Hardest Berry to Swallow
Walt is definitely a master at manipulating Jesse, but it was a little too difficult to believe that Mr. White would have the time to feed Brock lilies of the valley between packing up his family and laughing manically in his own crawl space. Saul must have been involved, but at what point did he inform Walt of how important Brock is to Jesse, get his bodyguard to pick Jesse’s pocket, tamper with his cigarettes and then replace them seamlessly? How did Walt know that Brock’s doctors would be completely stumped about the kid’s illness? And that Jesse would come to his apartment (unarmed, no less, while Walt had a gun handy for him to use) to threaten but not kill him? And is Walt so brilliant of a botanist that he knows which plants only temporarily poison children? As much as we loved the twist, we’re calling BS unless Jesse remembers that missing ricin cigarette in the first minute of Season 5.
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