Breaking Bad: How Walt Actually Poisoned Brock
How exactly did Walter White poison young Brock in Breaking Bad? The incident took place in season 4 of the AMC hit series but the truth didn't come out until the following year. Since then, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has provided insight into what viewers didn't see with the poisoning.
The character Brock Cantillo (Ian Posada) was the six-year-old son of Jesse Pinkman's girlfriend, Andrea (Emily Rios). Jesse met Andrea at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in Breaking Bad season 3 and the pair eventually struck up a relationship. Brock greatly admired Jesse and the two would often hang out and bond over video games. After Jesse and Andrea broke up, he continued to send them money through Saul Goodman so they could afford a better living situation. The pair reunited in Breaking Bad season 4 but shortly after, Brock was rushed to the hospital with a serious illness.
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At first, Jesse believed that Brock was given the ricin that was intended for Gus Fring; he thought that Walt stole the ricin and gave it to Brock as a way to punish Jesse for getting too close with Gus. When confronted, however, Walt gave Jesse the idea that it must have been Gus who used the ricin to harm Brock. Walt went to great lengths to convince Jesse, even planting the ricin-filled cigarette Jesse thought he had lost inside Jesse's Roomba vacuum. Sadly, Jesse was right; Walt did cause Brock's illness as a way to turn Jesse against Gus. But the poison wasn't caused by ricin as later confirmed —it was from a Lily of the Valley plant, revealed to be in Walt's backyard in the final shot of Breaking Bad's season 4 finale. But how exactly did he poison Brock with
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