Hi everybody! I'm back in the U.S. of A. and finally ready to get back to the important work of recapping Prison Break. Umnata wasn't able to cover for me last week, so I'll start out with a few paragraphs mini-recapping last week's show: Michael, Linc, Tweener, and T-Bag nosed around the subdivision in Utah trying to figure out where the D.B. Cooper silo used to be. Due to Michael being a genius, they deduced that the money was buried under some lady's garage. Unfortunately, the lady was home. She was a middle-aged (actually pretty old) whore - not literally, but believe me, she earned the pejorative. The four guys convinced her that they were some sort of utility crew and needed to dig in her garage. Literally. Get your minds out of the gutter.
Then C-Note and Sucre showed up, demanding their cut, and were let in on the digging. T-Bag went inside to seduce the old whore. (For those keeping track, T-Bag is sexually attracted to twentyish men, sixtyish women, and fourteen-year-old girls. This is probably not a complete list. He's hot for everyone.) T-Bag got jealous when the whore actually wanted to be with Linc, and there was a fake-out where we were supposed to think he killed her, but he actually went upstairs with her for some consensual sex. Ew.
Michael sent Tweener into town to fill up the car with gas. Meanwhile, Agent Mahone connected the dots on all of the escapee sightings and figured out that they were converging in a particular part of Utah; he also figured out the D.B. Cooper connection. Mahone ended up catching Tweener, and at the end of the show, a cop showed up at the old whore's house. T-Bag then took his erstwhile girlfriend hostage.
Romance gone sour.
In other news, we finally saw Haywire and it was a total waste of airtime. He broke into a fast-food place, pigged out, broke into some lady's house, and pretended to be her long-lost son or grandson; she caught on and called the cops; he stuck a knife in the window frame and took off, stealing an ugly painting of Holland.
In other other news, Governor Tancredi figured out that he was being played by a giant conspiracy when he saw his daughter's "friend" "Lance" (Evil Agent Kellerman) coming out of a briefing in D.C. The Gov later called Sara to warn her, and we saw that she was actually with Lance, and thus in danger. Um, why didn't he call her faster so that Lance wouldn't have time to get back from D.C. to Chicago? I'm just saying.
Now, on to this week's show.
T-Bag is still holding the old whore hostage, with a very sinister-looking pickax thing. A cute female cop comes to the door and walks right in. She calls out for "Mom" - whoops! Old Whore has a cop daughter! Cop Daughter notices some broken glass in the kitchen and her Cop-Daughter-Dar comes on. She heads upstairs to check things out. The only people upstairs are Michael, T-Bag, and Old Whore; the rest of the escapees are hiding in a hallway downstairs. Cop Daughter finds Michael and T-Bag holding her mom hostage. She's just about to turn the tables on them ('cause, you know, she has a gun and they don't) when Linc comes up behind her and grabs her.
Looks like T-Bag's idea of a party.
Agent Mahone is also in Utah, in the same town as our guys. He's being briefed by some local cop type. Mahone says that the escapees are obviously still around and trying to dig up the hidden money. He says that Tweener, whom he has in custody, is going to tell them where.
Dr. Sara is in the grocery store with "Lance," a.k.a. Evil Agent Kellerman. He wants to bake her cookies tonight. Again, that's literal - you see, he's still pretending that he's gay. Sara blows him off in a very unsubtle manner, since she just got a call from her dad telling her that Lance is dangerous. She does a very poor job of covering up and proceeds to ditch Lance right there in the store.
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Comments (10)
Great re-cap Amanda. The end was crazy, never saw any of it coming. What about Sucre telling all to give him the money? Wow. Great TV. Really. Now I have to wait 3 weeks?? It's just mean!
1 of 10 | Posted by mistichristi
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Posted on October 9, 2006 5:53 AM
Maybe there will be a crossover between Prison Break and 24. The hangning senator reminded me of Walt Cummings hanging himself in the hall. Who in the real world would be fooled by such a thing?
2 of 10 | Posted by grandemocha
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Posted on October 9, 2006 8:07 AM
Good recap Amanda. I don't think Sucre is turning on his fellow escapees. Something else is up. Wonder what that key is for? Patience, patience.
3 of 10 | Posted by may1
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Posted on October 9, 2006 10:32 AM
Look at Big K scoring a product endorsement. Step aside Coke, Kroger brand cola is coming through!
If Michael is so smart, how does he not see that L.J.'s release is a trap?
4 of 10 | Posted by HicksPub
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Posted on October 9, 2006 11:12 AM
So how many deaths have there been this season? 5? 6?
If we keep going at this rate the whole cast will be eliminated by mid-December. It's a veritable PrisonBreakicide.
5 of 10 | Posted by Ms. Tumnus
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Posted on October 10, 2006 9:17 AM
Do they have Kroger out in Utah? It was so weird to see that beverage on TV...this was a good episode. I really want Agent Mahone dead already.
6 of 10 | Posted by Tracie
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Posted on October 10, 2006 10:51 AM
2 points:
1. when Agent Park said "he's as good as dead" the scene cut to LJ to make ppl think he was referring to him. After we found out it wasnt LJ, they went to the Gov tancredi story and showed the outcome there. Park was talking about him. I could be wrong though b/c i forgot how the convesation between kellerman and PArk went, but still it was not a suicide. sara's dad was murdered.
2. sara's apartment is being made to look like she died of an OD (after finding out her father's death). There was a shadow slowly approaching behind her as she knelt by the drugs so that person is going to try to kill her. Wait for Kellerman to come to the rescue.
7 of 10 | Posted by CapoSTAT
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Posted on October 10, 2006 8:56 PM
Only seven comments? Wow, this show MUST be lagging. No longer a viewer, TVGasm is my PB source - great (and funny) recap as always. You don't disappoint.
Whoa, now the FBI guy is a killer? I mean come on, how many times has this show jumped the shark by now? And I forget, sorry for Sara and all that, but do we care today that her dad's been murdered? And puhlease do not make Lance/Killerman go all nice-guy on us. I mean, some suspension of disbelief is ok, but that? Not buying it.
8 of 10 | Posted by emmaV
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Posted on October 12, 2006 9:17 PM
Hm - this is getting a little too Da Vinci Code for me.
Nah, more like Lost. Who are the Others? Who is behind the Dharma Project? What is the monster and why is it there?
I mean, Who is the Company? Who does Kellerman work for? What is Mahone and why is he there (considering he's FBI but it's the US Marshal's job to catch fugitives, not the FBI's)?
9 of 10 | Posted by Romulus
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Posted on October 28, 2006 1:12 PM
I think only real surprise left in this show each week is "Who is going to be suddenly and brutally killed this week?"
10 of 10 | Posted by Romulus
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Posted on October 28, 2006 1:14 PM