Jesse Pinkman: Difference between revisions

 

===Season 5===

Jesse is torn up about what happened to Brock and becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to the ricin. Jesse has Walt help him search Jesse's house for the cigarette containing the poison. Walt plants a replica of the ricin cigarette in Jesse's vacuum cleaner, which Jesse finds.<ref name = "Madrigal">{{cite episode | title = Madrigal | episodelink = Madrigal (Breaking Bad) | series = ''Breaking Bad'' | serieslink = Breaking Bad | credits = [[Michelle MacLaren]] (dir), [[Vince Gilligan]] (wrt) | network = [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] | airdate = July 22, 2012 | season = 5 | number = 2}}</ref> Jesse then agrees to continue cooking meth with Walt. Soon afterward, Walt's manipulations of Jesse's feelings for Andrea and Brock cause him to break up with her so they'll be safe from the effects of his involvement in selling drugs.<ref name = "Dead Freight">{{cite episode | title = Dead Freight | episodelink = Dead Freight | series = ''Breaking Bad'' | serieslink = Breaking Bad | credits = [[George Mastras]] (dir, wrt) | network = [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] | airdate = August 12, 2012 | season = 5 | number = 5}}</ref>

 

He and Walt join forces with Mike to establish their own meth operation. After their supplier, Lydia Rodarte-Quayle ([[Laura Fraser]]), is unable to continue stealing methylamine precursor by the barrel, she puts them onto a way to steal 1,000 gallons from a train traveling through New Mexico. During the heist, their accomplice, [[Todd Alquist]] ([[Jesse Plemons]]), shoots and kills a young boy, Drew Sharp (Samuel Webb), who was witness to the crime.<ref name="Dead Freight"/> Jesse is horrified and decides to quit the meth business.<ref name = "Buyout">{{cite episode | title = Buyout | episodelink = Buyout (Breaking Bad) | series = ''Breaking Bad'' | serieslink = Breaking Bad | credits = [[Colin Bucksey]] (dir), [[Gennifer Hutchison]] (wrt) | network = [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] | airdate = August 19, 2012 | season = 5 | number = 6}}</ref> Mike and Jesse want to get out of the business, and arrange for Declan to purchase the methylamine $15 million. Walt refuses to sell his share, and Declan won't buy unless he gets it all. Instead, Walt makes a deal that enables Jesse and Mike to be paid, while Walt continues to cook for Declan. Hoping to lure Jesse back as his assistant, Walt refuses to pay him, and Jesse leaves, saying he'd rather give up the money than continue in the drug business. When Walt decides to stop cooking, he goes to Jesse's house and pays him his share of the buyout.<ref name = "Gliding Over All">{{cite episode | title = Gliding Over All | episodelink = Gliding Over All | series = ''Breaking Bad'' | serieslink = Breaking Bad | credits = [[Michelle MacLaren]] (dir), [[Moira Walley-Beckett]] (wrt) | network = [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] | airdate = September 8, 2012 | season = 5 | number = 8}}</ref>

 

Overwhelmed with guilt for Drew's death, and correctly guessing that Mike is dead, Jesse tries to give his money to Saul with instructions to give half to Mike's granddaughter, and half to the parents of the boy Todd shot. When Saul refuses because doing so will draw too much attention, Jesse drives around town randomly tossing bundles of cash onto sidewalks and front lawns.<ref name = "Blood Money">{{cite episode | title = Blood Money | episodelink = Blood Money (Breaking Bad) | series = ''Breaking Bad'' | serieslink = Breaking Bad | credits = [[Bryan Cranston]] (dir), [[Peter Gould (writer)|Peter Gould]] (wrt) | network = [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] | airdate = August 11, 2013 | season = 5 | number = 9}}</ref> He is quickly arrested and interrogated by the APD, who then allows Hank – who now knows that Walt is "Heisenberg", the meth kingpin he has been trying to catch – to question him. Jesse, however, does not confess anything and is quickly bailed out by Saul. Shortly afterward, Saul, Walt, and Jesse meet in the desert, where Walt suggests that Jesse skip town and start over with a new identity. Jesse agrees, but just as he is about to get picked up, he realizes that Saul's bodyguard [[List of Breaking Bad characters#Huell|Huell]] ([[Lavell Crawford]]) took his ricin cigarette, meaning that Walt was the one who orchestrated Brock's poisoning. Jesse goes back to Saul's office and assaults Saul, who admits that Walt told him to steal the ricin. Jesse then goes to Walt's house and pours gasoline throughout the building.<ref name = "Buried">{{cite episode | title = Buried | episodelink = Buried (Breaking Bad) | series = ''Breaking Bad'' | serieslink = Breaking Bad | credits = [[Michelle MacLaren]] (dir), [[Thomas Schnauz]] (wrt) | network = [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] | airdate = August 18, 2013 | season = 5 | number = 10}}</ref><ref name = "Confessions">{{cite episode | title = Confessions | episodelink = Confessions (Breaking Bad) | series = ''Breaking Bad'' | serieslink = Breaking Bad | credits = [[Michael Slovis]] (dir), [[Gennifer Hutchison]] (wrt) | network = [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] | airdate = August 25, 2013 | season = 5 | number = 11}}</ref> Before Jesse can light it on fire, Hank arrives and convinces him that the best way to get Walt is to work together.<ref name = "Rabid Dog">{{cite episode | title = Rabid Dog | episodelink = Rabid Dog | series = ''Breaking Bad'' | serieslink = Breaking Bad | credits = [[Sam Catlin]] (dir, wrt) | network = [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] | airdate = August 1, 2013 | season = 5 | number = 12}}</ref>