Roland brings Mahone a list of motels that match his search criteria. While he's there, he decides, for reasons that are unclear to me, to discuss nature vs nurture as pertains to Wyatt. Genes trump everything. "You think this guy wanted to grow up to be a murderer? Probably not." I know Wyatt a lot better than Roland does, and I'm not so sure he didn't.
Sucre and Bellick go to Sam's office and are like "oh dear, someone seems to have squirted an entire mustard bottle of ink right in front of this door. Could someone open it so we can plug in our absurdly loud cleaning equipment?" His assistant reluctantly complies, and Sucre is all, "um, so this is a special stain, and for some totally technical reason we have to leave this really loud thing running for like an hour and a half." Michael and Linc drop in to the office and use a stud finder to find the safe on the other side of the wall, and you can make your own stud finder joke here. They cut into the drywall and find the back of the super safe from outer space, but before they can start using their um, giant bore-steel-cutter-througher, Linc asks Michael about his nosebleed like he's seen them before. Michael says it's no big deal, but apparently it was a big deal when Michael was 13. He doesn't want Sara to know, and Linc's all, Sara's a doctor, genius, she can help you. He says he's just acclimating to the warmer climate. What, warmer than Dallas Panama? The point is that obviously there's a story here, but right now they have a hole to make. It's a pretty cool hole, too.
Mahone walks into Sara's bar, and whew, I thought for sure Wyatt would have killed the nice lady bartender, just because hey, he's right there, why not? But she's fine, and Mahone tells her that Sara is running from this hot black guy here, she's in danger, and he needs to find him before she gets hurt. Bartender lady says she saw him leave on foot, then go back to his car to get something. Woohoo, we know what kind of car he's driving. But I fear he is one step ahead of them, since we see him ask the seedy clerk at the seedy motel for a favor, then hand him a note with $300 attached.
Michael is getting better at this stuff, and so are the other guys I guess, because there are a few near-misses but so far everyone in the office has been absolutely oblivious. The nearest miss, though, is that General Baldy shows up looking for Orin, and waits in his office for him to be pulled frantically from a way less important meeting. Michael, because he is a genetically enhanced superbeing, hears him pacing through the hole in the wall.
Mahone is right behind Wyatt, pulling up at the correct motel and asking the clerk if he's seen him. The clerk says he checked out, and Mahone asks to search the room. As he's headed out, he hesitates, and turns back to find seedy clerk guy calling Wyatt: "You wanted to know if anyone came looking for you?" Mahone puts a gun to the clerk's head, and when Wyatt asks "did they?" the clerk's all "nope, just getting off work, wanted to keep you posted okbye!" Mahone and his gun recommend that the clerk hand over that note there with Wyatt's phone number on it.
"You should probably do what I say. Did you see that diner scene earlier? I'm a basketcase!"
So Orin the Cardholder comes into his office to meet General Baldy, and of course they cryptically discuss nefarious dealings, saying things like "final objective," and "one of our targets has been found in Los Angeles." Michael's ears are burning! Turns out Orin's going Laos too, which is where Lisa went, and Baldy is monitoring their currency, so clearly Laos is in trouble. Also, he set up a meeting for Orin with the finance minister. Interesting. Oh, and one more thing: someone's been sneaking around Scylla, so he wants everybody to keep their cards on them at all times. He says this just after Michael has reached into their perfectly round hole to grab the card and suck up the data. After much suspense, they get all the data just in time, and Michael is able to put the card back and hold the missing chunk up to the hole in the safe, apparently convincing enough to fool Orin. Everyone makes it out without incident! Practice makes perfect, kids.
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Comments (6)
Another frakktastic recap. Thanks for the shoutout, Loula! You made my day. And the Michaels and their McGyver tendencies combined with the fact that they are both "smoking hot genius superhero" types (heh!) makes for some entertaining television. And I totally regaled my co-workers with the keyboard cleaner breaking locks fun fact after I saw that. (how awesome was that, I mean really...)
I loved your take on Sara and thought Sarah with an H rocked that scene...and had good car ju ju to boot!
1 of 6 | Posted by mamabird | Posted on September 25, 2008 6:54 PM
Well...apparently I am long winded today. Part 2--
Mahone and his wife. That scene was brilliant. Her gasp when she saw the picture of Bailey's Husband...as a mom, that knocked the wind out of me for a second. Well done, Callie Thorne. Last two thoughts..."topical economic clusterfuck joke redacted due to insufficient funds"...HA!
And what was in the damn bucket! Ideas, anyone?
2 of 6 | Posted by mamabird | Posted on September 25, 2008 7:00 PM
I didn't see your comment until way after you posted it, but I was actually thinking that during the Burn Notice finale, that it was reminding me of Prison Break. Replace the wackiness with angst and they're pretty much the same show. Which is awesome.
I assume the bucket was a chum-like soup of terrible, terrible things. That's all I need to know about it.
And yeah, the timing of this economic meltdown arc is creepy, especially since they made it clear that Laos is just practice for the ultimate goal. It's the General's fault! Make him pony up the $700billion!
3 of 6 | Posted by loula | Posted on September 25, 2008 7:36 PM
Unrelated to the episode - Do you remember when Lincoln, actor Dominick Purcell, played the title character in the Fox show, John Doe? In that show, He was the one that knew everything there was to know and He was the one leading the charge against a mysterious group of people (the Phoenix Organization). Now he plays the brute brother of the genius.
John Doe was awesome.
4 of 6 | Posted by Hey Buddy | Posted on September 26, 2008 11:44 AM
First Self's story was about "bearer bonds", not "bear bonds".
And doesn't every office have tiled carpets now? The snarky secretary (apparently working through her lunch hour) might have wondered why they didn't just lift up a couple of tiles and replace them instead of spending an hour cleaning them in situ.
5 of 6 | Posted by AlanHK | Posted on October 1, 2008 6:45 PM
PS-- forgot to mention the wonderful "whatever technology" (as used on CSI and 24) photo enhancement that turned the fuzzy longshot of the general into a tasteful high-res studio-posed portrait.
6 of 6 | Posted by AlanHK | Posted on October 1, 2008 6:52 PM