And we're off! To the races, and also to jail. Mahone gets got, but do the Superfriends let him rot in jail or risk their mission to save him? Okay, you can probably guess the answer to that. But wow, a busy day for Team Justice! Two Missions: Implausible in one episode, and we still haven't seen any of them sleep or eat anything this entire season. Get these people a nap and some some Thai delivery, for heaven's sake! The future of the Laotian economy depends on it!
Where have I seen this before?
4.06 Blow Out. So we start off in the middle of a card heist they planned offscreen, and this one's going down at the racetrack. I guess there's only so many ways to shoot a "people research things, write on whiteboards and go 'aha!'" scene. Sara's all done up like a girl. "Don't get used to it," she mutters as she passes a smirking Michael, but truthfully I prefer the white hoodie/giant purse look she usually rocks. Michael, incidentally, is wearing a floppy fisherman hat just like Mahone wore in the season premiere, and I like to imagine it is in fact the same hat, and on a cutting-room floor somewhere is a touching scene wherein Mahone tearfully tells Michael to take good care of it. Anyway, everyone's in the crowd, each with their own role in another Prison Break patented Mission: Implausible. Bellick's role is to place a bet and then make a complete ass of himself, which, you know. He can handle that. Linc is lurking around the um. The place where the horses hang out before they go to the gates. Backstage. Sucre distracts the security guy and Linc just kind of hops over the fence. I should point out here that Linc is the absolute very last person you'd mistake for a jockey. Seriously, there are jockeys milling about and he makes them look like Oompa Loompas. Those horses must be terrified. Linc watches the starting gates and furrows his super manly brow at the little doohickey Michael gave him.
"Seriously, it looks way better on me. I have the bone structure to pull it off, and it would go great with that grey sweatshirt I wore for two entire seasons."
Meanwhile, Sara and her feminine wiles help Michael and Mahone sneak into the manager's office while he's out placating Bellick. They stick the Data Sucker Upper under his desk and sneak back out. Cardholder #4 is some high roller with special rich person seats, so they can't just walk up to him, and presumably whatever Linc is up to is designed to get him into the manager's office. I don't know exactly what's happening, but the upshot is that they have farted around with Gate #8, which causes Cardholder #4's horse to lose before the race even starts. Cardholder #4 is all "Dammit, I'm going to speak to the manager!" just like they counted on. Implausible, people, not impossible! Sara flirts with a security guard who shoos her away, and like, who the hell tells a hot girl to stop touching him? Oh right, a gay guy, so don't feel bad, Sara. Mahone sneaks in to grab the Data Sucker Upper but is cornered on his way out. He throws an ill-advised punch at a cop and is arrested. With the Data Sucker Upper in his pocket. D'oh.
Meanwhile, in Riverside, a disheveled, beaten and probably foul-smelling Gretchen bangs on the door of a pleasant suburban McMansion. "Hey, Sis," she says to the pretty mom who answers the door, and particular exposition tactic drives me bonkers, because damn, people, you're writers, surely you can think of a slightly less hamfisted way to get that information across! Has any nonfictional person ever called their sister "Sis"? Again, that's not necessarily rhetorical, I'm genuinely curious.
T-Bag the homicidal escaped convict Cole Pfeiffer the star salesman has um, tea bagged (I am so sorry for both the pun and any unpleasant mental images it may evoke) every page in the bird book, revealing a whole new set of clues. Andy, who has officially stopped trying to hide his contempt, stops by just to let him know that his sales records appear to be as phony as his creepy rubber hand, and they're on to him.
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Comments (5)
i would like to point out the truly badass musical number in the courtroom. you know, whenever Wyatt enters and this low, threatening growl of a synthesizer riff kicks in? when the dude just gets up to change his seat that music makes it seem like it's the devil himself with restless leg syndrome.
man, i hope that turns out to be Wyatt's theme. i'm sorry, but after an entire season of Gretchin, i'm glad we have a Company Assasin who's actually threatening.
1 of 5 | Posted by josef | Posted on October 3, 2008 9:45 AM
Another fantastic recap!
"Sara makes a face that suggests she disagrees, and Michael may come a-knockin' but the SS Minnow won't be a-rockin' tonight." Hilarious!
I don't trust Roland. I am looking forward to learning more about his backstory.
I loved that Michael and crew saved Mahone. I totally knew Michael couldn't just let him go down like that.
Oh and that hat....why couldn't they have put him in a baseball hat? Please no more floppy hats for Michael.
2 of 5 | Posted by akgirl7 | Posted on October 3, 2008 10:32 AM
josef, speaking of the music, I almost mentioned that ominous"BRRUNNNNNG!" church bell/chime sound they use a lot. As in, la la, just hanging out in a parking garage, turn around and BRRUNNNGG! It's Wyatt! That's what I think of as his theme, is just a single hollow echoey brrruuunnng. Have they always used that? I think I need to rewatch S1.
And you know, akgirl7, they might be setting him up as a red herring, but we know he's a crook, we saw him lie about the extra info he got from Lisa's phone, etc. And I think he's the only character whose POV we never get, you know? He doesn't really have a story yet, so they could pretty much do whatever they want with him. What's he doing while everyone else is out sabotaging electrical systems and rigging horseraces and stuff? It could be nothing, or it could be a big "DUN!" plot twist, but I'm surprised we haven't seen him like, on the phone with his mom or something by now.
3 of 5 | Posted by loula | Posted on October 3, 2008 5:14 PM
I just read your comment loula and that was hilarious! Yes why haven't we seen him talking to him mom? Maybe he's not a momma's boy like Bellick! Can't wait to read your recap on Monday's show!!!! Loved the twist for poor Sucre!
4 of 5 | Posted by akgirl7 | Posted on October 8, 2008 12:41 PM
Loula!!!!
Where are you! I miss you desperately. Hope nothing bad is afoot.......
Last nights ep rocked and i need your recap!!!!
5 of 5 | Posted by mamabird | Posted on November 4, 2008 5:29 PM