Tweak twitches and looks a little wary, but he also looks kind of relieved that someone's making some decisions for him. C-Note herds all the patrons and employees into the corner, has a pretty waitress lock the door, and passes a plastic bag around, into which everyone quietly places their valuables. This would be an unfortunate time for the cops to arrive, what with Mr. America's Most Wanted Daddy standing there with a plastic bag full of other people's wallets. They don't, though, and C-Note's all "See? Everything's fine. Off you go then!" But Tweak wants everyone to wait in the storeroom until the cops arrive. C-Note says please, I'm a wanted man, my daughter's sick, if I go back to jail she'll be all alone, etc. Tweak relents and they head for the door, but C-Note hears him stopping the pretty waitress. He wants some icky alone time with her. C-Note's all "Aw, hell no." So he's halfway out the door but he has to turn around and help the girl. Reason isn't working very well at this point so he ends up just catching Tweak mid-twitch and slamming him to a table, punching him a couple of times for good measure. Hey, I didn't know they taught you to fight like that in the Army! Oh, right, he probably learned these particular combat skills in jail. Anyway, he gets him down and disarmed just as the cops approach. When they walk in they see Tweak moaning and writhing on the ground, but C-Note isn't there. The head cop wants to know who subdued the robber and the patrons sort of look around guiltily for awhile until the pistol-whipped gentleman from earlier lies, "I did." Aw. Heartland values, people. This big scary guy knows when he owes someone a favor, even when that someone is an escaped felon. At the back entrance, the pretty waitress is sneaking C-Note and Dede out. Yeah, she owes him a favor or two herself. He thanks her and they're off.
Meanwhile, on the Crazy Train, Michael goes to check on Sara but she's not in the mood to chat just now, thanks. He sits next to Linc, who wonders where they go from here. They have the key, they know where it goes, but what do they do then? Haven't they already had all kinds of incriminating evidence disappear before anyone can do anything about it? Michael tells him that's why they're keeping Kellerman close - he's got contacts in DC. Not to mention, he's one of the guys who was so good at making the aforementioned evidence and witnesses disappear, so it's probably prudent to have him on their side. Speaking of keeping him close, they totally fail to, as we now see he's made his way down to the lower level to call President Kissyface.
He really does look kind of unhinged, and I'm a little concerned until I realize that when Kellerman's about to do something terrible, like say kill your parents and frame you for it, or leave you to die in a well, he usually does it with a twinkle in his eye and a carefree grin. So maybe this is what Kellerman looks like when he's not feeling homicidal. So he gets her on the line and she just wants to know where he is. He's on a train to Chicago, but he needs to know some stuff before he tells her what the deal is with the boys, like what exactly she means when she says she can make this all right again. She basically tells him she'll make him her new Chief of Staff. Huh huh. I'll just bet she will. Ahem. Anyway, he just says they'll talk when he gets to Chicago, and hangs up.
Sara finally lets Michael in to the ladies' room where she's just staring vacantly. Michael's all "..." She observes that she's jumped bail, she's on the run with escaped felons, and she just tried to kill a man. Three weeks ago she was a doctor. Wow, three weeks, huh? Michael says she can get all of that back, she just has to believe it. Faith is the only thing keeping him going. She says there are two things keeping her going: She wants to get the guys who took her dad, and of course, the other thing is the smokin hot genius faux-diabetic escaped con sitting next to her! It's a cute stammery little monologue. He kisses her, lots, and they mean it! Cool. She even grins, and it's freaking adorable.
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Comments (5)
loved that part where bellick practiced his G-man introduction in the rearview mirror of his shiny new truck. HI-larious.
getting bellick out of the joint was a smart move for the writers, as it simultaneously enables them to more easily integrate the search for the other escapees and reinforces the increasingly tenuous connection to the prison. damn hell yeah!
glad to see from the previews that stacy keach (the warden) is back on the scene next week, and that the plot may be returning to fox river. this show got unruly after the actual escape. for one thing, it's no longer a 'prison break'--it's 'the fugitive(s)'. and with all of the prisoners spread out, things got messy. now that there are fewer prisoners to catch, the story is regaining cohesiveness, but then again, the less distractions there are, the easier it is to spot the gaping plot holes (how on god's green earth could t-bag--by far the most dangerous of the escapees--not have been cornered yet? i know ted bundy busted out of jail in colorado and made it all the way to florida, but he had 2 hands and looked like a normal dude rather than a skeezy bottle-blonde truckstop hustler).
i also agree that the haywire/mahone standoff was one of the finer acting moments this show has seen. william fichtner is really on a different level than the rest of the cast, and while he's been saddled with some ham-fisted scenes (wouldn't mahone pop his precious pills BEFORE he started climbing the silo ladder?), when given the chance, he can actually make a cardboard character like mahone seem 3-dimensional and sympathetic.
glad to see sara get a little saucy on kellerman and then finally get to neck with michael, setting the hearts of millions of ladies and gay men aflutter. hell, i'm not even gay, and i'd probably make out with ol' wenty. he's soooo adorable.
1 of 5 | Posted by jack
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Posted on February 8, 2007 6:21 AM
I liked this episode a lot. So happy to see Sara and Michael together, and I wanted to jump up and down when they FINALLY made out! But of course the train had to stop before it got really good. :)
This show frustrates me somewhat b/c I want to see smart writing, plausible scenerios, good plot twists, etc and it doesnt always happen. I didn't see the "fake president" situation coming so that was pretty clever.
Thankfully Went is so fun to watch, even with that permanent mean face he has going.
2 of 5 | Posted by TVCheese
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Posted on February 8, 2007 7:55 AM
The plot holes bother me less and less as time goes on. It's kind of like a comic book, really. The actual storytelling, particularly the main "troubled genius stops at nothing to exonerate his lovable thug brother" plot, is usually interesting enough to outweigh the continuity/plausibility problems that would drive me bonkers on other shows. Maybe they're just good at distracting me.
Re: T-Bag, Robert Knepper does a really good job of reminding me that sociopaths, sort of by definition, are scary good at blending in and gaining trust from otherwise reasonable people. Ted Bundy even used a fake cast to get girls to trust him, so I think the fake hand kind of works to T-Bag's advantage. People don't want to be rude so they don't look too hard. So I buy it, but only because I watch way too much Court TV.
I didn't see the fake president thing coming either! That's another thing I like, is that this show surprises me pretty often, probably because I don't speculate about it obsessively.
And yeah, I'm really glad William Fichtner has something to do. Much like Adelstein with Kellerman, I love the Mahone character, but I definitely think that has a lot to do with the actor. He seems genuinely troubled and exhausted and desperate, not cartoonishly evil. I also think I've underestimated Wentworth Miller's talent, now that we're seeing more of the non-prison Michael. And Sara, actually. I barely noticed her last season, but she's knocked it out of the park lately.
I totally didn't see the Warden in the previews! That's fantastic. I've missed him.
3 of 5 | Posted by Loula
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Posted on February 8, 2007 9:11 AM
Loula - What a great recap! I LOL'd many a time. I actually think Kellerman is a genius character...and the actor who plays him is perfect. Just menacing enough to be believeable, just babyfaced enough to be extra terrifying.
4 of 5 | Posted by suedisco
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Posted on February 8, 2007 11:07 AM
I think I've only ever watched 3 complete episodes of this show. But I'm in the loop thanks to these great recaps!!
5 of 5 | Posted by fignuts
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Posted on February 8, 2007 11:58 AM