Michael and Sara are truckin' along, eating truck stop food while Michael reminisces. It was Mom and her cruel Mom gift of a birdhouse making kit that helped Michael realize that making stuff was what he loved to do. Which is neat, but maybe if she'd given him the Millennium Falcon like he wanted he'd be an astronaut or a Jedi or something instead of a thrice-escaped prisoner with a huge pile of bodies in his wake. Way to go, Mom. Anyway, the truck gets pulled over by a cop, who's totally just a regular cop and is in no way suspicious. The truck driver I guess knows by now that people who give you a hundred bucks to ride amongst bottled water cases are the sorts of people you don't want to tell cops about, so he tries to shoo him off, but the totally legitimate cop peeks inside and sees a shadow of a shoe. Now, somehow, he is 100% certain that this shoe shadow is Michael and Sara. So sure that not only does he not call for backup to keep them at gunpoint in the back, he doesn't even bother checking, just shoots the nice truck driver man and hijacks the whole deal. Somehow, this makes more sense than say, going inside, handcuffing them and putting them in the cop car. Or just killing them. I guess they want Michael and Sara to think they're still safe? Regardless, they now find themselves in a weirdly contrived situation in which they must escape from a speeding 18-wheeler, which is exactly the sort of McGyvery shit that Michael positively cannot wait to pull. He rigs some strappy things up and manages to push the side door open and they go tumbling out, running for their lives yet again.
"Hey, remember when I got that Oscar nomination for Apollo 13? You'd think I'd be getting more work, huh?"
Christina Rose, The Mom Not The Boat, is on the phone, annoyed with Oren, aka Cardholder/General Blowy Uppy guy. Seems Baldy didn't get Blowed Up Real Good enough: She just got word that he's alive. D'oh. Oren says he can get it done right, but Mom thinks it's time to pull the plug on whatever mysterious plan they're working. She asks him to put her on speakerphone, which doesn't raise his suspicions for some reason, but she thanks him for his service and gives the signal (super secret code word: "Now!") for the driver to shoot him in the chest a few times. Later, when Baldy calls, she's all "Oh, how nice to hear from you, Jonathan, I assume this means you have retrieved Scylla and have not at all been blown up in any way that has nothing at all to do with me." He says no, he doesn't have Scylla, and by the way, he looked into it, and she doesn't seem to be in Johannesburg like she's been telling him. Also, the whole thing with being blown up, and the fact that Oren was found dead shortly after the splosion attempt, has him thinking they need to have a little sit-down. She says no thanks, why don't you and your boring daughter and psycho girlfriend find Scylla yourselves? Oh, that's a long story, Mom, someone will fill you in later.« The Duel 2: Nobody Puts Aneesa in the Duel! | Main | American Idol: Fevered Disco »
Comments (2)
Great recap. I love William Fichtner too. He is awesome. He can do no wrong.
"Ha, Mom, your security system for your priceless world-changing doohickey is a priest who loses a two-second fight with a one-handed pervert. Nice." LMAO!!! And also, the things Prison Break cannot have an episode without! But you forgot Michael's *head*desk* face.
I really hope the ending can somehow involve Kellerman too, but he's taken a position at Private Practice. Maybe they'll share him for an episode.
1 of 2 | Posted by jadestarla | Posted on April 22, 2009 11:43 AM
How could I have forgotten "steely glares"? That's like 75% of what Wentworth Miller does. You're right, that should definitely be up there with car crashes and abandoned buildings.
And I know, really, I'm pretty sure we're supposed to assume Kellerman is dead, but they did make it juuust ambiguous enough for me to hope they'll borrow Paul Adelstein for the finale. A girl can dream.
2 of 2 | Posted by loula | Posted on April 22, 2009 11:56 AM