Todd's busy fingering the lipstick mark on Lydia's coffee mug when he gets the call from Walt that we saw at the end of last week. The talk continues past that episode's cutoff point, as Walt names Jesse Pinkman specifically as his intended victim. Of course, the most important part of this scene is that Todd's ringtone is "She Blinded Me with Science." Which seems like more of a Gale Boetticher thing, but I digress. Todd barely reacts to Jesse's name, which is a credit to his poker face, since I'm assuming his giant, raging hate-boner for Jesse is just out of frame.

Credits. Elements.

After the break, Hank, Gomez and Jesse are all meeting under an overpass, with Hank and Gomez trying to figure out what to do next. Gomez in particular is not at all interested in what "Timmy Dipshit" the plan-ruiner wants to do. But Jesse says they need evidence, only Walt's too smart to leave any lying around. Except, he says, for "some evidence that greedy asshole would never destroy." That'd be his money. None of them know where this money is, of course, but Jesse says he thinks he knows someone who does.

Next thing we know, we're back at the Purple Palace, and Gomez is returning with news that they've got this mysterious someone in a safe house somewhere, under the protection of one Agent Van Oster. This all seems legally grey-ish, and Gomez tells Hank straight out that if "this guy" so much as asks for his lawyer, Gomez is taking this whole operation straight to the bosses. Hank's fairly confident nobody will be asking for anybody. As he says this, he pulls some packaged meat out of a grocery bag. He unwraps what appears to be some kind of animal brains and drops it onto the floor, drawing Jesse's confused curiosity. Even more so when he drips the blood from the package over said brains. It all looks gross as fuck, but Hank is arranging it just so. He looks at Jesse and tells him, "You're up." I do love a plan where everybody gets their time to shine.

Cut to the safe house, which is really just a hollowed-out motel room. Agent Van Oster lets Hank and Gomez in, and we see that their witness in custody is in fact Huell. As you might imagine, Huell is really good at just sitting there and not talking, so this may be a difficult assignment for Hank. But he maneuvers the big guy pretty easily, actually. It doesn't hurt that Walt's done enough erratic things to make basically any action from him sound plausible. Hank declares that Huell is in "protective custody," because Walt has been tying up loose ends all over town, which translates into murder, of course. Hank says that have a tap on Saul's phone and picked up Walt saying he was going to "take care of Jesse" and then move on to Huell next. Huell, quite rightly, doesn't buy it. The thing is, Hank doesn't exactly have to make an iron-clad case. He just has to say that they heard Saul give him up, that Kuby has gone missing, that there's a tracer on his phone, and that if he doesn't believe them, he can step outside and take his chances. By the time Hank gets to the point where he shows Huell the photo on his phone of Jesse lying on the floor with his "brains" blown out, Huell's switch gets flipped. Suddenly, he's like Homer Simpson at the chili cook-off. Hopping around in his seat, Huell's all, "What's he wanna kill me for?" Hank doesn't need to have that good of a reason for that, either. Maybe it's to tie up the loose ends over poisoning the kid. Or maybe… and Hank nearly does the Peter Falk Memorial "Nah, You Don't Wanna Hear This" fakeout … but maybe it's about killing the people who know where Walt stashed his money.

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