When Jesse was imprisoned, it does not look like he considered using the dangerous chemicals he had access to as a weapon
When Jesse was imprisoned in Breaking Bad, it does not look like he considered using the dangerous chemicals he had access to as a weapon or to assist in his escape: for example, he could have simply weakened his chains with HF acid although it is possible he did not have access to this but at Fring's lab they did have HF and I wonder if they had it because it is part of the process for producing meth.
Certainly White would have been someone who would have within a couple of days have injured or killed one of his captors (probably Todd) using chemicals -- was this just something the writers deliberately left out in Jesse's case for plot reasons or is it a way of demonstrating Jess's limitations?
I would add that the advantage to weakening his chains is this would be easier to hide than picking the lock which he eventually did; if he weakened the chains he could unexpectedly attack one of his captors although it seems like they avoid getting close to him most of the time.
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As far as I remember Jesse was an ok meth cook, his product was never as pure as Walter's. He wasn't a great chemist, Mr. White flunked him in his chemistry class.
So maybe he wouldn't know how to improvise an escape like that.
We also don't know the day-to-day of his captivity, maybe there were more goons keeping guard, maybe he was too afraid of getting shot trying to escape, it's just not explained in the series.
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