Mike Calls Out the Faker in Therapy Session | Better Call Saul (Jonathan Banks)

Can't believe Captain Holt's husband was caught lying.

I used to attend a bible study at my church. One of the church employees had a study on a chapter. He asked me what I thought. I begged him not to ask me. He kept on pressing. I gave him an answer... it was not the "canned" answer he was expecting. I bluntly told that particular chapter didn't translate well and Martin Luther was on record on wanting to leave it out of the Bible (all modern bible translations use Luther's source material from the 16th century). We had neither the expertise nor wisdom to interpret its meaning. After the next Sunday service the Pastor expressed dismay over my attitude.

Kevin costner wouldn't be able to fool Mike.

God this scene was so cold i love it

Great acting in this scene, before he speaks you can see in the body language how agitated he is getting while staring at the guy.

Didn't even notice

Mike is a true savage here

"I found you! Faker!"

“If I did have a tumor, I would name it Marla. Marla, the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you would stop tonguing it, but you can't.”

…savage

Even though Mike made a direct critic to everyone involved there, he shows not only attention to detail, but he was caring enough to notice.

Later when Saul was traumatized about "that one incident" he gave a honest speech about forgetting and moving on, that mirrors what her daughter in law expressed about Maty

It takes a lot of heart to notice the small things.

The surface-dwellers live bland lives

"too caught up in their own stuff" sounds like my work experience: Notice nothing; then are the first to judge;

Good cop training, or any people training, you learn to look for the obvious.

Mike scoped out their stories months ago

I thought Faker from T1

Agree

totaly right- but only because he needed any excus not to face his own issues

What was the reason the fake dude was there in the first place again?

Mike looked so old in this scene. Like the old man in a group. His demeanor changed to the tough old guy when he spoke out about the faker.

I will say, Mike becomes the asshole when he points out the rest of the group didn't realize Henry's lies. Yes, they’re "wrapped up in their sad little stories". They’re actually GRIEVING, you fucking prick. Sure they didn't call out the one guy; especially when the rules explicitly say you are not to do that. Henry is an asshole for lying, they aren't to blame for believing it.

Too many people praising Mike in the comments here but I want to clarify how silly that is.

There is a faker in this group. Who fucking cares? Mike only cares because he can use his eye for detail to ‘put right’ the world from its fakes and lies because he absolutely refuses to turn that eye inwards for actual introspection. Again I say, does it matter that he caught this faker? Is he or anyone else in the room better off now that the liar has been purged? Of course not, it is completely irrelevant to their growth but Mike simply cannot abide it

Hey! This guys a great big phony!

Mike really fingered that guy out of the bunch

Poor lady just wanted to go to Australia AND Cuba, may she rest in peace.

never saw this scene ty. guy did such a good job in this character turned out great

Whenever I see a share circle with a Breaking Bad character in it I know some shit is gonna go down

This guy was on the Good Place so it makes this scene bizarre

Mike's bullshit detector is highly developed.

If you look really closely you can see that the character stormed off because mike realized he was lying. Great subtle detail by the director

I kinda feel like MIke should have said more for evidence than just one "last month it was Cuba". The obituaries thing was just a guess. Sure, we can assume Mike has picked up on other stuff, but it would have been more solid for us the viewers if he had a small laundry list instead of just "oh, so she wanted to go to both Cuba and Australia! It's clearly not possible to want two things!"

When Mike yelled, "This guy's a great big PHONEY!" I almost cried.

Mike did these people a favor. This guy was making a fool out of people who went through some tough ordeals, he called him out for it, and then said to the others, if I had to put it into layman's terms:

"You're so hung up on the past, you're not able to realize what's going on in the present, and it's costing you."

Its true that Mike's motive was selfish here, but not only is allowing a liar to stay in group a betrayal of everyone there genuinely (people making a phony story to get support out of a support group is not uncommon), but the lead not noticing it indicates that he wasnt paying attention to the guy's fake story, and neither was anyone else. They were just registering it as sad, not engaging with the human being who was talking.

This is the exact moment Mike talked

"I take offense to that, Mike. She wanted to go both Cuba AND Australia."