Somehow Lalo's second answer is a softer one than Jimmy expected. For all he knows, though, the times Lalo loved could be things like... brutal torture, or killing an innocent man in cold blood, or arson, or anything worse than that. He's going to keep a happy thought and imagine that maybe deep down, there's something normal about the cartel boss sitting before him, and that he enjoys things other than crime. For his own sanity as he bullshits the law to get him out on bail. Somehow.
Truly he doesn't know much at all about Lalo, and really, he doesn't want to, much like he told his cousin a year or so prior. The difference now is he doesn't have much of a choice in knowing the other man and being tangled up in his business. It's not as if being a friend of the cartel or not is a real choice he can make. It's either that, or death, probably, and he knows it.
"Me? I wouldn't go too far back. Just a few years, but it's all about the game and not what you could see with a time machine."
That part, at least, isn't him bullshitting. A few years earlier, he could change things. Maybe he could fix Chuck, spend more time with his mother before she passed. But those are thoughts that not only does he not want to think about, Lalo doesn't need to know that part of his life either. So instead he goes with--
"Think about it. Knowing what we know now, which companies end up being huge, you could play the stock market and win. Rake in all the cash you want as you sit on the beach being served mai tais by a bunch of waitresses in bikinis."
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Truly he doesn't know much at all about Lalo, and really, he doesn't want to, much like he told his cousin a year or so prior. The difference now is he doesn't have much of a choice in knowing the other man and being tangled up in his business. It's not as if being a friend of the cartel or not is a real choice he can make. It's either that, or death, probably, and he knows it.
"Me? I wouldn't go too far back. Just a few years, but it's all about the game and not what you could see with a time machine."
That part, at least, isn't him bullshitting. A few years earlier, he could change things. Maybe he could fix Chuck, spend more time with his mother before she passed. But those are thoughts that not only does he not want to think about, Lalo doesn't need to know that part of his life either. So instead he goes with--
"Think about it. Knowing what we know now, which companies end up being huge, you could play the stock market and win. Rake in all the cash you want as you sit on the beach being served mai tais by a bunch of waitresses in bikinis."