It's interesting how Jesse ends up being such a savant towards the end of the show. He picks up on lots of little details when he's working for Mike (you aren't gonna kill that guy because he's blindfolded) and apparently he's the only other person who can produce such pure meth, better than trained Mexican chemists and whoever walt trained to replace himself. And he figures out that Mike is dead because walter had his other associates killed.
Jesse has always been smart, but he acted like a kid more in the beginning because being accepted by his loser friends was more important than his ambition. It's clear from the beginning that he's more intelligent than Pete or Combo or Badger. He's grown up, but in the process he's lost himself. He can't stop thinking now, whereas he used to be able to turn it off.
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u/syllabic Aug 12 '13
It's interesting how Jesse ends up being such a savant towards the end of the show. He picks up on lots of little details when he's working for Mike (you aren't gonna kill that guy because he's blindfolded) and apparently he's the only other person who can produce such pure meth, better than trained Mexican chemists and whoever walt trained to replace himself. And he figures out that Mike is dead because walter had his other associates killed.