Bed N Bag

The episode starts off with literal bullet points as Mike (Jonathan Banks) single handedly offs two machine gun-wielding Mexican cartel thugs who were attempting to stop a truck shipment of some sorts from Gus’ (Giancarlo Esposito) Los Pollos Hermanos. (Something tells me there was more in the back of that truck than liquid grease.) A piece of his right ear dangles off after being grazed by a bullet. It’s gross but it doesn’t faze old Mike. Instead it’s just one of the small annoyances that comes with his line of work. It’s an annoyance that’s on par with one of your officemates accidentally drinking from your coffee mug. It happens, you wash it out, and then you move on.

Most of the other characters were annoyed as well. Walt is annoyed at a lot of things, most especially at Skylar’s insistence on rehearsing the li(n)es they will tell Hank and Walter Junior (Welcome back, RJ Mitte! It’s been a while, bro!) about how Walt had amassed his current fortune –though counting cards at Black Jack (and the truth about buying the car wash). It’s a darkly funny scene as Skylar gives him a script to go over and he responds like a child who isn’t interesting in playing pretend with his friends, especially ones who write terrible dialogue (Skylar probably shouldn’t quit her day job and move to Hollywood to become a screenwriter). When he finally does gives his performance for Hank and Walt Jr., he does so after Hank playfully shows him a video of Gale performing karaoke badly, which he had received as part of his investigation into the former lab assistant’s past life involving crystal meth making.

(Hank is annoyed at Walt, for only a millisecond, when it turns out that Walt knows a whole lot more about the minerals he’s been collecting than he does.