After he's able to pay Ed all of the money required to turn "Jesse Pinkman" into dust, viewers got transported back to another point during Breaking Bad's run. The final few minutes of El Camino are really where Jesse's story spins around completely. Jesse Disappeared, Once Again Behind The Wheel At this point so close to Jesse's escape, he wasn't about to let hesitation drag him down, and he got his money. Here, Jesse finally broke out of part of his cycle and shot Neil, along with his mustachioed friend, with the other gun hidden in his pocket. (After he conned them out of the house, which is probably the act Jesse felt least guilty about in this two-hour runtime.) In one of El Camino's most baffling moves, Neil challenges Jesse to a duel, all to make fun of. In order to get the money, Jesse went back to Neil and the Kandy Welding dipshits, though not before first stealing two guns out of his parents' safe. Robert Forster was hilarious throughout this scene, re-earning a top spot for the Breaking Bad spinoff that needs to happen next. At least at first.Įd wanted back-pay from the efforts he'd put into fixing up Jesse's new persona whenever Walt and Saul (or Jimmy) has skipped town, and Jesse was just short of the goal. But just as Jesse had previously walked away from Ed without getting his identity changed, it happened again here. Many Breaking Bad fans were hoping to see a return from Robert Forster's Ed Galbraith, who holds the occupation of vacuum salesman and repairer, and also holds the under-the-table job of giving criminals new lives, while disappearing their in-trouble identities. In these two ways, El Camino did not use Jesse to go full circle with things. (One who admittedly gives amusing eulogies.) Also, Jesse didn't get a chance to smash Neil in the head with any of those snowglobes. I find it discouraging that even though Todd's spider got ample screentime inside his tank, viewers never got to see it free and clear and living outside the home of a racist murderer. This obviously gave Jesse more of a clear motive to hate this bastard, but he kept things cordial enough to work a three-way split with Todd's money. El Camino posited that he was responsible for putting together some of the equipment used to keep Jesse shackled, though he never appeared on Breaking Bad. One of the two, the Kandy Welding lunk named Neil, was played by The Mick and Righteous Gemstones standout Scott MacArthur. After tearing the place apart, Jesse finally discovered everything stuffed inside a refrigerator door.Įnter two thugs who were also trying to find all the money, only while first posing as cops. Jesse Found Todd's Money, But With Complicationsīeyond showing audiences how unable to commit to impulsive revenger Jesse was while under the command of Uncle Jack's crew, these El Camino flashbacks also served to remind Jesse that there was a hefty chunk of change somewhere in Todd's apartment. In the same way quite a few of his prior standoffs ended with him being the one to back down. But while the opportunity was there for Jesse to take Todd out with one shot, the implications of what would might happen to Brock after that (among other things) weighed on Jesse's brain, and he ended up turning the gun over to Todd. Todd was his usual Todd self – base-level polite and empathetic, even while never blinking at treating Jesse like a pack mule – but he under-thought the situation when he called on Jesse to grab cigarettes from the same glove compartment where he kept a gun. (Things came full circle in reverse-order there, but both around necks) He didn't even want to eat any soup! But it seems that he must have taken note of Todd's belt being around the woman's neck, as he eventually went on to kill Todd by strangling him with this handcuff chains. It was obvious that this particular death hit Jesse in a weird place. In El Camino, Todd brought Jesse out of his cage one afternoon, taking advantage of an empty house, and asked a favor, which of course involved getting rid of a dead body.Īfter Todd's housekeeper discovered the cored-out encyclopedias where he kept his money, Todd killed her, and then had Jesse ride along and bury the body. Now set with a vehicle that didn't have a target on it, Jesse set his sights on finding cash stacks, which led to a particular set of flashbacks involving Jesse Plemons' impish white supremacist Todd. Jesse Had Todd Flashbacks Never Seen In Breaking Bad
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