'Better Call Saul' Season 2 News: Mike's Best-Laid Plans Get Someone Innocent Killed
Revenge has been called sweet, but probably not by Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) after his plans went awry on the last episode of "Better Call Saul" season two episode nine, entitled "Nailed." He planned to get back at Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) for threatening his granddaughter Kaylee (Abigail Zoe Lewis) with The Twins. But he later found out his victory was short-lived when Nacho Salamanca, who called Hector "Tio," paid him a visit to reveal how he was not-so-successful: His ploy had gotten a good Samaritan killed.
He had carefully staked out Salamanca's restaurant where the crime lord did his "business." He lay in wait for Hector's truck and pulled taut his homemade weapon, a garden hose, and effectively blew out the tires on the truck. He proceeded to hogtie and blindfold the driver and stole $250,000 cash by slashing open one of the tires. The truck driver had not seen him neither had he heard Mike's voice. It had seemed perfect. He felt his plot would not be traced back to him. He thought he had successfully ripped off the drug cartel and had gotten his revenge.
What had happened was that a good Samaritan had passed by the hogtied driver before the police had made their appearance. The Samaritan had cut loose the crime syndicate's driver who had seemed like a poor victim. What the Samaritan had not counted on was the driver turning on him.
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The driver had promptly killed the innocent Samaritan once he got freed. Hector was reached for a report on what had transpired. And so the scene had gotten cleaned up, bungling Mike's intention of exposing Hector's illegal operations to the police.
Nacho, who did not want to be involved in whatever his uncle's wrath would later serve Mike, paid the latter a visit. Hector's nephew had realized Mike's involvement when the driver of the cartel's truck had been unharmed. Nacho knew of Mike's "no kill" code because they had worked together before on the Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz) job.
Mike assures Nacho he was not anywhere near doing something like it again, crushed by the news the latter brought him on the death of the roadside Samaritan. But, more than ever, deep inside, Mike resolved to find a way to bring the high-ranking cartel lord down. Hopefully, without getting someone else innocent killed once more.
So much for sweet revenge.
"Better Call Saul" is aired every Monday on AMC at 10 p.m.
