Jimmy faces the repercussions of his commercial
Mike staggers into his apartment.
Like Chuck, he lives alone, in seclusion, in darkness, but with considerably more modest means.
And, unlike Chuck, he has the benefit of electricity.
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He goes to the fridge and cracks open a can of beer (thinkFrank Booths Heineken quote).
His face is battered and bruised, one white bandage clinging to his forehead.
He drops a small, dice-sized pair of silver boxing gloves on the table.
This weeks opening, focusing on Mike, is teasing us with glimpses of the future without explanation.
The commercial, Jimmy repeats, cost less than $1,400 and brought in hundreds of new Sandpiper residents.
But these are lawyers, and they dont care if Jimmy was right.
Jimmy retreats to his office.
He picks up the phone and calls Kim.
Chucks in the building.
NEXT: Thats a bell you dont un-ring.
Kim sits opposite Chuck while Howard mans the head of the table.
Kim gets reamed for letting Jimmy make that commercial.
We know she had nothing to do with it, but she keeps her mouth shut, protecting Jimmy.
When Kim leaves, Chuck turns to Howard and asks him, Whatre you going to do?
Nacho wants Mike to knock off Tuco (which he obviously wont do since Tuco is inBreaking Bad).
Mike asks Nacho if killing his partner is really a smart idea: Thats a bell you dont un-ring.
The floors slick, the janitor warns, as he pushes a floor-waxer over the gleaming linoleum.
Jimmys slick, too.
He skips across the foyer and up the stairs.
He heads to Kims office, but its empty.
Jimmy extrapolates the wrong part of that sentence: You and I, were not done now?
Jimmy doesnt go to Howard; he goes to Chuck.
He storms angrily towards Chucks front door but still remembers to leave his electronics in the mailbox.
Chuck is swaddled in his space blanket, shivering and convulsing in the dark.
The dark, it swallows that lamp, swallows Chuck.
NEXT: That all ya got?
Chuck says when he wakes up in the morning.
In a sort of degraded echo of their season 1 confrontation, Jimmy and Chuck hash it out again.
She didnt tell Howard because she didnt wanna make Jimmy look bad.
Her mistake, they both know, was trusting Jimmy.
The episode culminates in Mikes meeting with Nacho and Tuco.
Mike calls the police and reports a fight outside of the taco restaurant.
He hops in his car and pulls into the parking lot, hitting Tucos car.
Tuco loves his car.
Mike promenades into the restaurant, and Tuco confronts him.
I didnt hit your car, Mike says, picking up a bag of tacos, playing it cool.
Tuco and Nacho follow him outside.
Tuco points out the dent in his car; Aw, thatll buff right out, Mike says.
They eventually eschew words and get to trading blows.
Tuco slugs him, over and over.
He pulls out a gun.
The police pull up as Tuco cocks a fist.
Mike pops a smirk.
That all ya got?
