Linc is unearthing his cooler of supplies he buried on the beach and checking his watch. They're late. Sucre calls with his stakeout report: LJ looks fine, and it's just Susan, a driver, and a bodyguard. Linc thanks him for hanging around, and he says that hey, they started this together, they should end it that way. We see that Linc too is being watched - by Sofia and her scary handgun. Interrresting!
So Michael and Whistler are grappling around in the mud, and again, I'm pretty sure it goes without saying that it's totally, shamefully hot. The grappling is not earnest enough, though, so they actually get booed by the bloodthirsty mob for not being bloody enough. One of the spectators is bored enough to just throw a giant rock at Whistler, which is enough to get him to charge Michael again.
Hey, if you're going to get yourself murdered, you could do worse than being shot on a really pretty beach at the hands of a really attractive woman.
Linc looks up to see Sofia approaching, and scolds her for not keeping watch. She was just checking on him, she explains. "So you're going to swim out, wait for the police to pass, then meet up with a boat somewhere?" she asks. Something like that, says Linc. "Then what?" she wonders, but Linc starts "You know what? You need to get back to the car..." He doesn't finish his thought, be cause it's at this point that she pulls out her revolver and tells him not to move. Linc is all "oh, you have GOT to be fucking kidding me." She can't let him turn Whistler over to those people, not after what they did to Sara. He's all insulted that she's been playing him, but she counters that he's been playing her too, bringing her here to be his "lookout." "We're both here doing what we need to do for the people we love." Linc just says "You do this, you might as well be shooting my son yourself." She's sorry, but doesn't lower the gun.
It's 3:30 and Susan is antsy. Nothing good ever happens when Susan is antsy. She calls the sweaty Company guy we've seen her working with - he's waiting outside Sona and hasn't seen any sign of escape. She turns to LJ and opens her cool foldy pocket knife and says menacing villainous things but he just says "You're not going to kill me. You already killed Sara; anything happens to me and you're out of bargaining chips." That makes a great deal of sense, LJ, but Susan obviously hasn't read up on the whole concept of hostage taking or she would have sent Sara's finger instead of her damn head. Susan is unmoved. If Michael doesn't get Whistler out today, she won't need to bargain anymore. They'll all be dead.
Sun In His Eyes guard finally looks over to the other tower and notices that Sleepy Guard is not at his post. He calls in for someone to check on him. Meanwhile, Michael and Whistler are still kicking the shit out of each other. And I think is kind of a nice touch: Whistler falls to the ground and it's Bellick who picks him up and encourages Michael to "kick him in the junk," which incidentally is my very favorite of the many euphemisms for male genitalia. Anyway, it's cute, because Bellick is mad at Whistler for Sara and he thinks he's helping to avenge her. Aw. So Lechero's yelling for them to hurry it up already, but they find Sleepy Guard barely conscious and a lookout sees the hammock ladder, which has been flapping around in the breeze and fallen down out of the window. D'oh. Michael is down, and Whistler has grabbed a good old-fashioned head-smashin' rock. "God forgive me," he says as he's about to finish him, but the alarm sounds just in time to save Michael's ass. And also his pretty face.
No! Not the face!
At the same time, Linc, Sofia, and Susan also hear the alarm. Linc panics - they should have been here by now, something must have gone wrong. He reburies his Ice Chest of Mystery. She wants to know what they do next, and he tells her he doesn't know what she's doing, but he's taking the car. Which is funny because she's the one with the gun and he totally gets away with it anyway.
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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