Meanwhile, the boys are tracking the location of the phone that made all those calls to the sniper. It takes them to the Indian Embassy, where The Mom That Makes Britney Spears Look Like Claire Huxtable is also pulling up. So yeah, it's her. They see she's got a briefcase - not a regular briefcase, a TV briefcase that's really big and made of titanium or something and would look really suspicious and weird and scary if you just saw one on the train or something - ergo, she must have Scylla. Ergo they have to figure out how to break into an embassy in the middle of the day, without Michael or his Thinking Face to help them. Ergo, diversion! And who's more diverting than T-Bag? Props again to Robert Knepper, incidentally. An actor who can play a character who is himself also playing a character? That's a good actor. Anyway, he stands around the gate annoying the guard so the guys are free to break in. He's all "did you know that elephants eat 500 pounds of food a day, and their dung can be used to make PARCHMENT?" The point at which I actually laugh out loud comes when the guard T-Bag has nicknamed Hadji calls for backup, and T-Bag responds, with much glee, "Ba-RING IT!" Oh, he also handcuffs himself to the gate. But the cops actually do take him away, so he better hope they don't need his fingerprints, or, you know, recognize him from the FBI's Most Wanted list he's been on for the past year or so, not to mention the dozens of Great Fox River Escape episodes of Dateline and 20/20, and the TV movie Not Without My Brother starring Charlie Sheen as Michael Scofield and Steve Carrell In A Hans And Franz Fake Muscle Sweatsuit as Lincoln Burrows.
"Okay, so yes, technically this is an empty gesture since I have the cuffs around my fake hand, but if I put them on the good hand I couldn't lock them, now could I? Work with me here!"
Inside, Mom is meeting with a guy I guess we can assume is the Ambassador? She's super duper excited to show him Scylla, which is apparently full of blueprints for things like instant potable water makers and solar power cells and other world-changing awesomeness. He's impressed but it all sounds too good to be true. She's like, well, you can present this at the Progressive Energy Conference tomorrow and everybody will think you're a genius, or you can let some other crappy country take the credit, and then you'll feel like the Hawks when they passed up Chris Paul in the 2005 draft. He argues that the hypothesis has been refuted by Vincent Sandinsky - VS! - who will also be there. Dun! He wants to hear Sandinsky's lecture first. If Sandinsky says it's bullshit, he's not presenting it. Otherwise they go halvsies on the profits. So Mom has kind of a vested interest in exactly what this VS guy says, and/or whether he's too dead to say it.
And as for the break-in without Michael? FAIL. They get to dress up in suits, and they manage to poke around a bit, but Christina's men catch them pretty quickly. Which is how every Prison Break Mission: Implausible probably would have ended in the real world, but still, I can't help but feel a little embarrassed on their behalf. They're herded into a room and told to line up with their hands on their heads, until Mahone realizes, wait, this is an embassy! Mom won't want to make any waves here, she'll just want to get out as fast as she can. And of course he's right, because he always is, so they slip out unharmed. In her haste she leaves behind a little post it note saying "Sandinsky arriving 4:30, confirmed." Which Michael and Sara are totally already on top of! (If I watched "The Amazing Race" this is where I'd make an "Amazing Race" joke.) As Christina hurries to her car, she says she has no idea how Linc found them, and all she cares about now is Sandinsky. She calls to check on how Morris, AKA Hijacky guy, is progressing. He progressed right off this mortal coil, is how he's progressing, you crazy bitch. She is appropriately floored when it's Michael who answers, from Morris' secret phone, in his secret car, on the way to his secret rendezvous. Your abandoned kids know a lot more than they should, even the oafish monosyllabic one! So what's your move, Mom Who Makes Mommy Dearest Look Like June Cleaver? Sara and Michael pretty much knew that was coming, but they're still kind of speechless.
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Major props for the Chris Paul/Atlanta Hawks connection!
1 of 1 | Posted by nashuaf | Posted on May 1, 2009 5:11 AM