Fans were first introduced to Brock Cantillo during season 3 of the series when Jesse and Andrea meet at Narcotics Anonymous. In season 4, Jesse tries to help Andrea by leaving a lot of cash in her mailbox so she can get out of a bad neighborhood and start a new life. She buys a house for herself and Brock and tries to turn her life around.
But then Brock gets rushed to the hospital after a suspected poisoning. But Walt convinces Jesse that Gus is the mastermind behind the poison as a means to tear them apart, effectively turning Jesse against Gus. He hides the real vial of ricin behind an electrical socket in his bedroom. Jesse now believes he made a huge, huge mistake, originally thinking Walt was behind it. He has gotten Jesse back to his side.
Then Walt comes in as the comforting father figure and talks to him about moving forward, so he gets Jesse on board with cooking meth again. And then showing absolutely zero interest or concern. Walt has become one sick, twisted dude. If you watch closely, you can see Huell doing this. Then Jesse, waiting for the disappearer, looks for the pot in his pocket.
He starts freaking out, finds the cigarette pack. So he goes and beats and threatens at gunpoint the truth out of Saul. The confusion for a lot of people is that Jesse yells about ricin when he screams at Saul but Brock was poisoned with Lily of the Valley. Saul and Huell lifted his ricin cigarette so that Walt could convince Jesse that Gus via Tyrus had stolen it at the lab.
Jesse has been getting smarter for seasons now. And there was a lot of talk about Walt playing and working Jesse leading up to this moment in the episode. It must be under the surface, a seed of suspicion. In that moment in the desert, waiting for his new life in Alaska, when he finds the cigarette pack in his pocket, I think the whole convoluted plot becomes crystal clear to Jesse in all its detail. I decided to add on some more because I noticed that a lot of the people who left comments were having trouble believing the leap Jesse made from seeing the cigarette pack to putting the whole plot together.
The first thing to remember is that not all that much time has passed since Brock was poisoned in the world of the show. Just a few months. Maybe four or five. A lot more time has passed for us as viewers than for the characters on the show. Walt worked hard to spin a fiction around the whole thing, but it makes sense that once one piece comes tumbling down, like Jesse realizing Huell had switched packs on him back then, the whole castle falls.
The two things have always gone together. And I also think that this is the way realizations work in real life. Consider instead infidelity. They appeal to your emotions and swear that they would never do that, they love you and you are their one and only sex friend or whatever.
You believe them because you want to believe them, because they seem like the kind of person who would never cheat. And maybe they orchestrate some corroborating evidence to their story ricin decoy in the roomba equivalent. All of it. You were played. If you think the Brock and ricin storyline is convoluted and muddied, diseases and conditions are worse. Their symptoms overlap so it can be difficult to tease them apart. They are so, so complex.
They affect different people in different ways. Especially when you get to the more bizarre ones. The doctors who did solve the cases usually did so in a moment. Suddenly it all came into focus, all the different symptoms suddenly slid into place of the one correct diagnosis. And whenever I did, it was because it would suddenly crystallize. Of course not every realization is a light bulb moment, but plenty are. It was a little too coincidental, you know? He saw Mr. White in a new, more diabolical light.
So all it takes is that one thing—his pot—out of place for him to see it all in focus. Remember these two things—Brock being poisoned and Huell switching his packs—were already linked in his mind originally.
All the pieces were there, Jesse just needed a little push to put it all together. Had to stop replying for a bit to get my episode write-up done and now this. And other life things that are not in front of the computer! Some great discussions going on, and I will attend to it all as soon as I can.
Rock on all you observant, dedicated and awesome BrBa people! Great detail, this part of the plot i was at issue with, but now i am completely clear on it all. Thanks, well executed explanation. Somewhere else, Gilligan describes Walt as a poisoned juice box fairy.
A juice box makes sense since it is a single serving beverage and not resealable after use. The juice box was probably injected with the poison and resealed carefully — maybe from under the flaps. The last season had a lot of material to cover and this was not essential. In the end, Jesse broke up with her because Walt seeded the idea Jesse might have to admit to horrible truth of his crimes. However, Jesse was never forthcoming with her about any details of his life.
After Jesse and Gus leave the make shift hospital in Mexico, Gus wants Jesse to take over the superlab. Walt explains things very well when Jesse confronts him. Poisoning Brock makes it look like Walt did it which he did. It was a successful bluff. So here is my question: What would Gus get by poisoning Brock? That would have finally turned Jesse against Walt. After Jesse and Andrea broke up, he continued to send them money through Saul Goodman so they could afford a better living situation.
The pair reunited in season 4 but shortly after, Brock was rushed to the hospital with a serious illness. At first, Jesse believed that Brock was given the ricin that was intended for Gus Fring; he thought that Walt stole the ricin and gave it to Brock as a way to punish Jesse for getting too close with Gus.
When confronted, however, Walt gave Jesse the idea that it must have been Gus who used the ricin to harm Brock. Walt went to great lengths to convince Jesse, even planting the ricin-filled cigarette Jesse thought he had lost inside Jesse's Roomba vacuum.
But the poison wasn't caused by ricin as later confirmed —it was from a Lily of the Valley plant, revealed to be in Walt's backyard in the final shot of Breaking Bad 's season 4 finale. But how exactly did he poison Brock with berries from the plant? Gilligan provided more details regarding the poisonous ploy at San Diego Comic-Con in The writers of Breaking Bad referred to the incident as Walt becoming the "Evil Juice Box Man," imagining him injecting the poison into Brock's juice box.
Off-camera, Walt had somehow planted the juice box in Brock's lunch at school, making sure only he came in contact with the drink. The rest of the plan involving the ricin stolen by Huell then played out on-screen.
Brock ultimately survived the illness and made a full recovery.
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