The guilt that he feels over Werner's death is affecting him so much that he's lashing out at those closest to him. You could really feel the rising tension of that scene. It was reminiscent of ‘Talk’ in that you could see him grow gradually, closer and closer to just blowing up except this was at one of the very few people he's close with. The worst part, and one of the biggest reasons he feels such anguish, is that in his eyes he's not much better than the men who killed Matty.
Matty was doing something illegal. He was a dirty cop, albeit extremely reluctantly which makes his actions much more justifiable but it was still illegal. Unfortunately, the people he was working with didn't trust him and so they killed him to make sure he didn't reveal anything. Before Werner, Mike could loathe those two police officers as he was above such an act. But then Werner came along, also technically doing something illegal but not illegal enough to be considered “in the game”. It was a job which would give him enough money so that he could go home and live comfortably with his wife. Ultimately, the people he was working with didn't trust him either and Mike had to kill him to protect his and Gus's interests.
That's what made that scene so hard to watch for me. Kaylee wasn't doing anything wrong but her questions were clearly angering Mike and so the reaction was unsettlingly inevitable. Once she mentioned the “bad men” who killed Matty, he was reminded that, in a sense, he's not that much better than them. What they were to him, he would be to Mrs. Ziegler (if she knew what actually happened).
Submitted February 26, 2020 at 02:47PM by NBFM16 https://ift.tt/383diTe
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