The engineer on the Train of Fools gets a call on his radio - they have jumpers! Three male, one female! He calls it in to the cops and they're right behind them, helicopters, dogs, cop feet chasing anonymous civilian feet. And hey, why are these civilian feet so anonymous? Because it's totally not our guys! It's the almost certainly underpaid 14 year old conductor from earlier. Linc et al made him call it in, then told him and a couple of other guys to jump off and keep running or they'd be shot. Once again, local cops who thought they'd be heroes end up looking like morons. Our boys are good at that. Meanwhile, Kellerman casually disembarks in Chicago, all "doot dee doo, just a regular passenger with entirely legitimate business, la la la." The others are right behind him. They need a car.
Haywire is panicked, running from Bellick at full speed. He ends up at an old mill, climbing silos until he's sort of trapped at the top of a grain elevator. Bellick calls Mahone, who tells him to just keep Haywire there till he arrives. Bellick says "No problem, I got this wingnut treed." Shut up, Bellick.
Sara, Michael, Linc and Kellerman stroll around the train station parking lot, trying every car door. Ooh, maybe Dr. Sara will get a chance to show off her mad hotwiring skillz we learned about earlier this season! She's full of delightful surprises. Kellerman skulks behind an SUV to place another call to President Bitchface. She answers with the same "Paul. Where are you?" we've heard before. He's looking a little unhinged. "Did you send the police?" She's all "who, me? Do something nefarious? Why that's absurd!" She has no idea how the cops found out he was on that train. He flashes back to all the conversations he had with Kim, wherein Kim essentially cut him off from direct contact with the President. She's asking about Linc and Michael but he just goes "Where did we spend my 35th birthday?" It's so wrong that I find it charming that Kellerman even has birthdays. I have a delightful mental image of him wearing a pointy hat and opening presents. "A new dismemberment hacksaw! How did you know?" Anyway, he doesn't get an answer. She's just stalling: "Um, I gotta go! Pay no attention to the fake President behind the curtain!" and now we know what this whole thing was about. We cut to Kim's office where she's on the phone, and it's totally not President Bitchface at all! It's just some blonde sitting in front of a computer, apparently hooked up to some cool voice mimicing software, looking at Agent Kim like "What? I was just supposed to sound like her, not know everything about this guy's birthday parties!" Kellerman: "Whoever this is? Tell Bill Kim that he just screwed up. Big time." Delicious!
Kim buries his face in his hands like a man who truly believes he has screwed up, big time. Linc finally finds an open car door, and the whole big happy family piles in to the Family Truckster™ from Vacation. Damn hell yeah!
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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