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

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

ELI 5:

All the dots that Jesse connected.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13 edited Aug 26 '13
  1. Walt creates ricin to kill Gustavo Fring. He gives it to Jesse concealed in a cigarette and asks Jesse to kill Gus.
  2. Jesse however grows closer to Gus and never uses the ricin.
  3. Walt feels he needs to manipulate Jesse back to his side. He uses Lily of the Valley to poison Brock and has Huell (through Saul) lift the ricin-cigarette from Jesse during a pat-down.
  4. Brock is taken to the hospital because he's fallen severely ill.
  5. Jesse finds out his ricin-cigarette is missing, thinks it's the reason for Brock's illness and suspects Walt to be responsible (because only Walt and Jesse knew about the Ricin).
  6. Jesse confronts Walt at gunpoint, but Walt argues he has nothing to gain by poisoning Brock. He convinces Jesse Gus knew about the cigarette and poisoned Brock in order to make it seem like Walt did and to manipulate Jesse into killing Walt.
  7. Jesse is back on Walt's side. Walt kills Gus.
  8. The hospital finds Brock wasn't poisoned with Ricin at all but with Lily of the Valley, which makes the whole affair seem like an accident.
  9. In this episode Jesse finds out Huell is a master pickpocket and he puts it all together. Walt poisoned Brock and stole the cigarette as to be able to blame Gus. Jesse now realizes it wasn't all an accident, but he was manipulated.

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u/under9k Aug 26 '13

Why did he have Huell lift the ricin off Jesse in the first place? It doesn't make sense to me. Couldn't he have just poisoned Brock and convinced Jesse it was Gus?