[If Chilton was aware of any irony in his statement, he didn't exhibit it. In truth, he considered himself an observer, and occasionally a manipulator -- someone who readjusted variables for the optimal outcome. People like Jesse Pinkman and Will Graham were a different kind of animal, and just as foreign to his DNA as Walter White and Hannibal Lecter was. Chilton was neither prey nor predator; he was a scavenger.
So a surrogate seemed plausible and low risk.]
He was rather fond of Matthew Lin, for -- well, at least a few weeks. I'm not suggesting you're replaceable, Jesse. Walt will never consider anyone to be as you are to him. But given Walt's... Tendencies, I mean, they are destructive habits aren't they? You can find someone to siphon off the worst of it.
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[If Chilton was aware of any irony in his statement, he didn't exhibit it. In truth, he considered himself an observer, and occasionally a manipulator -- someone who readjusted variables for the optimal outcome. People like Jesse Pinkman and Will Graham were a different kind of animal, and just as foreign to his DNA as Walter White and Hannibal Lecter was. Chilton was neither prey nor predator; he was a scavenger.
So a surrogate seemed plausible and low risk.]
He was rather fond of Matthew Lin, for -- well, at least a few weeks. I'm not suggesting you're replaceable, Jesse. Walt will never consider anyone to be as you are to him. But given Walt's... Tendencies, I mean, they are destructive habits aren't they? You can find someone to siphon off the worst of it.
That's how you buy time. You find a patsy.