They're writing the cartel a bit like the Mafia, where different underbosses jockey for position and favor. And it's not as if real cartels don't have internal politics and power struggles, like pretty much any organization of human beings.

Also, Hector is likely higher up in the cartel: he's referred to as a Don, while Juan Bolsa and Gus are not. Note that Hector isn't particularly worried about Gus telling on him to Bolsa or Eladio.

Yeah. He respects loyalty and professionalism, but when it comes to his safety or his vendetta against the cartel, he will destroy anything he needs to.

Two episodes ago, Kim pointed out that what Jimmy said to Chuck could be spun as Jimmy trying to hep his mentally ill brother by humoring his delusion. Showing that Chuck is delusional opens up a defense that the tape is not what it sounds like.

He also doesn't like people in his space unless he's in control of the interaction somehow, so he's not going to call back repair people.

3) Or is she helping him because him getting caught you will unravel her whole career and practice, since Jimmy's fraud got her her big — and only — client?

Power corrupts, and absolute power over a very small space corrupts absolutely and pettily.

That wasn't a judge, it was an ADA from out of town.

I think it's what Chuck does with his cognitive dissonance when he thinks someone else has broken his "rules," which everyone else would call his decisions abut who and where everyone else deserves to be in life. Whenever Jimmy does something Chuck sees as "Slippin' Jimmy" slippin' out of Chuck's control,. he gets…

I took it as Gus letting Mike know he's sympathetic to his….sense of justice.

The great thing about the show is that both brothers are wrong in different ways. Chuck's treatment of his brother keeps getting him humiliated personally and professionally when Jimmy retaliates, and Jimmy's crooked actions are going to corrupt every good thing in his life.

They said they were gonna shove it up Chuck's ass. And the plan now seems to be to humiliate Chuck before the bar by calling his sanity into question, while making the tape sound like the good brother trying to talk his crazy brother down.

Nah. Photos showing Chuck is crazy + the rationale Kim offered a couple episodes ago that Jimmy was just trying to humor his crazy brother to help him recover + a tape that sure sounds like Jimmy humoring his brother = Kim and Jimmy beating disbarment.

You should be ashamed for making such a FILF-y joke in mixed company.

Not bad, but can you whistle all the airs of that infernal nonsense Pinafore?

As much as Chuck is a sanctimonious asshole, Jimmy really is doing damage to the people around him by putting them in positions where they have to lie to cover for Jimmy. It's not like Jimmy was wrong when he noted that Kim doesn't have the time to defend him when she's swamped by the Mesa Verde case, and it's not…

Jimmy notes that Chuck is friends with most of the folks on the state bar, and Jimmy's committed crimes *against Chuck.* They're not gonna go for the light touch.

What's he building in there?

These pun threads should be Dunaway with.

Or LAGER SEEP