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Right.  Also, Jesse ultimately wants to get Tomas out of the nasty cycle of slingin and poverty, seems. He intervenes to effect this, and Tomas is collateralized. Specific issues of morality tend to get muddled in the larger, sinister framework of the regional-to-national-to-international, illicit-drug economy.

We may need a solid flashback to the circumstances of Walt's cashing out of Gray Matter Tech. I was just looking at season 3: Full Measure - and season 3 overall - and thinking about the tidal nature of Walt's ego, and where that overlaps with Jesse's flailing emotional events.

The odds of Mr. Lambert acquiring an M60 to take out the wussy Gray Matter executives (ALONE) seems far-fetched.  They are the catalyst to his reaction in the bar, so to speak.  
As has been alluded to several times before, it seems more fitting that he would take on an army - which Jack and Todd's crew represents -

Gus's comments about What A Man Does will be proven ever more salient.  PROVIDING — for one's family — was the casus belli upon which Walt expounded in convincing detail (perhaps only relative to Jesse's level of credulity) -and passionately- on the frantic drive to the cash stash.  Why did the phone call end?  It is