Let me break down how I watched the last 20 minutes of this episode: in disbelief. Every season has 'that episode' the one you point to and say "yeah, that episode was really good" and nobody really disagrees. 'Problem Dog' is that episode (at least so far). I legitimately could not move for a couple of minutes after it ended, I just could not process what I had seen. Now that i have calmed down a bit I will try to write rationally about my thoughts on this masterpiece of an episode.
We started off with a really dark scene of Jesse playing a zombie killing game, but each time he killed a zombie he just saw Gale's head jerk back. Clearly he is still recovering from the guilt, and we can see this clearly. The scene itself was shot beautifully, it had no talking and minimal movement yet it perfectly conveyed what Jesse was going through still. The expensive car Walter bought for Jr. last episode is quickly burned away... literally. After joy riding in it and getting it stuck on his way to return it, Walter decides just to burn the thing! Not the smartest thinking on his part and Saul managed to get him off free (if free is $52000). Other than a slightly emptier pocket, Walter came to the conclusion that the only person who can get close enough to Gus to kill him is Jesse. Jesse did not need much convincing and agrees to do it with our time tested method (ironically, their go to method, or the 'best way' is 0/2 so far) of poison, which Walter created in the lab in a spot out of the view of the camera. Jesse hides the poison into one of his cigarettes and vows to poison Gus at the first chance he gets. It was kind of nice to see Walter and Jesse scheming together again, but there is some awkwardness to it now that was not there before. Maybe Walt's B.S. has finally caught up to Jesse, maybe Jesse no longer wants to be Walter's hit-man, the truth is we can't know. Skyler's only involvement in this episode was to complain about how they can not launder 7.5mil (Walter's drug salary) in one year, not her brightest episode, but she has had her fair share of screen time this season, any more in this episode, it would have received a lower score from me.
