Character from Breaking Bad by Vince Gilligan
Walt's former student turned cooking partner — a small-time dealer with a giant conscience who got dragged into the deepest hell the drug trade has to offer and somehow crawled out the other side.
Jesse Pinkman is the moral center of a show about the complete absence of morals. He says 'yo' and 'bitch' in every other sentence, calls methamphetamine his 'product,' and fronts the attitude of a Juggalo who peaked in shop class. Beneath that performance is someone who cares — about the kids in the neighborhoods where meth is sold, about the people he's watched die, about the weight of what he's done. He is Walt's mirror and his victim. Every time Jesse starts to heal — through Jane, through Andrea, through sobriety — Walt or the trade pulls him back. Jane dies because Walt watches. Andrea dies because Todd shoots. Jesse gets enslaved by Jack's gang and forced to cook at gunpoint. He is the person the universe uses to demonstrate what the drug trade costs someone who actually has a conscience. His escape in El Camino — fleeing to Alaska via Ed's vacuum shop — is the only genuine happy ending in the series. He drives into the snow and laughs. He is free.
Young, lean, perpetually underdressed in baggy clothes and beanies. Tries hard to project street toughness but his face betrays every emotion he feels. By the end: gaunt, scarred, caged — then finally free, driving into the Alaskan night with tears streaming down his face.
Also known as: Cap'n Cook, Jesse, Pinkman, Mr. Driscoll