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'''Season 5, Episode 1:'''
!Magic Man
-> Written by Peter Gould
-> Directed by Bronwen Hughes
-> Air date: February 20th, 2020
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** Kai's direct flight from Dallas to Berlin does not work considering back in 2006, Berlin's Tegel airport was in operation. This airport was small, and had only one flight to the eastern United States, that is Newark to Berlin. It is likely that Kai would have either had to fly to Newark, London, or Frankfurt, with either one of these cities providing a connection to Berlin.

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** Kai's direct flight from Dallas to Berlin does not work considering back in 2006, 2004, Berlin's Tegel airport was in operation. This airport was small, and had only one flight to the eastern United States, that is Newark to Berlin. It is likely that Kai would have either had to fly to Newark, London, or Frankfurt, with either one of these cities providing a connection to Berlin.
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* JustPlaneWrong: Werner's crew are sent on 4 different flights back to Europe. While two of the flights (Denver to Zurich, El Paso to Chicago to Kiev) are plausible due to the airlines that work at those airports, two others are not.

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* JustPlaneWrong: Werner's crew are sent on 4 different flights back to Europe. While two of the flights (Denver to Zurich, El Paso to Chicago to Kiev) Vienna) are plausible due to the airlines that work at those airports, two others are not.
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** Similarly, Casper's flight from Phoenix to Vancouver, and then to Budapest also does not work considering that Budapest's airport is even smaller than Berlin's Tegel, and the airport never had any North American connections prior to 2015. A far likelier routing would have had Casper taking a British Airways flight Phoenix to London, with a connecting flight to Budapest.

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** Similarly, Casper's flight from Phoenix to Vancouver, and then to Budapest also does not work considering that Budapest's airport is even smaller than Berlin's Tegel, and the airport never had any North American connections prior to 2015. A far likelier routing would have had Casper taking a British Airways flight from Phoenix to London, with a connecting flight to Budapest.
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** Similarly, Casper's flight from Phoenix to Vancouver, and then to Budapest also does not work considering that Budapest's airport is even smaller than Berlin's Tegel, and the airport never had any North American connections. A far likelier routing would have had Casper taking a British Airways flight Phoenix to London, with a connecting flight to Budapest.

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** Similarly, Casper's flight from Phoenix to Vancouver, and then to Budapest also does not work considering that Budapest's airport is even smaller than Berlin's Tegel, and the airport never had any North American connections.connections prior to 2015. A far likelier routing would have had Casper taking a British Airways flight Phoenix to London, with a connecting flight to Budapest.
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* JustPlaneWrong: Werner's crew are sent on 4 different flights back to Europe. While two of the flights (Denver to Zurich, El Paso to Chicago to Kiev) are plausible due to the airlines that work on those flights, two others are not.

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* JustPlaneWrong: Werner's crew are sent on 4 different flights back to Europe. While two of the flights (Denver to Zurich, El Paso to Chicago to Kiev) are plausible due to the airlines that work on at those flights, airports, two others are not.
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** Kai's direct flight from Dallas to Berlin does not work at all considering back in 2006, Berlin's Tegel airport was in operation. This airport was small, and had only one flight to the eastern United States, that is Newark to Berlin. It is likely that Kai would have either had to fly to Newark, London, or Frankfurt, with either one of these cities providing a connection to Berlin.
** Similarly, Casper's flight from Phoenix to Vancouver, and then to Budapest also does not work considering Vancouver has never had any direct connections to Budapest, and that Budapest's airport is even smaller than Berlin's Tegel. A far likelier routing would have had Casper taking a British Airways flight to London, with a connecting flight to Budapest.

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** Kai's direct flight from Dallas to Berlin does not work at all considering back in 2006, Berlin's Tegel airport was in operation. This airport was small, and had only one flight to the eastern United States, that is Newark to Berlin. It is likely that Kai would have either had to fly to Newark, London, or Frankfurt, with either one of these cities providing a connection to Berlin.
** Similarly, Casper's flight from Phoenix to Vancouver, and then to Budapest also does not work considering Vancouver has never had any direct connections to Budapest, and that Budapest's airport is even smaller than Berlin's Tegel. Tegel, and the airport never had any North American connections. A far likelier routing would have had Casper taking a British Airways flight Phoenix to London, with a connecting flight to Budapest.
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* JustPlaneWrong: Werner's crew are sent on 4 different flights back to Europe. While two of the flights (Denver to Zurich, El Paso to Chicago to Kiev) are plausible due to the airlines that work on those flights, two others are not.
** Kai's direct flight from Dallas to Berlin does not work at all considering back in 2006, Berlin's Tegel airport was in operation. This airport was small, and had only one flight to the eastern United States, that is Newark to Berlin. It is likely that Kai would have either had to fly to Newark, London, or Frankfurt, with either one of these cities providing a connection to Berlin.
** Similarly, Casper's flight from Phoenix to Vancouver, and then to Budapest also does not work considering Vancouver has never had any direct connections to Budapest, and that Budapest's airport is even smaller than Berlin's Tegel. A far likelier routing would have had Casper taking a British Airways flight to London, with a connecting flight to Budapest.

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* CassandraTruth: Lalo, and by extension Hector as well, try to warn Bolsa that Gus Fring is playing a LongGame to avenge his "dead boyfriend." Bolsa proves to be a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter when he blows off Lalo, who is proven right years later during the events in Breaking Bad, and emphasizes that Gus Fring is only about making money.

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* CassandraTruth: CassandraTruth:
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Lalo, and by extension Hector as well, try to warn Bolsa that Gus Fring is playing a LongGame to avenge his "dead boyfriend." Bolsa proves to be a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter when he blows off Lalo, who is proven right years later during the events in Breaking Bad, and emphasizes that Gus Fring is only about making money.money.
** Kim warns Jimmy that prospective clients might end up committing more crimes if they learn about his proposed discount. He denies it, but she turns out to be right in the next episode.
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Again Rhea keeps saying this was always in her


* TheCorrupter: The episode is suggesting that Jimmy is more and more becoming one for Kim. She is more and more willing to engage in the same kind of ethical shenanigans as Jimmmy.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Mike looks like he really wants to give Gus TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Gus advises Mike to consider his next words very carefully. Mike realizes what exactly Gus is implying, and settles for rejecting the retainer.


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* SoreLoser: Mike has plenty of other reasons to detest Lalo, but it's implied that his rudeness towards Lalo is a grudging admission that Lalo outplayed him during the prior episode.


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* WorthyOpponent:
** Lalo asks permission to meet Mike in person, and then tries to cozy up to Mike like he was finally meeting his childhood hero. Although there is also a bit of EvilGloating on his part during the interaction.
** Mike by comparison is rude, standoffish, and wanting to have as little to do with Lalo as possible. Being a SoreLoser is to a degree informing Mike's coldness, but that in itself admits to a grudging admission that Lalo is himself a WorthyOpponent.

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* LeeroyJenkins: Neither Lalo nor the rest of the crews have told the street-level dealers and accomplices who he is, complicating things when he rushes over to the crackhouse to check on the product. Thankfully Nacho is there to clarify that he's one of them.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Kim struggles to compose herself after bluffing Bobby into taking the deal.



* InsistentTerminology: Gustavo's cover story for the construction crew is that he's building a new refrigeration unit for his restaurants. Even though that whole business is a front (and even though the unit is fictitious anyway), he chafes when Bolsa calls it a freezer. It's a ''chiller'', his chicken is ''never'' frozen.



* InsistentTerminology: Gustavo's cover story for the construction crew is that he's building a new refrigeration unit for his restaurants. Even though that whole business is a front (and even though the unit is fictitious anyway), he chafes when Bolsa calls it a freezer. It's a ''chiller'', his chicken is ''never'' frozen.
* MediaScrum: Spoofed. Jimmy has his camera crew ambush DDA Oakley and hound him about a fictitious criminal who Jimmy is ostensibly representing.

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* InsistentTerminology: Gustavo's cover story for LeeroyJenkins: Neither Lalo nor the construction crew rest of the crews have told the street-level dealers and accomplices who he is, complicating things when he rushes over to the crackhouse to check on the product. Thankfully Nacho is there to clarify that he's building a new refrigeration unit for his restaurants. Even though that whole business is a front (and even though the unit is fictitious anyway), he chafes when Bolsa calls it a freezer. It's a ''chiller'', his chicken is ''never'' frozen.
one of them.
* MediaScrum: Spoofed. Jimmy has his camera crew ambush DDA Oakley and hound him about a fictitious criminal who Jimmy is ostensibly representing.representing.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Kim struggles to compose herself after bluffing Bobby into taking the deal.
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* TheCorrupter: The episode is suggesting that Jimmy is more and more becoming one for Kim. She is more and more willing to engage in the same kind of ethical shenanigans as Jimmmy.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Kim struggles to compose herself after bluffing Bobby into taking the deal.
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* ArtisticLicence: If the bar association found out about Jimmy's staged advertisement based on a fictitious client, and chances are they would if it aired on the news, Jimmy would find himself right back in the association's crosshairs and looking at disbarment again.

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* ArtisticLicence: ArtisticLicenceLaw: If the bar association found out about Jimmy's staged advertisement based on a fictitious client, and chances are they would if it aired on the news, Jimmy would find himself right back in the association's crosshairs and looking at disbarment again.
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* AmoralAttorney:
** Jimmy stages an advertisement based on the film crew ambushing ADA Oakley over a fictitious client.
** Jimmy proposes bluffing Bobby with the prosecution having new evidence and wanting to throw the book at him. Kim initially rejects the proposal, but then pulls off the bluff herself after Jimmy departs.
* ArtisticLicence: If the bar association found out about Jimmy's staged advertisement based on a fictitious client, and chances are they would if it aired on the news, Jimmy would find himself right back in the association's crosshairs and looking at disbarment again.


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* NotSoAboveItAll: Jimmy proposes the prosecutor bluff to Kim, only for Kim to shoot it down and state emphatically that she's not going to do it. Moments later she pulls the bluff on Bobby, and without Jimmy's help.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: ADA Oakley promptly leaves once he realizes Jimmy is pulling a staged advertisement at his expense.


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* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: ADA Oakley is so fixated on eating the chips he purchased from the vending machine that he's like a deer in the headlights when the film crew ambush him for an interview.
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* CassandraTruth: Lalo, and by extension Hector as well, try to warn Bolsa that Gus Fring is playing a LongGame to avenge his "dead boyfriend." Bolsa proves to be a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter when he blows off Lalo, who is proven right years later during the events in Breaking Bad, and emphasizes that Gus Fring is only about making money.
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* DisapprovingLook: Kim stares at Jimmy while he's filling out his DBA forms. She's wondering how much even she doesn't know about him.

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