Breaking Bad

Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman

Jesse Pinkman is a former student in Walt's chemistry class with whom Walt forges a partnership to make meth. Jesse's supposed to handle the "street" part of the operation but doesn't always succeed, as when Tuco the crazy drug distributor beats him up and steals his drugs.

Shocked to learn Walt has made a deal to supply Tuco with two pounds of meth, Jesse mocks Walt's "brilliant business plan," saying that procuring the ingredients to produce that quantity won't be easy. He later critiques Walt's plan to rendezvous with Tuco at a junkyard as "a non-criminal's idea of a drug meet." But when Walt holds his ground against Tuco, Jesse's impressed, and with Walt's encouragement Jesse tackles a difficult mission he'd initially tried to dodge. Easy tasks, though, sometimes trip him up. When the agent selling his house doesn't get his message to cancel an open house, people start traipsing around upstairs while Walt cooks meth in the basement.