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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
That was a flashback to events that happened before the series started.  And that was different. He killed them in revenge for killing his son.
Then he retired to work in a parking toll booth. He's only gotten into shady dealings to help out his daughter in law and granddaughter with money.
The first protection job he didn't even take a gun. He has generally gone way out of his way to avoid killing anyone since the revenge incident.
Clearly he still has some kind of moral code, and it might be tested with the digging story line. |
I think it's a bit more complicated than that.
Mike isn't a psycho killer, but he will rock and roll if it's called for. The reason he didn't bring the gun was because he had done the scouting to determine he wouldn't need one.
He has a code obviously but what we're seeing from Saul that we didn't necessarily see in BB is that Mike's code is informed by him being a very intelligent pragmatist. He doesn't kill Tuco because of the blowback it would create, but is more than ready to commit a premeditated murder on Hector and actually spends weeks planning it out.
If the Germans somehow risk exposing Mike, or Gus, or otherwise cross that line, Mike won't take any half measures.