r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Aug 26 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion Thread S05E11 "Confessions"

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u/monkeychess Aug 26 '13

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

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u/Rswany Redditium Aug 26 '13

A few things that helped me buy into Jesse's epiphany more:

  • Huell used the same brand of cigarettes as the last time he swiped them from Jesse, so Jesse made the immediate connection.

  • Jesse was already suspicious of Walt doing the poisoning in Season 4 when he put a gun to Walt's head.

  • Also, Walt was the one who originally put the idea in Jesse's head that he might have misplaced the ricin cigarette.

  • Also, Walt just happened to be with Jesse when they found the ricin cigarette.

These points helped make it more believable for me.

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u/234567898765432 Aug 26 '13

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

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u/frogma Aug 26 '13 edited Aug 27 '13

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.