Tonight’s episode had a few silly moments…
1. “The President” offers Agent Eisen the position of Chief of Staff in her administration. Yeah, right.
2. The gang sees the roadblock up ahead, but Lincoln has plenty of time to climb on the roof and eventually commandeer the train.
3. The fourth (is it the fourth?) switcheroo of the season, which was so unbelievably obvious since they didn’t show the faces of the runners in the woods.
4. C-Note, an escaped fugitive, has the bad luck of happening upon a robbery. What are the odds?
In other news, Agent Eisen just keeps getting cooler and cooler. He had a couple of great lines on the train:
(after Sarah tries to kill him) “One! You get one of those!”
(to the worker on the train) “You need to do what I just told you to do. You take the tickets; I’ll watch the fugitive. And you guys just continue to do bong hits or whatever it is you do back there.”
And I’m really digging his sunglasses.
The bathroom scene between Sarah and Michael was nice, but it’s clear from the final shot that she hasn’t completely forgiven him for getting her in all this trouble. He’s made some headway, though.
I thought it would be interesting to see more of Bellick on the inside, but that storyline must not appeal to the writers. It would involve developing a few more characters, which wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing considering we’ve lost a few along the way. By the way, the scene in the car with Bellick practicing his FBI introduction was pretty funny.
The show continues to suffer when it delves into the three supporting storylines. They tried to dress up C-Note’s week with an armed robbery, and it was a nice moment when he came back to help the blonde, but the whole concept was pretty lame from the start. Also, the “sick kid who needs her medicine” storyline is going to get really old really quickly. Meanwhile, T-Bag must be losing his mind, because he’s a millionaire yet he continues to try to force three people to love him. It ain’t going to happen, dude.
And poor Haywire, who never got to see Holland. How about Mahone talking him off the ledge, the wrong way? That was some cold stuff.
