When Jesse applies for a job he is hoping to be offered a job in sales; he is not impressed when it turns out that the position in question involves walking around dressed as a giant dollar bill. His friend Badger has less pride and had already doing that job! Jesse turns it down but he gets chatting to Badger who asks if he has any meth; he doesn't but decides they can make it when Badger says he can provide a key ingredient. The two of them take the RV out to the desert and start cooking. Badger is impressed with the results but Walt's standards have rubbed off on Jesse; he won't settle for anything less than top quality. Walt isn't having the best of times either; he goes to a party for an old friend and former partner; a man who has built his success on worn he did with Walt. When he learns of Walt's cancer he offers to help financially but Walt's pride prevents him accepting. Skyler can't understand this and decides to stage an intervention.
It is interesting to see how the characters have gradually changed over the course of the series; when we first met Jesse he wouldn't have worried about the quality of his product but thanks to Walt's influence he cares enough to throw away something he could sell for a lot of money rather than settling for second best... even if that product is illegal. The scenes with Jesse and Badger provided the episode's laughs and it certainly needed them given the rather sad nature of Walt's story; the scene where his family discuss what to do will hit a nerve with anybody who has lost somebody to cancer. I liked how the two leads spent the majority of the episode apart but their experiences showed that if they wanted to make the money they needed they will have to start working together again... Walter to make it and Jesse to sell it.
It is interesting to see how the characters have gradually changed over the course of the series; when we first met Jesse he wouldn't have worried about the quality of his product but thanks to Walt's influence he cares enough to throw away something he could sell for a lot of money rather than settling for second best... even if that product is illegal. The scenes with Jesse and Badger provided the episode's laughs and it certainly needed them given the rather sad nature of Walt's story; the scene where his family discuss what to do will hit a nerve with anybody who has lost somebody to cancer. I liked how the two leads spent the majority of the episode apart but their experiences showed that if they wanted to make the money they needed they will have to start working together again... Walter to make it and Jesse to sell it.