Friday, December 27, 2019

Is there a hole in Gus' cover story? [S4E8 "Hermanos]

Was just casually rewatching today and I noticed some issues between Hank's speculations in "Problem Dog" and Gus' cover story in "Hermanos".

Hank states that the Los Pollos Hermanos sheet from Gale's apartment has a parts number on it that references an air filtration system, one that was shipped without payment documentation to Gale Boetticher six months previous. Given that there is no payment documentation, Hank reasons that the company itself is suspicious and likely involved with Gale's operation. It's from there that he makes the logical leaps from Madrigal to LPH to Gus, and then supports his hypothesis about Gus' involvement with the LPH flyer and the fingerprints. Hank essentially insinuated that Gus was the one that waived the payment on the air filtration system.

Now, in "Hermanos", Gus states that he saw Gale for the first time in years only a few weeks prior. It was at that time that Gale proposed a "vague investment opportunity" -- presumably he asked for the air filtration system written on the flyer, the flyer that he obtained when he went to meet Gus. But the timing doesn't match up, as the object asked for was already shipped out to Gale months before with its payment waived, suggesting internal meddling within Madrigal (implied through Gus). Essentially, timing doesn't seem to match up here. For Gale and Gus to have had the meeting that they had in Gus' story, they need to have met months prior, before the air filtration system was shipped.

Does this particular hole completely implicate Gus? No, as it could've been some other Madrigal executive or subsidiary that waived the payment documentation. It could've been that Gale was asking for something else from Gus, or that he had somehow obtained the LPH flyer long, long before he met Gus again. Still, this timing discrepancy and the question of Madrigal's meddling mean that there's a lot of doubt to be had about Gus' story to the DEA. I'm a bit surprised Hank didn't pull at these strings for longer, but then again, he's always been more of a hands-on field agent.



Submitted December 27, 2019 at 10:19PM by neqiba https://ift.tt/2ZuU6v6

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