting to kill this captor she so strongly identified with. To hammer that point home to anyone who might have missed it, the writers ensured we heard Carol call Tobin "jerk" and "asshole" (last ep.), that we heard…

I'm also interested in how this episode will affect Maggie, after the entire ordeal, and the baby, after Shell brutally slashed Maggie's abdomen.