In flashback, Jesse and Mike discuss their departure from Walt's meth business and what they will do next. Mike opines on relocating to Alaska, an idea Jesse finds amenable. Jesse expresses a desire to "make things right", but Mike warns him that is something "you can never do".
In the present, Jesse flees the Brotherhood compound in Todd's El Camino. He goes to his friends Skinny Pete and Badger, who help hide the El Camino for the night and shelter Jesse. After cleaning up, including shaving his head, Jesse calls Old Joe to dispose of the El Camino, but Joe discovers the car has LoJack installed, and advises Jesse that authorities will likely be after it. Skinny Pete has Badger drive Pete's Ford Thunderbird several hours out of town and gives Jesse Badger's Pontiac Fiero to escape with. Pete stays with the El Camino to provide a cover story to the police.
Several flashbacks show Jesse in captivity under Todd at the compound. During one period, Todd took Jesse to his apartment to help dispose of the body of his cleaning lady, who had found his stash of money. In the present, Jesse goes to Todd's apartment, which had already been searched by police, to look for Todd's money. He spends all night ransacking the apartment, finding nothing, although he sees from a nearby apartment a news report with his parents begging Jesse to turn himself in. He falls back against the refrigerator in frustration and hears something shift, which leads to his finding money stashed within the refrigerator door, just as two men wearing police blazers, Neil and Casey, arrive. Jesse hides as the men search the apartment but is forced to hold them at gunpoint when they discover him. Jesse soon recognizes they are not police, but thugs also looking for Todd's money. When they tie him up, he offers to show them where it is. Ultimately, he bargains to split it with them. As he and one of the thugs depart the apartment, Jesse recognizes they work for Kandy Welding Company, which built the structure he was tethered to at the compound.
Jesse goes looking for Saul's "disappearer", vague on the specific details, but soon deduces the right vacuum store. Jesse presents Todd's cash to Ed, the disappearer, but Ed wants not only the $125,000 fee to help Jesse now but also payment for the previous time when Jesse was a no-show. Jesse is $1,800 short, so Ed refuses to deal with him until he has all the funds.
Jesse calls his parents and feigns being willing to turn himself in, at a site where the family once picnicked, to draw them away from the house. He then enters the house and opens their safe. It contains his father's guns, which Jesse takes, but no money.
Jesse then drives to Kandy Welding and asks Neil and Casey for the remaining funds he needs for Ed. They refuse to give up the money. Neil, seeing the gun in Jesse's waistband, challenges Jesse to a duel. Jesse agrees, but tricks and kills Neil by using another gun he has in his jacket, then quickly kills Casey. He forces the remaining men, at gunpoint, to leave their drivers' licenses and flee, then claims Neil's share of the cash and blows up the shop to cover his tracks.
In a flashback, Walt and Jesse have breakfast at a diner after one of their meth cooks. Walt tells Jesse, "You're really lucky, you know that? You didn't have to wait your whole life to do something special."
Jesse pays Ed, who smuggles him to Alaska and directs him to the town of Haines. Jesse hands Ed a letter to mail to Brock. As Jesse drives off to start his new life, he has a final flashback to his time with Jane. He tells her how he admires that she always lets the universe take her wherever it pleases. She denies this, saying: "Sometimes, it's better to make those decisions for yourself."
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