This was the third thoroughly awesome episode in a row. Sadly, the awesomer the episode, the harder it is to ridicule. Boring/stupid episode recaps are way funnier, but I do my best. Anyway, awesome: Michael totally gets Scylla from Self! For like an entire minute or so before he steals it back! T-Bag has a crisis of conscience with hilarious results, Self is even more psycho than we thought, and looks like Michael's finally getting that brain surgery after all. Plus: Gretchen/Sucre smackdown!
LINC HATE BLUETOOTH! LINC GET CONFUSED WHEN PEOPLE TALK OUT LOUD TO NOBODY!
4.14 Just Business. Sara shoots Michael up with more antiseizure meds, warning him yet again that this isn't going to cure him, it just might allow him to cheat death for a few more hours. Linc wanders around outside on patrol, looking pretty much exactly like a junkyard guard dog. Michael calls Self, who is lying in wait outside, and tells him he's ready to meet. Aw, lying in wait reminds me of Kellerman. Anyway, Self says he has a better idea, which is to shoot tear gas into the warehouse. Why, that's not a better idea at all! Michael orders everyone out, but the second they open the door Self starts firing. Michael very narrowly avoids getting his brain tumor removed the old-fashioned way. So tear gas it is! (And ha, The Soup showed this out of context and it is kind of hilarious to watch him get gassed and shot at, but stop to answer his phone.) Self launches another canister into the warehouse, and it is Dr. Sara's professional opinion as a physician that pretty soon they won't be able to breathe. Before Self can launch #3, he is surprised by Linc, the greatest junkyard guard dog ever, who smacks him in the face. It's very satisfying.
So they have Self at gunpoint for a few seconds before Gretchen comes to his rescue. With everybody at gunpoint, Self starts the familiar "I'm a mean bad guy villain but really I'm just a regular guy like you!" speech, in which we learn that Self doesn't really even have a particularly good motive for going batshit nuts. He just had a government job. And like, he was totally underappreciated and junk. Michael and his tumor and his dead friends are all "boo FREAKING hoo, jackass." Self says look, everybody can be happy here - his buyer for Scylla wants to screw the Company over as bad as they do and he's paying a metric shit-ton of money for the privilege. So hey, a few million bucks, the Company gets the shaft, it's win-win all around! Linc is tempted and wants to know who the buyer is. "An ex-Company guy with a bone to pick. Just like your father." Ooooh, button pushed. Michael says he'd need to meet the guy first, and Self says that's no problem, and also, this whole elaborate thing with the fake mission and the deaths and the near-deaths and whatnot? Was totally not personal. So no hard feelings, right? We cool? Michael fails to respond with a good-natured fist-bump. Once Self and Gretchen are gone, Michael says they're sticking to the plan, much to Linc's annoyance. Linc is so totally over "principles" right now. Michael at least wants to see if Mahone can come through on his end. Because as we all suspected, Mahone has called up good old reliable Lang, whose huge crush on him has gotten him out of a few jams. He tells her he's been working off the books for Homeland Security and they're thisclose to getting the one thing that can bring the Company down, but they need help.
"Great, now I have to go down to Kinko's and get new ones printed up for Theodore Bagwell, Escaped Murderer/Pedophile!"
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Comments (6)
"We are prepared to offer you your freedom, in exchange for your awesome limited edition Sleeping Michael sweatshirt." hahahaha--love it!
"Linc no like Bluetooth"--y'know, he really does look (and act) that dumb.
Wasn't the Bible salesman (for some reason I know the actor's name is Rafael Sbarge)in a scene previously that made it obvious he was working for the Company? I have this mental picture of him standing on a bridge talking to somebody--Agent Blocks out the Sun? OK, the bridge part might be wrong. Anyhow, I totally knew he was a fake.
1 of 6 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on December 13, 2008 11:32 PM
OK, I'll admit it, I remember Rafael Sbarge because he was a regular on The Guardian. That starred Simon Baker. He (Rafael) had less hair then. Simon had about the same amount.
2 of 6 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on December 13, 2008 11:35 PM
so i know that it's frowned upon to inject unnecessary logic here, but we know Michael has this brain tumor thing going on and should avoid physical exertion. so during the attempt to nab Scylla from Self and Gretchen, why didn't they put michael on the roof with the potato cannon and let Linc handle all of the running and punching? sounds to me like they weren't maximizing their synergies.
BONUS: just before Linc fires the potato-cannon-tear-gas-launcher, we hear the Wyatt Synth Riff of Doom return! boo yah
3 of 6 | Posted by josef | Posted on December 14, 2008 7:17 PM
Loula....I haven't been able to comment until now because everytime I tried to think of something coherant to say, I would start laughing when I thought of your sleeping michael sweatshirt screencap....So funny. I think that might actually be your funniest yet...which is a serious compliment. Just when I think you can't get any more awesome...you do! And I am glad. Show is getting so tense and I am enjoying every minute of it! Thanks for continuing to recap, even when it is cleary tough for you to get it out! You still have some obsessive fans who will wait for it whenever it comes!
4 of 6 | Posted by mamabird | Posted on December 17, 2008 8:16 PM
You guys are so freaking nice I feel guilty for being tardy all the time! If I ever figure out a way to make watching TV look like I'm working, you'll get it by Tuesday night.
Next week's probably won't go up until after xmas, since 1) I'm sure I'm not the only one with 34423746 things to do that week, and 2) it's also my birthday week, and 3) it's the last ep till spring, so having the recap a bit later will help tide you over! It's a public service! You're welcome.
5 of 6 | Posted by loula | Posted on December 18, 2008 1:59 PM
LOVE these recaps!! I haven't posted before now b/c I've been watching them on DVR and now I'm finally caught up.
I don't know what Tombstone II means either, but Tombstone does sound familiar. Was it something that their father was working on? I'm sure we'll find out soon enough. PLEASE hurry with the next recap. Can't wait!
6 of 6 | Posted by FruityLoops | Posted on December 19, 2008 8:10 PM