Don't underestimate Jesse's intelligence. He came up with the magnet plan, after all.

Despite any and all of Walt's bravado, nothing reveals his true helpless, insecure nerdy core than when he tries to lie to his family. It will undo him, ultimately.

Amazing how every scene in this show has import. Every one. Who suspected much from the casual scene where Hank cancelled his afternoon appointments to his secretary, let alone that he'd tail Jesse?

Speaking of every scene-and I could merely be trying to find a kooky angle no one else has-I still think Ted will enter the picture. They showed a scene in 5a where he promised Skyler not to say anything. By showing it, it became less than convincing. He's got hard evidence and there's a money trail.

Don't forget those from-the-future scenes shown at the beginning of some episodes. They show that: on Walt's 52nd birthday he is alone, buys a big gun, and returns to his trashed house to retrieve the ricin capsule from behind the power socket.

I'm thinking that whatever happens, Walt ends up surviving (winning) in the end.

Also curious how they will push forward a year somewhere in the next four episodes, a jump totally incongruous with the pace of the entire series.

So, I gather we're all just going to collectively agree -- Vince Gilligan, Walt, Jesse, the tee-vee viewers, Saul, Huell, the ghost of Gus Fring, assorted others -- that the little kid was poisoned by Ricin, and not (as the attending ER doctor noted at the time) Lily of the Valley? And yet we're also going to continue along knowing that the unused ricin will be taped to the back of that electrical outlet long after the White residence is trashed?

Why the frack are we going to do that?

Sigh. Whatever.

I love how everybody in the show has, by now, broken bad -- this episode definitively added Gomez, Hank, and Marie to the broken bad column. Only baby what's-her-face and Walter Jr. remain. They're next?

What danceswithanxiety? The attending ER doctors didn't know what was causing Brock's symptoms. It was only after Jess mentioned the ricin that anyone ever suspected a poison because ol' slippery fingers Huell switched Jesse's ricin cigarette pack with another one.

This was a good re-setting of the chessboard episode. As Hector Salamanca was the seemingly invincible Gus Fring's weak spot, so too is Jesse Pinkman Walt's weak spot. It seems that so much of Heisenberg's power was directly proportional to his ability to control Jesse. Now that Jesse is firmly against Walt, you can almost see the cracks in the Heisenberg facade starting to form. Keep an eye out for roving skateboarders!

Spindles, at first Jesse suspected the ricin, and that led the doctors and the police to suspect the same. But within the 'Face Off' episode, we learned from the cops that ricin wasn't in the kid's system and from Jesse (via the doctor) that the kid was nearly poisoned by Lily of the Valley, not by ricin.

So ... as far as Jesse knows, he had the ricin, he lost the ricin for a while, he found it again, and it never poisoned anyone. I just don't see how getting pick-pocketed by Huell makes him aware of all the things we viewers know that he doesn't about Walt's machinations.

http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Face_Off