Walter White uses the same cornered animal analogy while haranguing Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) In Season 2, Episode 7, “Negro y Azul.” Walt is trying to convince Jesse that his cadre of dealers should expand their territory, something Jesse is hesitant to do. Walt steamrolls over Jesse’s objections, telling him, “You are a blowfish … small in stature, not swift, not cunning. Easy prey for predators. But the blowfish has a secret weapon … the blowfish puffs himself up four, five times larger than normal … it makes him intimidating.”
Jesse ignores the insults from his partner and seizes on Walt’s misguided message, eventually lifting himself out of bed to shout the affirmation, “I’m a blowfish,” before grabbing his bong, which Walt quickly snatches from him.
Jesse proves to be correct in his caution when one of his dealers, Combo Ortega (Rodney Rush), is soon killed by 11-year-old Tomás Cantillo (Angelo Martinez), the younger brother of Jesse’s girlfriend Andrea Cantillo (Emily Rios). Andrea meets her own dark fate late in Season 5 when she is killed by Jesse’s replacement as Walt’s cooking partner, Neo-Nazi Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons). Andrea, Combo, and Jesse are just three people on a long list who suffer throughout “Breaking Bad” because of Walt’s cornered animal instincts, a list topped by the very wife and children he was supposedly trying to protect in the first place.
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