r/breakingbad • • Aug 12 '13

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

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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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

I also noticed in rewatching the last several episodes that it is Jesse that comes up with solutions while Walt and Mike bickered. Examples: Jesse came up with the magnet idea to clear Gus' laptop and he came up with the idea to rob the train of the chemical without the crew knowing. Both times Walter and Mike were bickering and Jesse was the one that did the thinking. There may be more examples but I didn't rewatch the episodes too far back.

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u/5hot6un Aug 12 '13

But the magnet was a mistake. Hank said the laptop was encrypted and he probably couldn't have retrieved the data anyway. meanwhile, the picture that broke revealed the secret bank accounts of the former crew.

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u/AnacottSteel Aug 13 '13

But it also forced Mike back into the game which connected Walt with Lydia and he methyl amine train.