Sofia and her poisoned coffee are sitting right next to the tower guard and his regular coffee, the identical cups right next to each other in the cupholder of his jeep. Naturally, he gets creepy almost immediately, and gets even creepier when he pulls over and basically says he can get her some private time with her guy if he'll just do her a little favor. You know, in his pants. Linc and Sucre are following, and Linc draws his gun to scope them out. Susan picks this inconvenient time to call him to say she's got the picture of Sara. Meanwhile, Sofia gets an A+ for improvisation: the guard is all "don't you love your man enough to do a little favor to see him?" and she simply says "Norman gets pretty jealous." Nice! He backs off immediately and she has a chance to switch their cups out. And poor Linc, he's all distracted, he's watching Sofia get groped and he lets it slip that the breakout is not tonight, it like, now. She is unhappy. He really does say something that sounds a lot like "d'oh!"
Michael looks for Mahone but ends up just sitting in his cell, fidgeting with the ring, trying to decide if things are bad enough to take advice from T-Bag. He looks up and sees a bloody knife tucked under the top bunk. Well that wasn't hidden very well, now was it? Michael confronts Mahone and he's hilariously indignant, saying if it was in his bunk someone put it there, and does he have any other evidence? "What are you gonna do, take it to the Sona crime lab?" he hisses smartassily. Heh. Michael says Whistler's up there for being in the wrong stairwell at the wrong time but this might be enough to have them switch places. He runs off, presumably to tattle.
Susan storms in to LJ's room with a big black duffel bag of horrible implements, and once again, I miss Kellerman. Anyway, he's panicking, asking what's going on, but she just unpacks her bleach and her giant knife. And these guys really don't get the whole point of taking hostages, do they? You're not supposed to kill them before you get what you want! Anyway, apparently Susan likes her decapitations done the hard way, with a knife and some elbow grease. Really? A knife? That's how you cut people's heads off around there? And you're not going to kill him in some much easier fashion then dismember him like Kellerman would have done? Sloppy work. Anyway, it's pretty terrifying because LJ is totally freaking out and crying hysterically, and hey, the kid is good at that! She actually tells him as she holds the knife to the back of his neck that he won't feel a thing once she severs the spinal cord. Linc calls at the exact right moment to absolutely lose every tiny bit of cool he has, admitting to the real escape time, apologizing and begging and sobbing and tearing his nonexistent hair out, and yeah, Dominic Purcell earned his salary this week.
Remember when LJ just wanted to go to high school in Denver? He probably should have done that.
Mahone has another visitor: it's Sullins, the guy who was heading the internal investigation of the whole "So why does this Mahone guy keep killing fugitives?" situation. He's talked them down to four years, and he can go back to the US as soon as the special prosecutor clears him. Wait, Mahone thought this was all taken care of, what's with all the ifs, but he's like, eh, just a formality! Mahone, knowing he's about to be called out by Michael, reconsiders his options.
Speaking of, Michael is stopped at Lechero's door by Sammy, but he just ignores him and bellows "Lechero!" past him all manly-like. He found this here bloody knife in Alex Mahone's cell. They all step out onto the balcony just in time to watch Mahone march right out of the yard. Michael's face falls as he realizes that this development makes both him AND Whistler look bad.
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Comments (3)
Great recap.
It was probably better than the double-feature itself.
"Whistler approaches Michael in the bathroom. No, not like that." - Classic!
1 of 3 | Posted by Firthguy | Posted on November 12, 2007 7:14 AM
This is the first episode since season 1 (with the notable exception of S3 premiere) that I was literally on the edge of my seat with my heart in my throat. Watching the first season, every episode started with me on the couch and ended with me 2 feet from the TV alternately holding my breath and screaming at the TV. What a great buildup to last nights fall finale.
And although Michael got his "moment" aka Skid Row Power Ballad Emoting; Wade Williams was totally MVP this week. I am embarrased to admit that I actually teared up when he said I can't even kill myself; which was compounded by my memory of the scene in which he did not, in fact, kill himself. So utterly fantastic.
Now about that Skid Row Power Ballad Emoting; OMG I swear you are in my head Loula. That is EXACTLY what I thought when I was watching (er, wincing)....Which is so weird b/c Sebastian Bach was one of my first crazy famous person crush. Could have been so much better. But the genuis Chicken Foot Throwdown move afterwards made me forgive them.
And Whistler and Snoozin/Rethcin...WTF is that? Can't wait to see what happens and where they are taking Michael.....Again, they better not kill him!
Oh and how awesome was that helicopter scene? Terrible editing and somehow I found it rather hysterical. But it was pretty ballsy move....
Thanks for doing it all in one shot. Know it must have taken much longer but you did it! So, till next week.
2 of 3 | Posted by mamabird | Posted on November 13, 2007 6:38 PM
"Turns out what he found in the yard was a cigar butt - Antonio, his man on the outside, used to give them to him as tribute and now he reeks of them. Ponytail guy looks up at Sammy, who gave him the cigars in the first place, but Sammy fails to leap to his defense. I don't really get what the problem was, but the end result is that Lechero has a body to string up and Whistler goes free."
Ponytail guy looked up at Sammy because Sammy gave Ponytail guy the cigars - meaning, Sammy probably killed Tyge (he has a name?).
3 of 3 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on November 17, 2007 7:37 PM