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Of course, Mike is the ultimate pragmatist: To him, it probably doesn't matter whether Todd should or should not have shot him the kid's death is a fact on the ground Mike has to deal with, and hypotheticals about what could have or should have been done are a waste of time. I liked James Poniewozik's comparison to Mike as "the general who believes that when you go to war, you do it with overwhelming force - and when you can avoid it, you don't do it at all." And that is among the reasons I wanted Mike to weigh in on the death of the kid on the bike, and felt somewhat stymied when he didn't say whether Todd's action had been right or wrong. Mike certainly has a lot of blood on his hands, but, weirdly enough, he's begun to turn into something of a moral arbiter within this universe, for me, anyway.
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All things considered though, it was an excellent hour, and one that beautifully set up yet another series of consequences that will no doubt reverberate and make life tricky for Walt for some time to come. My only quibble is this: Lydia obviously fed them the information about which train car to rob, but how could they have been sure that that car would stop on or around the trestle? Perhaps there was an explanation of that and I missed it.