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I had a big stupid smile on my face seeing Hank and Gomez

(I have a feeling it will involve Kim's departure from the narrative of Saul's life, rather than some wild 'action').

Krazy-8 just got his nickname and needs more time to establish himself as a tougher, confident man in charge, as well as more experience as a DEA informant.

Hank and Gomez's surveillance ended up in them taking around 700 grand in cash, the same figure he gives when everybody is watching the news of a bust during Walter's birthday party

I really hope we’re not meant to believe that Mike succumbs to Fring’s persuasion so easily based on.. empathy for revenge? We’ll see how things play out but for now that seems lazy.

Loved the Jimmy/Kim stuff especially how Kim is building towards a ruin that is almost completely self-imposed now. So the question is.. what will be ‘too far’ to push her away?

The commercial-demonstration scene was incredibly intense with Kim’s anger and anxiety imploding as Jimmy betrays her trust going off the rails, his ego floating away as the distance between them becomes a vast desert and he becomes everything she feared and has fought against in herself. In that moment Jimmy resembles her mother from the opening flashback scene, a loved one who lies and continuously breaks promises yet physically shows up to force a confrontation that intrudes on her life and suffocates her with traumatic experience of distrust. Our sympathy is so strongly with her by this point that it’s nearly as tragic as some of the more dire scenes in BB. The shots of Kim sitting, positioned lower and stuck in place, trapped in the darkness cast upon her face, as Jimmy walks around higher and freely dynamic, controlling the lights, was strikingly nauseating.

The final line from Kim could not summarize any deep-rooted core emotional conflict within her any better.

I noticed Kim's mom had a Nebraska license plate, which would put post-BB Saul in the same state, potentially the same city, Kim grew up in. Not sure if Saul got to pick where he ended up, but if he did, I'm sure that's why Nebraska.

an episode in BREAKING BAD, (Season 3 Episode 10) where Jesse describes a possum taking up residence under his aunt's porch. Is it Jesse's Aunt on the phone?

Jesse, or Jesse's dad.

Knowing Gilligan’s tendency to be meticulous with detail and weave Easter eggs and visual foreshadowing into his shows, I’m thinking it’s not a coincidence. Plus didn’t Jesse get to pick his destination in El Camino? That would be great if the present-day storyline culminated in a confrontation with Kim, though we’ll need more than just one more b&w scene to make that happen considering Jimmy has to “take care of” the cab driver first.

Jesse, considering that he lived in his aunt's house during her treatment for cancer, looking after her. We just watched the early episodes of Season Two of BREAKING BAD where this was laid out. So Jesse gets my vote.

After the last ep, I think Howard's offers are genuine, and the way I read their function I'm so glad if this is true. Though perhaps from a place of guilt mixed with his own growth, Howard seems to be making an honest offer, which makes it all the more powerful via pathos that Jimmy rejects him. Jimmy has many reasons to be resentful and to reject him out of spite, but his attitude reveals two important things: that he is a self-destructive vessel incapable/unwilling to take a safe route that would involve collaboration due to a deep-seated history of receiving little support when his core beliefs were repeatedly punctured; and that he believes everyone has an angle of skewed selfish motives as a result of this social-emotional isolation. That this latter point is potentially untrue makes the uncovering of a motiveless compassionate and affirming gesture all the more sad in Jimmy's inability to accept it, and marks his brokenness and fatalistic course towards his own inevitable downfall. The consequence of a skeptic being presented with a free lunch is self-harm by way of self-fulfillment of a cynical worldview, but for such a well-drawn character who we have enormous empathy for, the authenticity from Howard makes for this to be an especially hard pill to swallow.