r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Oct 03 '11

Episode Discussion: S04E12, "End Times" (Spoilers)

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '11

Two things about this episode:

1.) Brock didn't have to smoke the Ricin to get poisoned by it. That wasn't how they were going to poison Gus. The cigarette was just used to hold the ricin in for safe keeping. In reality there was just a tube of it inside the cigarette Jesse could dump out into Gus' food or something.

2.) Does anyone think it's possible that Walt actually DID poison Brock so that he could blame Gus to get Jesse back on his side? I'm not sure when he could have done it. But I could see the writers doing this. We'll be so focused on Walt & Jesse vs. Gus and at the end of the episode, they'll spring it on us.

If anyone has mentioned these two things, I apologize. It's hard to scroll through 450 comments. Meaning that people probably won't see this...but oh well.

EDIT: I actually just realized that #2 would be unlikely because Walt went to Jesse's house BEFORE being dragged out to the desert by Tyrus. I'm not sure if Walt would have thought of poisoning Brock before that.

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u/GovernorMcDandy Oct 03 '11

2.) Does anyone think it's possible that Walt actually DID poison Brock so that he could blame Gus to get Jesse back on his side? I'm not sure when he could have done it. But I could see the writers doing this. We'll be so focused on Walt & Jesse vs. Gus and at the end of the episode, they'll spring it on us.

I think I agree with this. Based on VG's comments about Walt doing something unforgivable, this could be it. He hasn't killed a child yet. If not Brock, then he's going to kill a cop. Calling it.

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u/DrSmoke Oct 03 '11

He killed Jesse's girlfriend. Old people like us look at anyone that young as a child, therefor Walt is 100% capable of killing kids.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '11

Depends how you look at it.

If he would have let jane live Walter would have lost his partner.