Breaking Bad anyone? {Warning: There be Spoilers!}

[fujiyama]

Whoa. What an hour.

So Jesse started freaking out and realized how that ricin was taken for him in Season 4. What was the trigger for his sudden awakening? Was it that he finally realized how he is always being manipulated by Walt?

So Walt poisons Brock with the berry of that plant (Lilly of the Valley?). He gets Saul, with Hule's help to swipe the ricin cig off Jesse. Then he plants the cig in the Roomba. Did I miss something along the way?

Either way, this was an incredible episode. The hug Walt gave Jesse reminded me of Michael's, "You broke my heart, Fredo", when he kisses him in the Godfather Part II.

[MissB]

1. I loved the videotape "confession".

Though the Jesse storyline is good too. I keep thinking of the opening to this second half of the season where Walt goes to his burned house and gets the vial.

[Heddi]

3. I don't think Walt's house is burned, it's abandoned

and spray painted, but not burned.

In the teaser for next week, Walt's shown walking through the house and it's clearly not burned.

I think he's going to walk up on Jesse just before the match is lit, or the lit match is thrown.

Here's the teaser for next week:
http://www.amctv.com/breaking-bad/videos/next-on-breaking-bad-episode-512

I thought that this week Jesse or saul were gonna get one way tickets to Belize. Apparently Vince Gillian said no major characters will die before ep 5 of this season. We're just on Ep 3....

All I know is I sit here for an hour watching it, chewing my fingernails to the bone because I just can't take the suspense!

[blogslut]

2. I think the hug was sincere

Don't get me wrong, Walt is capable of killing Jesse but I really think that there's a bond there for him. To me, Walt sees Jesse as a link to what he used to be, to the good that he's lost.

But yeah, Jesse has opened his eyes. There's no going back for him.

[Heddi]

4. Re: Ricin Cigarette

I think you got it, or at least that's how I understand it.

Walt needed Jessie when he put that bomb under Gus Fring's car, when they were at the hospital parking lot or something...so long ago. He needed Jesse to think that Gus had to do with the boy getting poisoned (I remember Walt saying something about Gus even going as far as to kill kids or something). So Walt poisoned the boy to manipulate Jesse to help him kill Gus.

Every other season but this one I've watched in marathon sessions of 1-2 days on Netflix, so my memory is kind of fuzzy on every little thing but that's what I remember.

Jesse is seeing the light that he's been nothing to Mr. White but a big ol pawn, and that the only reason Jesse is alive is because it's advantageous for him to be alive. The minute Mr. White is done with him, then he's dead. And I think tonight he finally realized it.

Remember, Jesse is a pretty smart cookie. He came up with the train robbery idea, the Magnet idea...he's been dulled by the meth, but he has some gears creaking in his ol' brain box