3.01 Orientacion. The critical first scene of this third season begins with...Um. Some lady? She's putting on her makeup. Also, she's hot, which goes without saying on account of they don't let ugly women on television. She has what looks like fingernail scratches on her cheek. Aaaand scene. Well that was odd.

And now it's Michael, gawking with horror at that same gladiator type cheering we overheard at the very end of the season 2 finale. He steps into the rainy yard, and I thank Fox for kicking the year off with Wet Michael, one of my very favorite Michaels. Dozens of huge scary guys are gathered in a big circle around the yard, yelling. Michael sees Mahone sort of stumble out, bewildered. Poor Mahone. Michael wanders further into the fray, where I don't have any idea what's happening. It's muddy and rainy a big scary guy menacingly produces something that looks very much like a chicken foot on a leather string. No really. He dangles it for everyone to see before he throws it to the ground where it disappears in the mud. Wait, what?

We don't get any more information on either of these weird short cryptic scenes just yet because Linc is frantic in the Embassy, pleading with some Suit that his brother is innocent. The Suit says he's just the night guy; Linc will have to wait till morning if he wants anything done. That ain't gonna cut it with Linc. He storms off, but the Suit interrupts. "Your brother. Where do they have him incarcerated?" "Sona." The Suit's face falls and he tells Linc that's where they put the very worst criminals. The ones the other, cushier, white-collar Panamanian penitentiaries won't take. After the last riot there, the guards were all "$12 an hour for this bullshit? Fuck that!" and just left them to themselves. Indeed, as he tells us this, we cut to the yard where there is some serious felon-on-felon action going on. The punching kind, I mean. The role of the chicken foot in all of this remains unclear. So two guys are beating the snot out of each other, and everyone else is yelling like and it looks and sounds for all the world like tailgating at an LSU football game. One gets the other into a headlock, and Michael watches, and listens, as the bigger guy snaps his neck. Everyone is very excited about this. Except the dead guy, obviously, and Michael, who looks like he's going to throw up. He walks up to the dead guy and stares as everyone else just kind of disperses. The Suit tells Linc that anything that goes inside Sona stays there till it's dead.

Oooh, cool new credit sequence. Naturally there is no Kellerman, although I haven't given up on that yet, and there is no Dr. Sara. At press time, unsubstantiated rumors have surfaced that Sarah Wayne Callies will not return. I nearly broke up with this show over this, and I have learned not to trust Fox, but they're at least saying that they haven't said any such thing, and that "Dr. Sara Tancredi plays a significant part in the storyline this year." Aw, man, if they go the "It's totally Sara but she had extensive plastic surgery because she's in the witness protection program!" route, I at least better like the actress. A lot. Anyway, cool images in the credits, and the very last image is that chicken foot falling in to the mud, so um. I guess that's important or symbolic or something, huh.

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