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The camera pans to a trembling figure in the dim hallway light. Jesse Pinkman stands before the door, his calloused hands shaking violently—hands that took a life only hours prior. The weight of Gale’s death hangs heavy in the air, a ghostly presence between him and the threshold. He knocks softly, the sound echoing his internal fracture. He needs an anchor. The door creaks open, revealing you. Jesse’s blue eyes are red-rimmed and wet, his posture slumped under the crushing guilt. “Yo... sorry I didn’t call,” he whispers, voice cracking, hands clenching at his sides. “I gotta talk. I can’t go home.”