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Lalo isn’t a lead character dude

They had been monitoring Jesse for a while and there was quite literally no reason to suspect ricin being the substance that Brock had been poisoned by, furthermore barely anyone knew how to make ricin. Ricin was such a rare substance for a poison that it would be very suspicious to the FBI if someone had been worrying that a child had been poisoned by it; only someone criminally smart and intuitive would know to do that. Vince Gilligan, the creator of the BB universe, stated himself that Walt planted it into his juice in his lunchbox offscreen, when Andrea wasn’t looking, which wouldn’t be hard to do seeing as Walt knew her location from Jesse. And as for the hospital, they would have found out that it was the lily of the valley if Jesse had not suspected that it was Ricin, thus putting a dent in their investigation because they were looking for the wrong thing that Brock had ingested.

Well, Huell stole the ricin pack the exact same way as he stole the pot. So Jesse had a “eureka moment” where he remembered that Huell patted him down before his visit to Saul during the Brock poisoning crisis, and put together that if Huell was able to steal the pot now, he would have been perfectly able to steal the ricin pack then. Obviously Walt was being very suspicious during the Brock poisoning crisis which led to Jesse nearly killing him. I suspect Jesse had some repressed superstition of Walt after that happened, and now after piecing the puzzle together here it clicked in his mind that Walt poisoned Brock to manipulate him, to make him think that Gus was to blame (furthermore he was only suspicious of Gus before because Walt told him to be, so it makes perfect sense that he would realise this). And he linked it to Brock’s poisoning because he originally thought that Brock had been poisoned by ricin, not the lily of the valley. Obviously Jesse realised that since Brock survived and was actually poisoned by the plant, and that the chance of him actually losing the ricin pack was so small because he was taking great care of it, (let alone the chance of it being stuck in his Roomba) he suspected foul play, and Walt would be the only person to do such a thing.

Basically Jesse had the pack with the ricin cigarette in it on him when Huell was patting him down. Huell took the pack with the ricin without Jesse seeing and replaced it with an identical pack that didn’t have a ricin cigarette in it. He didn’t pickpocket the specific cigarette, he stole the whole pack and replaced it with an identical one. It’s completely plausible I thought