aTmAg said:And I didn't mention watching video. I know that would be a dead end.Bunk Moreland said:
It's a clothing department store. Even when they do inventory they'll likely not know things are missing because they took so few of each item.
Additionally the first thought won't be to go look at the tapes, especially if they erase in 72 hours. I don't think we ever see the situation get escalated from the store side. It was a clean heist. If anything happens it will be from the cab driver screwing up on his own and implicating Jimmy to police.
I think it looked like he started to pull them off the hanger, but if you watch again I'm pretty sure he brought the hangers with him.C1NRB said:
As mentioned previously, the store won't notice a few items missing until inventory happens, hence Jimmy emphasizing, "Only get three of each thing." These (and those) days, full blown inventory is either once a year or once every six months- usually when it's time for the next season's stock to come in. That's why you see end of season clearance sales; the less there is on the shelves, the less there is to count/send back/ship off to discount places like Ross or Burlington. And since the heist took place in early/mid-November the store won't go through the trouble of doing an inventory leading up to the holiday shopping season. It will be January before they realize anything is unaccounted for and will write it off to holiday shoplifting. The merch could easily be disposed of during this same time frame so it will be long gone before the store ever knows it's missing.
A few other things that stuck out- when he grabbed the suits he pulled them off the hangers and left the empty hangers on the rack. You never see an empty hanger on a rack so that would raise a flag, especially to the manager who struck me as having near Gus-level attention to detail. I kept thinking the cabbie would turn a corner in the store and run into maintenance cleaning the scuff off the floor. It was a bit of shock when they weren't and the slip happened on the spot that had been recently buffed/polished. I also thought he would get back in the crate with the goods and be picked up the next morning. It was dicey hiding out in the restroom overnight waiting for the store to open. That's not a well thought-out step. Too many things could go wrong in that scenario.
It was not the only bargaining chip. He should have left and found another state. And grown a beard.Bunk Moreland said:
But Jimmy had to scratch the itch and he is always a short-term thinker...at that moment he had to erase concern of being outed by the guy so this was his only bargaining chip in doing so.
Duckhook said:TCTTS said:
Honestly, the thing I was rooting for the most this episode was just one, off-handed mention of A&M amongst all the Nebraska/Big XII talk. There were so many chances, too. It would have been the perfect marriage of show and thread and this place would have absolutely lost its mind.
Ha, I told my wife, "if he's pissed about the Texas game, wait until they play us in a few weeks."
I was at Nebraska 2010!
Teddy Perkins said:
I was completely expecting Gene to see or run into Kim when he was taking that lunch break at the end of the episode.
There it is, folks. The most aTmAg Entertainment Board post of all time.aTmAg said:
My issue with the heist is several fold:
1) They are going to talk to the guards who are going to be accused of incompetence. They will be asked if they have violated any policy or if anything had been unusually recently. They almost certainly will mention Gene. And now the police are looking into Gene, which is the last thing Gene wants.
2) The police are going to talk to the store manager who will likely remember the crate. The guards will be asked if they remember the crate. Jerry might remember that Gene balled his eyes out that particular day, and how strange and out of place it was. Again, pointing the finger squarely at Gene.
3) The Taxi driver is going to continue to break the law. He is going to get captured someday. Then he has the ultimate bargaining chip: Saul Goodman.
For a guy who was 10 steps ahead of Howard, this heist seemed awfully short sighted.
What probably SHOULD happen is that the police start closing in on him, and Saul vacuums himself off to another state. But we don't have time for that, and the vacuum actor is dead.
Final note: The Walter and Jesse rumors have been dead wrong so far. And frankly, now that we are 100% in the Gene timeline, a Walter/Jesse appearance makes no sense. It would have to be a flashback (which would seem awkward now). What if the entire Walter/Jesse rumor has been a giant head fake by AMC? That they knew there would be no appearance, wanted to get eyeballs on TVs anyway so they started this rumor? And that they told Vince to say nothing? That would be TERRIBLE. I should say, I do not believe this is the case. I think they will have a flash back in the final episode, and it will be awesome. But I will admit, that I'm starting to get a hint of worry.
Wasn't that a replay of the conversation that Kim and Jimmy had in the garage after Howard's memorial at HHM?TexAgs91 said:Teddy Perkins said:
I was completely expecting Gene to see or run into Kim when he was taking that lunch break at the end of the episode.
Who was he talking to in the car in the teaser after the credits?
You think a Baby Ruth is something a good chef would serve?Duckhook said:cr0wbar said:
Some of y'all are addicted to tik tok and it shows. Fun, intense, and humorous hour of television and y'all want to be spoon fed your answers. Jfc
This episode would have been fine in season 4 or 5, or maybe the first half of this last season. But what did it do to advance the story when it's almost finished? Nothing.
A good chef can put a turd in front of me, but that doesn't mean I have to think it's a Baby Ruth just because he's served me good meals before. As episode 10 of 13 in the last season, this was a turd.
I see no mention of NDAs.Tobias Funke said:There it is, folks. The most aTmAg Entertainment Board post of all time.aTmAg said:
My issue with the heist is several fold:
1) They are going to talk to the guards who are going to be accused of incompetence. They will be asked if they have violated any policy or if anything had been unusually recently. They almost certainly will mention Gene. And now the police are looking into Gene, which is the last thing Gene wants.
2) The police are going to talk to the store manager who will likely remember the crate. The guards will be asked if they remember the crate. Jerry might remember that Gene balled his eyes out that particular day, and how strange and out of place it was. Again, pointing the finger squarely at Gene.
3) The Taxi driver is going to continue to break the law. He is going to get captured someday. Then he has the ultimate bargaining chip: Saul Goodman.
For a guy who was 10 steps ahead of Howard, this heist seemed awfully short sighted.
What probably SHOULD happen is that the police start closing in on him, and Saul vacuums himself off to another state. But we don't have time for that, and the vacuum actor is dead.
Final note: The Walter and Jesse rumors have been dead wrong so far. And frankly, now that we are 100% in the Gene timeline, a Walter/Jesse appearance makes no sense. It would have to be a flashback (which would seem awkward now). What if the entire Walter/Jesse rumor has been a giant head fake by AMC? That they knew there would be no appearance, wanted to get eyeballs on TVs anyway so they started this rumor? And that they told Vince to say nothing? That would be TERRIBLE. I should say, I do not believe this is the case. I think they will have a flash back in the final episode, and it will be awesome. But I will admit, that I'm starting to get a hint of worry.
Tobias Funke said:You think a Baby Ruth is something a good chef would serve?Duckhook said:cr0wbar said:
Some of y'all are addicted to tik tok and it shows. Fun, intense, and humorous hour of television and y'all want to be spoon fed your answers. Jfc
This episode would have been fine in season 4 or 5, or maybe the first half of this last season. But what did it do to advance the story when it's almost finished? Nothing.
A good chef can put a turd in front of me, but that doesn't mean I have to think it's a Baby Ruth just because he's served me good meals before. As episode 10 of 13 in the last season, this was a turd.
Which makes it the best Entertainment Board post of all time.Tobias Funke said:There it is, folks. The most aTmAg Entertainment Board post of all time.aTmAg said:
My issue with the heist is several fold:
1) They are going to talk to the guards who are going to be accused of incompetence. They will be asked if they have violated any policy or if anything had been unusually recently. They almost certainly will mention Gene. And now the police are looking into Gene, which is the last thing Gene wants.
2) The police are going to talk to the store manager who will likely remember the crate. The guards will be asked if they remember the crate. Jerry might remember that Gene balled his eyes out that particular day, and how strange and out of place it was. Again, pointing the finger squarely at Gene.
3) The Taxi driver is going to continue to break the law. He is going to get captured someday. Then he has the ultimate bargaining chip: Saul Goodman.
For a guy who was 10 steps ahead of Howard, this heist seemed awfully short sighted.
What probably SHOULD happen is that the police start closing in on him, and Saul vacuums himself off to another state. But we don't have time for that, and the vacuum actor is dead.
Final note: The Walter and Jesse rumors have been dead wrong so far. And frankly, now that we are 100% in the Gene timeline, a Walter/Jesse appearance makes no sense. It would have to be a flashback (which would seem awkward now). What if the entire Walter/Jesse rumor has been a giant head fake by AMC? That they knew there would be no appearance, wanted to get eyeballs on TVs anyway so they started this rumor? And that they told Vince to say nothing? That would be TERRIBLE. I should say, I do not believe this is the case. I think they will have a flash back in the final episode, and it will be awesome. But I will admit, that I'm starting to get a hint of worry.
That would be Saul, not Jimmy.Malachi Constant said:
I really thought that when he hung up the shirt at the end, we would be getting a slow fade to color, showing us Jimmy is back...
Missed that. Will have to go back and check it out.fatdad84ag said:
How about the message that BCS is over being that the intro video that has been increasingly deteriorating all season, finally died. That to me was absolute foreshadowing!!!
Saul and Walt get "disappeared" in March 2010.Hey Nav said:
So do I have the timeline somewhat correct? ... Walt dies on Sept 7, 2010. The tu/Nebraska game was about 5 weeks later.
(And the Gabe Bock "Meathead " moniker was born on Texags later in the season, after Brandon's camera was assaulted.)
Gene has been a flashforward, not a flashback, not that comparison to anything done in Breaking Bad is relevant to their Gene scene choices anyway. I took it more as living as Gene, in a mall, not running any Slippin Jimmy scams, is a dull, drab, colorless experience for our protagonist.aTmAg said:
I wish they never did black and white for the Gene timeline. They didn't do any B&W for BB flashbacks (just the for a few minutes here and there for season 2 teasers). Not sure why they chose to do so here. I was not a fan of watching the entire episode that way. I hope we don't have much more of that. It's not like this is Schindler's List or anything.
Username checks out.Complete Idiot said:When packing up his office and destroying evidence in March 2010, Saul tells Francesca to be ready for a call November 12th at 3PM. Said as in "that year". So Francesca to get called by someone on November 10th, 2010.Hey Nav said:
So do I have the timeline somewhat correct? ... Walt dies on Sept 7, 2010. The tu/Nebraska game was about 5 weeks later.
(And the Gabe Bock "Meathead " moniker was born on Texags later in the season, after Brandon's camera was assaulted.)
The plane crash flash forwards in BB were also in black & white.Complete Idiot said:Gene has been a flashforward, not a flashback, not that comparison to anything done in Breaking Bad is relevant to their Gene scene choices anyway. I took it more as living as Gene, in a mall, not running any Slippin Jimmy scams, is a dull, drab, colorless experience for our protagonist.aTmAg said:
I wish they never did black and white for the Gene timeline. They didn't do any B&W for BB flashbacks (just the for a few minutes here and there for season 2 teasers). Not sure why they chose to do so here. I was not a fan of watching the entire episode that way. I hope we don't have much more of that. It's not like this is Schindler's List or anything.
Oh good lord, a typo. Corrected - and added a bit more I forgot to type.Know Your Enemy said:Username checks out.Complete Idiot said:When packing up his office and destroying evidence in March 2010, Saul tells Francesca to be ready for a call November 12th at 3PM. Said as in "that year". So Francesca to get called by someone on November 10th, 2010.Hey Nav said:
So do I have the timeline somewhat correct? ... Walt dies on Sept 7, 2010. The tu/Nebraska game was about 5 weeks later.
(And the Gabe Bock "Meathead " moniker was born on Texags later in the season, after Brandon's camera was assaulted.)
