...But before we can see if he bursts into tears, starts taking his frustrations out on the furniture, or both, we cut to the Pinkman residence, inside which Jesse is blasting music from some stereo equipment that is in no danger of having any kind of Napoleon complex. Jesse is also smoking and ashing liberally on the floor, relying on a sleek, vigilant Roomba to clean up after him. Well, at least he cares. Florescent lights from the stereo tower play over Jesse's tortured face, and so focused on the machine is he that he doesn't notice the knocking on his window at first. Eventually, though, the insistent rapping (the one coming from outside, I mean) gets his attention, and when he turns his head he sees Badger grinning at him through the window. When Badger heads around to, presumably, the door, you can see Jesse struggle to bring himself to a halfway-social place, and after he pitches his butt onto a pile of them that the overworked Roomba apparently hasn't gotten to yet, he opens the door to find not just Badger but Skinny Pete as well. I almost wrote in the recaplet that he had them over "for old times' sake" until I realized that it's probably been a couple weeks, at most, in the show's timeline since their paths crossed. Damn show being off for over a year HEY I'M NOT COMPLAINING IT'S WORTH THE WAIT. After the usual shoulder-hugs and exchange of "yo"s, Badger compliments Jesse's new "bodacious subwoofers," and truly, only Badger could sell a line like that. Much like Jesse just was, Skinny Pete then gets somewhat hypnotized by the colors coming off the main box, while Jesse does that in-character thing where he rattles off the specs of the system to a degree that would make any floor salesman at Best Buy proud. Jesse then cranks the volume, and the three of them sway to the beat...

...But Skinny Pete and Badger seem less enthusiastic about the next development, given that Jesse is cutting up enough lines for the three of them and the Roomba. The underlings cast each other a nervous side-eye before Pete volunteers that they saw Andrea at a meeting the day before, and she asked about him. Jesse looks stricken at the mention of her name, but gets back to divvying up the white stuff. However, when Jesse sticks a rolled-up bill in his face, Pete balks, invoking the Twelve Steps, to Jesse's disbelief. When it's his turn, however, Badger goes with the less-publicized but often-used Step Thirteen, which involves "forgetting about all those other steps and snorting up." He leans down and sniffs, and apparently Pete has no defense against Badger's backsliding, as in a hilarious transition, it's his tweaked face that pops back up into frame. The boys use their coked-up state to discuss how hot the effects, violence, and girls are in certain of their favorite video games, and it's pretty hilarious (the motivations of Nazi zombies are expounded on at length) but I'm a few years past the last time I played any of these things regularly, so I'll just focus on Jesse, who in turn is using the kind of focus only blow can give you to... parcel out the seemingly unending amount of blow he has on his table. Well, it makes a certain amount of sense. After Badger exhausts himself arguing, he flops down in a chair with his head hanging back, after which the Roomba demonstrates exquisite comic timing by whizzing past his flummoxed ass. Jesse, however, isn't paying attention, as he manages, between shallow breaths and racing heartbeats, to ask if they know what the place needs. Well, it's either one more subwoofer to really balance out the bass in the corner...