- As Chuck plots his next move, another lie comes back to haunt Jimmy. A rattled Mike tries to find out who's been tracking his movements - and how.
- The repercussions of Chuck's scheme test Jimmy and Kim's (Rhea Seehorn) fledgling law practices - and their romance - as never before. This imminent existential threat presses Jimmy's faltering moral compass to the limit. Meanwhile, Mike searches for a mysterious adversary who seems to know almost everything about his business.—ac
- In the black-and-white present, "Gene" (Jimmy) works as a Cinnabon manager. For his lunch break, he sits on a mall bench and eats a home-packed sandwich. A teenage shoplifter runs up and hides in a photo booth nearby. Moments later, the police come up and ask Gene if he saw the guy. Gene doesn't respond for a few seconds, then silently points at the booth. The cops grab the teen, but as they're hauling him away, Gene impulsively yells at the youth to "say nothing and get a lawyer." Back at work, Gene suddenly collapses to the floor, unconscious.
Returning to the full-color past: In his foil-shrouded living room, Chuck has just recorded Jimmy admitting to the 1216 scam that ruined HHM's Mesa Verde account and drove them back to Kim. Jimmy leaves Chuck's house; Chuck stashes the tape recorder in a foil-lined desk drawer, and locks it.
Jimmy retrieves his phone from Chuck's mailbox, and calls Howard to let him know that Chuck is back in business. Jimmy goes back inside the house, and finds Chuck tearing down the foil. Jimmy starts helping, but Chuck admonishes him to be careful with how he pulls the duct tape off the wall finish. Behind the foil, in a bookcase, Jimmy finds a book, "The Adventures of Mabel." He and Chuck reminisce about childhood, but then Chuck suddenly cuts the conversation off angrily and reminds Jimmy that he "will pay" for what he's done.
Kim humors an elderly client with the specifics of her will. Jimmy arrives, and waits for her to finish. After the clients leave, Jimmy says he owes Kim, for helping out with Jimmy's clients while he was dealing with Chuck. Jimmy wants to buy Kim dinner, but she says there's too much work to do. Jimmy confides with Kim that he's bothered by Chuck's animosity.
Chuck plays the taped confession to Howard. Howard says it's worthless, but Chuck says he knows what to do with it.
Mike has just found the stick wedged against the horn of his station wagon in the desert, and the note that says, "DON'T." He drives as fast as he can out of the area, then pulls over and quick-checks his car for tracking devices, finding none. Next he drives to an auto parts yard, puts his car on a lift, and spends a lot of time examining it, then taking it apart, but still can't find anything. The yard owner tells him it's closing time. Mike asks the guy to call him a cab, and says he can keep the torn-apart car. Waiting in the office/store, Mike notices a rack of gas caps. He goes back outside and pries open his car's gas cap -- there it is. Mike rides the taxi home. There, he removes the gas cap from his regular sedan parked in front of his house, takes it inside the house, and finds that it, too, is bugged. He puts it back on his car.
Jimmy's helping his clients with their wills. He asks for the next person in the waiting area, and this one is a young military man, an Air Force captain, in uniform. Jimmy knows who he is. Once they're alone in Jimmy's office, the captain confronts Jimmy about how he lied about the war veteran in the wheelchair when he was making his TV ad. The captain demands that Jimmy remove the ad from the air, but Jimmy won't. They exchange a few threats, then the captain leaves after telling Jimmy that he'll get his, eventually.
In the middle of the night, Mike temporarily abandons his graveyard shift at the parking lot booth (leaving the gates up), and after stashing the bugged gas cap nearby, drives to meet his underground-economy guy. He pays more than double for a tracking device just like the one he found in his cars. The guy says it will take a few days.
Paige chats with Kim in Mesa Verde's large, southwest-themed lobby. Paige is very impressed with Kim's work, then starts bad-mouthing Chuck's screwup. Kim is awkwardly nervous, because she knows that Jimmy was responsible. Just before they part ways, Kim suddenly asks to make some last-minute tweaks to the documents she just gave Paige; Paige agrees. Back at her office, while Jimmy paints over the giant rainbow on the wall left by the prior, dentist tenant, Kim frets over trivial details in her documents. She seems to be losing confidence that everything is exactly right with her work.
Under the pretense of being unable to change the batteries in his tape recorder due to his EM sensitivity, Chuck asks Ernie to do it. The tape player then starts playing part of Jimmy's confession, and Chuck acts shocked and stops it immediately. (Ernie knows all about what Chuck says Jimmy did, from prior episodes.) Chuck impresses upon Ernie that due to lawyer-client confidentiality, Ernie can never tell anyone about what he just heard, for any reason, no matter how important. Ernie seems to believe him.
Mike now has possession of his new transmitter and its accompanying tracking computer. He studies it and tries it out. Then he swaps it out with the one in his car. Back in his house, he opens the battery compartment of the transmitter he found in his car, and -- leaving the battery in-place inside the transmitter -- uses alligator clips to attach that same battery to a portable radio. The radio slowly runs the battery down to near-zero in a few hours. Then Mike removes the battery, throws it and the bug into the trash, and sits in the dark by his window, watching his car. Well into the night, a car drives up, and a man gets out. He removes the gas cap from Mike's car and replaces it with a new one. Then the man drives away. Mike removes the fresh bug from his car and sets it down nearby. Then he gets in his car with his tracking computer, and starts following the fully-functional bug that the man unwittingly took from his car.
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