Originally Posted by
tommy
I loved a lot about the episode, including the brilliance of Walt's video "confession" but I didn't think the Jesse/Huell/Brock connecting-the-dots thing worked. For one, it was a lot of pieces to the puzzle being put together in Jesse's mind -- his extremely distracted and depressed mind -- in a matter of seconds. But more than that, how does the realization that Huell lifted his ricin cigarette, which I understand leads him to realize that Walt (through Saul) stole it, not Gus, lead him to believe with such certainty that Walt poisoned Brock? Brock wasn't poisoned with ricin, and Jesse knows this. He was poisoned with the Lilly of the Valley plant.
Alan Sepinwall posted a timeline at the end of his review going over the events that would lead Jesse to come to this conclusion. I understand how viewers, for whom these events played out over several years on their TV screens, might not believe that Jesse would come to that conclusion. I initially understood why Jesse was doing but it didn't really fit right for me either until I read people discussing it in reviews.
However, for Jesse it has been a much shorter time frame since Brock was poisoned (6-9 months?). Also, while Jesse is distracted and obsessed, he is primarily distracted and obsessed about how Mr. White has been lying to him and manipulating him all along. The second Huell pick pocket scenario reminds him that what he originally thought with regard to the ricin cig/Brock poisoning, that Saul/Walt poisoned a kid to manipulate him into aligning with Walt and not Gus, was correct. I think it logically works from Jesse's POV.
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