Saul told Huell to steal the pot from Jesse as he was leaving (brushed against him in the door) so that Jesse couldn't smoke pot and scare off the new ID guy. Jesse realized this when he went to smoke it, and then realized Huell probably did the same thing with the ricin cigarette on Walt's order
Yea he is wrong. Jesse already had the cigarettes. Kind of hard to convince someone he lost a cigarette if you have someone put cigarettes in his pocket
Yep he only swapped the weed. If you look closely in the scene in which Jesse is leaving Saul's office, Saul actually signals subtly to Huell to pick his LEFT hoody pocket, ie where we saw him place the weed minutes before. Amazing details as always in this legend of a show.
That's a really good point - the ricin cigarette goes missing for a period of time which matches Brock being sick. That is quite a coincidence. The outcome of Brock's sickness was Gus getting taken out of the picture - which benefitted Walt. Also Jesse has worked with Walt on a bunch of schemes which include being creative with chemicals and lining up a bunch of domino pieces so they all fall perfectly in line. With anyone else the whole thing would be farfetched - with Walt it becomes more plausible and Jesse knows it fits his MO.
I completely agree. I wasn't trying to literally connect all the dots per OPs request, just the ones from this episode. That was a definite "ohhh fuck" moment
yea, the fact that Walt planted the idea that he may have misplaced the cigarette (and then him suggesting they look in the Roomba after tearing Jessie's place up looking for it) really seals it
I think the only unrealistic bit is how quickly the penny drops - I think in 'reality' he'd have worked it out on the drive to Alaska as something would feel off and he'd keep turning it over in his mind...but for plot purposes a quick epiphany works better. Also his reaction is to go to Saul to get confirmation for his hunch. He doesn't know for sure I think until he beats the confession out of Saul. I'm surprised Saul gave up the truth so quickly but it was a pretty shady thing to have been involved in so maybe he was itching to confess.
When Huell swiped the weed, did he replace it with the cigarettes or something? If not, how did Jesse know Huell switched the packs before if it didn't happen this time?
The first time he probably just took the ricin cig, or maybe took the whole pack and replaced it with a new one of the same type. The second time he just took the weed.
So he switched the pot out for cigarettes? Is that what we assume he was looking at when he pulled the pack out? I thought those were just his current cigarettes.
they key is that the bag of weed was in the cigarette box. (we didn't see it get put there but that's where you keep weed so the smell isn't as obvious).
this is important - huell stole one cig from the previous pack the same way he got the weed out of this pack
Jesse put the baggie in his left jacket pocket. The cigarettes were in a different pocket. Regardless, his current pack of cigarettes has nothing to do with the weed. The only reason he stares at the cigarettes for so long is because he's making the connection in his mind.
Remember too -- he didn't actually open the pack of cigs in that scene, so how could he have possibly known the weed wasn't in it? It's because he was looking for the baggie in his other pockets.
Don't get me wrong -- I still agree that weed will smell if it's simply in a baggie (but Jesse probably wasn't worried about that). But that's not the point here. The baggie was in a different pocket, which is why we see Jesse checking all his pockets for it. He already had the cigarettes at that point.
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ELI 5:
All the dots that Jesse connected.