With no sign of Jesse, Walt decides to pay a visit to Gus; while waiting he gets a call from Mike explaining that Jesse will be with him for the day and that Walt should get on cooking on his own. Mike is driving Jesse far out into the desert in what we can only assume is part of a plan to kill him... when he gets to his destination he does nothing to Jesse though; he just takes a bag of money from a dead drop. This process is repeated a number of times and Jesse starts getting bored rather than scared. Then on the final pick up it looks as if they are about to get jumped; Jesse will have to act on his own if he is to survive as Mike is away from the car! While this is going on Walt starts getting closer to Skyler again after they finalise the purchase of the carwash. He then goes to cook but it isn't easy without help; he screams that he can't work without Jesse and soon somebody comes to help; it isn't Jesse though. Once he has finished work he and Skyler go for a meal at Hank and Marie's; Walt shows his pride when Hank starts talking about what a genius Gale was... he can't help saying that he thinks Gale's work was derivative and that the real genius is still at large.
This was a top notch episode; he may not have had much dramatic action but things we tense throughout as we never knew what Mike had planned for Jesse. Walt's actions might have seemed unlikely but I could believe he was proud enough not to want Gale taking credit for his work even if he couldn't admit it was his work... besides its not as if it makes things any more dangerous for him as the DEA will continue to try to find out who is making the blue meth whether or not they think the man who invented it is dead. As always the acting was great; especially from Aaron Paul and Jonathan Banks who play Jesse and Mike; their scenes together were great.
This was a top notch episode; he may not have had much dramatic action but things we tense throughout as we never knew what Mike had planned for Jesse. Walt's actions might have seemed unlikely but I could believe he was proud enough not to want Gale taking credit for his work even if he couldn't admit it was his work... besides its not as if it makes things any more dangerous for him as the DEA will continue to try to find out who is making the blue meth whether or not they think the man who invented it is dead. As always the acting was great; especially from Aaron Paul and Jonathan Banks who play Jesse and Mike; their scenes together were great.