Michael reaches up into the ceiling to put the little Scylla nub back in its hidey hole, all of which Self and Gretchen see through their magic camera thingy. Self is all excited but Gretchen is pissed. She wants to talk to her daughter, AKA Baldy Jr, and Gretchen's the one who's bffs with the buyer, so the zillion dollar deal will fall apart without her. He calls T-Bag who hands the phone to the kid, who confirms that she's okay, but "there's this mean man here." Gretchen chokes up a little and says "Remember that other mean man? The one who was mean to mommy? What happened to him?" Emily: "He went to the store and never came back." T-Bag kind of does a double take. Ha. Gretchen says she's pretty sure that if Emily doesn't like this guy, he'll go away forever too. Self rips the phone away and asks to speak to the Mean Man. He says if T-Bag doesn't hear from him in 2 hours, kill them both. And ding dong! T-Bag freaks out, absolutely sure the guy at the door is a Company agent and not the good-natured dorky but suspiciously pushy Bible salesman he claims to be. T-Bag sees the guy's big ring and something about it convinces him to go ahead and err on the side of paranoia. I mean, obviously he's seen this show before, you can't really blame any of these people for being paranoid.
So in a diner somewhere, DC presumably, Mahone meets up with Lang. She brings along the guy she says they can trust, who turns out to be Wheeler, that little twerp from season 2. He turns on the twerp right out of the gate, going out of his way to remind Mahone, whose freaking KID was just MURDERED, what a loser pathetic junkie fugitive he is. Oh, man, you can totally go fuck yourself, twerp. Anyway, Mahone says fine, look at it this way, if I'm right, you get a promotion and everyone in the FBI telling you how cool you are. Wheeler is like, okay, I'll humor you, give me something tangible and I'll help you talk to the Attorney General; otherwise I will continue to find your very existence offensive and express righteous derision in your general direction.
Michael, Linc, Sara and Sucre show up at the Fauntleroy Hotel, and Michael tells Mahone not to worry, they're about to have Scylla once and for all. Sucre shows him the tear gas canisters he stole from the trunk, but they don't have anything to shoot them with. Oh, but they do! Michael spots some PVC pipe in the alley and tells him to find some hairspray and a lighter so they can get all McGyver on this shit.
"Somehow, it took me this long to realize you're kind of a dick."
Lisa hands the General her resignation. For some reason it took her until last week to realize "who he really is." And you know, I don't think fatherly love will stop him from silencing her like he's silenced everyone else who has so much as witnessed the Company's doings, let alone been in the inner circle. "I wanted a son," he says bitchily as she leaves, just in case we didn't know he was an asshole. One of his more loyal subjects announces that they've used nonexistent facial recognition software to locate Self and Gretchen on one of LA's many surveillance cameras. Several thugs in several big scary black SUVs screech off to the Fauntleroy Hotel. So hurry up with the McGyvering, Michael.
T-Bag has the Bible salesman guy tied to a chair. He's all paranoid and crazy, asking poor "Ralph" who sent him and smacking him around when he keeps saying he doesn't know what the Company is and he's just here cause he loves Jesus, etc. Rita begs him to calm down, shows him Ralph's wallet, which of course does not contain a business card that reads "Joe Evil: Heavily Armed Thug, Muahahaha Inc., Los Angeles, CA." T-Bag points out the ring that first made him suspicious - it's a military academy ring, and how many Bible salesmen would graduate from a military academy? Bible guy sobs that it's his kid brother's ring, the one who died in Iraq, and yikes, that's a pretty good story. But T-Bag isn't quite convinced and neither am I. Can you blame us for being paranoid? Those guys know what they're doing, people!
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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