Plot

Jimmy attends his reinstatement hearing at the Bar Association. Nacho is forced to make the rounds with Lalo and Mike has cause to worry.

Kim, on crutches and wearing a foot-injury boot, enters Lubbock's Dept. of Building Safety, and tells the clerk that the wrong drawings may have been filed for Mesa Verde's branch-to-be. The clerk warns her that she will have to submit the correct ones for approval all over again, but Kim says, yes, I know, I just want to compare them, to see if I really did make this mistake. The clerk fetches the approved drawings, and she and Kim compare several points, discovering to Kim's apparent delight that the drawings are identical. While doing that, the clerk sympathizes with Kim's injury, and hears that Kim has an 8-month-old who is being watched by her not-so-reliable brother. Just then, the sloppy brother (actually Jimmy), arrives with a bag of baby supplies, and asks Kim to smell a plastic bag of baby formula to see if it is still good. Kim freaks out that her brother left the baby in the car, and hobbles quickly out the door. Jimmy follows her, but the clerk doesn't notice that he left the formula on the approved documents, and that it is leaking. When Kim returns, she discovers to her horror that the approved documents are ruined, and the clerk has been trying, vainly, to clean them up. The clerk suggests that they just replace them with Kim's identical copy, which she will stamp approved, and no one will ever know about this disaster. So they do -- but Kim pulls a different roll of paper out of her document tube this time; the clerk unwittingly stamps/files the bigger, better design that Kim's boss Kevin wanted.

Nacho and Lalo visit Hector at the retirement home where he sits in a wheelchair, unable to speak. Lalo carries on a one-man conversation with him cheering him up with stories of how they long ago tortured and murdered a professor who got in their way. Lalo confides that he kept a souvenir: the bell that the professor used to summon his servant. He straps it to the wheelchair so Hector can ring the bell instead of just tapping the arm of his chair to communicate. Then Lalo sends Nacho away so he and Hector can discuss "the Chilean" (Gus) privately.

Kim and Jimmy celebrate their scam at a Lubbock diner. Jimmy tells Kim that he can hardly wait for his impending reinstatement, and that he will likely get lots of business, as all the people he sold "drop phones" will inevitably need a lawyer. He cajoles Kim to join him.

Mike supervises the construction crew as they prepare to blast a large rock that interferes with their plans. The blasting control box says one of the three charges is disconnected, so Werner goes underground alone to find the problem. He finds and fixes it, but not before nearly having a nervous breakdown in the dark. He comes back up, and all lights are green. The team performs the blast, with Tyrus simultaneously driving a huge truck above in a manner that prevents the blast from being noticed by anyone in the area.

The team celebrates in their warehouse residence, and convince Mike to join them in a beer. Mike notices Werner sitting glumly alone, and talks with him, finding that Werner is desperately missing his wife back in Germany. Mike says Werner can make an extra call to her on their special phone. Werner seems pleased.

At Los Pollos, one of Gus's employees alerts him to the presence of Lalo and Nacho, who are eating in a booth. Gus politely confronts them, then invites Lalo to speak privately in the back office. There, Lalo thanks Gus for saving Hector, then suggests that maybe Gus and the Salamancas should unite against Don Eladio. Gus says, I like things the way they are. Lalo and Nacho leave in their classic, '70s AMX, so Nacho can show Lalo the chicken farm where he receives drug deliveries from Gus.

Jimmy attends his reinstatement hearing. A simple, folksy, board of three people asks him friendly questions about how he has spent his year off, how he's kept up with the law, and what the law means to him. That last question seems to catch Jimmy off-guard. After the hearing, he waits around in the hall. Catching the stenographer leaving, he asks her if he passed, and from the look on her face, he can tell he didn't. Jimmy races through the building and finds one of the reviewers walking down the main stairs. With barely controlled frustration, Jimmy presses hard about why he didn't pass. Sympathetic, the man tells Jimmy that his answers didn't seem sincere, but he can try again in a year. The man hurriedly leaves, and Jimmy hurls his briefcase into the wall in rage.

Mike gets the latest brief from his two surveillance guys. Werner is still talking with his wife after more than an hour. Mike leaves. Werner finishes his phone call, stubs his cigarette, and walks through the cavernous, brightly lit space. Then he stares at the surveillance cameras before retiring to his apartment.

Kim is on a Mesa Verde conference call when Jimmy, furious, calls her cellphone to tell her that he wasn't reinstated. She meets him at the top of the parking garage and tries to figure out what happened. Suddenly she realizes that he never mentioned Chuck once, but the reviewers certainly knew all about Chuck. She tries to tell Jimmy that he should have talked about Chuck, but Jimmy turns on her, accusing her of looking down on him like everyone else. Disgusted, Kim tries to get Jimmy to see the big picture, then walks away.

That night, Kim drinks a beer at home and Jimmy shows up, calm now. Without a word, he starts packing his stuff to move out. Then he admits that the whole thing is his own fault. Kim tells him they shouldn't give up; he can still be a lawyer.

Mike arrives the next day at the surveillance trailer. The guys have nothing to report, but Mike notices some strange colored dots on one of the camera images. His guys tell him it's nothing, just some dead pixels from a voltage spike that made the camera flare out for 20 seconds and then recover. Mike checks all the images to see which others have that same problem, and realizes something bad has happened. They check inside and outside the warehouse, and discover that Werner has used an architect's distance laser to temporarily disable some cameras, so he could escape through the roof and down a ladder on the outside of the building. He is gone.