- Jimmy and Kim hire an assistant; Mike seeks out a mysterious acquaintance; and Chuck uses the law to gain an advantage over Jimmy.
- Chuck drinks tea in his dark, electricity-free house at night. He keeps looking outside as if he expects someone to be there. In his living room is a man with a mustache whom we've never seen before; he's apparently working for Chuck. The man plays solitaire to pass the time.
It's still dark outside. In an industrial area, two men sit in a parked car, one sleeping and the other doing word-search puzzles. A bearded man drives up, and they get out to meet him. He asks them how the bug switch went; they say fine. They give him the bugged gas cap, not realizing it's actually a live bug being monitored by Mike, who's watching them from a distance. Mike uses his tracker to follow the bearded man in the rainy night. He sees the man stop at multiple dead-drops, picking up something from each. Dawn arrives, and the man stops his car at a fast food place. He goes inside with his backpack, then comes out after a while and drives away. We see that the restaurant is Los Pollos Hermanos (from Breaking Bad).
Jimmy works on his "WM" (Wexler McGill) wall-paint design for his and Kim's shared law-office common area. Francesca (from Breaking Bad) walks in to apply for the assistant job. She interviews with Kim and Jimmy; Jimmy immediately thinks she's great and wants her to start right now. Kim talks privately with Jimmy and asks what he's doing. Jimmy says that when his ad airs just minutes from now, they'll need someone answering the phone -- and if it doesn't work out, we can always fire her.
Francesca is hired. Jimmy advises her on how to talk to their elderly clients. The phone starts ringing, and Francesca fields a call while Jimmy continues to advise. The next caller turns out to be Mike, calling from a used car lot. Jimmy takes that call in his office. They agree to meet for breakfast the next day.
Per Mike's instructions, Jimmy enters Los Pollos Hermanos alone, buys a meal, and sits in the busy dining area, watching for the bearded man in the green Chevy Blazer with the backpack. The man arrives, and Jimmy monitors him intently. The man orders food, eats it, and leaves, keeping the backpack with him the whole time. Jimmy is mystified, but then gets a hunch that the man may have left something important in the dining room trash can on his way out. Jimmy tosses his own trash in the same can, then starts rummaging around in it to see what he can find. Suddenly the store manager, Gus Fring, says, "Can I help you?" Jimmy thinks fast and drops his watch in the trash as he pulls himself out of the can. He explains that he thinks he accidentally threw his watch out with the trash. Gus, ever polite to a customer, pulls out the can and finds the watch. It doesn't look like anything else of significance is in the trash.
Back in Mike's car parked close by, Jimmy tells Mike everything that happened: exactly what the bearded man did, what food he ordered, how he kept the backback between his feet on the floor, how he didn't talk to anybody at all, how he ate his food in five minutes and left. Jimmy tries to convince Mike that they should do some more fun spy stuff, but Mike says we're done for now. As Jimmy drives away, we see that Gus is in the parking lot, and that he notices Jimmy's departure.
Mike's ongoing surveillance of Los Pollos continues. He sees a big, black SUV back up to the rear of the store. Then just a minute later, it departs, driven by a young, tough-looking male listening to loud rap music.
Ernie drives to Kim's and Jimmy's nearly-finished law office. Kim, Jimmy, and Francesca are doing a brisk and folksy business with their mostly elderly clients. Ernie calls Kim's phone from the parking lot, and asks her to come out and talk with him in his car. There, very nervously and with prodding from Kim, he tells her about Chuck's recording of Jimmy's confession. Kim goes back inside and, after making Jimmy hand her some cash so she can claim confidentiality later, tells him what she knows. Jimmy is stunned and dismayed. He returns to his clients as cheerfully as he can.
The clients are all gone. Kim researches the legality of Chuck's recording. While Jimmy removes the final masking tape from his "WM" logo on the wall, Kim tells him what she found: the recording is legal, but probably not much use against Jimmy for various reasons. Kim tries to speculate what Chuck plans to do with the tape, but can't figure it out. Jimmy is carefully rolling the tape off the "WM" in the manner Chuck recently taught him. After Kim leaves, Jimmy becomes angry and yanks the last piece of tape off the wall without using Chuck's technique -- it leaves a noticeable blemish. He storms out of the office.
Mike is following the bearded man with his tracker, on a long, straight, sunny road in the middle of nowhere. The tracker seems to indicate the man has stopped nearby, but there's no vehicle in sight. Mike gets out of his car and walks along the road, finding the bugged gas cap sitting right on the road's centerline, along with a ringing cellphone. He kicks the gas cap off the road, and answers the phone.
To avoid being seen from the front of Chuck's house, Howard, awkwardly trying to be sneaky in his expensive suit, climbs through back yards to reach Chuck's back door. Chuck lets him in. The mustachioed P.I. is there, reading a newspaper. Howard argues with Chuck that it's been a week, and this plan isn't working. Just then, it does work: Jimmy, raving with anger, breaks into the house and -- not realizing Chuck isn't alone -- pries open the desk drawer with a fireplace poker and tears up the tape in front of Chuck. Then Howard and the P.I. walk into the room, and verbally attest to Chuck that they are witness to what has happened here.
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