I’m worried and kinda expecting next episode Nacho is gonna get cooked by the Chicken man.

That biznach? 

Honestly if Jimmy had told Kim everything, in that moment with Lalo I feel Kim could’ve ratted Mike out and who knows what would’ve happened then.

There is so much of a fish metaphor with that scene. Lalo is fishing for answer, he is tapping the fish in the tank to disturb them and see what they do, he is all doing this because something about the story is fishy, and then he realizes he has bigger fish to fry outside that room.

I still can’t wrap my mind around how he will think it could be Nacho. Unless it’s Nacho working for somebody way worse.

Then they’d have the same problem and Lalo wouldn’t leave until he found out who.

It is a decent question. I’m guessing there is a chance Nacho pocket dialed, or more likely they are tracking Nacho’s car and scout Lalo in it or just see it driving where it shouldn’t be going.

I agree, I think that was Mike acting on his own. Mike wasn’t sure if he’d pull the trigger or not, but if he didn’t and Lalo killed them, Gus would’ve appreciate the intel of what went down.

25 miles from civilization on a road seemingly mostly used by the cartel? It’s not a bad lie but I don’t think Lalo bought it. Just that Lalo thought the fishiness he needed to look for was outside that room and not inside after their conversation.

Yeah me too. I’m sure Mike didn’t personally supervise the clean-up so I assume Mike had enough trust in Gus that Gus would get it all and maybe Mike had a lapse by not mentioning it himself.

Yep definitely.

Lalo isn’t about power. But he definitely does not want to be outwitted or outsmarted. 

I can’t tell with Lalo. Nacho for sure doesn’t like being violent. Lalo I think is totally indifferent to it if it’s the best move. He might even like it insofar as he likes making the best moves.

Well said. He is the only one doing what they love “playing the game”.

I never sympathized with anybody in the Sopranos for long, which is probably why I stopped watching part way through. They were all selfish miserable assholes IMO. At least Lalo is super charming.

Lalo does seem like what a good kid turn into from being raised by somebody like Hector. “Why is Tio Hector being violent? ... Oh, it’s all part of a game? I like games.”

Did he though? Mike told him clearly if you want to keep somebody safe keep them out of the game. Could Kim had saved them in the end of the episode if she really knew everything? Would she have betrayed her knowledge? idk. Jimmy has dug himself so deep that I feel like all that is left for him is bad choices.

I felt from her performance was that her first fear was it not being Jimmy on the phone but somebody who found him dead. You are right that she also captured the fear of feeling too relaxed too soon as well.

Nacho is not a thin character. He is quiet, but that quiet has always communicated hidden desperation and a desire for better more innocent things. I heard a great interview where the actor said Vince pitched the character as “Nacho is not the type of guy who would kill a fly with a sledgehammer”, and IMO that’s a…

Yeah but Kim didn’t know Lalo. She’s used to standing up to tough men in boardrooms, but that’s different than standing up to just about anybody in the cartel. She’s lucky she stood up to one of the only people we’ve seen in the cartel who would respond to this without violence. It was maybe the best play, but it was…