“Prison Break” is back from break and this episode picked up where we left off last year, with Agent Evil helping the brothers escape almost certain death at the hands of Agent Mahone. AE left Mahone for dead (bad idea!) and he and the brothers jetted up to Montana to pay a visit to the President’s brother.
Once they had Terrance in custody, AE went on some long spiel about how Terrance couldn’t be identified as himself, something about his cheekbones being raised and his ear lobes being lowered. He also talked about his DNA, and how that wouldn’t help, but I don’t see how DNA samples from the President and Terrance wouldn’t be able to prove that the two are related. AE is good, but he isn’t that good.
Anyway, Terrance conveniently gets the drop on the trio by stealing a gun that was conveniently tucked into the back of Lincoln’s jeans. Then he shoots himself in the head. I suppose the fact that his brains splattered over a painting he was admiring moments earlier was supposed to be poetic, but this is “Prison Break.” We are way past poetic.
So the guys are on the run again and it’s not clear what their next move will be. We did find out that AE had a long-standing crush on the President, and even asked her to marry him. That’s an interesting and unexpected twist that should pay off somewhere down the line.
Meanwhile, Mahone has flipped out…and I love it! It would have been pretty lame if he had responded to the attack on his son by “getting back to work.” But it looks like he’s hell bent on tracking down Mr. Kim, and possibly taking down the President. I like how the show has turned all of these relationships on their heads. It has made for some very strange bedfellows.
Of the other three storylines – Bellick, C-Note and T-Bag – Bellick’s is the most interesting. It’s fun to watch the former prison guard fend for himself in lockup, which is just another example of the shifting paradigms of the show. C-Note spent the whole episode on the phone and, now that his wife is in the system, it looks like he may go to Alaska to work in a fishery (huh?). (Putting his homey’s legal advice aside, I don’t see how a prosecutor wouldn’t waive the charges on Kacee if C-Note agreed to turn himself in. That’s just silly.) Meanwhile, T-Bag has lost his mind. He could take the money and retire to a sleepy beach town somewhere, but instead he decides to take his old family hostage, meaning that it shouldn’t be long before the $5 M is once again in play.
