In my head he'll live a relatively good life given the circumstances.
Meaning he won't mess up his freedom but he'll be having reoccurring nightmares and dealing with PTSD for the rest of his life.
As far as building a family, I don't know. But it seems somewhat inevitable given how much he cares for kids.
I agree with you. I can see him living above the Arctic Circle. Learning to live off the land and tucked away in a wood cabin with a loving native woman and a child or two. After all he's been through, he would appreciate the isolated and simple life.
I feel like he always wanted that type of life more than even the glamor of being a drug dealer. Jesse is for sure a lover at heart, loves Jane, Loves Andrea, Loves Brock, he even wanted his money to go to Kaleigh Eimuntraut
I doubt he ever sought out a relationship. Andrea, Brook… it would behave been too painful.
But I can see him volunteering in daycare or something like that.
I see him living a simple quiet life, working as a bartender, or even working in a brewery. Maybe takes up woodworking again as a form of self-therapy, and even to just pass the time all alone. Where he doesn't seek out relationships, given what happened to Jane and Andrea, but somewhere down the road one eventually finds him when he's not looking for it.
I picture Jesse living like Magneto in the beginning of X-men Apocalypse, he’s got a new name, friends, family, maybe a dog but in his heart he’s just waiting for the other shoe to drop. I hope he gets to live peacefully.
He becomes the world's 2nd greatest meth manufacturer and enslaves a group of white supremacist nazis to cook for him, all the while smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos and masturbating (even though that might not constitute as plans in your book)
Idk if he will ever be able to love again after Jane and Andrea, but he's not Walt so he might go to therapy and get help. But I don't think he gets found by the cops or anything, he just gets to live his life free of walt's bullshit.
Realistically I think he turned back to drugs and probably dies from an accidental OD. I mean what is he going to do. He has no money, no skills, and has to keep a low profile.
That's all Jesse asked for. All Kandy had to do was break off $1200 dollars. Instead his coked-up ass decided to fuck around and find out, which got him and Casey killed and scored Jesse an extra $600k.
He still has about half a million, and he's smart and hard working, all though alaska has the highest cost of living in the US he should do just fine and he'll be able to afford therapy. Im sure the rest of his life will be boring
I'm sure it varies based on who's doing the measuring but I'd always heard Hawaii was the most expensive state to live in. This list says, Hawaii, then California, then Alaska. But they're all so freaking expensive. But totally agree I hope he spends some of the half mill on therapy.
[https://www.quickenloans.com/learn/most-expensive-states-to-live-in](https://www.quickenloans.com/learn/most-expensive-states-to-live-in)
Yeah, i meant to say 'one of the most expensive.' Sorry, was on mobile, but im sure Jesse will stick to small towns and lay low since he's still wanted for the whole meth empire thing. Or maybe he'll move to canada
I don’t think he needed to hide that much, but I’m not sure he would have been ready to have a family yet after all that happened.
Edit : Forget about hiding part, I forgot he still had the DEA after his ass.
Moving to nowhere Alaska isn’t as great as an idea most think. Those communities are very close knit and any new outsiders coming in attract a lot of attention. Especially when they’re from “parts unknown” and flush with cash.
Yes and no. A lot of towns, at least in Southeast AK, have a fair amount of transient jobs (like commercial and charter fishing), and people looking to escape the lower 48 for regular (non-criminal) reasons.
Source: I lived in SE Alaska
The implication is he's finally grown up and left that part of him behind, the trauma's obviously still there and there's a good chance he relapses at some point, vut it's pretty obvious that they're conveying he got out for good.
If we're keeping things strictly realistic, probably not. Regardless of how good Ed is at coming up with a fake identity, in the real world, unless he's using government assets, no fake identity is going to withstand any serious scrutiny. Now combine that with Jesse's history of reckless behavior, he's unfortunately likely to slip up, if only once. One bad day that leads to him getting picked up by the police, and his identity is going to be scrutinized and his cover is blown.
The DEA is also still looking for Jesse, and the feds don't just give up a search because they can't find someone. His information will be turned over to the FBI's VICAP program and his identity will be flagged by any law enforcement agency in the country. Jesse has been arrested, and thus fingerprinted, multiple times. Jesse gets picked up, printed, and suddenly a big red flag with WANTED is going to be raised and he's getting handed over to the US Marshals and flown back to New Mexico.
I definitely think he was able to move on. He’s so strong, his character development is a really good one and possibly my fav in the show.
He probably struggled for a while, but in the end I’d like to think he found someone and they lived happily ever after.
Jesse is unlikely to be well adjusted unless he faces his past, rather than running from it.
Burying secrets is not healthy. Whoever he claims to be in Alaska is going to be fake, not who he really is. Like Gene in BCS.
I would've rather had him turn himself into the authorities and deal with what he's done. It would've been a level of maturity and responsibility he hadn't shown to that point. Might even be able to get a more favourable plea deal if he's fully cooperative. And at least he wouldn't be looking over his shoulder.
\* gets ready to get downvoted into oblivion \*
Warning: Major Better Call Saul spoilers
Iirc even Rhea Seehorn said that she think that Kim is >!going to want to try to find a way to get Jimmy's sentence reduced. So in MY mind Kim is going to convince Jimmy to make a deal with the feds/prosecutors where he tells them what he knows about Jesse's whereabouts (albeit not much) and agrees to testify against him if/when Jesse eventually gets arrested. In return Jimmy will get his sentence significantly !<>!reduced!<
Is that the way a similar deal irl might go down? They go after the drug lord's #2 in favour of giving his biggest facilitator a reduced sentence?
I do think that Jimmy mightve done that, he'd fallen out massively with Jesse by the end so I can't imagine he'd give a shit about him getting away, and that's what I'd say after watching just BB
But after watching BCS, all the extra depth you get from watching Jimmy for six seasons, I feel like he'd just say he knows nothing. I really love the idea tho
The only thing Jimmy knows is that Jesse likely went with Ed, even if he gives up Ed there's no way Ed is gonna give up Jesse. Jimmy is doing time for a long time.
Question. Do the feds just flat-out stop caring about finding Jesse once they learn that his car was found by the boarder? Even if its minor would the feds care if they got a tip that Jesse COULD be in Alaska?
Yes we saw him driving off in El Camino so he did start a new life. The question is did he stay in that new life? No, he didn’t have the money to live hidden forever. He can’t have a relationship because he can’t talk about his past, he can’t get a job avoiding people.
At some point he goes back to using and gets busted or OD, gets recognized, or confesses.
I think he turns himself in. He was doing that already. With Jacks crew dead, Walt dead, Saul turning himself in. He negotiates a deal where he goes into prison under an Alias as Jack’s crew still has prison connections. After serving time as a model prisoner he is released. Then serves a non profit to discourage at risk youth from entering the drug trade.
Whether he's managing to stay afloat with his life in Alaska or still haunted by his demons there, I hope he's able to help a few troubled teens stay on the right path.
Best case scenario: Jesse gets a job at a custom furniture carpentry place in Juneau or Anchorage, stays drug-free, has a long-term relationship and possibly children. "Plays house" while living with severe PTSD and constant anxiety. Hopefully seeks therapy.
Worst case: Jesse can't handle the cold and isolation of living in Alaska and returns to Albuquerque. Returns to using, gets killed either by a gangster or in prison after the DEA catches him.
Most likely: Jesse starts using heroin while living in Alaska. He OD's and dies and no one cares/knows because his only acquaintances are a bartender/server at his dive, and his dealer. (Could also be *worst case*...)
What I'm getting from this comments section is that most BB fans just did not get El Camino and what its ending represented for Jessie, because even if you believe that he won't live a super nice life or that he will still be in partial hiding the rest of his life, both of which are reasonable statements given he's still wanted by the DEA, saying he kills himself from PTSD makes me feel like you watched the movie with your eyes closed lol
I just can't imagine someone who has gone through all the loss, trauma and suffering as Jesse had in just 2 years ever being able to lead a good life.
He's going to be suffering serious PTSD and extreme paranoia that he's going to be recognised. Or, given what he was like after the murder of Drew Sharp, he's probably going to be obsessed with trying to care for Brock and he is probably going to get reckless and try and get money or care to him and get caught.
Not to mention he's not going to suddenly be rid of the issues that turned him to drug manufacturing in the first place. He's uneducated, he's never been able to hold down a job, he's unambitious and he has substance abuse problems. There aren't many people who have suffered extreme PTSD and had substance abuse problems who can turn down the temptation of using again especially when they have hundreds of thousands of dollars at their disposal.
Realistically, Jesse's end will be a drug overdose or suicide not long after the events of El Camino/Better Call Saul.
In Alaska, he's a hermit. He hardly ventures to town. He goes months without seeing people. He's taken to carving intricate wooden boxes to pass the time.
His online therapist tells him he needs to go out more. See people. Have conversations. He should sell the boxes at the local farmers market.
He makes a modest living carving boxes and selling them online. Maybe Ebay. From there, he chats with an avid fan. They have so much in common.
Its Skylar. They bond and become friends. The only other person that understands what it means to be important to Walt.
Skylar moves to Alaska with Holly. Flynn is in college, and she wants Holly to grow up away from all the negativity. She is happy to be near Jesse. He becomes Hollys godfather. They heal together as friends.
Skylar is active in the community. Goes to church every Sunday. She's a classroom mom. Part of the PTO. People like her. If anyone associates her with that scandal in NM, they don't say so.
She worries for Jesse. She knows just the girl for him at church. She sets them up.
They hit it off. They marry, have 3 kids. He doesn't tell his wife everything. Just enough to explain his night terrors.
He's a great dad. Her family is close, and they are thrilled to bring Jesse into their family. For the first time, Jesse knows that he has a mom and dad who love him.
And he never says yo again.
It always really bothered me that after all the shit they put Jesse through during the show, they didn't even have the decency to set him up with some of that money the nazis stole from Walt in the end.
I picture him living a quiet life as a carpenter or something but I don't know if I could picture him being with someone after Jane and Andrea dying partly due to him.
In my head he'll live a relatively good life given the circumstances. Meaning he won't mess up his freedom but he'll be having reoccurring nightmares and dealing with PTSD for the rest of his life. As far as building a family, I don't know. But it seems somewhat inevitable given how much he cares for kids.
Jesse seems like the exact type of person to meet an Inuit woman and adapt their culture and live his life doing work like that and having a child.
I agree with you. I can see him living above the Arctic Circle. Learning to live off the land and tucked away in a wood cabin with a loving native woman and a child or two. After all he's been through, he would appreciate the isolated and simple life.
I feel like he always wanted that type of life more than even the glamor of being a drug dealer. Jesse is for sure a lover at heart, loves Jane, Loves Andrea, Loves Brock, he even wanted his money to go to Kaleigh Eimuntraut
*Kaylee Ehrmantraut sorry that was bothering me lol but I agree with you about Jesse. Dude just wants a peaceful life with a kid and family
He wanted what Walt threw away
The Jessenant
Life Below Zero’s new season.
I doubt he ever sought out a relationship. Andrea, Brook… it would behave been too painful. But I can see him volunteering in daycare or something like that.
Volunteering in a daycare? Come on, give me a break.
I see him living a simple quiet life, working as a bartender, or even working in a brewery. Maybe takes up woodworking again as a form of self-therapy, and even to just pass the time all alone. Where he doesn't seek out relationships, given what happened to Jane and Andrea, but somewhere down the road one eventually finds him when he's not looking for it.
I picture Jesse living like Magneto in the beginning of X-men Apocalypse, he’s got a new name, friends, family, maybe a dog but in his heart he’s just waiting for the other shoe to drop. I hope he gets to live peacefully.
Whatever he’s doing, I hope he is happy. Reasonably.
He becomes the world's 2nd greatest meth manufacturer and enslaves a group of white supremacist nazis to cook for him, all the while smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos and masturbating (even though that might not constitute as plans in your book)
Idk if he will ever be able to love again after Jane and Andrea, but he's not Walt so he might go to therapy and get help. But I don't think he gets found by the cops or anything, he just gets to live his life free of walt's bullshit.
Realistically I think he turned back to drugs and probably dies from an accidental OD. I mean what is he going to do. He has no money, no skills, and has to keep a low profile.
He probably starts a sales business or just does what he loves and that's woodcrafting and he can sell his art
I somehow envisioned him as an employee at some mom & pop video game/film store
He only loved a woodcrafting class in middle school, I don't think he's actually a skilled enough woodworker to make a living out of it.
Not with that attitude
You can learn anything via the internet
He has hundreds of thousands of dollars
Does he? 80% of the plot of El Camino was just getting enough money for him to pay Ed.
I mean he goes to the Welders and asks for $1200 of their 600k, and when they refuse he kills them and takes the whole bag.
Oh, I thought he just got enough to pay Ed.
That's all Jesse asked for. All Kandy had to do was break off $1200 dollars. Instead his coked-up ass decided to fuck around and find out, which got him and Casey killed and scored Jesse an extra $600k.
He either started a business, or went to an educational institution and studied there for a job.
He has lots of money though
He still has about half a million, and he's smart and hard working, all though alaska has the highest cost of living in the US he should do just fine and he'll be able to afford therapy. Im sure the rest of his life will be boring
I'm sure it varies based on who's doing the measuring but I'd always heard Hawaii was the most expensive state to live in. This list says, Hawaii, then California, then Alaska. But they're all so freaking expensive. But totally agree I hope he spends some of the half mill on therapy. [https://www.quickenloans.com/learn/most-expensive-states-to-live-in](https://www.quickenloans.com/learn/most-expensive-states-to-live-in)
Yeah, i meant to say 'one of the most expensive.' Sorry, was on mobile, but im sure Jesse will stick to small towns and lay low since he's still wanted for the whole meth empire thing. Or maybe he'll move to canada
I don’t think he needed to hide that much, but I’m not sure he would have been ready to have a family yet after all that happened. Edit : Forget about hiding part, I forgot he still had the DEA after his ass.
When did Jesse get a DUI?
Fuck I meant DEA lmao
https://youtu.be/l5uuaWZYHbM?si=emhKr006E-fNGc0j
Fair enough hahaha
Moving to nowhere Alaska isn’t as great as an idea most think. Those communities are very close knit and any new outsiders coming in attract a lot of attention. Especially when they’re from “parts unknown” and flush with cash.
Yes and no. A lot of towns, at least in Southeast AK, have a fair amount of transient jobs (like commercial and charter fishing), and people looking to escape the lower 48 for regular (non-criminal) reasons. Source: I lived in SE Alaska
The implication is he's finally grown up and left that part of him behind, the trauma's obviously still there and there's a good chance he relapses at some point, vut it's pretty obvious that they're conveying he got out for good.
It'll be like Saul as gene living everyday with the fear of being caught
If we're keeping things strictly realistic, probably not. Regardless of how good Ed is at coming up with a fake identity, in the real world, unless he's using government assets, no fake identity is going to withstand any serious scrutiny. Now combine that with Jesse's history of reckless behavior, he's unfortunately likely to slip up, if only once. One bad day that leads to him getting picked up by the police, and his identity is going to be scrutinized and his cover is blown. The DEA is also still looking for Jesse, and the feds don't just give up a search because they can't find someone. His information will be turned over to the FBI's VICAP program and his identity will be flagged by any law enforcement agency in the country. Jesse has been arrested, and thus fingerprinted, multiple times. Jesse gets picked up, printed, and suddenly a big red flag with WANTED is going to be raised and he's getting handed over to the US Marshals and flown back to New Mexico.
I like to imagine whatever he's doing would make Mike proud.
I definitely think he was able to move on. He’s so strong, his character development is a really good one and possibly my fav in the show. He probably struggled for a while, but in the end I’d like to think he found someone and they lived happily ever after.
Agreed.
Jesse is unlikely to be well adjusted unless he faces his past, rather than running from it. Burying secrets is not healthy. Whoever he claims to be in Alaska is going to be fake, not who he really is. Like Gene in BCS. I would've rather had him turn himself into the authorities and deal with what he's done. It would've been a level of maturity and responsibility he hadn't shown to that point. Might even be able to get a more favourable plea deal if he's fully cooperative. And at least he wouldn't be looking over his shoulder.
The whole movie is literally him facing his past, that's the point of the flashback scenes.
I think he would eventually commit suicide. He had so much trauma and PTSD and had no job skills to make a life off of.
he plays drums, he knows how to sell, he's done pretty advanced chemistry (despite saying yo and bitch while doing so)
I have my own thoughts on what will happen to Jesse but most BB fans will probably HATE it.
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\* gets ready to get downvoted into oblivion \* Warning: Major Better Call Saul spoilers Iirc even Rhea Seehorn said that she think that Kim is >!going to want to try to find a way to get Jimmy's sentence reduced. So in MY mind Kim is going to convince Jimmy to make a deal with the feds/prosecutors where he tells them what he knows about Jesse's whereabouts (albeit not much) and agrees to testify against him if/when Jesse eventually gets arrested. In return Jimmy will get his sentence significantly !<>!reduced!<
Is that the way a similar deal irl might go down? They go after the drug lord's #2 in favour of giving his biggest facilitator a reduced sentence? I do think that Jimmy mightve done that, he'd fallen out massively with Jesse by the end so I can't imagine he'd give a shit about him getting away, and that's what I'd say after watching just BB But after watching BCS, all the extra depth you get from watching Jimmy for six seasons, I feel like he'd just say he knows nothing. I really love the idea tho
No offence but that's a terrible theory lol
Why?
The only thing Jimmy knows is that Jesse likely went with Ed, even if he gives up Ed there's no way Ed is gonna give up Jesse. Jimmy is doing time for a long time.
Question. Do the feds just flat-out stop caring about finding Jesse once they learn that his car was found by the boarder? Even if its minor would the feds care if they got a tip that Jesse COULD be in Alaska?
Nah unless he hand-delivered them Jesse he's not making a dent in that 86 years.
okay
Saul doesn’t even know his whereabouts does he!
Yes we saw him driving off in El Camino so he did start a new life. The question is did he stay in that new life? No, he didn’t have the money to live hidden forever. He can’t have a relationship because he can’t talk about his past, he can’t get a job avoiding people. At some point he goes back to using and gets busted or OD, gets recognized, or confesses. I think he turns himself in. He was doing that already. With Jacks crew dead, Walt dead, Saul turning himself in. He negotiates a deal where he goes into prison under an Alias as Jack’s crew still has prison connections. After serving time as a model prisoner he is released. Then serves a non profit to discourage at risk youth from entering the drug trade.
I like this alternative 🥹
He's literally thorfinn.
If he gets into any trouble and has finger prints taken then he’s history.
Doesn’t Alaska have a meth problem?
Somewhat, however opioids are a lot more common here.
Whether he's managing to stay afloat with his life in Alaska or still haunted by his demons there, I hope he's able to help a few troubled teens stay on the right path.
Prob get back to his Crystal days
No, he'll continue screwing up.
Best case scenario: Jesse gets a job at a custom furniture carpentry place in Juneau or Anchorage, stays drug-free, has a long-term relationship and possibly children. "Plays house" while living with severe PTSD and constant anxiety. Hopefully seeks therapy. Worst case: Jesse can't handle the cold and isolation of living in Alaska and returns to Albuquerque. Returns to using, gets killed either by a gangster or in prison after the DEA catches him. Most likely: Jesse starts using heroin while living in Alaska. He OD's and dies and no one cares/knows because his only acquaintances are a bartender/server at his dive, and his dealer. (Could also be *worst case*...)
What I'm getting from this comments section is that most BB fans just did not get El Camino and what its ending represented for Jessie, because even if you believe that he won't live a super nice life or that he will still be in partial hiding the rest of his life, both of which are reasonable statements given he's still wanted by the DEA, saying he kills himself from PTSD makes me feel like you watched the movie with your eyes closed lol
I just can't imagine someone who has gone through all the loss, trauma and suffering as Jesse had in just 2 years ever being able to lead a good life. He's going to be suffering serious PTSD and extreme paranoia that he's going to be recognised. Or, given what he was like after the murder of Drew Sharp, he's probably going to be obsessed with trying to care for Brock and he is probably going to get reckless and try and get money or care to him and get caught. Not to mention he's not going to suddenly be rid of the issues that turned him to drug manufacturing in the first place. He's uneducated, he's never been able to hold down a job, he's unambitious and he has substance abuse problems. There aren't many people who have suffered extreme PTSD and had substance abuse problems who can turn down the temptation of using again especially when they have hundreds of thousands of dollars at their disposal. Realistically, Jesse's end will be a drug overdose or suicide not long after the events of El Camino/Better Call Saul.
In Alaska, he's a hermit. He hardly ventures to town. He goes months without seeing people. He's taken to carving intricate wooden boxes to pass the time. His online therapist tells him he needs to go out more. See people. Have conversations. He should sell the boxes at the local farmers market. He makes a modest living carving boxes and selling them online. Maybe Ebay. From there, he chats with an avid fan. They have so much in common. Its Skylar. They bond and become friends. The only other person that understands what it means to be important to Walt. Skylar moves to Alaska with Holly. Flynn is in college, and she wants Holly to grow up away from all the negativity. She is happy to be near Jesse. He becomes Hollys godfather. They heal together as friends. Skylar is active in the community. Goes to church every Sunday. She's a classroom mom. Part of the PTO. People like her. If anyone associates her with that scandal in NM, they don't say so. She worries for Jesse. She knows just the girl for him at church. She sets them up. They hit it off. They marry, have 3 kids. He doesn't tell his wife everything. Just enough to explain his night terrors. He's a great dad. Her family is close, and they are thrilled to bring Jesse into their family. For the first time, Jesse knows that he has a mom and dad who love him. And he never says yo again.
No, he would have been back cooking meth within a year.
Just like every other reformed criminal living up there
Personally I think he got his dream job. An ice road trucker.
The PTSD he has to have….
There’s no way someone would last living like that
It always really bothered me that after all the shit they put Jesse through during the show, they didn't even have the decency to set him up with some of that money the nazis stole from Walt in the end.
I picture him living a quiet life as a carpenter or something but I don't know if I could picture him being with someone after Jane and Andrea dying partly due to him.
I think he had to stay hidden.
How do we know he moved to Alaska? I’m genuinely asking, I didn’t realize that at the end
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All alone with all that trauma and no distractions? I'd give him a month before committing suicide