Advice for Linc's stunt double: Demand a bonus every time they hit you with a car.
So hey, sorry about missing the first week of school, how tacky is that? A hurricane blew out my electricity for a week, you see, so my circumstances were totally extenuating. [Update: the posting of this recap was delayed by a totally unrelated power outage brought on by winds from a totally unrelated hurricane hundreds of miles away that at press time STILL hasn't even made landfall. Why do I live here?] Anyway, all caught up now, and boy howdy, this show does not mess around with pacing or setting moods or slow burns, does it? By the end of the third episode we've already had people killed mid-sentence (Whistler!) killed offscreen (Bruce Bennett and Mahone Jr, ouch) back from the dead (Sara AND Gretchen) and, because this is Prison Break, hit by cars. Plus an entire Alias season's worth of espionage and encryption and conspiracy. I'm in!
4.03 Shut Down. So firstly I'd like to draw your attention to the desperate, delusional predictions I made after the season 3 finale regarding Sara's total non-deadness. Ding! And ha, I'd forgotten I'd also called Bellick's mom coming to the rescue. Now where's Kellerman and my mojito party? Anyway, a bunch of stuff happened last Monday while my house was dark and hot and boring. Sara's not dead, Michael undergoes a nonexistent tattoo removal procedure from the future, Whistler gets plugged by our new Kellerman (this version is hot, black and mumbly), and someone finally gave Michael Rapaport something to do besides generic "Man-Boy And His Sassy Wife" sitcoms whose plots revolve almost entirely around Wacky Misunderstandings™. And we have this card to steal, which it turns out is actually six cards! Dun!
Michael is angry. He's doing that thing where he's kind of yelling but somehow still kind of whispering, accusing Self of getting them into something way bigger than they agreed to. But Self, fiddling significantly with his wedding ring in a way that suggests a Character Motivation of some kind, is just as befuddled as everybody else that Scylla is not as simple as they thought it was. Michael whisper-yells that they held up their end of the bargain, and Self's all, hey, which one of us has the badge in this scenario, and which one has the outstanding arrest warrants and the ankle bracelet?
"Bitch, don't you point at me, I was in Grand Theft Auto 3!"
Michael heads back to the Warehouse of Justice and tells the Superfriends that they have to finish the job. Snarky Asian Computer Guy's little data-sucking machine also copied all the info from Card Guy #1's PDA, and Michael thinks they might be able to use his calendar and emails to find the next Cardholder. I guess just asking random people "I am the Keymaster. Are you the Cardholder?" would take too long. Sara notices that his calendar is full every day except today, which just has a star. Curious! And oh, by the way, Michael forgot to mention that they have till the end of the day to find the next guy or everybody goes to jail. Again.
Mahone calls Lang, who is relieved to hear from him, and heartbroken to hear that the Company MURDERED his freaking KID. Linc, who has been taking every opportunity to give Mahone as much shit as he possibly can, overhears this part of the conversation and backs away looking rather sheepish. Lang agrees to help him get his hands on some info from the FBI's Colorado office, because she totally still has a crush on him.
Hot Mumbly Black Kellerman, who probably has a name which I will eventually use, is going all superspy on poor Bennett, who says he doesn't know where Michael and Linc are. He injects Bennett with some sodium pentothal type substance to jog his memory.
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Comments (6)
Wow, no comments yet? Thanks for the recap! I'm really enjoying this season - early as it is. Are LJ and the Hispanic chick still in Panama? I hope Linc ends up with her.
You know what I always think about when I watch shows like this? When do these poor people eat? Do they have a kitchen in the warehouse or do they eat a lot of takeout? What do they think about when they - how do I put this delicately - use the restroom? Even the bad guys. Are they so focused on being evil that they can't take time out to relieve themselves? Are they angry even when going twosies? Does the company offer a health plan? And if so, what kind of rates do the employees have to pay? Who takes care of their mail when they have to go out of the country to kill people and whatnot?
I demand answers!
1 of 6 | Posted by Hey Buddy | Posted on September 15, 2008 10:53 AM
Well, I guess that's what happens when you post your recap of a Monday show on a Friday night. Stupid extenuating circumstances!
And yeah, no one on this show ever has to eat or pee. It's just part of the Prison Break universe, where people get hit by cars on a daily basis and wear the same long-sleeved shirt every day for 3 seasons. Embrace it!
I was just thinking, I hope at least Michael and Sara get their own space every now and then. Trying to save the world is probably really stressful, and their whole relationship has been so unbearably chaste, not to mention the whole "he thought she was dead for most of last season" thing, that I've decided to believe they're just going at it like monkeys off-camera at every opportunity.
2 of 6 | Posted by loula | Posted on September 15, 2008 3:35 PM
I can see how Linc would sympathise with Mahone losing his son; still Mahone did kill Linc's father. Hard to see him writing that off.
An amusing slip: near the end when Herb, the DHS boss is ragging on Self, he says "You think Senator Dallow's going to send the Calvary in?" -- and that was definitely "Calvary" as in crucifixion, not Cavalry, as in General Custer.
And the matching holes in the two emails: the positions would depend entirely on the font used, the size of the paper, etc., etc. No way they could be used reliably to pinpoint words on another page.
Yes, I know, this is Prison Break, and we're just supposed to relax and enjoy the picnic.
3 of 6 | Posted by AlanHK | Posted on September 16, 2008 10:01 AM
Ha! I didn't even think about the emails. Hm, let's pretend that they were both sent as PDFs. See, finding plot holes is part of the fun! I see no conflict between enjoying the picnic and laughing at, for example, the idea that Michael could have his entire torso lasered off in one sitting. And that is why I love this show.
4 of 6 | Posted by loula | Posted on September 16, 2008 12:32 PM
Loula! You are back! YAY!
I have been missing your take on Michael and the boys (Superfriends, ha!)and am so glad you didn't wash away in a hurricane.
This episode was the best so far this season, a season that I must say is totally fracking awesome so far...all the super secret spy stuff rocks! Loved your reference to them being an "elite team of detectives" like The Closer....so funny.(And didn't Haywire rock as a priest? He was just on Burn Notice recently but played some crazy arms dealer. I wasn't sure he could play a normal-ish character!) I am seeing some echos of Burn Notice too, this season with all the badass breaking in, etc. PB writers watching summer television.....you think?
And Hot Mumbly Black Kellerman is so totally Bailey's Husband on Grey's...I love it!
Great recap, miss Loula! Looking forward to the rest!
5 of 6 | Posted by mamabird | Posted on September 16, 2008 7:55 PM
YES!! I am so glad to see you back Loula! I was afraid you would not be returning when I didn't see a recap for the first few episodes. Glad you survived the hurricane!!
I love it when big brother Linc comes to Michael's rescue. And yes Robert Knepper does an OUTSTANDING job with that role.
Great recap! I must go read the others you posted!
6 of 6 | Posted by akgirl7 | Posted on September 29, 2008 12:43 PM