[1] Making their escape after killing off Don Eladio Vuente and the Cartel's leadership,[a] Jesse Pinkman drives Gus Fring, who is weakened due to taking his own poison, and Mike Ehrmantraut, who is wounded, to a makeshift emergency room that Gus earlier prepared.

Gus recovers quickly, but Mike has to stay another week before he can safely travel, so he is left behind in Mexico.

Skyler enlists Saul Goodman's men, Huell and Kuby, to extort Ted into paying the IRS.

Ted gives in, signing the cheque, but then attempts to escape; he trips, hits his head, and knocks himself out, resulting in a serious injury.

The episode ends with the camera panning upward from the crawl space as Walt continues laughing hysterically before passing out.

Hutchinson saw the storyline as part of the "open-ended action" that often led to characters appearing to have no way to resolve the situation, but finding a plausible way to do so.

[5] Hutchinson praised the final shot and the storylines leading up to it, calling it Breaking Bad's "most underrated moment" and "a perfect bit of mise en scene".