I want to start off by saying what a brilliant teaser this episode had. Director Larysa Kondracki’s amazing idea to have a single shot done in four minutes is something neither "Breaking Bad" nor "Better Call Saul" has ever done before. Seeing how the shot was taken from a crane at the border then moved to the inspection area further showed how clever this series can be as well as how talented the camera crew of the show is. Nina Jack, a producer on the show, said in a video that describes the making of the scene, that the entire shot stretched from anywhere between a half mile to a three-quarter mile long. The scene shows the audience a lot, she goes on to say, while at the same time leaves them wanting more. It’s a shot that further proves how the filming behind "Better Call Saul" can be of the same caliber as "Breaking Bad." It also felt reminiscent to the opening of the "Breaking Bad" episode, "Kafkaesque" where bags of meth were being smuggled in buckets of Pollos Hermanos batter.

Breaking Bad’s episode entitled Better Call Saul took a similar approach in filming one long shot in the beginning of the episode when Badger was arrested, which was was actually edited with several cuts of passing cars and pedestrians going in front of the camera. This scene, as the episode's podcast says, was filmed in two cuts then edited to make it seem like a one shot.

Now that Kim and Jimmy have both agreed to work together, it would be interesting to see how far the two of them will go in their firm. Especially Kim, considering how much she held her own throughout the season, particularly in the episode Rebecca, where she first gets Mesa Verde. Jimmy’s course of action after Kim’s clients from Mesa Verde were pulled right off of them, but Chuck’s sly tongue further shows how Jimmy is willing to do things his own way as he told Kim in the previous episode. Kim doesn’t know the degree to which he is willing to go, and Jimmy feels that by taking his clients back he is in the right. Mesa Verde was after all, found because of Kim and considering how much he cares for her, and how much he wants to have his own firm, he couldn’t help himself. It was also interesting to see Jimmy cross this line considering how Chuck and Kim are the two people he cares for the most. However, considering the amount of hate Jimmy’s had towards Chuck since near the end of season one, it seems right that Jimmy would decide to do what he did.

Chuck’s willingness to take back Mesa Verde by going into the firm himself was something he felt he had to do not only because they were a quarter million dollar business that HHM could benefit from to give them a better name but also because the idea of letting Mesa Verde go with a firm involving his brother was something he didn’t like.

It was fun to see Jimmy lie his way into an airbase with his UNM film crew and the old man’s reason for being there (his uh, ahem, public misdemeanor) was just downright hilarious. It was also a call back to Saul Goodman’s misunderstanding with Badger when he first meets him in Breaking Bad, season 2, episode eight: Better Call Saul. Jimmy’s willingness to make a commercial with a veteran standing before a B-29 aircraft named Fifi was a way of him wanting to make an impression for his new firm. Having the veteran impersonator stand before an American flag wouldn’t have been good enough. Jimmy McGill is a showman at heart as the show’s co-creator, Vince Gilligan calls him. If Jimmy McGill is gonna make a commercial, he’s going to make one that is an epic as Bob Odenkirk puts it, the actor who plays Jimmy.

After Mike spent his side of the episode watching the ice cream establishment where Hector Salamanca, the man who threatened his family, works, we see the episode end with Mike drilling holes in a hose with his granddaughter. Once Mike is alone, we see him putting nails into the hose which makes it appear to be a spike strip that he will use against the cartel. Mike letting his granddaughter help him make it was not only brilliant but hilarious. Mike felt that it was appropriate to take a swing back at the cartel with something that his granddaughter helped him make after they threaten his family and to that I say, hell yes! We have yet to see the fullness of Mike’s plan but I’m sure it will be damn good.

SCORE: 8.7/10