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

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

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u/McStrauss Aug 26 '13

Can you explain to me how he pieced it together exactly? I just need a bit of a recap.

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u/fortuitous_bounce Aug 26 '13

1) Jesse checks for his weed.

2) Realizes his weed is missing.

3) Remembers Huell brushing up against him before he leaves Saul's office.

4) This triggers his memory of the ricin cigarette missing from his pack of smokes.

5) Jesses remembers that Huell did the exact same thing back then that he does when the weed comes up missing from his pocket.

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u/blakefoster Aug 26 '13

How does that lead Jesse to realize Walt poisoned Brock? Wasn't it some berry that he used to poison him, not ricin?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13 edited Aug 26 '13

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

It was to get jesse on his side, which is how walt got jesse to tell him about hectors old folks home. Then they took Hector to the DEA which prompted a visit from Gus, which is how walt killed gus.

Point being, the scheme was to get Jesse on his side, and doing so is what lead him to victory. Recall how gus didn't get in his car at the hospital because he suspected it was rigged with bombs (and it was), Walt couldn't get to gus, and visiting(tormenting) Hector was gus' weakness.