After selling the methamphetamine to Gus Walt phones Skyler to tell her he is caught in traffic and will be at the hospital as soon as he can. Once there he is happy to discover that mother and baby daughter are both doing well. The next morning Jesse calls to tell him that their meth has all been stolen; Walt doesn't say a word he just leaves him to panic. When he eventually tells Jesse he refuses to give him the money believing that he wouldn't be able to handle it and would probably overdose within a week. Things get even worse for Jesse when Jane's father come into the house and sees all the drug paraphernalia. He threatens to call the police unless Jane agrees to go to rehab she does until she learns of the money Walt is keeping for Jesse; she is determined that they will get it and make a new life together after their one last hit of course. By an unlucky coincidence Walt and Jane's father find themselves chatting in a bar; inevitably the conversation turns to the subject of children. After this he determines that he can't abandon Jesse; he goes round and finds Jesse and Jane clearly on heroin; as he tries to wake Jesse; Jane rolls on to her back and starts vomiting; he must decide whether saving her is in his interest or not.
This was a fairly dark episode; we have seen characters die; we've even seen the protagonists kill but somehow seeing Walt standing there doing nothing while Jane was dying was more disturbing than most things we've seen so far. This is probably because it wasn't part of an action scene, she wasn't posing an immediate threat; Walt just let the person his business partner loved die because he thought she might take him away from the enterprise. Over the course of her few episodes Krysten Ritter did a good job in the role and I shall miss her character although I understand that her death will serve to be part of the evolution of Jesse's character. John de Lancie put in a great performance as her father; a man who clearly loved her and wouldn't give up on her despite her obvious failings; the scene between him and Bryan Cranston's Walt was great; there performances good enough to let us forget the coincidence that they just happened to choose to go to the same bar at the same time.
This was a fairly dark episode; we have seen characters die; we've even seen the protagonists kill but somehow seeing Walt standing there doing nothing while Jane was dying was more disturbing than most things we've seen so far. This is probably because it wasn't part of an action scene, she wasn't posing an immediate threat; Walt just let the person his business partner loved die because he thought she might take him away from the enterprise. Over the course of her few episodes Krysten Ritter did a good job in the role and I shall miss her character although I understand that her death will serve to be part of the evolution of Jesse's character. John de Lancie put in a great performance as her father; a man who clearly loved her and wouldn't give up on her despite her obvious failings; the scene between him and Bryan Cranston's Walt was great; there performances good enough to let us forget the coincidence that they just happened to choose to go to the same bar at the same time.