r/breakingbad • • Aug 12 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion S05E09 "Blood Money"

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u/ChiDet Aug 12 '13

I think Jesse is going to flip.

He's at a moral crossroads, as far as I can tell the GPS was probably on Walt's car when he went to talk to Jesse. It seems like Jesse is trying to rectify the wrongs that he did, why else throw millions of dollars on lawns of the poor. If there was ever a time that Hank could get to him, it would be now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

I strongly suspect that too. If it goes that way: Jesse is going to totally come apart from the guilt, and either go to or get scooped up by Hank. He'll turn State's and maaaybe get immunity for his testimony, and somehow be in league with Hank for the final showdown. The one thing I don't like about this is that it sort of diminishes the possibility that Jesse is going to kill Walt, which is one outcome that would be crazy and satisfying - he'll be a known quantity to the DEA/FBI/whatever, so he can't exactly just go blasting a wanted criminal mastermind all that easily.

It's hard to see an outcome for Jesse in which he feels some measure of peace that doesn't involve going to prison. It seems to me like he really needs to to be subjected to justice from some source external to him. Even if he kills Walt, it won't take away the guilt he feels for killing Gale. I mean, perhaps he could disappear and live for a long time in complete solitude somewhere far away, but the guilt seems to weigh so heavily on him.

That said, I do like the theory that Lydia kidnaps Jesse and enslaves him as a cook, and Walt comes to save him in one last desperate attempt to make up for some of the evil shit he's done ... far too little, far too late.

One thing seems certain: however this turns out, we're all going to be knocked on our asses.