Bad dog! Sit!
This week, everyone seems to be out to get Gus. Walt has been on his case all season long, but now Jesse seems to pick up on it too, the cartel poses him problems, and even Hank targets him. Other than that, Skyler finds out about Walter's financial situation and Jesse finally talks about the murder he committed at the end of last season.
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The whites are laundering
It's every day routine for Skyler and Walt at the car wash now. He drops off drug money, she makes sure to cover it up with washing cars. Only there is one problem: Walt earns too much money. His annual income is 7.5 million dollars. But, as Skyler puts it, "no car wash in the world makes 7 million a year". Walt's "simple division of labor" might not be that simple after all. But, the chemistry genius tells how it is: "this is what we do: problem solving." Thank god for that. If they'd stop problem solving, the show would be over.
Jesse is opening up
Jesse is back to NA. And instantly wreaks havoc. He tells the support group that he had to put down a "problem dog" (hence the episode title). He tells them about his emotional struggles ever since. He shocks them and it becomes increasingly clear that all he wants is for them to judge him. For them to make him feel something. Because since he killed Gale, no one in his entourage ever addressed it again in a way that made him deal with it.
Jesse volunteers
Walt, being his manipulative old self, "drops the sales pitch" upon Jesse's request and enlists his partner-in-cooking to kill Gus since he can't get anywhere near him. Jesse, reminded of all the misery and emotional wreckage Gus has caused (and Walt has enabled), readily accepts the task. Does this mean Gus's plan to put a wedge between his two superstar cookers failed already? Or is Jesse harboring hidden motives?
Hank smells blood
And if it's not Walt, it's Hank. Our favorite DEA agent takes Walter Junior for a tasty meal at Los Pollos Hermanos. Gus tries to blow sugar up Hank's rear end, offers a free soda refill which Hank accepts happily. Except, he is not as much interested in the additional soda but in Gus's fingerprints on the soda cup. Looks like the wide net we threw at the beginning of the season is slowly pulled tighter.
Gus is in over his head
And if it's not Hank, it's the cartel. Gus offers them a 50 million dollar severance deal to stop the competition and violence between his organization and theirs, but the cartel didn't come to negotiate. All they want to know if Gus complies to their demands. In between, Jesse has several chances to kill Gus but doesn't do it. Mike offers assistance without knowing it: "I will teach you how to shoot", he tells Jesse.
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