Huell says that really doesn't make sense, since he doesn't know where the money is. But he does just keep right on saying all he does know. He talks about the van, the seven barrels full of cash that they loaded into the van. Hank seems genuinely shocked at the description of the barrels (black, plastic, 55-gallon ones! Got 'em at Home Depot!), like he wasn't entirely prepared for just how much cash Walt had been able to pull down in such a short time. Huell also gives up the location of the rental car place, plus the fact that the van was filthy with dirt, and that Walt removed a shovel from the back when he returned it. This feels like an old Sherlock Holmes case, now, where the reader gets four pieces of evidence (a broken window, a buffalo nickel, an empty birdcage and six half-melted ice cubes) and then must solve the case. Anyway, that's all Huell knows. Hank manages to scare him a few more times about not leaving the room or using his phone. Nor discussing the case with Agent Van Oster, heh.

That night, Walt meets with Uncle Jack and Todd and Herc. Walt faces Jack and Herc, while Todd hangs in the back, behind Walt. All the better for the moment when Jack asks Walt if he’s asking him to off this old partner of his for "rat patrol" reasons, Walt has to turn around and tell Todd that Jesse, for all his impulse-control issues and failure to listen to reason, is not a rat. And then Todd delivers the most unearned smirk in the long, dickish history of smirks. And he follows it up by smirking AGAIN when Uncle Jack asks if Jesse is some kind of James Bond/Rambo badass. It’s at this moment that I realize that Vince Gilligan isn’t going for fan service in these final episodes, or else at that moment, Todd would have been descended on by spiders and consumed alive in a flurry of web and venom. Anyway, the point Jack is getting at is, why doesn't Walt just off Jesse himself? That question has a lot of answers, ranging from 1) Walt is a coward (in that he doesn’t think he can physically best Jesse, even with a gun) to 2) Walt is a coward (and can’t end Jesse’s life with his own hands). "Jesse is like family to me," is Walt’s answer, which is both bullshit and 100% true, somehow. Jack gets what Walt is nudging at: a quick, painless, bullet-to-the-back-of-the-head type deal. Walt hastily gets to the matter of pricing, but Jack says they don’t want Walt’s money. They want him to start cooking again. Just a short little reprise in order to get them back on track and recreate that nice blue color those Czechs seem to love so much. Walt says absolutely not and offers to triple the price. Jack says if he wants a humane death for Jesse, this is the price. Walt stares at them for a thousand hours before relenting: "One cook. After the job is done." The men stand up, and Walt takes part in the filthiest handshake ever on this show. He emphasizes that this execution needs to happen quickly. Jack says they can do it as soon as tonight, if Walt can give them a location. Walt doesn’t know where Jesse is, of course. "But I know how to flush him out."

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