Big pole fall down go boom!
As a couple of wise men once said, blame it on the rain! An inconvenient downpour moves up the time frame for the tunnel diggers. And while you're at it, blame it on the surprisingly efficient backup generator, and the shady-but-maybe-not fisherman, and Sucre's poorly chosen alias, and also that crazy woman who likes to torture people. But whatever you do, don't put the blame on Michael. He's not taking on any more burdens, dammit! Yeah, we'll see how that works out for you. Also, LINC SMASH!
3.11 Under & Out. So it's Michael, Lechero, Mahone, Bellick, T-Bag and Whistler on the team now. They're bickering about how best to deal with the dirty rocky escape-hindering aftermath of Sammy's unforeseen demise so they can get out of there in the next 24 hours. And this always annoys me, because these people are all bitchy with Michael for not having this done yet and it's like, really, Bellick? How many prison escapes have you engineered? Did you have a better plan you just didn't share with the rest of the class? No reason to break the man's balls, people. He's had a rough week. Michael asserts that he knows better than anyone else there how important it is that they make it out of there, and yeah, raise your hand if your brother received a box with your girlfriend's head in it recently. Anybody? Just Michael then? That's what I thought.
Sofia and Linc pull up outside Sona. She's staying in the car today; she has a lot to talk to Whistler about, but not through a fence. Sofia, preaching to the choir, wonders if Linc ever wanted to go back in time to when things made sense. "Every day for the last three years," he says. This timeframe bothered me initially, but astute reader josef points out that Linc actually was on death row for three years before Michael broke him out. So hooray, Prison Break Continuity Fairy!
Linc visits Michael, who is getting kind of bitchy about how much time Linc's spending with Sofia, and whether or not that's wise. Linc glosses over this and asks for a progress report. Michael says they should be through by tomorrow afternoon, but they'll need a diversion once they get out into no man's land. Oh, and also T-Bag is coming. Again. And Bellick and Mahone and a the murderous drug lord who runs the place. Ha. Linc just cares about Whistler. Michael can worry about the tunnel, Linc will take care of the guards. They agree to meet tomorrow afternoon.
Downstairs everybody's rebuilding the braces that crashed down on Sammy. T-Bag is frustrated: "We could work on this railroad all the live-long day, but it don't matter if Scofield doesn't know what happens once we get off the train!" Whistler says it's every man for himself - Michael isn't responsible for any of them once they're out. T-Bag tells Whistler that Michael screwed everybody over last time, most of them ending up dead or captured, and Mahone, who knows a little bit about the subject, interrupts to point out that the ones who are easiest to catch are the ones who sit around bitching at each other instead of running. Mahone is so awesome. Michael walks in on the aftermath of this verbal bitchslapping and they start digging. But something is amiss. Water is dripping from the ceiling, and when the engineer says "oh no" you get worried. They run up to Michael's window to find that it's been raining, and the weight of the water is making a sinkhole over their tunnel. Michael doesn't think the ground will hold up till tomorrow, so they're leaving tonight.
So remember how I love Mahone? Everyone's freaking out about how a nighttime escape was supposed to be impossible and they're just going to get themselves killed, so Michael just snaps that whoever wants out of the club can go. Mahone, once again the voice of reason, and who thought I'd ever be typing that sentence, says that Michael needs them for his plan to work, and they need him to get out at all. They might as well trust him.
"How can you say no to this face? I average 22 points per game!"
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Comments (2)
loula, you're always givin me the chuckles!
but i am going to correct you - Linc was on death row for about 3 years, not a few months. it's actually commented that because his "crime" was so heinous, the justice system burnt out all of his appeals in 3 years (the average time for a death row inmate is 10years)
1 of 2 | Posted by josef | Posted on February 7, 2008 8:24 PM
Ahhh! Well in that case, continuity points for the writers, and cool points for josef. They always ignore that whole "people never ever ever get executed without years and years of appeals" thing on television because it's boring, so I just kind of accepted that as one of the disbeliefs I'd have to suspend, but no! I guess that means I need to rewatch season one, huh?
Thank you, and as a matter of fact I think I'll go take that entire tirade out. The Prison Break Continuity Fairy deserves all the recognition she can get.
2 of 2 | Posted by loula | Posted on February 7, 2008 8:41 PM