So after Hank dies, Walt takes the money and drives back home.
Only one barrel of money. Jack's white supremacists have the rest and it's probably buried somewhere on the grounds of their compound, although that was never confirmed before Walt shoots Jack in the face. If that's the case, they will find the money along with Walt's corpse, the lab equipment, meth cook residual byproducts, all the bodies of the neo-nazis and possibly even Jesse's recorded confession to Hank and Gomie. It's never confirmed that the aryan brotherhood destroyed that recording, and they seemed to be having too much fun watching it, so it's probably still around.
With all that evidence, it wouldn't be a huge stretch for the DEA to publicly confirm that Walt was Heisenberg (which is public knowledge anyway, according to the Charlie Rose Gray Matter interview). Hank would be exonerated of any wrongdoing and given a hero's funeral, along with Gomez.
As for Jesse, the cops would find his prints all over his cell under the Aryan compound and also probably all over the lab equipment. Since he is nowhere to be found, Jesse may even be considered a suspect in the deaths of everyone at the compound, including Walt, and maybe even Andrea Cantillo. He would be immediately placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list as an armed & dangerous fugitive. Given Jesse's propensity for being apprehended and because of his status as a known perp, he most likely wouldn't last long unless he went totally off the grid.
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dmcreif
8 years ago
As for Jesse, the cops would find his prints all over his cell under the Aryan compound and also probably all over the lab equipment. Since he is nowhere to be found, Jesse may even be considered a suspect in the deaths of everyone at the compound, including Walt, and maybe even Andrea Cantillo. He would be immediately placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list as an armed & dangerous fugitive. Given Jesse's propensity for being apprehended and because of his status as a known perp, he most likely wouldn't last long unless he went totally off the grid.
If caught, who knows what might happen. Obviously, he wouldn't have Saul to defend him in court or anything. But he'd certainly help the DEA fill in gaps in the Walt case. The DEA would also find evidence that Jesse was being held captive there, so while he's probably on the hook for anything that happened before Hank's death, he'll certainly be off the hook for anything he did while enslaved by the Neo-Nazis (if the detectives are sympathetic enough, they might be willing to make the claim that Jesse killed Todd in "self-defense").
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ErgonomicSpliff
8 years ago
Obviously, he wouldn't have Saul to defend him in court or anything. But he'd certainly help the DEA fill in gaps in the Walt case.
I don't think Saul, even if given the chance, would defend Jesse anyway. They didn't part on the best of terms and Jesse believed that Brock was poisoned with Saul's assistance. I don't know what benefit to the DEA filling in gaps would be. Apart from Saul, Jesse is the lone survivor of all the major players in Walt's game. I think that the DEA would be anxious to put
someone away for all of that and Jesse is the perfect fall guy. Turning state's evidence isn't really an option for Jesse to get a better deal, since there's no one else to pin it on. There's no way for Jesse to prove that his killing of Todd was self defense, because it wasn't self defense. It was revenge.
In reality, if all of this stuff actually happened and Jesse were an actual person, if caught, he'd probably be sent to the Florence, CO Supermax to protect him from Ayran Brotherhood reprisal attempts.
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InglouriousSister
8 years ago
There's no way for Jesse to prove that his killing of Todd was self defense, because it wasn't self defense. It was revenge.
I think it could pass for self-defense though. Todd was strangled with Jesse's chains, and surely there are tons of marks on Jesse's wrists and ankles that prove he was indeed chained up. They wouldn't know it was revenge. There's obvious physical evidence of abuse/torture on Jesse's person and of wrongful imprisonment on the compound (the pit, the lab with the chains in the ceiling.) The human rights groups would be all over that.
I googled that Supermax facility and would they really send Jesse - were he a real person - to a place like that? It says it has mostly terrorists and Aryan brotherhood members and all those "notable inmates" seem to be serving life sentences or are on death row. I doubt the US justice system is so cruel that they'd deliberately send a person who's been enslaved by nazis to a prison full of nazis. Though what do I know.
Do you even know what honor is?
- A horse.
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ErgonomicSpliff
8 years ago
They wouldn't know it was revenge.
A fair point, although after questioning Jesse, they would know that he witnessed Todd shooting Andrea. There's motive there, as well as Todd keeping him hostage all that time to cook meth.
I doubt the US justice system is so cruel that they'd deliberately send a person who's been enslaved by nazis to a prison full of nazis.
It is kind of a cruel irony, isn't it? There's no way that Jesse would be put into the general population of a state-run prison in NM because Jesse would be tried at the federal level. He'd be sent to a federal pen and the only reason I speculated it would be the Florence Supermax is that it would be for Jesse's protection.
Those Supermax inmates are in their individual cells 23 hours a day and are not allowed communal dining or communal anything, really. Since Jesse is a murderer and a known associate of the notorious drug lord Walter "Heisenberg" White, I could definitely see the feds sending him there. There is an adjacent minimum security facility to the Florence pen but Jesse would have to be in solitary for his own protection. He would be targeted every single day by the Brotherhood. Jesse is no Ted Kaczynski or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed but he's no saint, either.
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InglouriousSister
8 years ago
There's motive there, as well as Todd keeping him hostage all that time to cook meth.
True. But if due to chafing and stuff on his wrists from a certain angle (compatible with the angle from which Todd was strangled) it shouldn't be too hard to prove Jesse was still in chains when he strangled Todd, and that would make freeing himself a very easy motive.
I don't want to imagine Jesse in some cell all alone for the rest of his life or at least many years. :( He didn't do too well with solitude. Now I hope he drove into a ditch and died before he ever got into the system. Or he was so traumatized that they sent him to a psych ward (not that those are such lovely places to be in either) rather than a regular prison. Oh well, we'll probably never know anyways.
Do you even know what honor is?
- A horse.
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ErgonomicSpliff
8 years ago
he was so traumatized that they sent him to a psych ward (not that those are such lovely places to be in either) rather than a regular prison. Oh well, we'll probably never know anyways.
Oh yeah, no doubt. Jesse's manic giggling/crying as he escaped definitely shows his state of mind at the end. As far as Todd's murder, of course we the audience see it as 100% justifiable homicide. I guess if the feds believe any of what Jesse might conceivably tell them, he could get out of Todd's murder rap. Didn't Jesse confess to killing Gale in Hank and Gomey's tape? That's really the only true murder that Jesse committed I suppose. The cartel guy and Todd were definitely justified.
I like to think that Jesse, if caught, would spend most of his life inside his own head, making perfect birdhouses. Anything else would be too depressing to think about. And yeah, we probably will only get to speculate about it.
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