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If memory serves, the superlab was deep underground. Possibly deep enough to muffle the sound, with the help of the semi. Also, a good demolition expert could place explosives that get the job done with a minimum of noise. Anyway, those are my theories.
The first part of Chuck’s letter says it all; describing how happy their Mom was the day they brought Jimmy home from the hospital. Jimmy was the very much loved and wanted child. Evidently, Chuck was not. (There are lots of reasons she might not have wanted, then resented, Chuck. Post-partum depression and the resulting lack of bonding after his birth. Unwanted pregnancy forcing her to give up her dreams and marry their father. If he was Chuck’s father, that is; Chuck could’ve been the result of an assault, or just a different boyfriend who wouldn’t marry her. It was the 1950s, after all.) So Chuck made it his life’s mission to prove to his parents that their favorite child wasn’t as worthy of their love as he was, in an effort to take it all for himself. Even though Jimmy truly cared for him, at least up until the end, Chuck was always disdainful and belittling in his treatment of his little brother. Chuck was really the one who created Slippin’ Jimmy. Plus, did you notice how Chuck yanked the microphone away from Jimmy during the karaoke? Yeah, he did have the better singing voice, but it was Jimmy’s night, not his. He should’ve taken a back seat and let Jimmy happily sing his song off-key, instead of grabbing the spotlight and making it all about him. He just couldn’t let Jimmy have some sense of accomplishment without trying to pee all over it and steal his thunder. So I think it was a lifelong thing, and entirely Chuck’s fault. Decades of having your own brother relentlessly—-hell, obsessively—-try to keep you down in the dirt to make himself look superior would break most people, especially if it was so unnecessarily and flagrantly vicious at the end.
Fingerprints! I don’t remember Mike or Lalo wearing gloves, and Werner definitely wasn’t. DNA! Werner was having a drink by the pool. The same security tape, along with those from neighboring businesses, that showed Werner and Mike at the money wire place would also show Lalo. The guy whose car Lalo rammed had plenty of time to get his license plate. Werner used his real name at the resort, was seen leaving with Mike (who is very distinctive looking), then disappeared. Is his body ever found? I thought they were going to make the excuse of an accident at the work site to tell his wife. If so, they would then have to come up with a body. Werner’s crew, who I’m sure Margarethe also knows, would remember that last day, or are they all dead too? The work site is abandoned, after all. Killing them all wouldn’t be a smart move, unless their story about the work accident includes the crew too. Werner’s last minute phone call to Margarethe, after all the planning, and with the very out of character angry growling to her, would prompt any wife to do her damnedest to get an investigation going, no matter how many fake or compromised (read: dirty and unethical) German lawyers Fring can rustle up to lie to her.
Yeah, too many details left unattended to. While the Jimmy-Kim-Chuck storyline went well, in my opinion the Mike-Werner-Lalo one was sloppily written...or was that intended? Guess we’ll know next season.
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