At the car was, it looks like it’s Take Your Flynn to Work Day, because Skyler is trying to teach Walter Jr. how to work the register. Things Junior is still having trouble with: counting out change to customers in that way where you backtrack to a $20 (which always seemed infantilizing to me, like, I can do math without this breadcrumb trail back to my original amount, thanks) and remembering to say "Have an A1 day." He doesn’t really understand the point of doing the latter, but Skyler tells him that it’s part of their brand. Ladies Be Loving Brandz this week on Breaking Bad! Junior just wants to go home and chill for a bit, since the gas fumes have to have dissipated by now. Ah, so that’s why Skyler’s got him at work with her. Keeping him close until the tweaking menace has been dispatched. Before she caves, who walks in but Saul Goodman! Skyler’s body goes rigid, wondering just what fresh hell this portends (is Walt dead? Is there danger?), while Junior openly gawks at the local celebrity in his midst. He does the totally uncool thing of being like, "Hey [Celebrity], you’re [Celebrity], aren’t you?" Saul is pretty cool about it, throwing out his "Better Call Saul" catchphrase and everything. Skyler tries to hustle him along before Junior can get in too many questions about Saul’s busted up face. At the same time, Walt (with Holly in tow) scurries up to the door, spotting Saul and then literally hiding around the corner from his wife and son.

Outside, Walt catches up to Saul, who apparently really did need the car washed if only to get rid of all the coke residue Jesse left in there. But also, the more important business: Huell is missing. Both men immediately jump to the conclusion that Jesse got to him -- a fairly safe assumption considering Huell’s involvement in the Brock incident that set Jesse off. By the way, can I just mention that the long shot of this conversation manages to include a giant "Better Call Saul" billboard in the background? Walt says that Jesse hasn’t poked his head out yet, but that could just mean that he’s off being high somewhere. Saul thinks it’s because he sniffed out the trap. "He’s not as dumb as you think he is," Saul admonishes, and quite rightly, too. From inside, Skyler watches the two men with extreme wariness. Walt notices that Saul is wearing a bulletproof vest underneath his shirt, and Saul’s like, "No shit -- murderous tweaker on the loose." Walt stresses that Jesse is only after him. "Then where the hell is Huell?" is Saul’s quite reasonable reply.

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