Mike Ehrmantraut visits his daughter-in-law Stacey and granddaughter Kaylee. Stacey confronts Mike about her late husband Matty's erratic behavior and a mysterious late-night phone call she suspects was to Mike.
STACEY: Two-thirty in the morning, I wake up and Matty’s not in bed. I hear him talking. Downstairs. I go to listen, on the stairs where he couldn’t see. He gets... intense. Like he’d be screaming if he wasn’t whispering, y’know?
MIKE: What was he saying?
STACEY: I don’t know. I couldn’t make it out
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