Sara, who I don't think is exactly the Fox News type, is watching a Fox News story on her Blackberry about the runaway inflation in Laos that's causing food riots. Aha! Nefarious dealings! Wreaking havoc, somehow! It's always something with these Company types. Sara figures out, and explains to Michael, that it looks like they're essentially destroying the country's economy so they can make money off of building it back up. Hmm. Wow, Prison Break, you just gave me a conspiracy theory! She also says she was at a bar earlier, and she didn't drink but it would be lying if she didn't tell him, and she wants him to know she'll never lie to him. Michael needs to work on his boyfriend skills, because he doesn't say much, even when she apologizes to him for no apparent reason, but I can forgive him because he's a smoking hot genius superhero.
Sittin' on the dock of the bay, plannin' criiiiiiiimes
At GATE, Cole Pfeiffer has a visitor. It's not Mr. Xing, it's the guy who stabbed Mr. Xing in the gut last week, so it's probably not good news. He's displeased with Cole's progress and wants "the item," like, yesterday. Here's the deal: his stipend goes down with each day that passes, until we get to the third day when he just kills him. Booberella, meanwhile, seems to be reconsidering her deal. She contemplates the note with Bellick's phone number. Heh, "Brad."
So things are going well for Team Justice - they've identified the remaining 3 cardholders, hooray, and they have personal info for two of them. But this other guy, Self says, the bald General, they have no idea. Totally off the radar. Sara remembers that Gretchen called her boss "General."
Some non-Wyatt lackey brings Gretchen a fresh chum bucket, but she takes him by surprise, grabs his head with her knees, and stabs him in the brain with a wood nail. She takes his keys, unlocks her handcuffs, and strolls unsteadily out. Wyatt is all "nyah nyah, I told you so" to the General, because he wanted to kill her like 3 episodes ago, but the General thinks she'll come back home. Apparently she always has. And some Company guy pokes his head in to say that Homeland Security has been digging around, doing enhanced image searches for him. Some guy named Don Self. Dun!
I'm liking the weirdly topical arc here, with people running around destroying economies on purpose and whatnot. Cool. And the mission is laid out in nice explicit chunks right now like a video game quest - find all six cards, then pass the big break-in level!- which is pacing things nicely. This show is most interesting when Michael can just be smart, and so far this season has been conducive to those McGyvery plotlines. And the nosebleed stuff leads me to assume we're going to learn more about Michael's backstory, which I've been gunning for since season 2. Speaking of which, what the hell happened to all those people Aldo was working with? Could those guys still matter? Can the writers bring everything back together?
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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