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656701, No, but he could have saved her life.
Posted by Frank Longo, Thu Jul-25-13 04:25 PM
The heroin killed her. Hence why Jesse feels so responsible-- they likely bought that heroin with Jesse's money.

The fact that they both feel responsible for her no longer being alive (and, subsequently, for the lives on that plane) is part of what makes Season 3 such an emotional gut-punch (especially the Fly episode, so incredibly moving.)

You can *maybe* argue that because he jostled Jesse which put Jane on her back that maybe he committed some form of involuntary manslaughter-- I don't really know how that case would fall in a court of law. But the phrase "did he kill her?" seems to me to ask "did he intentionally kill her?" No, he absolutely didn't. But he did intentionally prevent himself from saving her when she put herself in a life-threatening situation.