Godsdamn you, Vince Gilligan, you magnificent bastard.
Ever wonder what it's like to be run through the ringer?
That might give you inkling what it felt like to watch "Point and Shoot."
From Kim's sheer terror and Lalo's manic energy to Gus' ice cold veins and Mike's quiet patience, every fucking moment was riveting and intense and insane and utterly brilliant. Even when I figured out what Lalo was doing or why Saul sent Kim in his place or how Gus foresaw the upper hand, I was still constantly at the edge of my seat waiting for each pin to drop.
With Lalo finally dead and Howard quietly swept away, the big lingering question remains: What now?
Can Kim understand and accept why Saul sent her to do Lalo's bidding, unknowing at that time he was actually sending her to safety? Can she move past the level of trauma she experienced in that moment? Is this when she finally walks away? If not, how does she learn to continue foreward?
And what about Saul? Will he be able to forgive Kim for not telling him she knew Lalo was still alive while they were fancifully scheming against Howard?
How do either of them move on from the trauma of that night and at a drop of a hat like Mike quietly insists on?
With the threat of Lalo gone, what does Gus do from here? How does he explain Lalo's disappearance? And how will Hector take it? Because obviously he'll smell a rat. But what about the rest of the organization?
Lastly, let's take a moment, once again, to recognize Howard didn't deserve any of this. He was a bastard at times, both towards Jimmy and Kim, and to even Chuck if in a different way. But this is how it ended for him. Buried in an unmarked grave underneath a meth operation. Next to his fucking murderer. And the world thinks he spiraled into cocaine and committed suicide. Howard didn't deserve that.
Speaking of that unmarked grave underneath the meth operation. I'm sure we all figured there were bodies buried there way back in Breaking Bad, but I never thought we would ever know who they were!
"Point and Shoot" easily ranks up there with "Ozymandias" and "Bagman" as one of the finest episodes of these two brilliant shows.
...and we still have five more episodes left!
Post script: Since I didn't have a natural place to mention it in my review, I have to mention how much I loved the brief moment of Gus angrily brushing dirt from his fancy white shirt after getting up from Lalo searching his body.
