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much of the crucial action of the back story concerning Jesse’s revelation about Walter poisoning Brock takes place off camera at the end of season four. Here’s a step by step explanation of what happened in 511, and the Season 4 events leading up to it.

A recap of the confusing action at the end of Episode 511:

At around the 48-minute mark of the episode, we see Jesse is standing on that very creepy corner with the blocks that look like tombstones, waiting for Saul Goodman’s vacuum cleaner guy to “disappear” him.

Jesse is fidgeting, and suddenly begins frantically searching all his pockets.
He’s looking for the bag of weed that Saul had tried, unsuccessfully, to grab from him in Saul’s office.

The weed is missing.

Jesse finds his cigarettes instead.

Looking at the cigarette pack and thinking about the missing weed, Jesse has an epiphany.

Jesse thinks back to the action of Episode 412 and 413 , when he thought that his girlfriend Andrea’s young son Brock was poisoned by the Ricin cigarette that Walt had made and gave Jesse to poison Gus Fring.

Jesse now realizes that he didn’t just misplace the weed.

Jesse figures out that Saul’s very large bodyguard, Huell had pickpocketed it from him. Just as he had lifted the pack containing the Ricin cigarette in Season 4. (You can actually see Huell lift the weed from Jesse just before Jesse leaves the office, and Huell says “Excuse me.”

Jesse now realizes that Walter White had actually poisoned Brock, returns to Saul’s office, and generally raises hell.


Huh?

The chunk of backstory you’d need to make this leap of logic can be found in Episode 412 and 413. This off-camera action was discussed at great length’s on Breaking Bad discussion groups, but not fully explained within the show itself.

At the 27:00 mark of Episode 412, Jesse comes over to Walt’s house and confronts him, accusing him of poisoning Brock. At gunpoint. You can see a bit of that confrontation starting at 2:03 in the video below.



Crucially, Jesse, while pointing a gun at Walt, lays out the complicated scenario.


Walt: “You said it yourself. You had [the Ricin cigarette] this morning. When could I have possibly…?”
Jesse: “You had Saul do it. I went to his office. He called me and just had to see me today. His big Man Mountain body guard patted me down and that’s when he must have stole it off of me, right? Was that the plan?”

Yes, that was the plan. Jesse had it perfectly right down to the last detail, but Walt convinces him–and us–that he couldn’t have done it. “Jesse,” Walt argues. “Why would I poison a child?”

Fast forward to the very end of Episode 413. Walt has already killed Gus. Jesse tells Walt that Brock is going to recover.
Jesse: “They’re still saying it wasn’t the ricin.”
Walt: “What was it?”
Jesse: “They’re saying it was a flower called Lily of the Valley.”

The very last shot of Episode 413 and indeed the last shot of the season shows the Lily of the Valley Plant in Walter’s yard, revealing to us that Walter had, indeed, poisoned Brock

But how exactly did Walt poison Brock?

The complete timeline goes something like this:

Walt is sitting in his yard with the gun, waiting for Gus’s men to kill him. He sees the Lily of the Valley plant on the patio. (5:30 into Episode 512)
Off camera, Walt crushes up some of the poison from the Lily of the Valley plant and injects it into a juice box.
Also off camera, Walt delivers the juice box to Brock’s school. (Having seen Brock the day before at Jesse and Andrea’s place.)
Walt puts the juice box in Brock’s lunch. (Again off camera)
Walt calls Saul, and has Huell lift the pack of cigarettes from Jesse. (More off camera)
Huell, Saul’s bodyguard, lifts the pack with the Ricin cig from Jesse, and replaces it with a clean pack with one cigarette missing. (This can be seen in Episode 412 if you know what you’re looking for)
Walt lies to Jesse about all this in Episode 412 about this and Jesse believes him and is now willing to help him kill Gus.
(For his part, Bryan Cranston hadn’t read the Episode 413 script so he, too, believed that Walt was telling the truth, making it easier to give a convincing performance.)
“The way we worked it out, [Walt] had just enough time to do it but it would have been very tricky indeed. It was improbable perhaps, but not impossible,” said Gilligan about the missing backstory. “But he was a very motivated individual at that point.”

(Reader Andrea Ball BLL -0.97% reminded me of this scene below from Epside 502. In the aftermath of Brock’s near poisoning, Jesse is freaking out, wondering what happened to the ricin cigarette, worrying that someone else will get poisoned with it. Walt comes over to “help Jesse look.” But before arriving at Jesse’s, Walt makes a dummy ricin capsule out of salt, stashes the real ricin behind the switchplate–where it stays until the flash forward scene in the beginning of episode 509. Walt “finds” the Ricin in the Roomba and helps Jesse dispose of it, easing his mind, while further manipulating him.)

this is a badass scene too!!!




It was pretty clear that the writers wouldn’t find it dramatically satisfying to put Jesse on a bus to Alaska. Which sets up the inevitable climactic confrontation with Walt.

At the end of 511, we see Jesse splash gasoline all over the White household, but the flash forward in Episode 509 reveals no fire damage to the house.

Who stops Jesse? The smart money seems to be on Walt, Jr, in a face off between Walt’s real son and his surrogate son that reveals to Flynn just what Mom and Dad have been up to this last year.

Does rampaging Jesse give Hank the actual evidence he needs to go after Walt?
Let’s not forget about Todd and Uncle Jack moving the meth operation from Arizona to New Mexico.