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I think she cried because she went through an emotional hell over that letter and it wasn't a bad letter at all and on top of that, Jimmy didn't seem to care much about it. She agonized over it for nothing.

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Speaking of Kim.....what's she doing?

SandPiper was her dream client, and her meal ticket. Things are going well, but she seems bothered by their expansion and is heading to court for some reason?

What's she up to?

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I think she cried because she went through an emotional hell over that letter and it wasn't a bad letter at all and on top of that, Jimmy didn't seem to care much about it. She agonized over it for nothing.

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Yep.

That was the relief I was talking about. She was tore up over it, dreading giving it to him...and it all turned out to be ok.

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Grand Unifying Theory

I think that Kim knows something deeply troubling about Mesa Verde and that she's not simply welshing under pressure.

I think she's seen through a facade of extreme niceness toward her and realised that, to be blunt. Mesa Verde are handling drug money. The speed of that expansion and the will to expand right across the country with all that fancy architecture? C'mon, that's a leap too far, there has to be hundreds of millions of dollars available for that expansion, and not just from good, clean, honest mortgages.

We can fill in the blanks from there and conclude that, given the universe we're dealing with here, it's the money from maybe the cartel, but more likely from Los Pollos Hermanos; it's possible that this regional bank is cooperating with or even just another front for Gus Fring.

If you go looking for character flaws in Mesa Verde you might see:

• Their willingness to put up with some shadiness surrounding Kim + Jimmy
• Their extreme niceness to her, all those lunches and dinners (though we know that's just business, the show hasspent a fair amount of time having us rub shoulders with those characters.)
• That boss of theirs is slightly too much of a good ol' boy to just be a plain ol' bank manager. That ****er is dirty.

I quite like that Kim looked up at their logo statuette in the lobby - it's a freakin' cowboy. Maybe that's all MV really are.

If I'm even half-right then if Kim even tries to do the right thing here she's going to get burned, hard, and might end up dead or hoover-manned.

That's enough right there to make a sufficiently explosive/fitting ending to the show arc and send Jimmy right over the bent horizon.

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I don't think it was a meaningless scene, the explanation you are proposing would have no impact on the storyline whatsoever.

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I wonder why she decided to changes plans and to the courthouse?

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I wonder why she decided to changes plans and to the courthouse?

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This is what I'm hung up on. It's like something made a light click on in her head and the first thing she thought of was going to the courthouse? There are lawyers on this thread - what kind of damning evidence could someone find at the courthouse that you couldn't just find logging on to Lexus/Nexus (of whatever the name of that service is)?

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The Kim being overwhelmed theory is possibly valid but to most people with any kind of ambition and a good mental state wouldn't the thought be : " oh wow, yes this is going to be a lot of work, but I'm going to get lotsa help and turn this into an opportunity to grow my practice". (of course mental state being important to that and maybe she is struggling with that)

I feel like there's something more to that whole story line.

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OldArmy71 said:

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The problem with her worrying about illicit funds from Gus is that she has no idea who he is nor that his restaurant is a front.

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I wonder why she decided to changes plans and to the courthouse?

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This is what I'm hung up on. It's like something made a light click on in her head and the first thing she thought of was going to the courthouse? There are lawyers on this thread - what kind of damning evidence could someone find at the courthouse that you couldn't just find logging on to Lexus/Nexus (of whatever the name of that service is)?

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LexisNexis has been around as long as computers have (I'm not a lawyer but I'm somewhat familiar with it).

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Could she have been going to the courthouse to recruit lawyers for her practice or maybe to talk to convince someone to take MV off her hands.

Are discussions about the previews for next weeks episode allowed?

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So, I went and read a couple of recaps - Forbes and Rolling Stone - to see what they said about the whole Kim/Mesa Verde thing. I can't remember which, but one completely ignored it. The other surmised that she was envisioning a future of mountains of dull corporate work, paper pushing, drafting documents and such. Maybe the request to get her to the courthouse was so that she could see what kind of cases she could drum up there. Criminal cases and such. Maybe she will eventually run into some Nacho-type characters and eventually get Jimmy in on the action. And that's how he hooks up with Gus?

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On Kim to the Courthouse:

1. Lexis and Westlaw have both been around forever, but they are expensive as hell (especially in the early 2000s). Law firms "hire" law students as unpaid interns to do their legal research for them because both services are usually free to law students. Took me about a year to figure that out when I was a lowly "intern." They are usually free to the public at law libraries adjacent to the courthouse. Just responding to a previous question.

2. I actually think the reddit theory might have something to do with Kim going to the courthouse. She is being hired to do the licensing, etc, for MV's massive expansion. Perhaps she is going down to the courthouse to pull records for entity creation and or ownership. Maybe she is looking into who the additional agents/owners/partners, etc. are. She stares at the large statute that resembles a shadow just before deciding to go to the courthouse. Maybe that inspired her to seek out possible shadowy puppeteers. Of course, having been intimately involved in their affairs already you would think she would already be privy to this information. Just a thought.

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