And he's in more of a position of power with Howard, not one of vulnerability.

Our new Trump-news-based economy probably wasn't what Peter Drucker had in mind.

And it's worth remembering that at the end of the novel and the movie, the guy who destroyed Queeg on the stand doesn't come across as much of a good guy either.

Intent comes into play here. If Chuck can show that Jimmy acted with the intention of destroying evidence, that's plenty bad. The fact that he failed to get every last copy jus means Jimmy did a poor job of destroying evidence, not that he wasn't out to do just that. Attempted murder is still a felony.

The problem isn't so much Chuck lacking faith in Jimmy as it is Chuck wanting to control and punish Jimmy. If he'd just let Jimmy go to jail in Chicago, or, Hell, bailed him out and then said, "You're on your own next time; straighten up, kid," then none of this would be happening.

When it comes to Jimmy, Chuck isn't all about enforcing the law. If he were, he'd have pressed criminal charges for B and E, he wouldn't be worried about getting that tape on the record, and Jimmy would be in jail.

I have to disagree. Chuck is a hell of a sharp guy. He figures out what Jimmy did pretty much entirely on his own, downt o the details, with little direct evidence. And he's absolutely right; Jimmy himself admits it and is sort of awed that Chuck worked it all out.

Plus we don't get the irony of Jimmy destroying Chuck with two truths he doesn't want to admit, even to himself: that his illness is all in his head and he's not as in control as he like to imagine, and that he really does just hate and resent his brother and that this was never about legal ethics.

Well, not exactly. If the bar accepts the confession on the tape, then there's a record that Mesa Verde's choice of counsel was directly affected by Jimmy's fraud, and the Mesa Verde folks would have to be notified because of this.

In this episode, at least, Chuck tells Howard that without the tape and the fraud idea Jimmy would at most get a 1 or 2-year suspension. But that could just be Chuck needing to get the tape out their to vindicate himself and prove that he was right all along.

More generally, his absurd vanity does the most damage to his interpersonal relationships, and great with strictly professional ones. Jimmy used his personal life against him very effectively by bringing in Rebecca and turning the final cross-exmaination into a discussion of their sibling relationship and Chuck's…

His base, who will see it as him "standing up to the liberal media," right before they go back to wondering why no one answers their craigslist personal, "I'm pure Rearden metal, looking for my Galt's Gulch."

He already agreed to community service as part of the PPD in the previous episode.

But that's jut it; Jimmy didn't beat him on legal merits.He beat him in the arena where Chuck has always stunk: emotions and psychology.

Plus, Chuck was perfectly happy to lie to Rebecca and to recruit Jimmy to help him do it — one might even say to represent him to her — when it benefitted him. It's pretty rich for him to get so sanctimonious about "truth" later on.

I'm gonna sound like an idiot here, but…where the hell are these kids' parents? How do you not know or not care that your kid is doing this shit?

A lot of fans wish it were fictitious….

I keep seeing people use "entrapment," but entrapment has a very specific definition: it's when an agent of the police or the prosecution can be shown to *originate* the idea of the crime in some way.

Didn't Chuck put most of that stuff up just to con Jimmy? In season 1 and most of 2, his house wasn't coated in foil, it was just "de-wired" for electricity.

Hector seems to be an underboss and a "made man;" he's higher up than Gus, who Don Eladio won't even allow to come visit him.