Burn, Baby, Burn, Prison Break Inferno! - 
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Oh. My. God. Lincoln is totally going to fry! He was strapped down in the antiquated electric chair and the witnesses (Michael, Veronica, Dr. Tancredi, and 3 members of the press) took their places behind the glass. The drips from the wet sponge placed on Lincoln's head was mixing with his beads of sweat. Warden Pope nodded his head and Bellick eagerly approached the switch. The clock showed 11:59PM and I peed a little.
Through clenched teeth Lincoln muttered his last words: "It's him! It's him!" Huh? He couldn't move his head so he tried to make Michael turn around to see "him" by moving his eyes. "Him" was a white-haired gentleman standing behind Michael watching the proceedings. Pope made a small effort to understand the condemned man's words, but time was a'ticking and really, with one minute to live, if you're not Batman or James Bond, you're not going to be making any sense anyway.
15 seconds to go... Bellick's hand on the switch... Michael and Veronica hug... The curtain draws in front of the witnesses...
Michael seethed, "What's Happening?!" At that, Rog pulled up a chair, turned it backwards and took a seat. Dwayne offered up a, "Hie hie hie!" and Re-Run danced the fool. All of this left Michael and Veronica very confused. They were taken to a big room with a table and left there to greive while Shirley brought them a couple milkshakes and burgers. The Warden glumly entered the room with his head slung low and intoned, "I can't tell you how sorry I am that you had to go through all this."
EXTREME Lincoln!
*Clink*Chink*Clink* What thuh? Why... it was Lincoln! He's alive! (I especially liked how the Warden did his best Phil Koeghan at-the-finishing-mat impression; to a team who isn't in last place, "Michael and Veronica? *long pause* Welcome to the grieving room. *Long pause, head bowed* You are... *longer pause, eyebrow raised* ...Crying for no good reason! Lincoln is alive!") The judge Veronica saw earlier had delayed the execution, and now Michael was able to speak to his brother. Though quite shaken (wuss), Lincoln asked Michael, "Did you see the guy in the viewing room?" Michael hadn't but wondered why it mattered. Because, "It was dad... It was dad!" Wowzers - that's twist - but Michael wasn't buying it.
I promised myself I wouldn't apologize to the vast and demanding Tvgasm readership for "late" recaps anymore. But with the other writers banging out recaps at a volume and velocity never before seen around here, I still feel I must. Blame the premieres of two excellent shows that are never mentioned around here: Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" on the Travel Channel, and "Deadliest Catch" on TLC. Oh, and my baby too.
Halfway across the country in Washington DC, Vice President thirtysomething was seething at Agent Kellerman. She was pissed that Lincoln was still alive and wondered how this was so. "Perhaps your fat friend Hale leaked some pertinent information?" Zing! Kellerman denied this possibility and turned to the woman sitting in the chair. Yup, it's former CTU director Lynn Kresge cum Admiral Helena Cain on Battlestar Gallactica cum dirty Agent Samantha Brinker on "Prison Break." She gets around, apparently. Kellerman suggested that the leak was on Brinker's side of the house - from "The Company." She, of course, denied that and the VP shut them both up with an angry, "Just find the leak and PLUG IT."
EXTREME Michael!
Two thoughts: First, the Vice President tried to get rid of Kellerman and even have him killed about a week ago in "Prison Break" time (via Agent Quinn). I find it odd that she's now heavily relying on him again. And second, if there's a leak, and a former CTU director is involved, I think it's pretty damn obvious where the leak came from. Doesn't the VP watch TV?!
Meanwhile, the judge who delayed the execution was meeting with Veronica and the the government's lawyer. The evidence the judge used for the delay was a medical record showing that the VP's brother, Terrance Steadman - the guy Lincoln supposedly shot - had an appendectomy at age 12. So what? Well, the coroner's report of the guy they buried showed he had an appendix. And where did these documents come from? Someone slipped them in an envelope under the judge's office door earlier that evening. As flimsy and easily faked as this was, the judge ordered an exhumation of Steadman's body and a 2 week stay of execution. I can dig that.
Lincoln, reprising his role in "Darrow," asked the Warden about the witnesses to his non-execution. Pope explains how the three people he didn't know were reporters and not his father. Over in Gen Pop, Michael was at it again with his mirrors and tattoos. Sucre asked the question we've all wanted to ask - especially since Michael is a genius - "Why didn't you just memorize that stuff?" No shit, Sucre.
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