And with good reason, really, because Mahone then produces a defibrillator stolen from the ambulance, plus a car battery. Ouch. Apparently his kid was shot twice, once in the stomach, then, minutes later, in the forehead. Presumably so that Pam could watch him suffer horribly while he grilled her about Mahone. And so yeah, that's pretty fucked up. Knock yourself out with the vengeance torture, Alex. Incidentally, William Fichtner is such a good actor that he can make cheesy dialogue like "you too will suffer!" sound good. Anyway, Mahone has his own favor to ask Wyatt, also a phone call, only this one will be an apology to his wife. And any fear or pain in Wyatt's voice is not a hindrance here; in fact, it's kind of the whole point!
Self calls the General just in time, a few seconds after the press release is submitted for his approval. Self plays the tape and the General totally buys it - after all, most of his phone conversations with Wyatt have followed the same "one-sided monotonous mumblings, hang up before waiting for a response" pattern. So yay, press releases go in the trash! And Gretchen shows up at the door pointing a gun at everybody. Didn't she already do this? Anyway, she says "the access code to the covert entrance is still both your daughters' birthdays," and the General shoos everybody away so they can have some alone time.
Bellick and Linc are at the LA water plant, disabling the supply, and Bellick might as well be wearing a T-shirt that says "Ask Me About My Impending Demise!" He asks Linc about LJ, and like, oh right, LJ! Linc mumbles that he's a smart kid and can take care of himself. He's grown up a lot since all that kidnapping, huh? Bellick rather endearingly says his dad died when he was young, but he was a good dad. Linc's all "let's just get this done." See the Las Vegas episode re: Linc = kind of a dick. They fry the manual override and Michael and Sucre hear the whooshing dying down. Oh, they also somehow have that giant pipe suspended like a battering ram, and Michael is drawing a circle that same diameter on the side of the water main. They have about an hour to do 90 minutes worth of work, but this entire show is about getting a month's worth of work done in a week, and a day's worth of work in an hour, so I think they can handle it. Michael gets all weak and trembly, then has one of his flashy headaches and has some kind of seizure and Sucre, understandably, freaks out. Maybe if you're going to be alone underground with someone for awhile you should tell the other guy there's a decent chance you have a brain tumor, you know, just in case. Once he's recovered, Sucre confesses that he does know something's up with Michael, but Michael's not up for sharing. They have work to do, and it turns out that the guy who just got shot in the gut like 24 hours ago is the stronger one at the moment.
Iiiiwwwwww!
Hey, you guys, remember when the General was this mysterious guy who never spoke? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I liked him better that way. He's been doing a whole lot of exposition lately, and he continues, telling Gretchen that, as she knows, when he met her she was a 20-year old girl who'd been rejected by the police academy for failing the psych exam. But Baldy found her sociopathic tendencies charming and took her under his big gross disturbing wing. Calling her his "little bulldog," he explains that they had to torture her about Whistler's Scylla plan, nothing personal, no hard feelings, right? Then he calls her "my girl," slowly takes her gun away, and smashes his face into hers in this weird gross disturbing gesture I am forced to refer to as a "kiss." So he's her former sugar daddy? Or her actual daddy, which has also been alluded to? Or, dare I suggest it, both? The point is, iiiiwwwww.
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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