Bellick, meanwhile, is not doing so great himself. Hair Extensions Guy is beating the hell out of him, but he manages to lunge forward and kind of shove him in the face. Hair Extensions guy kind of loses his composure and Bellick is able to get the upper hand, knocking him to the ground and ultimately killing him with a well-placed uppercut. Bellick is kind of horrified to see that he's killed a guy with his bare hands, but then he realizes he's totally not dead, and also, everyone's cheering for him. "Yeeeahhhh!" he bellows triumphantly. T-Bag retrieves one of his discarded knuckle-wraps and sniffs it. Which is the sort of thing T-Bag likes to do, sniff things creepily, but this is actually detective work. Obviously Bellick has soaked the rags with turpentine or some other solvent bored 14-year-olds like to huff (acetone, according to a quick blue flashback). Well played, Bellick! Honestly, Michael didn't even think of that one. T-Bag confronts him but Bellick says nothing. T-Bag lets it go and saunters off, realizing he's just found his new assassin.
The General, his driver, and Retchin pull up at what actually is the place we last saw LJ. "I'm sorry," she keeps saying as he opens the door to reveal absolutely no adorable teenage hostages. Before he can say "What the hell?" he's got a fashionable pointy boot right to the gut, and she dispatches the driver just as easily, with a cool secret belt-buckle shiv to the neck. She snags his gun and shoots everybody for good measure, then unlocks her handcuffs and calls for help.
Sammy meets with Augusto, Sucre's drug smuggler, at the visitation fence. He thanks him for the cigars, but Sammy obviously hasn't opened the package. It's not cigars, it's something that might come in handy with Sammy's power struggle with Lechero. "Lechero's days are numbered. You know what you need to do."
A police officer drives up to where Michael and Whistler are still being held. "What happened to the General?" Michael asks, in a way that suggests he already knows the answer. Found murdered this morning (did we lose a night somewhere?), and he and Whistler are going back in. "I'm sorry to hear that" Michael says. "He seemed like a nice man." Well, aside from the torture thing, yeah, he was. RIP, General! You never even got a proper nickname. Once inside, Michael borrows Lechero's phone to call Linc, who we know Gretchen called right after she killed the General, but we don't know what was said. Linc is annoyed; he just talked to LJ and he's fine, but Susan is unhappy. He says Michael could have gotten LJ killed, but Michael says as long as they have Whistler, they're good.
Michael confronts Whistler in his bunk. He thinks this is exactly what Whistler wanted. "You let the fox into the henhouse." He thinks the only reason Whistler gave up Gretchen was so she'd swoop in and pull him out of the fire. He reminds Michael that Michael wanted him to give her up, which, yeah, good point. Whistler says it doesn't end with her, and Michael's like, yeah, I know, don't you worry, but how the hell do you know? Whistler just asks if he's going to go through with the plan. He will, because he has to, but once they're out he considers him collateral. That's two appearances by Hot Angry Vengeful Michael! Badass!
In his cell, Sammy is tired of random guys giving him shit for Lechero's incompetent management style. He opens his cigar box and takes out the handgun inside, loads it, and stalks off determinedly.
So yay, four more episodes till it's gone for who knows how long. Is there something Sucre's not telling Linc? Is there something Linc isn't telling Michael? What the hell, ultimately, is the deal with Whistler already? Let's see how much they can clear up in the next four weeks!
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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