Walt and Jesse may have got away safely from the events in the desert but they will have life changing effects on both their lives. Skyler starts treating Walt with far more suspicion; she clearly doesn't believe his excuses about the second phone. The more he does to try to be the good family man the more she is convinced he is lying... for some time she has been wondering about where he disappears to during the day; now it will be his turn to wonder where she has gone. Things are even worse for Jesse; he finds himself homeless when his mother has him evicted because she found the lab when he was missing. He tries to find other people to stay with but nobody can or will help; eventually he breaks into Clovis' yard and after falling through the roof of a port-a-loo ends up sleeping in his RV wearing a respirator to avoid the stench of the toilet he fell in! In desperation he contacts Walt but he doesn't want to know.
This episode shows just how quickly their lives have collapsed; they had lots of money after the deal with Tuco but the DEA found Jesse's half so he has no money to pay Clovis for storing the RV or to pay for a room when he is evicted from his home... if that wasn't bad enough everything that can go wrong does; his bike gets stolen and he even falls into a toilet... normally such a scene would provoke a laugh but things are so down for him it just feels tragic. We also learn that Jesse isn't a total waster; as he argues with his mother it emerges that he took care of his sick aunt when the rest of the family did nothing. Aaron Paul does a wonderful job in this episode as he depicts Jesse's life collapsing. It isn't all downbeat though; watching Jesse 'liberate' his RV was fun to watch; especially as it occurred just as Clovis was learning how much its contents were worth.
This episode shows just how quickly their lives have collapsed; they had lots of money after the deal with Tuco but the DEA found Jesse's half so he has no money to pay Clovis for storing the RV or to pay for a room when he is evicted from his home... if that wasn't bad enough everything that can go wrong does; his bike gets stolen and he even falls into a toilet... normally such a scene would provoke a laugh but things are so down for him it just feels tragic. We also learn that Jesse isn't a total waster; as he argues with his mother it emerges that he took care of his sick aunt when the rest of the family did nothing. Aaron Paul does a wonderful job in this episode as he depicts Jesse's life collapsing. It isn't all downbeat though; watching Jesse 'liberate' his RV was fun to watch; especially as it occurred just as Clovis was learning how much its contents were worth.