Normally onscreen kissing kind of squicks me out, but there's so little of it on this show that I guess I feel the characters deserve it after all this time. Have at it! Speaking of which, before any grey sweaters can start coming off, the train lurches and slows down. There's a roadblock ahead, and once again the cast of Prison Break is left with the bluest collective balls in all of primetime television. I'm not complaining, because it does make the rare train bathroom makeout scene that much more effective, but there's literally more sex on 7th Heaven, and it's pretty funny when you think about it. Maybe that's why everyone's so intense all the time - we'd probably have a very different show if these people were getting laid regularly. Anyway, they scramble around trying to figure out what to do. The door to the engine room is locked, so Linc climbs up and runs across the tops of the cars to enter from the outside, where he and his scary handgun kindly advise the engineer, if that's even what they call them anymore, to run through the roadblock. Kellerman, Sara and Michael file in behind him. There are four cop cars ahead, parked on the tracks. There are also four actual cops parked on the tracks, which seems sort of unnecessary and also unwise, but they manage to get out of the way just as the train barrels through the cars at a not very exciting but nonetheless deadly speed.
Bellick sits in his shiny new car, introducing himself to his rear view mirror. He holds up his new badge and practices. "Bradley Bellick, FBI," he intones menacingly, and it's pretty funny. "Hi there. Brad Bellick: I'm an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation." "Special Agent Brad Bellick. I'm with the Bureau." Ha. He picks that one to use on Sasha, which is apparently what that girl's name is, you know, the one with the dad who Haywire beat the holy hell out of last night.
At first she is unimpressed, and tells him she already told the cops she doesn't know where to find Haywire. He just hung out around the park, asking kids for money. If he's not there, she doesn't know where he is. Ah, but Special Agent Bellick has been doing his homework! Haywire wouldn't be around people. He's a paranoid schizophrenic, afraid of strangers. She draws his attention to her complete lack of grief for her gross pervy alcoholic dad, but Bellick manages to bully her anyway by pulling imaginary rank. Who are they going to believe? An agent with 15 years of service and three presidential citations (ha!) or some piece of white trash? Oh, you don't want to go playing the white trash card, Bellick. That much irony could kill a man. She relents after he threatens her with jail time, and the next thing we see is Bellick calling it in to Mahone - he's got a lead on Haywire. Mahone says to just keep him there, alone. He's on his way. And we already know from earlier that Haywire's Wisconsin hideout is around 4 hours from Fox River, so the fact that Mahone's going to arrive there a couple of scenes from now is one of the rare instances in which the laws of the Prison Break space-time continuum intersect those of our own universe.
Aboard the Love Train, they're trying to figure out how to proceed. There will be cops waiting for them at the next station, especially considering how they rammed right through the last roadblock. Linc says they'll have to jump. And then what, wonders Kellerman, hide under a barrel? Michael says no, Linc's right. Then he makes his thinking face. Or maybe it's his blue ball face. It's hard to tell once he goes all steely.
Haywire is frantically packing up when he hears Bellick yelling his name. "Run, Larry!" Haywire says, and awwwww. Poor Haywire. I also have a moment of panic for Larry's wellbeing, and a surge of pure hatred for Bellick on behalf of Westmoreland and his poor kittycat Marilyn, but luckily Larry just stands there barking while Bellick races after Haywire. I invent a scenario wherein Larry is quickly rescued, perhaps by Sasha, who takes him home with her and feeds him steak regularly for the rest of his long doggy life.
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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