So, what’s with the bowling balls? My sense is that it stems from the lingering rage that Jimmy feels about his brother and the way HH&M mistreated and underestimated him. And a lot of Howard’s humanity — toward Chuck, in particular — is unknown to Jimmy.

We never have seen Gus Fring in recruiting mode, but we know this much: When he’s angry, he’s a highly exacting boss. He drives a Los Pollos Hermanos employee to a fryolator-cleaning frenzy as he awaits word of whether the feds will seize $700,000 of his drug money, as he and his underlings have planned. Poor Lyle. There probably wasn’t a speck of grease on that machine. But Gus was fuming that Lalo Salamanca had cunningly forced him to surrender a huge chunk of cash and had put his men at risk. The man was in no mood for compliments.

Let’s compare Gus’s approach to disappointment to Hank’s. Our favorite D.E.A. agent is disappointed that his team netted little more than that $700,000 and three low-level drug runners when it staked out the dead drops mapped by Krazy-8. (“Booby prize,” Hank mutters.) The bust didn’t yield any clues about where that money came from, which is what he really wants. Does Hank stare balefully at the loot and get all passive aggressive with his team? No. He manufactures some bonhomie and announces to the assembled officers and agents that the first round is on him.

Raise your hand if you’d rather work for Hank.

When this episode isn’t comparing management techniques, it is a look at the galvanizing power of guilt. Kim feels guilty about the imminent eviction of crusty ol’ Everett Acker, who owns a home on land that Kim’s biggest client, Mesa Verde, has set aside for a call center. She tries, and fails, to persuade the bank to build that center elsewhere. Then she enlists Jimmy to sign up Mr. Acker as a client, which he does using nothing more than his foot, his silver tongue and a bit of bestiality lifted from the Internet. Once again, cranky Mr. Acker gets one of the episode’s best lines, this time by succinctly, and graphically, describing the image.

So let’s game this out. Jimmy is about to take some kind of legal action against Mesa Verde on Acker’s behalf. Jimmy is well known to Richard Schweikart, a named partner at Kim’s firm, which represents Mesa Verde. So she’ll instantly be in the middle of a brawl, representing a company being sued by her boyfriend.