Pope and Bellick are getting grilled by a panel of suits in a room filled with dark wood bookshelves. Looks like Pope is getting skewered for being such a patsy. Pope says that he trusted Wentworth. He doesn't explain about the popsicle-stick Taj Mahal. Gee, whyever not? Bellick is also on the hook, for the fact that the prisoners were able to dig a hole in the floor while they were on work duty. Pope says that prisoners always work really slowly, so it wouldn't have seemed weird that they were taking forever to finish their actual work. Yes, but that doesn't really answer the question of why no one was ever watching them.

The panel takes it up a notch, asking Bellick if it's true that he sold the right to supervise the work detail to the highest bidder. Pope seems to actually think that Bellick is being falsely accused. Then Geary walks in as a surprise witness, and Pope and Bellick both appear to be scared shitless. Remember, Geary was actually guilty of shaking down the inmates, but our escapee pals also set him up for allegedly abusing Wentworth, with the whole burned-guard-shirt deal.

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I smell a rat.

Geary tells the panel that Bellick sold the work detail to John Abruzzi. Bellick is squeezed into admitting it, although he says he had no reason to suspect that an escape plot was in the works. Pope just looks sick. I actually feel sorry for him. The panel sends Bellick and Pope out into the hallway; Geary has a total shit-eating grin on his face. Out in the hallway, Pope is just disgusted; he has nothing to say to Bellick.

The hand-sewing vet is cleaning up his workspace. T-Bag's hand is nicely bandaged. The vet offers him some antibiotics and painkillers. He says that for his dog and cat patients, he recommends these be coated in peanut butter, but for T-Bag, that shouldn't be necessary. Oh, this guy is about to come to a bad end. He tells T-Bag he can leave, and the Bag says, "Oh, I'm leavin'. You're not." Ah, the good old criminal-on-the-run, sew-me-up-and-then-I-kill-you routine. Seriously, why do the doctors in these situations always cooperate with the criminals? They never let them live in the end.

The vet tries to get away and T-Bag catches him and holds some kind of implement to his throat. He delivers an extra-creepy speech: "Now, you did me a solid, so I'm gonna return the favor. This can go down humanely if you don't fight, but if you pull a stunt like that again, it's gonna get inhumane right quick. Your call. But one way or another, I am puttin' you down, doc." Ugh. This actually kind of made my skin crawl.

But wait: Let's get back to how stupid this is. That magical hand surgery had to take at least an hour, right? And I know that T-Bag refused the anesthesia, but surely there was a moment here or there when the vet could have slipped out of the room and then out of the clinic. Or used the phone. This guy was never a prisoner; he's not locked in; T-Bag showed up with no gun and one hand floating in a cooler, having lost tons of blood, and now he's lost even more and he's just been puking. You mean to tell me that there was no point over the course of the past hour when this vet could have made his escape? Or did he not think he needed to? Maybe he thought T-Bag was just a nice guy in some kind of totally understandable situation. Or maybe he thought that the Hippocratic Oath, or whatever oath vets take, obligated him to sew on this psycho's hand, just as a favor. All righty then. Moving on.

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Comments (20)

campfiregirl Author Profile Page:

Great job Amanda. This is a lot different than passions but still not that logical.

I love love love Prison Break...but my big issue with this ep. was how Michael & Link knew exactly when LJ would be in the elevetor REGARDLESS of the previously unscheduled visit by agent Mahone. T-Bag is the best...if anyone can get their hand sewed on by a vet without anesthesia and live to murder again, it's him. By the way, if that hand isn't a shriveling green stump soon, I'm going to be pissed.

Killer recap, Amanda!

I bet it's poor Sucre in the flaming ditch car. Boo! Why can't they kill one of the not hot guys?

fycin Author Profile Page:

Bellick's home life has me way confused. I could have sworn that when he didn't show up for work back when he was tied up underneath the break room, there was talk of calling his wife to find out where he was. Anyone else remember this? Now all of a sudden he only lives with his mom??

Aries Author Profile Page:

Excellent recap! I thought I was the only one who was confused why they kept talking about Utah like it's a city and not an entire state. I also didn't buy one minute of T-Bag's miraculous hand recovery. I doubt the hand would have been any good since it took a while before T-Bag put it on ice. And there's no way a vet would have been able to do the complicated micro vascular surgery needed to reattach the hand. I went along with PB last year when they had death row Linc working alongside the normal prisoners, but this deal with T-Bag's hand seems to be asking a bit much of us viewers.

Elder Young Author Profile Page:

I'll add my name to the list of people who are annoyed by people going to the land of Utah. T-Bag should have said, "Lead me to Xanadu!" Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I thought the vet's car was a Jeep Grand Cherokee, and Jeep's don't offer OnStar. That's a pretty minor quibble compared to T-Bag's hand that magically works good as new 10 minutes after the surgery. Oh well, I suppose you can't make a good thriller anymore if it's realistic.

Amanda, not a bad job for a first effort. You're snarky without sounding like you loathe the show, a la Kat. Are there any plans to recap Vanished? This seems like it could be a good show, although Rebecca Gayhart annoys me already.

Or maybe he thought that the Hippocratic Oath, or whatever oath vets take, obligated him to sew on this psycho's hand, just as a favor.

I think vets take the Hippopotamus Oath :-P

Tony A. Author Profile Page:

Joyfulchicken (#7), your comment about the oath is hilarious!

Amanda, dear, you're great! Very insightful, just-the-right-amount-of- snark commentary. I don't have anything to add and wasn't even going to comment, and restating the obvious would only take up space. Keep up the great work! Too bad "Rescue Me" and "Entourage" are done for the year, but maybe you can take over those shows also when they restart.

Your English and sentence structure are awesome, beating even the legendary J-Unit and B-Side.

Just one little doubt. Are we sure Veronica is dead? Her shooting was the only one not shown. All we saw was the bad agent shoot SOMEBODY (maybe).

They'd better get to reality soon or just start doing the show as an animated comic book.

carewski Author Profile Page:

Are we sure Veronica is dead?


TonyA, Veronica was shown with big bullet holes in her face. She is dead. She's not a Terminator, she's not Lazarus, she's just DRT, taking the dirt nap, expired.

fulfill_the_dream_78 Author Profile Page:

Great job Amanda!

As much as I love this show, it is starting to get utterly ridiculous. You don't break out of prison and hang out within a 100 mile radius of the prison for as long as these knuckleheads are doing.

TBag is freakin' hilarious....I wonder how many takes he needs to deliver his lines without laughing everytime they shoot his scenes.

EdHill Author Profile Page:

On a show where a vet at an animal clinic can successfully reattach a hand thats been chopped off with an axe with some gauze, chewing gum and a rusty knife and Dr. Tancredi can lie dead and rotting of an overdose in her apartment for 12 hours and then magically come abck to life with nothing but a headache, I don't think a few bullets to the brain can stop Veronica. ANd judging from her actions over the last season, her brain probably wasnt her most vital organ.

If it wasn't for Wentworth Millers smoldering sexuality, I'd have given up on this show.

There seems to be quite a bit of dissent over T-Bag's miraculous recovery. Just how many hours post-severing did his hand lie around? A lot it seemed, considering it happened in the nighttime. It didn't go on ice until the next morning. Oh, and there's the whole bloody stump thing.

GM vehicles have OnStar, not Jeeps.

T-bag's recovery has set the show back a bit.

stacyrocks Author Profile Page:

I liked the episode a lot, it was a quick hour. I am such a baby, I teared up when L.J begged his dad to let him go (in the elevator). I'm glad Bellick didn't off himself.

My big issue with the episode is T-Bag's damn hand! But I'm gonna let it go because it's probably on the show for comic relief. Actually, my main issue is that freaking Mahone getting the deal with the elevator so fast. GRRRR! Shut up, guy!

fycin (#4); When Bellick was stuck under the breakroom last season, they called his mom and she said he saw him leave for work. So they got that part right. :)

Great job on the recap, Amanda! Can't wait for next week!

noodle Author Profile Page:

I have to admit Amanda, I was skeptical at first b/c I havent' seen your other recaps. Plus Prison Break is often my favorite and you did a great job.
Seriously, why was it necessary for the vet to be stripped down on the table? So ridiculous.

This might be weird but I think that LJ got hot all of a sudden! I mean he's no Wentworth, but something happened to him in between taping last season and this season.

Hopefully its not Sucre in the car dead, b/c they showed him driving a car in the preview. Classic Prison Break obvious mis-direction.

And lastly, Mahone is going to be the one to uncover the government conspiracy right?

Tony A. Author Profile Page:

OK, OK, so I missed the scene showing a dead Veronica! Sheesh! Must have been when I went to the medicine cabinet to get some Valium to get through these episodes without losing my mind. I even yelled out loud "Oh, Come ON!" when the hand was reattached and the Otis thing went down.
I thought Fox had us suspend reality enough with the "24" series, where we're willing to forgive all kinds of weird, impossible things to enjoy the action. Re T-Bag's hand, there is absolutely NO F____ng way a vet could reattach it without all sorts of support staff, special tools, anesthetics, a proper O.R. and hours and hours of surgery. Once the surgery was done the hand would have been wrapped with layers and layers of gauze and the patient would have had to recuperate for days, if not weeks, at the hospital. Instead, a light bandage suffices and we're expected to believe the thing won't just fall off. The entire thing would have been rendered moot by the time that passed between its being chopped off and the time T-Bag got it in ice water. Dammit, I said I wasn't going to restate the obvious, but I'm so mad I'm never going to watch this stupid show again.

mstar1 Author Profile Page:

Comment #4, I agree, I am pretty damn sure that Bellick had a wife. Also, I think its alittle weird that LJ got the whole 3rd Otis Wright thing...seriously..maybe I'm not that bright, cause I would have never seen it. I also thought it was strange that Abruzzi was so quiet, he usually always has some stupid thing to say.
Amanda, great job, you had me laughing out loud at work.

brilliantmistake Author Profile Page:

"I have to have the coordinates of the restaurant tattooed on my ass in the form of a fake phone number."

Nice work, Amanda. Thanks for reminding me about the whole Fibonacci thing, apparently the writers have forgotten as well.

I must be a nerd, because I actually thought of elevators as soon as Lincoln mentioned it on the phone. Otis is the grandaddy of elevator companies. LJ was surprisingly unretarded this episode.

HicksPub Author Profile Page:

I was laughing when Tweener was in the train station, getting all paranoid. For a minute, I thought I was watching "Get Shorty."

Tony A (#15): Your sentence about T-Bag's hand falling off cracked me up. Now I won't be able to watch T-Bag without thinking of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Hang in there, dude, and keep watching (read: snarking) with the rest of us.

Awesome recap, Amanda.

noodle Author Profile Page:

Maybe Michael isn't telling him about Fibonacci because the whole jet escape thing was a bust.

The whole Fibonacci thing is a dead deal anyway, since Veronica was Abruzzi's "insurance". He has nothing over Michael anymore, not that he probably knows it, but Michael does.

As for the lack of the President appearing, it seems the actress playing her quit the series prior to this season. Then again, they dug up a new actor to play Terence, so who knows.

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