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Holly here.  Chip and I have been having some interesting sidebars that haven’t made the blog.  I thought I’d collect some of them here so we can check our accuracy at the end of the season.

ON THE MYSTERIOUS GUARDIAN ANGEL
HOLLY:
It occurred to me as I was reading your last post - what about Gomez? Are we overlooking one of the usual suspects -- any chance Gomey's playing both sides? It might be worthwhile to go back and watch the pre-El Paso action at the DEA and some of those phone calls that Hank ridiculed Gomez for making to his wife. Wonder Gomez' "wife" is named Gus? Or Mike?

CHIP:
It’s the sheriff, Holly.

HOLLY:
The sheriff and/or Gomez are appealing guardian angels because even if one of or both of them are dirty, it might make sense that they would save Hank when he's no longer a threat to the bad guys after being stripped of his badge. They seem to like him well enough to have his back, and he's a civilian now so he can’t do anything to Heisenberg anymore.

I really wonder if Gus served up Hank thinking the DEA would take care of the cousins while they were taking care of Hank and the cousins' blood wouldn't be on his hands so Tio wouldn't avenge their deaths on him. And of course that solves the Walt problem - he's free to cook in peace.

ON THE “ONE MINUTE” PHONE CALL
CHIP:
How did anyone know he had exactly one minute? I guess Mike could have been tailing them at the behest of Gus. He has served as Walt's guardian angel, so why not Hank?

HOLLY:
GP, Chip, GP.

ON THE UNEASY ALLIANCE OF TIO AND GUS
HOLLY:
You know another thing that has always bothered me is when the cousins were sitting on Walt's bed waiting to ax murder him and one of them got a call and the phone said "Pollo." Why would Gus be calling his enemy's henchmen? And how would he happen to have their number? Is there a directory for that? Or was it a text, not a call, warning them that Pollo aka Gus knew they were inside because Mike was outside after his aborted bug planting effort.

CHIP:
Back to that scene when Mike manages to get the cousins called off with the text message "Pollo." I think that even though Tio and others do not care for Gus, he is important to them. Important enough to get a stand down call with the word they know him by..."Chicken."

I definitely think Gus is capable of a chess move such as giving them Hank, hoping he would give them the same treatment as their cousin. Hank was much more likely to pull that off than Walt.

ON THE COUSINS CHANELLING “JURASSIC PARK”
CHIP:
Something I meant to point out was how the cousins looked like velociraptors in Jurassic Park as they fanned out to come at their prey from different angles.

HOLLY:
There were dinosaurs in that film?  I must have been distracted by Jeff Goldblum.