Lisa tells Baldy their jet has been cleared for takeoff, so it's time to move Scylla; you know, that thing Michael is carefully, silently inching toward on a suspended ladder at this very moment. Oh, and here's another thing nobody could have seen coming: Michael has a seizure at the worst possible time. He recovers, gives a thumbs-up to the three faces anxiously (silently!) poking their heads through the hole in the wall, and makes it to the glass enclosure. He sticks a couple of handles on it, cuts a circle with a glasscutter, blasts it with the nitrogen to make it nice and brittle, and pushes the circular chunk right out, placing it neatly on the floor in front of him. That would be the interior floor, the one without the weight sensors. Upstairs, oblivious for now, Baldy is telling Lisa to go ahead and have her police luncheon while they wait for the rest of the Cardholders. Now is not the time to hurt any cops' feelings, so she heads out. She and her sizeable entourage walk right by Sara's bench.
No! Don't pick it up! Have you learned nothing from Indiana Jones??
So here's Michael, standing right in front of this mythical thing we've been chasing all season. He looks like he can't help thinking it's pretty cool. And everything has gone perfectly, all according to plan! Whew! Glad that's over! He examines it, lifting it off its pedestal, immediately setting off the alarm, alerting the General, and turning on the camera. Baldy stares at the screen, watching Michael just standing right in front of the super secretest mysterious thing ever, trying to figure out how to make off with it. He yells into his Comically Tiny Phone that he needs a team downstairs, now! He marches angrily into the elevator - presumably the one that opens up right behind where Michael is currently standing - and harrumphs emphatically as the doors close. Dun!
So close and yet so far, Michael. I liked their little construction project, it wasn't even all that implausible! I mean, well, not completely ridiculous anyway, and there were some cute touches like the silencers on the power tools and Mahone's debris-catching umbrellas. Also, it looked cool, which is important. So yeah, I have no idea what happens now. We have a half a season left, what the hell are they going to do with that? Did I miss something about that manila envelope or do we really still not know what's in it? Who is Gretchen trying to screw over: Michael, T-Bag, or Baldy? Does somebody else have to die? I'm going with "probably" on that last one. One thing I do know is that next week's episode is called "Selfless." I'm just saying.
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Loula!
I am so LOVING this season. And like you, I am wondering where they will go for the last half of the season. I am sure it will be somewhere cool....And no, you didn't miss the thing in the envelope. They didn't show it, but whatever it is, I think has something to do with setting Lisa up. I get two different descriptions of each episode, one on my guide and the other is TV Guide, both of which consistently give a away major plot points, almost worse than the Fox Promo Monkeys. I have tonights episode saying that the guys will be betrayed by one of their "own". My daughter and I debated this on the way to school this morning and the only one that it can be is Self. There is no way Linc, Sara and Michael will betray one another. And Sucre has proven that he would die for his papi, and Mahone has redeemed himself. Soooooo that just leaves Self. Any theories anyone?
1 of 2 | Posted by mamabird | Posted on November 24, 2008 1:48 PM
Hey Loula!
I found your Prison Break summaries a week or so ago, and I just had to sign up to tell you how much I enjoy them.
I'm halfway through series 4 at the moment, but one thing I don't understand, perhaps you could explain it to me?
I thought that the brothers and good doctor were exonerated of all charges, in the US at least, somewhere around the end of season 2, so I don't understand agent Self's threat to lock them up if they don't comply. What did I miss?
"If I ever have a zillion dollars, I will pay Robert Knepper and William Fichtner to just sit around my house emoting at my command..." I couldn't agree more, especially Fichtner, who threatens to steal each episode. Also Wade Williams as Bellick, it just broke my heart to see him shuffling his cowardly ass around the prison in Panama...
Hope you can enlighten me as to the hold agent Self has over the crew, and I look forward to garnishing my remaining viewing with a leisurely read of your take on each episode.
Good luck to you mate, hope you get this, I know maybe it's a bit late...
Al :-)
2 of 2 | Posted by althedog | Posted on June 8, 2009 1:43 AM