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The framing from under the dirt here when the dig the hole to bury the gun is the same and the framing from under the drug-dealer goop from episode three of last season. In both episodes, an action performed to conceal a crime is framed as a revealing from the viewer's perspective.

Jesse and Walt head back to civilization in wide frame shots that make them absolutely tiny against the desert, reinforcing their isolation.

I wonder how much of Walt's breakdown/fugue state was fake, given how he was zoning out in the truck. He definitely remembers the shootout and is acting when told about it.

Hank dealing with bureaucracy helps undercut his masculinity, just as much as the shootout being framed as terrifying did. The "hardcore cop" image Hank builds up doesn't survive contact either with criminals or with other law enforcement.

Jesse's been having a bad time, and here, the fact he can;t come out on top and knows it isn't played for comedy. Even when he manages to convince Hank and Gomez that his car was stolen, he has to say the drug money isn't his, losing his money. Pushing Jesse into a corner makes it easier for it to justify him doing stupid shit later. It also helps establish serve Jesse's characterization; despite his impulsiveness and his bad situation where he really needs that money, he can keep his mouth shut when it matters.

The painting on Walt's hospital room wall is of a man leaving his family, and the camera keeps focusing on it

Even under patient confidentiality and admitting the fugue state's lie, Walt can't tell the truth about his crimes. He's avoiding the truth of what he's doing. His motive rant about why he ran is exactly the same, only actual Walt doesn't run, but does something, no matter how harmful.

Hector is another example of the theme of underestimation. He's old and paralyzed, but he's smart and aware, and he only doesn't reveal Jesse's lies because he hates the cops more than he hates Jesse. Directly after, Gomez underestimates Jesse, because he thinks Jesse is just a flighty idiot who couldn't possibly shoot someone.

Even with Jesse's situation, he doesn't want to go back to cooking, because his experience with Tuco exposed him to a side of the criminal underground he never had to deal with. Walt doesn't understand at all why Jesse wouldn't want to cook, and Jesse thinks it's so obvious he hangs up on Walt. Walt and Jesse are developing as foils; As Walt descends further into criminality, Jesse wants out more and more.

And, continuing with the whole "subverted innocence" thing from the money, Walt hides the gun in the nursery vent

Walt watches Skyler and Walt Jr in the kitchen, without joining them. Their natural family interaction are something he's disconnected from, and he's not trying to reconnect.

And just when everything seems fine for Walt, Skyler asks about his second cellphone. He lies about not knowing what happened, and they turn the lights out, leaving each other metaphorically and literally in the dark.