The General gets a phone call: Retchin has arrived, and he's on his way. Again, I must stress that there is absolutely no way this is going to result in anything good. Meanwhile, Sucre ducks into the hotel room. "What happened?" Linc asks him. "It worked! She came up to me just like you said." You two crazy kids with your doublecrossing and your playacting! They confirm that they'll just "stick to the plan," but Sucre's expression tells us that a triplecross is not out of the question.
Mahone is freaking out. I should just go ahead and make a macro for that sentence, because oh my god, Mahone loves him some freaking out. Anyway, T-Bag takes full advantage of his misery by tossing some heroin at him and revisiting the subject of neck-snapping as it relates to chicken feet and Sammy. Mahone, literally convulsing, angrily spits out, between spasms, to leave him alone. T-Bag reminds him that withdraw could actually kill him, and it won't be pleasant. "See you on the other side," Mahone snits convulsively.T-Bag, class act that he is, not only shoves him to the floor, but literally kicks him while he's down. He hisses that when the diarrhea and puking start, Mahone better not come running for him. He leaves, and Mahone desperately grabs for Agent Lang's coin, clutching it to his chest it to his chest like a talisman. Or a locket containing Michael's discarded hair clippings.
Linc arrives for his meeting with Retchin. They snap at each other about how shitty everything has become for both of them, with Retchin having the nerve to say that Michael keeps screwing things up. Linc makes the very good point that he's doing a whole lot more than her guys are. I mean, holy shit, people, give a guy some credit! Suddenly, the General himself strolls right into the bar and hauls her away. Poor Linc desperately screams "I had nothing to do with this!" over and over as the General and his guys disappear with Retchin in tow.
In the General's interrogation room, Retchin is all "why officer, I'm just a vacationing social studies teacher, what on earth are you talking about?" I think she's doing a decent job, but he obviously thinks she's as good an actress as many Prison Break viewers do. He yells for the hose. Ruh roh! Hold your breath, Retchin!
Bellick is getting rrrready to rrrrrumble. He's poking around some painting supplies, and seems to find what he's looking for. He wraps his knuckles in cloth and shoves some tissue up his nose, then marches out into the ring.
Susan/Gretchen is strapped to the chair, and she's dropped the "who, me?" act but still isn't talking. She sort of lies back and waits for it. This ain't her first barbecue, people, and the General knows it. This time they follow through with the waterboarding, which is way, way less fun than the imaginary summer pastime the name suggests. Also? more Saran Wrap™! She does much, much better than Whistler. After what I suspect is more than fourteen seconds, she's brought back up gasping and gagging but still denies everything. The sight of an attractive brunette withstanding water torture makes me miss Sara AND Kellerman. Sigh.
Turns out "waterboarding" doesn't have anything to do with surfing at all. Go figure!
The General brings Michael and Whistler into the room and asks if she knows them. She says she doesn't, but Michael reminds her that she's been to visit Whistler at Sona. He asks Whistler if she's the one who set up the escape and he hesitates but ultimately says yes. Gretchen finally gives up LJ's location, which I'm sure is totally where he actually is and not a trap at all. She claims not to know anything about an escape - she's just the babysitter, working for someone higher up. She'll take them to the hostage. Yeah, I'm sure she totally, totally will. As he's led out, Michael asks her "Was it you? Did you kill Sara?" Retchin says she has no idea what he's talking about. "I'm coming for you," he promises, which isn't as dirty as it looks on paper, and okay, I guess I could get used to Hot Angry Vengeful Michael.
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Comments (1)
you know, it looks like they're trying to reel Mahone back into good-guy territory, which i appreciate.
however, i am disappointed that we won't get to see the fight between Sammy the Sona Slayer and "Crazy Pills" Mahone.
1 of 1 | Posted by josef | Posted on January 19, 2008 4:44 PM