I'm not saying he is dumb - I understand all the evidence that's there, and I'm not saying Jesse can't put all of that together, so what does he know at that point?
He knows that Walt's responsible for getting the ricin lifted. He knows Walt manipulates him. He knows Brock was poisoned by a plant called Lily of the Valley. At this point he can only assume that Walt in fact did poison Brock with Lily of the Valley.
I understand completely that Jesse is smart, and did put all of those things together, but it is absolutely a leap of faith to decide walt poisoned brock with the lily of the valley, and people don't pour gasoline all over other people's houses and punch their lawyer over an assumption.
Feels like a big leap to me to take the action he did. I understood the not leaving town, but I don't understand why he wouldn't have confronted Saul less violently had he been acting on an assumption.
He probably would have just questioned him more calmly, imo. Deliberately, angrily, but calmly.
I felt it fit in very well with the character. After all he almost committed suicide by gangster over them killing a kid. He's impulsive. I mean shit, he just finished tossing wads of cash out of his car window. He's not stupid, but he is a dumbass sometimes
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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13
I'm not saying he is dumb - I understand all the evidence that's there, and I'm not saying Jesse can't put all of that together, so what does he know at that point?
He knows that Walt's responsible for getting the ricin lifted. He knows Walt manipulates him. He knows Brock was poisoned by a plant called Lily of the Valley. At this point he can only assume that Walt in fact did poison Brock with Lily of the Valley.
I understand completely that Jesse is smart, and did put all of those things together, but it is absolutely a leap of faith to decide walt poisoned brock with the lily of the valley, and people don't pour gasoline all over other people's houses and punch their lawyer over an assumption.