I don't know if he's thinking this far ahead, but if anybody did an autopsy, would they detect a poison? Replacing the medication with ibuprofin (or whatever it was)… that's something anybody could have in their systems and not draw suspicion.

Yes, thanks to this message thread I've become aware of sublingual tablets (not pills) which can have immediate effects. Maybe this is what the writers had in mind, but they had to switch from tablets to pills to make the plot work (i.e., to make the contents of the pills replaceable). But we don't know. Maybe the…

It seems we're getting off track…

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Verapamil is something that you take on a regular schedule and I can't find anything that says you should take it during an angina attack in particular or that it would have an immediate effect on anything. If this is all true, then it seems like Hector's pills are not Verapamil.

Oh interesting didn't know. Thanks.

"Notice that Jimmy never states how much the individual old ladies will get; he just calculates his share."

I don't think that's how retirement necessarily works. You don't necessarily just get a lump sum and that's it. Presumably Chuck would retain his partnership (i.e., part ownership of the firm) if he retired and then get paid according to whatever the firm's standard retirement plan is… pension, 401k, or whatever.

Since you're a pharmacist, maybe you can shed some light on this issue. Are there any pills that somebody can swallow that would provide instant relief for angina attacks, which is what Hector appears to be having?

I still disagree. We have no evidence that Nacho expected a single fake pill to kill Hector immediately. For all we know, everything is going exactly to Nacho's plan. Prove me wrong.

Plus, even if the pills had an unusual effect, he has no reason to suspect that the pills changed. He would just assumed that his health problem got worse or something.

Hadn't thought about it that way. I live in an area where a lot of people work as independent contractors (with home offices, etc.) for a couple large multinational corporations that are headquartered here. So it doesn't seem unusual at all to me for Kim to only have one client and feel like she has good job security.

Yeah, agreed, it does seem pretty out of character for the show.

Okay, Jimmy is a total do**hebag for what he did to Irene, no doubt about that, but a couple of things:

Good point. Hadn't occurred to me. But from all appearances she's crushing it with her main clients (forget the name) and has more than enough money coming in. Her decision to take on the oil drilling client seems to be just because… she feels like she could do a better job herself vs. referring them to somebody?

I wouldn't say she's out of her depth. She's able to handle both of her projects/accounts brilliantly, it seems. It's just the sheer amount of work that's unsustainable.

True, but regardless, Nacho is clearly convinced that his plan will succeed. Otherwise why would he be so adamant with his father that the problem will blow over in a few weeks.

"Were those not the doctored pills? Or were they, and did he recover in spite of them? (I expect we are not done with the fake pills.) In either case, Nacho figures he’s failed, and tries to get his dad to accept the inevitable"

Probably. I don't remember all the season finales so I was using Wikipedia episode synopses to remind myself… in any case, they were all way more exciting than the most recent one!

I don't know if there are long pauses between EVERY SINGLE LINE OF DIALOGUE because everybody's depressed or the writers just don't have much to say anymore.

Heh, reminds me of Repo Man. Google "repo man" "grocery store"