"Better Call Saul": 5.5 "Dedicado a Max" Quiz

Answer: An infinity-edge fountain

After being stabbed at the end of the last episode, Mike awoke in the adobe village and immediately tried to leave. He headed down a road, but he was weak and ended up sitting on a log by a road sign. There he was met by a doctor (the same doctor from whom he picked up the drugs that he doused the Salamanca truck with back in season three). "Look what you've done to all my fine work," the doctor (JB Blanc) said after noticing the blood on Mike's shirt.

He took Mike back to the village and patched him up.

He told Mike that if he made it to the highway, it was then a day's bus-ride to El Paso, but that he wouldn't survive the journey: "My advice is to rest, enjoy some of Senora Cortazar's excellent cooking, and take in some clean air." He said that he'd check on Mike in three days and that Mike would be ready to leave in a week or so.

But of course Mike didn't wait. He started out again, and he stopped by the fountain on his second attempt to leave the village. It was a large, multi-level, modern, infinity-edge fountain that looked a tad out-of-place in the small Mexican village.

At the end of the episode, it was by the same fountain that Gus met with Mike. He told Mike that the people in the village only knew him as the doctor's friend. When Mike asked what this place was, Gus said, "Call it a memoriam" but didn't elaborate. When Mike asked what Gus wanted with him, Gus responded, "It seems to me that you are at a crossroads. You can continue as you are - drinking, estranged from your family, brawling with street hoods - we both know how that ends". Mike said sarcastically that his other choice would be to work for Gus, which Gus acknowledged: "I am in a war. I need a soldier". Mike wasn't keen on working for a drug dealer, killing other drug dealers, but Gus maintained he was different from the Salamancas. When Mike asked why Gus wanted him, Gus told him it was because Mike understood revenge.

Answer: Changed the address of the property

As the demolition workers met to discuss the plans for the day, Saul informed them that there was a hitch. When the deputy (Michael H. Cole) arrived with the eviction notice for 1130 Arroyo Vista, Mr. Acker appeared and said the address was 1240 Arroyo Vista.

The foreman (John DiMaggio) for the crew argued that he had seen numbers on the mailbox and that he had a map that "could straighten this out right now", but Saul claimed that, "Mr. Acker's been living here for 30 years. I think he knows his own address".

When the deputy asked for something with an address on it, Acker pulled out mail from his mailbox that the sheriff confirmed had the 1240 address on it. The foreman said that anyone could have printed the address on the mail, but the deputy wasn't willing to ignore the discrepancy: "I have to make a call".

Answer: Withdraw from the case

Kevin was displeased with the delay: "Now the guy gets a lawyer. The lawyer comes in, the crazy comes out". Kim and Paige said that the issue was resolved in a few hours, but Kim stated, "unfortunately there is another complication. The lawyer Acker hired, it's Jimmy". Kim said that in fairness to Mesa Verde, she would withdraw from the Tucumcari project, but handle the other Mesa Verde business. Paige agreed with this, but Kevin didn't: "I smell a rat. Acker hiring Jimmy - that's no coincidence. And I heard about the talking-to you gave that guy; sounds like you tore him a new one...

Here's what I think. This fella saw you for the killer you are, and he went and hired Jimmy specifically to take you away from us... I am not gonna let this guy deprive me of the best in the business". Paige tried to point out that it might be personally difficult for Kim, but Kim clarified that it was the conflict of interest that concerned her.

But Kevin didn't care: "Why change horses midstream?"

Answer: Kevin Wachtell

When Kim came home, Saul was working in the kitchen, concocting potions for his next day scam. Kim told him that despite her meeting with Kevin and Paige, she was still working on the Mesa Verde case, and Saul wanted details. He had Kim role-play as Kevin to tell him how the meeting went. Kim slouched on the bar stool, which Saul immediately noticed: "He's a side-sitter... You never told me that he was a side-sitter, and THAT is gold". Saul wanted her to "do the voice": "He's a good ole boy, so Do He Tawk Like Thees?" Kim said no, but then did the accent: "Lawyer comes in, crazy comes out". Saul then imitated Kim (with mannerisms that he must have got from "Tootsie"), which amused Kim. Kim finished up: "Bottom line, breaking ground, more statues. Kim, you get him now, blah blah blah blah...."

Answer: Phone charger

Mike wanted to make a call, but only local calls were allowed from the phone in the house. His cell phone was dead, so he decided to build a charger for it. He rummaged around, looking for components, and then sat at the kitchen table connecting wires. Senora Cortazar (Alejandra Flores) brought him a bowl of soup, and looked at what he was doing.

She understood, because she left the room, and when she returned, she put a charger on the table. Mike picked it up, looked dejectedly at it and said, "Gracias". Mike then plugged the phone in and called Gus: "You don't do anything without a reason. Why am I here?" But Gus merely said that it wasn't a good time for the conversation and hung up.

The ever-industrious Mike later found another project to work on - he fixed a leaky window for Senora Cortazar.

Answer: Archaeologists

Saul's next scam to keep the demolition crew away from Mr. Acker's home involved broken pieces of pottery that he buried around the property. We'd seen him the night before cooking up various concoctions which he must have used to "age" the pots. When the crew returned to evict Mr. Acker, they found an archaeological team had set up a grid to excavate the land.

When Saul asked the archaeologist (Holly Kaplan) about the pottery pieces she'd found, she said that "at a glance, I'd say these pieces are likely contemporary" which drew an "I bet they are" from the foreman.

She said that they'd still need to do a "systematic property search" that would take a week at the most. The foreman was aghast, and when he pleaded with the deputy, the man once again said "I have to make a call".

Answer: An image of Jesus on the house

The montage sequence featured several of Saul's scams to delay the Acker eviction, set to the jazzy sounds of "Blackbird Special" from Stanton Moore. Saul sent a few lawsuits or injunctions to Kim's firm: He sued on behalf of the water district, he claimed there was a flaw in the original land grant from 1846, and he claimed the prime contractor on the project was an escaped felon.

He spent an evening with Acker, breaking open a bunch of smoke detectors and extracting small amounts of radioactive materials from them.

He then deposited the material on the ground around the property, but since Mesa Verde now had guards watching the place, he had to discreetly spread it from a bag in his trousers, "Shawkshank" style, while he and Acker wandered around the grounds pretending to look at the constellations.

When the demolition crew arrived the next day, there was a hazmat team measuring for radioactivity on the property, and when the foreman turned to the deputy, the deputy said, "I'm gonna have to... you know..." Saul's final coup de grace was spray-painting a picture of Jesus to look like mold on the house, which bought in busloads of believers. Acker had called a radio show to talk about the image, and some of the visitors had Acker autograph copies of a newspaper that displayed the image. One of the autographed copies ended up with Kevin Wachtell.

Answer: Move the call center to another plot of land

Kevin wanted to sue Acker and Saul, but Paige said "going down that road could take years", with Kim pointing out that time was on their (Acker and Saul's) side since the delays were costing Mesa Verde money. Rich then suggested that there was an option that could flip the situation by not building the cost center there: "Suddenly you're holding all the cards.

There's nothing to delay. The other side's the one spending money with no hope of recovering their expenses". Rich then pitched the same solution that Kim tried last episode: Build the cost center at another location. Mesa Verde had originally looked at two plots of land and had passed on the other one since it had drainage issues, but Kim had discovered that the drainage issues had been resolved.

While neither Kevin nor Paige were enthusiastic about the option the first time it was broached, Paige had since come around, pointing out to Kevin that "the financial hit would be negligible". But Kevin had dug in his heels: "My dad did not raise me to run from a fight. I'm not going to roll over and let some low life shyster bully me off my land".

Answer: Tried to find dirt on Kevin Wachtell

Kim was sulking about her failure to get Mesa Verde to move their call center, but Saul told her she did far more than Acker deserved. He said "there's always another play, but the rational thing here is to close the deal". Kim wanted to hear about the other play. Saul said it would mean going after Kevin Wachtell, but "it's nasty, it's personal, it's dangerous". Kim apparently wasn't pleased that Kevin had called her boyfriend a shyster, so she didn't mind going after him. Saul called Mike for the job, but Mike declined. So Saul hired another one of the Vet's handymen from "the underground Craig's List", as Kim called it.

They met "Mr. X" (Steven Ogg), who was actually Sobchak from the "Pimento" episode in season one (the hired gun who Mike scared off when they were sent to work for the geeky Pryce).

He reported that he didn't find anything on Kevin Wachtell: "You got an Eagle Scout with a six-figure income". When Saul said that he thought the work was "superficial", Sobchak said that he made "a self-guided tour of the his domicile, all seven bedrooms and four and a half baths". Kim wasn't pleased to hear that he had broken into Wachtell's house, but he said he'd actually tricked the housekeeper into letting him in the house by pretending to be from the security company.

He took a lot of pictures which he gave to them, and said "I may not be a nail salon lawyer, but I know legit when I see it". He then suggested getting two more guys, kidnapping Kevin, and taking him out to the desert, but Saul quickly said, "We're done here" and showed the guy out. When he returned to the office, Kim, who had been flipping through the photos, was smiling. She'd found something.

Answer: He knew she was trying to prevent the eviction.

Rich met with Kim to tell her that she should take a break from Mesa Verde; he had some mineral rights cases that she could work on along with her pro bono work. Rich said it was just on a temporary basis - Mesa Verde would still be her client. Kim emphasized that Mesa Verde knew about the conflict with Saul, and that "Kevin signed off on it himself", but Rich still pressed her "I think you're going to need to take a break". Kim didn't understand why so Rich laid it out for her: "I had to twist your arm to get you down to Tucumcari for the eviction.

Then you put the full court press on Kevin to change sites. That doesn't work and abracadabra, your boyfriend's opposing counsel... I'm sorry to say, I'm just not buying it". He left her office and headed down the hall, and she went after him.

She confronted him in front of everyone; he tried to get her to come into his office, but she stood there and asked him what he was accusing her of: "Malfeasance, working against my client's interest, what?" Kim asked if he was trying to protect the firm, but he said he was trying to protect her.

She said "I don't need protection. I need to represent my client". Rich backed down, "If that's how you want it" and went into his office, and Kim returned to hers.