Season 1 Episode 9: La Chica o El Mundo
Air Date: December 24th, 2025
Synopsis: Season finale. Manousos arrives in Albuquerque and complications ensue. Carol visits the last best place on Earth.
Directed by: Gordon Smith
Written by: Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock
The goat thing was the element my wife and I discussed more than anything else.
Last week we learned that they don’t keep pets, but they told Carol that if a pet wants to maintain a relationship with their individual then they’ll honour that. We also know that they can’t willingly hurt anything that lives. So with that in mind, why did they abandon the goats?
Evidently they don’t need goats for anything, but that one in particular was obviously a pet, with an attachment. And they’ve just left it for dead knowing that it has essentially no survival skills.
Which led me on to pondering whether they still farm livestock. Do they still maintain sheep herds in order to harvest wool? Do they eat eggs?
IIRC they released all of the livestock. I agree that that is really doing more harm than good in terms of the safety, since domestic animals like that won’t have the skills to survive in the wild.
I didn’t consider the goat/dog parallel. I wonder if it was a conscious choice or a slight oversight on the writers’ part.
If there’s something I’ve learned from the work of Vince Gilligan it’s that there are rarely oversights on the part of the writing. Everything has a meaning.
I agree… but also I wonder if they’re even going to revisit this detail with the new season 2-3 years later.