It turns out that Jesse is broke as he can't afford gas. Granted, 80 bucks is a pretty high bill for that, but it doesn't bode well for him. The good news is that he has some product and is able to make a trade. If he has product on hand, why doesn't he just sell that? The deal also ends up biting him as it gives Hank something of a lead on the Heisenburg case.
While we're on the topic of Hank, he ends up turning down the promotion to El Paso. The implication is that he's afraid due to what happened before. Still, he has legitimate reasons not to go even if psychological trauma wasn't a factor. Moving is a pain in the ass in and of itself and he didn't really mesh well with that crew anyway. More than that, his family is here. When you really think about it, there really wasn't that much incentive for him to take the other job. If anything, people should have been second guessing him if he did take it.
On the plus side, this episode does give Dean Norris a chance to be more snarly as he chastises Gomez and questions the gas station employee that Jesse interacted with. That was always one of the better parts of "Under the Dome" so it was nice to see it come in to play here as well.
As one would expect, Walt doesn't take the news of Skyler's infidelity very well. It leads to a big fight between the two. On the plus side, Walt finally lets it be known that he's not cooking anymore. Skyler doesn't care, but at least I can't say that he never brought it up. Oddly enough, the way he says it, he makes it sound like he's brought it up before. Was that off screen? We never heard him tell her that until now.
He does storm over to the office to confront Ted. You'd expect Heisenburg to get a chance to shine, but nope. Ted does hide, so that's something? At least it was funny seeing Walt try to break the window, only for it to fail miserably.
Even his attempt at a payback affair doesn't seem to go over well. You'd think that Gretchen would have been a better pick for this endeavor (although their last get together didn't exactly go well), but he tries to seduce a woman he works with and ends up getting put on indefinite hiatus.
With no job and an infuriated wife, you'd think that Walt would jump at the chance to get back in the game, especially when Jesse makes that very offer. Oddly enough, he turns it down. Unlike Jesse, money isn't so much a problem, though he could end up burning through it the same way Jesse did.
Despite having no interest in the business, Walt takes offense when Jesse says that he started cooking on his own. It isn't as good as Walt's, but Walt still takes umbrage. He's concerned about his name, but A: he was using a fake name and B: Jesse is pretty upfront with Saul and Gus that he cooked this himself. It may not be the pure stuff, but again, that seems like something that could be solved with a reduction in price.
This seems to work in Walt's favor as they still cut him in for half of what Jesse was planning on earning. Sure, it's pulling him back in, but considering he has a pair of psychopaths gunning for him, that encounter at the stop light could have gone a whole lot worse.
Walt may have thought he was out, but it clearly isn't the case. Even Gus is convinced that Walt will get back into the business. It'll be good, as the show works better when it is the case.
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