Prison Break: Yeah, That Explains A Lot

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"THIS is for that BIRDHOUSE KIT I got for CHRISTMAS instead of the MILLENIUM FALCON!"

I had a great time watching this episode up until the last couple of minutes, at which point I was like "Nooooo, we already did this! Exactly this!" They only have 3 more episodes to write their way out of this latest development, so I'm a little worried about how that's going to work. Meanwhile, Kathleen Quinlan is delightfully chewing the hell out of the scenery, sadistically manipulating everyone within reach without wrinkling her lovely white pantsuit. And Wentworth Miller acted a little! Michael's finally losing his shit, after all this time, and it's his pantsuited evil mastermind mom who's pushing him to the edge. But Linc's crew is hot on the trail! Kind of! Oh, and of course there's the Big Revelation.™

4.19 S.O.B. Another episode title made up of familiar initials, only tonight they pretty much mean what you think they mean. That lady is a bi-hi-hiiitch. So the star of last week's show, Victor Sandinsky, is still chillin' in Linc's swanky apartment, swearing up and down that he doesn't know Christina. Luckily, finally, Michael realizes he should probably call the boys and let them know the very important information he got from Sandinsky's phone, which is that he does know her, and in fact, they've been conspiring and/or colluding via email. Oh, also, as Michael is explaining this, he's McGyvering some shit up with bleach and little baggies of something or other. AWESOME. Linc is like, thanks for the tip, now get out of town so I can take care of my bidness. As if! It's the last 3 episodes, he's not going to miss out on that. Once Michael's done with his science project, Sara gives him a weirdly chaste smooch and hands him Sandinsky's phone, from which he proceeds to call Christina. She's immediately suspicious that he'd have the phone turned on at all, since he's smart enough to know they can trace it, but she just tells her guy to hurry up and find him before he changes his mind. She talks to him for just long enough for her guy to find their exact location in - wait for it - a warehouse. This of course is exactly what Michael is counting on, because he's awesome like that.

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"So maybe I should be avoiding toxic chemicals, you know, for totally non-fetus related reasons I'm not comfortable disclosing just now."

Meanwhile, the boys are laying in to Sandinsky, getting a little less polite about encouraging him to fess up. "I don't work for the Company!" he whines. "Six words that never prove true," T-Bag observes astutely. Finally William Fichtner gets something interesting to do, which is reprising Angry Scary Mahone. Remember him? Anyway, Self, because he's a punk, thinks it's Michael who's lying, which T-Bag agrees would make sense if he were trying to throw them off the scent and get to Scylla first. Angry Scary Mahone doesn't have time for this junior high drama bullshit, and neither does Linc, who cuts to the chase and puts a gun to Sandinsky's head. The others remind him that he can't help them if he's dead, but Linc is just in LINC SMASH mode and there's no reasoning with him. Which is why it's good that the General and his men don't try to reason with him, they just bust in with more guns and tell him, in no uncertain terms, "Down, boy! Heel!" Baldy walks right up and confirms with no fanfare at all that yeah, Vincent totally works for them, has for many years. In fact, he should be able to help them find both Scylla and Christina. Which reminds Baldy, hey Linc, what the hell, your mom has the thing and you don't tell me? He decides not to kill them just yet, since they managed to find Sandinsky and all. When he gives up Christina's address, Baldy gives the boys the rest of the day to track her down. And the goose chase is on! Baldy holds T-Bag back, all "Hey, wanna sit with the cool kids at lunch today?" Baldy has a new pet!

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Comments (4)

baymenxpac:

Sandinsky says he knows how the company works, and says they're "literally" sitting on a goldmine. By which he means "figuratively," which is LITERALLY THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF "LITERALLY." Sorry, pet peeve, moving on.

AMAZING! thank you. quite a pet peeve of mine, too. i was screaming when it happened. that subject is also is a great plot line in a how i met your mother episode, too! great recap as always

akgirl7:

Great recap!!

At first when Baldy asked T-Bag to shoot that guy I was like oh no way he can't do it...then I remembered oh yeah he's a cold blooded murderer!! He'll kill anyone.

I love Angry Michael!

Setting up Linc as the shooter, so season 1.

akgirl7:

Oh yeah, I loved the captions on the photos. Too funny!

spinal11:

Oh lord, I haven't watched this show in a while but may tune in just to see if the great Kellerman is resurrected for the finale. I actually tuned out a little after he got whacked - my main problem with the show is the WAY TOO HIGH body count, killing off all the most awesome characters one by one. Were they underpaying the actors or something?

Anyway, word on Wentworth Miller's acting. He steely-gazes so much on screen it veers into Keanu 2.0 territory, but on the rare occasions he decides to actually act, he's quite good. Weird.

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