[devo22]

pretty interesting theory regarding Kim and Mesa Verde that I've read on another board. Originally from Reddit, I believe.

Spoiler!

I think that Kim knows something deeply troubling about Mesa Verde and that she's not simply welshing under pressure.

I think she's seen through a facade of extreme niceness toward her and realised that, to be blunt. Mesa Verde are handling drug money. The speed of that expansion and the will to expand right across the country with all that fancy architecture? C'mon, that's a leap too far, there has to be hundreds of millions of dollars available for that expansion, and not just from good, clean, honest mortgages.

We can fill in the blanks from there and conclude that, given the universe we're dealing with here, it's the money from maybe the cartel, but more likely from Los Pollos Hermanos; it's possible that this regional bank is cooperating with or even just another front for Gus Fring.

If you go looking for character flaws in Mesa Verde you might see:

- Their willingness to put up with some shadiness surrounding Kim + Jimmy

- Their extreme niceness to her, all those lunches and dinners (though we know that's just business, the show hasspent a fair amount of time having us rub shoulders with those characters.)

- That boss of theirs is slightly too much of a good ol' boy to just be a plain ol' bank manager. That ####er is dirty.

I quite like that Kim looked up at their logo statuette in the lobby - it's a freakin' cowboy. Maybe that's all MV really are.

If I'm even half-right then if Kim even tries to do the right thing here she's going to get burned, hard, and might end up dead or hoover-manned.

That's enough right there to make a sufficiently explosive/fitting ending to the show arc and send Jimmy right over the bent horizon.