T-Bag walks out the door of the vet's office. He's very neatly attired, I guess in the vet's clothes. We see that the sign outside just says "Clinic - Dr. Marvin Gudat", and then a tiny little "D.V.M." Yeah, I guess that's the source of the whole initial confusion where T-Bag thought he could get his hand sewed on there. Hey, Dr. Gudat, you might want to consider putting something on your sign that will actually let people know that you're a vet without them having to decipher those fancy letters after your name. Might be good for business. Oh, never mind - you're dead. T-Bag steals the vet's car and checks himself out in the mirror. He looks almost respectable - he seems to have done his hair, complete with fresh highlights. He dials up OnStar and asks for directions to Utah. Argh! AGAIN, people - if you are asking for DIRECTIONS to Utah, you probably need to give just a little bit more information.

The Bag is lookin' sharp.
Tweener meets up with Debra Jean on campus for the ride to Utah. It's all very awkward as he tries to do his best impersonation of an actual college student with legitimate business in Utah. Debra Jean is fresh-faced and adorable, i.e., ripe for the victimizin'.
Bellick is pointing the shotgun at his own face, but just in the nick of time, his mom yells out from the next room that there are now cash rewards on the escapees' heads. The payouts are 300 grand for bringing in Lincoln and 100 grand apiece for the others. Huh - Sucre is worth the same amount as Michael, and the same amount as a psychopathic multiple child rapist and murderer like T-Bag? Seems a bit unfair. The news of these cash rewards appears to give Bellick a reason to live. Somehow I don't think he would actually qualify to collect, given that (a) until this morning, he was a law-enforcement officer whose actual job was to track these guys, and (b) he was slightly complicit in helping them escape. But hey, if it puts the spring back in his step, then that's all that matters. He puts the shotgun down.
Some cops surround the truck that Michael and Link stole, but for the thousandth time, it magically turns out that they aren't in the place where the cops thought they'd be. They're on foot, a little ways away. And oopsy - turns out that Link has a bullet wound in his leg, and they can hear sirens approaching.
L.J. is strongarmed out of the courthouse and driven away in a correctional van. Mahone sees the blood spilled outside the courthouse and realizes that either Michael or Link is wounded. He tells his men to alert all the hospitals, because Michael and Link will either turn themselves in, or else they'll die. Seems like he's assuming a lot without knowing what body part got shot, but okay. And that's the end of the show. Slightly anticlimactic, if you ask me. On the plus side, there was no sign of the president or the Secret Service. This is good news because that storyline totally confuses me. And the best news of all is that Nick and Veronica are both still dead.
Previews: Michael and Link show up at some hot chick's apartment asking for help. Dr. Tancredi gets arrested. C-Note shows up at his little girl's school. Sucre gets pulled over. A car blows up, and we are teased with the news that someone has broken out of prison, only to end up dead at the bottom of a ditch. My guess would be Haywire, since the show seems to have abandoned him anyway, but let's face it, most of these guys are disposable. See you next week!
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Comments (20)
Great job Amanda. This is a lot different than passions but still not that logical.
1 of 20 | Posted by campfiregirl
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Posted on August 30, 2006 3:03 PM
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.
2 of 20 | Posted by suedisco
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Posted on August 30, 2006 3:31 PM
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?
3 of 20 | Posted by Strock9
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Posted on August 30, 2006 3:47 PM
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??
4 of 20 | Posted by fycin
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Posted on August 30, 2006 5:27 PM
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.
5 of 20 | Posted by Aries
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Posted on August 30, 2006 6:17 PM
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.
6 of 20 | Posted by Elder Young
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Posted on August 30, 2006 9:12 PM
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
7 of 20 | Posted by joyfulchicken
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Posted on August 31, 2006 1:32 AM
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.
8 of 20 | Posted by Tony A.
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Posted on August 31, 2006 4:42 AM
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.
9 of 20 | Posted by carewski
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Posted on August 31, 2006 7:02 AM
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.
10 of 20 | Posted by fulfill_the_dream_78
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Posted on August 31, 2006 8:58 AM
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.
11 of 20 | Posted by EdHill
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Posted on August 31, 2006 9:09 AM
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.
12 of 20 | Posted by BigTeebo
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Posted on August 31, 2006 9:12 AM
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!
13 of 20 | Posted by stacyrocks
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Posted on August 31, 2006 9:14 AM
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?
14 of 20 | Posted by noodle
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Posted on August 31, 2006 10:07 AM
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.
15 of 20 | Posted by Tony A.
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Posted on August 31, 2006 10:26 AM
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.
16 of 20 | Posted by mstar1
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Posted on August 31, 2006 10:40 AM
"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.
17 of 20 | Posted by brilliantmistake
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Posted on August 31, 2006 11:24 AM
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.
18 of 20 | Posted by HicksPub
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Posted on August 31, 2006 11:48 AM
Maybe Michael isn't telling him about Fibonacci because the whole jet escape thing was a bust.
19 of 20 | Posted by noodle
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Posted on August 31, 2006 2:13 PM
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.
20 of 20 | Posted by Romulus
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Posted on September 8, 2006 6:49 PM