Continuing on from the last episode, Walter and Jessie have escaped without being seen. They are walking through the empty desert trying to find a way back, when they reach the road and start hitchhiking, as a truck pulls up, Walter gets in the truck but Jessie doesn't. At this point, they seem to have a plan in mind. The next scene, we see an employee at a grocery store picking up articles of clothing throughout the store and eventually we see that Walter is walking around the grocery store completely naked. As he is taken to the hospital, he is giving people the impression that he doesn't remember anything from the time he went missing up until that point. Through tests and examinations, the Doctor's can't find a diagnosis and refuse to let him go just in case it happens again. They make Walter stay for further care.
Next, we see Hank being questioned about the shooting with Tuco. There seems to be more questions arising about Jessie and why his car was at the scene of the shooting and where Tuco was. This causes more suspicion on Jessie so the cops scope out his house to see if there is anything suspicious while Jessie is just around the corner with Badger waiting for them to leave. When they finally do, they rush into the house and Jessie clears out the meth lab in the basement and moves all the equipment and supplies into the RV. To get rid of everything, Jessie has Badger's cousin tow away the RV so it isn't hanging around the house for the cops to see.
Jessie is hanging around the motel with Wendy, the prostitute. While they are hanging around the motel, the cops bust into the motel and Hank takes them both in for questioning. While Jessie lies and days that his car was stolen, Hank brings out his stash of money but Jessie refuses to admit that it is his or that he was even at the scene. They continue to accuse Jessie of knowing something about that day and who shot him.
While Walter is still at the hospital, he is required to see a psychiatrist for further observations. Due to confidentiality, Hank lies and says that he does remember everything that happened. He was just fed up with being at home and he just wanted to get away, so he just walked and used the grocery store incident to get out of admitting that he ran away.
Going back to Jessie being questioned, they decide to being in Tuco's uncle but he refuses to admit anything to the feds because they don't help the feds at all. So, due to lack of evidence, they let Jessie go. Jessie calls Walter to talk about what happened on both their parts. Walter still brings up the fact that he wants to cook. When they get off the phone, Walter is running numbers through his head and seems to realize something. He sneaks out of the hospital and into his house. He goes to the baby's room and retrieves the money he had left sitting there. He takes it out of the box and places it back in the vents. Before he gets ready to head back, his son and wife wake up and he notices how emotional drained they are because of all of this. While heading back, he sees his "missing persons" poster at the bus stop and it is noticeable that he feels a weight on his shoulders for what he is putting his family through.
The next morning, Walter is released from the hospital and taken home. While arriving home, Skylar seems to be upset about something. Walter tries to reassure her that everything will be okay and then she asks about his second cell phone. He says he doesn't remember anything that happened the night he disappeared and that he doesn't have a second cell phone. She turns over to go to sleep, not seeming to believe it.
One of the theme's I noticed was the distance that grew the more he created more lies. I think he started to realize what he was doing when he noticed how emotionally drained his family was and then seeing the missing persons poster of him. A few times through out the episode, there was a painting that Walter kept glancing at while he was in the hospital. It was a painting of a man in a boat, rowing away while what seemed to be his family was waving bye to him as he was going further into the water. I am not too sure what this could have meant. Maybe he felt so alone through all of this or the fact that he knew he was dying soon and would have to face the goodbye, or it could have even meant the distance he was creating between him and his family because of all he was lying about and what he was putting them through.
