Linc and Sofia park her little convertible in the jungle, and Linc tells her to stay put, he's going to the beach alone. This isn't the answer she was hoping for. She watches him walk away (insert joke here about "hate to see you leave, but I love to watch you go!") and pulls something out of the glove compartment.
A big scary black van pulls over somewhere else in the jungle, and Susan steps out. Poor, poor, LJ, who is going to need that DB Cooper money for all the therapy he has in his future, is tied up in the back. She apologizes when she pulls the duct tape off his mouth, but he's all "oh, it's okay, I know you're just doing your job, I bet you want this over with as much as I do," etc. He's visibly terrified. He starts babbling about the plans he'd made with his dad and uncle, but she saves him the trouble: "I get it, you're a human being, with dreams, plans for the future, all that." But it's not in her hands, it's in Michael's, so let's hope he does his job. Watching this from afar? Is Sucre.
At Sona, Michael antsily waits for the corridor to empty, then runs down to meet Whistler at the Least Convenient Exit Point Ever. Whistler keeps a lookout while Michael uses the pointy end of whatever instrument he just found to chisel the grate off of the window. Whistler wonders where Mahone is, and is concerned when Michael just says he's gone. How do they know he's not ratting them out right now?
Cut to Mahone, getting more and more concerned about this purported "done deal" that keeps getting less and less "done." Sullins assures him this is his best bet, unless he's got a Get Out Of Sona Free Card. Not anymore he doesn't!
Michael and Whistler are ready to go. Michael ties their hammock ladder to the window, telling Whistler they only have four minutes of cover, so just go, don't look up, don't look back. But Michael's going first. This whole thing is about Whistler, his life isn't worth a damn without Whistler's, and if something goes wrong, it'll be the first guy to get shot into pieces. Michael would rather be that guy than have any more hostage blood on his hands. Sleepy Guard finally passes out, and Michael and Whistler wait a few anxious seconds for the glare to hit Sun In His Eyes Guard, and a few more anxious seconds hiding under the bunk while Sammy comes in and snags some cash from a matchbook. Michael starts down the ladder, Whistler a few seconds behind him, but a total bitch of a cloud shows up to block Sun In His Eyes Guard's glare! Crap! They're sitting ducks the second the guard turns his head, so they have to hurry back up the ladder, and this whole scene is making my stomach hurt.
They make it back up without getting shot, but Michael is distraught. "That was our only chance!" Throughout all this, the crowd in the yard has been going bonkers, as they were promised some hot gringo-on-gringo action, and the gringos in question are totally tardy. They get antsy enough for Lechero to send Sammy off to find out where they are. They are, of course, in Sammy's room, hurriedly arranging things to not look like anything is amiss. Whistler can't get the ladder off of the window, so he rolls it back up onto the windowsill, hiding it behind the curtains. They scatter just in time for Sammy to catch Michael headed down the hallway into the yard.
Michael meekly tells Lechero this has all been a terrible mistake. "We've worked it out!" Whistler announces, although both of them look like they know full well that's not going to fly. And it doesn't. Lechero announces to the bloodthirsty crowd that they all know the rules. Two men go in, one comes out. They shuffle into the middle of the fray, sort of standing around staring at each other like "um. So we didn't really get a chance to talk about this possibility, huh?" They circle around a bit until it's clear someone's got to take a punch, and Michael is first. "Sorry, mate," Whistler tells him. Only one of them is getting out. Michael punches back, and he probably means it a little.
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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