History Recap / BetterCallSaulS4E10Winner

'''Season 4, Episode 2:'''
!Smoke
-> Written by Peter Gould
-> Directed by Minkie Spiro
-> Air date: August 6th, 2018

* LethallyStupid: Werner knows that he's working for very dangerous people who went to great lengths and expense to keep the project extremely secret. He somehow deludes himself into thinking that he will be forgiven for his latest stunt and it will have no effect on the people around him. He is in fact putting everyone around him in grave danger. Gus would not hesitate to kill all of Werner's construction crew if they became a liability. Mike's own job is in danger because he was the one who vouched for Werner and failed to spot that Werner was going to run. Werner finally realizes the gravity of the situation when Mike tells him to call his wife and tell her to go back to Germany before she becomes involved and shares Werner's fate.

* LooseLips: Werner shows a distinct lack of caution in divulging details of the construction work for the superlab to someone whom he's never met over the phone (Lalo) just of the basis on the man on the other end of the line identifying himself as an employee of Gus Fring. [[spoiler: It becomes an instance where the loose lips comes very close to sinking the ship. Lalo becomes aware that Gus is building a meth superlab under the cartel's nose. He also comes very close to cornering and ending Gus in the superlab itself.]]

->''"S'all good, man."''
-->-- '''Also Jimmy [=McGill=] to Kim Wexler at the end of the episode'''

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* PragmaticVillainy: Jimmy donates $23,000 so that HHM has a reading room dedicated to Charles [=McGill=]. The donor for the room is officially designated as anonymous. But Jimmy has the film crew spread rumors that Jimmy made the donation. It has elements of BatmanGambit in that he's banking on GossipEvolution bring the rumor to at least one member of the panel who will decided whether he's readmitted to practice law. Kim also prevents him from enjoying any of the food he paid for at the celebration, in order to keep up [[CrocodileTears the appearance]] of being grief-stricken over Chuck's death.

* SpottingThread: Mike does not yet know who's exactly been tailing him and who called up Werner, only identifying him as "an interested party" during his phone call with Gus. But Gus knows in an instant that it's Lalo performing SinisterSurveillance on his operations.

* LooseLips: Werner shows a distinct lack of caution in divulging details of the construction work for the superlab to someone whom he's never met over the phone (Lalo) just on the basis on the man on the other end of the line identifying himself as an employee of Gus Fring. [[spoiler: It becomes an instance where the loose lips comes very close to sinking the ship. Lalo becomes aware that Gus is building a meth superlab under the cartel's nose. He also comes very close to cornering and ending Gus in the superlab itself.]]

* RaceAgainstTime: Mike does his utmost to track down and retrieve Werner with the hope that killing him won't become necessity. He loses that race when Lalo kills Fred at the Travel Wire, and then tricks Werner over the phone into revealing details about the superlab construction project.