Gretchen and Self drive up to a pier for their meeting with the buyer. T-Bag calls to tell him there's been a third party introduced into the situation, who might be a Company agent, but also might be a Bible salesman. "Then he won't have any trouble getting past St. Peter," Self says. "Kill him." You know you're a class-A dick when T-Bag is morally conflicted about carrying out your orders. He sends Rita out of the room so he can shoot the guy, who is still sobbing and praying and begging for his life. Rita comes back in and tries to convince him that this is his chance to stop being a prisoner of his own identity. He can be Cole Pfeiffer! He's not quite buying it, but he starts reciting a Bible verse and Bible Guy finishes it for him. For some reason, this is what convinces him the guy is for real. Dude! Really? Do you know how many seriously evil motherfuckers can recite Bible verses? The names "Jim Jones" and "Charles Manson" mean anything to you? You think the Company can infiltrate the Secret Service but they can't teach a fake Bible salesman some Psalms? Anyway, T-Bag decides to free himself from his old persona. He tells Rita to get in her car with Emily and drive really really far away. He even thanks her for talking him out of killing another innocent man. He cuts the Innocent Man loose, at which point the Innocent Man OF COURSE punches him in the face and strangles him unconscious. He calls in to let Baldy know he's got Bagwell. Nice redemption there, T-Bag, but looks like you're a day late and a dollar short with the whole "conquering trust issues" thing. He's tied up on the floor staring at the heavily symbolic Cole Pfeiffer business card when the Company thugs arrive to take him away. Just in case we didn't get the symbolism, Bible Guy steps on it and leaves a big muddy shoeprint. Get it? Cause Cole Pfeiffer doesn't exist anymore? And his new life has been trampled on? Get it?
"NOW how many Bibles do you want? Seventeen? That's what I thought! Have a blessed day, bitch!"
Dr. Evil, MD, is showing Baldy Michael's MRI films. "The growth is malignant," he says. It's pushing up against his temporal lobe and will kill him soon. And okay, I suppose if it's big enough something on the hypothalamus could push up against the temporal lobe. But the symptoms would have been a lot more interesting. Missed opportunity, Prison Break. Or maybe not: Baldy asks the doctor if he's ever seen anything like this, and he says "once." Oooh, what does that mean? Is it about Mom? Their meeting is interrupted when Linc shows up at the door. He wants to see his brother. "It started with me and it ends with me."
At the pier, Gretchen's contact shows up to wait for the buyer. Self, who is officially a worse human being than both T-Bag AND Gretchen, confirms that the buyer is on his way with the money, then shoots the middlemen and tosses them into the ocean. Because hey, he's got a buyer, why would he want to give up a cut of the money? Gretchen is horrified and furious, but at this point she kind of has no choice but to play along with this crazy motherfucker.
Poor pathetic Mahone is sitting in the diner, watching Wheeler the Twerp and Lang argue outside. Lang comes back in, all "okay, we're totally going to bring you to the Attorney General to tell your story, it's gonna be awesome, I swear!" We know, and Mahone knows, that that's not the kind of conversation they were having, and Lang already looks like she's apologizing, but he gets in the car, because what the hell else can he do? They put him in the backseat - you know, the one with the grate and the doors that don't unlock from the inside - and he tells Lang he knows there's no meeting. He thanks her for all her help. She cries. Twerp looks smug. (No worries, next week's previews show Mahone rolling out of the car and taking off into the woods, of course.)
"We are prepared to offer you your freedom, in exchange for your awesome limited edition Sleeping Michael sweatshirt."
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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