{"id":4416,"date":"2013-09-11T07:38:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2013-09-11T07:38:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:38:22","slug":"the-nightshade-non-sequiter-a-completely-off-topic-question-about-breaking-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"The Nightshade Non-sequiter: a completely off-topic question about Breaking Bad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BreakingBad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4417\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" alt=\"BreakingBad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BreakingBad-300x236.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BreakingBad-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BreakingBad.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Okay, I know I&#8217;m supposed to be working on the edits for <i>Echopraxia<\/i>.\u00a0 I know I don&#8217;t have time for gratuitous blog posts, and the &#8216;crawl has largely been handed over to the tumbleweeds for the rest of the month. But this is driving me crazy.<\/p>\n<p>This is a question about Breaking Bad. The TWOP recaps have been no help and I don&#8217;t have time to comb through petabytes of forum talk, so I&#8217;m hoping one of you can help (I&#8217;m looking at you, Ensley). If you do not watch Breaking Bad, well, your life is much emptier than it could be, but you might as well move along because there&#8217;s nothing to see here. If you do watch but are not caught up, shield your eyes, because here there be spoilers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing. Jesse has figured out that Walt poisoned Brock. Hilarity has ensued. All the clues Jesse followed to reach that conclusion revolved around Walt&#8217;s home-made ricin cigarette, and Huell&#8217;s dexterity as a pickpocket. But <i>Brock wasn&#8217;t poisoned with ricin<\/i>: Brock was poisoned using a nightshade derivative. Jesse knows this. He told Walt at the end of last season that Brock&#8217;s doctors told him explicitly. So why would any late-breaking insights about ricin lead back to the Brock incident? The whole final act of the series hinges on this, and I&#8217;m not connecting the dots.<\/p>\n<p>What am I\u00a0 missing? Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I know I&#8217;m supposed to be working on the edits for Echopraxia.\u00a0 I know I don&#8217;t have time for gratuitous blog posts, and the &#8216;crawl has largely been handed over to the tumbleweeds for the rest of the month. But this is driving me crazy. This is a question about Breaking Bad. The TWOP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-on-ink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}