Michael goes into a hardware store to get some supplies. Link waits outside on the sidewalk, which is not the best plan, because some woman recognizes him and hails a passing cop. Um, dude, it probably would have been better to go in the store with Mikey or else wait in the car. I've heard that sidewalks are not the greatest of hiding places. Link realizes he's been made and goes into the store to get Michael, just as the cop walks in behind him.

After the commercial, the store owner leads the cop over to where Michael and Link were standing, but of course they've zipped out the back door or something. Unfortunately for them, the cops have found their car, and they are forced to abandon it. This doesn't sit well with Mr. Gotta Plan Everything, but the more devil-may-care Link doesn't seem too fazed.

Elsewhere, Tweener is posing as a college student on campus. He's wearing a St. Louis Tech sweatshirt - this was the school of some guy who was standing behind him in line at the train station. Wait, did he steal that guy's clothes or something? I'm so confused. Tweener studies a ride board and snags the number of a girl named "Debra Jean Belle" who is driving to Utah. I love how everyone on this show just calls it "Utah," as if there were only one place in the state that a person could go. It might make sense in the context of talking about going to get Westmoreland's money (assuming that Michael does know the actual location), but if you are advertising on a ride board, don't you need to say a little more about where you are going than just the name of the state? I mean, if you just say, "Hey, does anybody need a ride to Utah," then all you're going to get is the sketchy drifters who don't really care where they end up. Oh, wait. Nice job, Debra Jean Belle. Tweener steals the whole flyer so that no one else can take her up on her generous offer.

Back at the meeting of the Department of Corrections, Pope gets three months' probation and Bellick gets canned. It seems a little odd that they didn't even try to find out whether Pope knew what Bellick was up to. I mean, I know he didn't, but shouldn't the buck stop at the top? Three months seems a bit light, considering everything that's gone down on Pope's watch. I can't believe the taxpayers are going to be too psyched to have him running Fox River again after he spends a few minutes in the timeout chair.

Bellick is really freaked out, because he's worked for Fox River since he was eighteen. Well, you should have thought of that before you turned all corrupt, mister. However, it does seem a little off that he doesn't get an appeal or anything. Isn't this a government job? Then Pope proves himself to be an even bigger idiot than we already knew, by saying that if Bellick is fired, then he quits, because he won't abandon one of his own men. DUDE. You just found out that this guy was taking cash bribes in exchange for allowing a mafia boss to run the entire work program at the prison. Now you're falling on your sword for him? This is even dumber than leaving a convicted felon alone in your office so he can build a popsicle-stick Taj Mahal for your wife. No, on second thought, it might be a tiny bit less dumb than that. But it's close.

Outside the courthouse, Link tells Michael that if Michael winds up back in Fox River, Link isn't coming to bust him out. I guess that was supposed to be a joke, but it seems pretty freaking ungrateful nonetheless. Then Link tries to give Michael an out from this new harebrained "bust out L.J." plan, but Michael doesn't take it. They go up the courthouse fire escape or something.

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Gotta love the security at this courthuse. And yes, that extra Wentworth and see-thru Link were really in the shot. I smell a Brett Ratner.

There is a creepy scene of T-Bag washing up in the sink next to the dead vet. I start to wonder if the vet is actually still alive. I mean, it's not like T-Bag would know what exact dosage of cat euthanasia to shoot into this guy. Of course, the vet has been so cooperative in his own demise, he probably directed T-Bag to a calculator in his desk drawer, told him his exact weight in grams, and explained to him how to do the math to figure out the dose.

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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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