It turns out that the painstaking time spent in episode one getting to know McGill - where we see him practising his lousy shtick in the courtroom lavatories, losing an argument with the implacable Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), a familiar face to BB fans - is merely a case of slowing down to speed up. Odenkirk was just rounding the character out, bringing him to life in all his new found depth and complexity so that we’d care about him just as much as we did about Walt once the action kicks in. The second episode delivers a scene of pure black horror that tells us everything we need to know about the show and the character. It's a moment when McGill could just walk away, leave someone else to do the talking. But he turns back, and forces himself to make a bargain so terrifying, so demonic, that it will stay with him, and us, for a long, long time. That it's followed by a superb comic vignette involving, of all things, breadsticks, tells us instantly we’re in the hands of a master.