Jesse then attempts to use the money to buy his way out through the same “cleanup guy” Walt used in “Granite State,” but comes up $1800 short. As Jesse leaves the apartment alongside Neil, the fake cop remarks, “I was wondering when you’d remember me,” as Jesse stares at his truck, which reads “Kandy Mobile Welding”. After a heated dispute at gunpoint, Jesse and the men agree to split the cash three ways, as Jesse knows the location of the stash, and they don’t. The film uses music, along with samples from the Breaking Bad theme, to help bridge the gap between the two pieces of media.Īfter Jesse finds the stash, two men posing as police officers, Neil and Casey, arrive at the apartment in search of the same loot he hoped to find. In the scene, multiple versions of Jesse are shown vigorously searching the house as electronic music plays in the background, which plays on the occurrence of montages in Breaking Bad. After the flashback, we see Jesse spend the night searching for the stash, which is when one of my favorite scenes occurs. He brings Jesse to his apartment, where he forces Jesse to help hide the body of his maid, who had found his stash of meth-money. The use of different camera angles in the beginning of the flashback help show the power dynamic between the two, and as it goes on, Todd shows how he has, in a sense, “broken” Jesse through his time in captivity. A flashback where Todd asks Jesse to help him hide his maid’s body is especially important to the plot, hinting at the reason for Jesse’s trip to Todd’s house, and providing more background on his relationship with Todd. The movie continues on as Jesse makes a trip to Todd’s apartment, and as flashbacks describing their relationship follow along with his actions. I found this interaction rather odd, as in the original series, Badger and Skinny Pete were known as relatively stupid characters, and the fact that they put together such a good plan in so short a time frame is very out of character for them. First off, Jesse decides that he needs to get rid of the El Camino, and Skinny Pete and Badger work out a way to rid the crew of the vehicle. He showers, shaves, and starts to decide what to do to start his new life. The two take Jesse in, wondering if what they’d heard about him is real. He evades a police convoy heading to the compound, and arrives at Skinny Pete’s house, where he and Badger are playing the video game Grand Theft Auto. Viewers are then thrown back into the present, with Jesse behind the wheel of the El Camino leaving the gang’s cook site and headquarters. Mike lays out his plan to go to Alaska, the “last frontier,” which foreshadows the end of the film. The two are standing on the bank of a stream discussing their futures once out of the meth industry. The movie kicks off with a flashback involving Jesse and his enemy-turned-partner Mike Ehrmantraut. Jesse and Walt finish off the gang members, and as Walt passes away in the crew’s lab, Jesse drives away, crying tears of joy, in an El Camino, a Chevrolet coupe which was “ adapted from a two-door station wagon platform that integrated the cab and cargo bed into the body.” Walt returns from his isolation in New Hampshire, and uses a rifle jerry-rigged in his trunk to free Jesse, and is shot in the process. Jesse is beaten, questioned about his time with the DEA, and forced to cook meth with Todd. The gang then takes Jesse with them, along with seven barrels full of Walt’s money. In the shootout, Hank is shot, and his partner, Gomez, is killed. Later on, in Ozymandias, the group has a shootout with the DEA, which had recently taken Jesse into custody. In the final season of Breaking Bad, Todd, one of Walt and Jesse’s henchmen, introduces the duo to a neo-nazi group, who they use to “tie up loose ends” in prison. The movie isn’t the first spin off of Breaking Bad, as Better Call Saul follows the life of Saul Goodman, as a prequel series to the original In El Camino, Pinkman, looks to get his life back in order after his many ordeals with Walter White, aka Heisenberg. Following the story of Jesse Pinkman, Walter White’s partner in crime in the hit show Breaking Bad, the Netflix original El Camino released on Friday, October 11.
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