Waaaaade (Williams) in the water, children!
Attention Fox Promo Monkeys: stop it with the "OMG somebody is totally gonna die!!!" teasers. We figure it out who it is in the first ten minutes and the rest of the episode is one big deathwatch. It's very distracting. Anyway, something weird and gross goes on between Gretchen and Baldy, and I still don't really know what her deal is. Mahone wearily exacts his revenge while the rest of the boys drop down into the secret passage in Cole Pfeiffer's closet, and Sara doesn't really do anything at all. You know, I was totally fine with the whole "she wasn't dead after all, d'oh!" thing, cause this show is a total sausagefest and I liked her a lot in season two when she was all clever and spunky and outwitting Kellerman. (Sigh. Kellerman.) But why go through all that trouble if you're not going to give her a plotline? Somebody get on that.
2.09 Greatness Achieved. So anyway. Roland died ratting the boys out, but they got Wyatt out of the deal so we'll call it even. The mood is somber in the Warehouse of Justice. Linc is trying to get Wyatt to call Baldy and say he killed everybody, but his torture method is just punches to the face, and Wyatt is like "Fisticuffs? You call that torture? Bitch please." Michael says that it won't matter; Baldy will hear that Wyatt is in distress and know he's lying. Linc punches him some more anyway, because punching is just something Linc likes to do. And also cause Wyatt's a punk, of course. That probably makes it more fun. Mahone is standing in the corner looking at his metaphorical vengeance watch and metaphorically foaming at the mouth.
Meanwhile, the Corporate Legion of Doom is arranging emergency evacuation of Scylla, the big secret location of which they know has been compromised, thanks to last week's opposite-of-subtle attempt to snag the General's card. Lisa, via some good old-fashioned clunky expositional dialogue, tells Baldy it's going to take three days to move Scylla's "delicate" data, whatever that means, and also she thinks it's a bad idea to put it in the "Raven Rock bunker." Baldy says the safest place is the one the boys don't know about. They're also waiting to hear from Wyatt, who is totally tardy and not answering his phone. Baldy orders them to assemble a press release to make it impossible for Michael and Linc to show their faces anywhere in town, which, I would have thought that whole "Fox River 8/Most Wanted Felons EVAR" thing that just happened a few months ago would have accomplished that, but they seem to be bopping around LA with no problem, so whatever.
Self notes that they're not making much progress with Wyatt, and suggests they try talking to him. He emphatically presents a metal briefcase. Presumably this is relevant, because a) each cast member gets a 2-second reaction shot, and b) it's the big "dun!" moment that ends the cold open and goes to credits. Dun! Business accessory!
Sara's entire plotline this week involves her moral indignation at torture/vengeance, because she's a doctor. She gets a handful of dialogue and one righteous stormout, and that's really it for this episode. Sorry, Sara. You're the least ridiculous character on this show and I'm sure they'll give you something to do eventually. Anyway, she tells Wyatt he probably doesn't want to find out what's in Self's magic briefcase (mysterious orange glowy thing?) and unless he cooperates he's as good as dead. He's like, ptthbt, "dead," I've had worse. Self tells everybody that Roland has been "reconfigured" and laid to rest, to which Linc says good riddance. Bellick, who is just getting started in terms of ironic foreshadowing, is all "come on, the guy died!" Linc says he died a punk, which is hard to argue with.
Michael has the blueprint spread out on the table. He shows them where they'll be scurrying around through the boiler room at Gate, and then there's this big X that probably represents an impasse of some kind but he has no idea what it actually is. Good plan! Self stays behind with bloody Wyatt, morally conflicted Sara, and chomping-at-the-bit Mahone.
You can tell by the confidence on everyone's faces that absolutely nothing can go wrong with this plan.
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Comments (2)
Loula,
I am so glad you are back! I missed you! Hope nothing too terrible happended to keep you away....although the election is certainly a good enough reason! In fact the only entertainment reading I have done over the last two weeks is come to tvgasm to look for you! Loved this episode. Big Kudos to WW. And his character did redeem himself in a big way. I am becoming quite obsessed with speculating where they are taking this michael/brain tumor thing. Thought I read that Matt Olmstead envisioned the series as going for 4 or 5 seasons, so maybe this one will be it....anyway.
After such an intense week, thanks for posting! I am glad to see you back!
1 of 2 | Posted by mamabird | Posted on November 9, 2008 1:08 PM
You're right that Fox is ruining the suspense by saying "someone will die this week on Prison Break"--it was in the TV listings that way, too (I'm guessing that comes from the network). As soon as I heard that, I thought, "Bellick." After they killed Roland, he was the lowest in the character hierarchy.
It also ruined the suspense for this week, because they DIDN't say someone would die, so there was no question about it when Sucre stepped on that mine.
2 of 2 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on November 11, 2008 12:32 PM