Category: Prison Break (Page 11 of 15)

Did anyone else get the feeling that between the last episode and this one, the writers decided against having Agent Eisen and the brothers escape out the back door? A couple of quick lines at the beginning of this episode (“next time, pick a hotel room with a back exit”) buttoned up that plot hole and the trio proceeded to head out the front door to take a hostage and commandeer a car.

The show is struggling with keeping the subplots interesting. Last week, the storylines of C-Note and T-Bag were pretty tedious and this week Sucre and Haywire had their chance to bore us. It’s smart that the show is staggering them so that each week, a majority of the show is about the brothers and their quest for justice, not about Sucre stealing a car from an old Mexican dude or Haywire making friends with a troubled teen.

Agent Mahone is back at work, which is surprising since he killed Agent Blonde. Mr. Kim must be overlooking that little detail now that Mahone has agreed to return to duty. I thought Mahone would go rogue, but he seems to be back in the saddle. That scene where he and the other FBI agents were breaking down the video was probably the best scene in the episode. The game of cat and mouse between Michael, AE and Mahone is pretty interesting to watch. The fake Morse code line – “the water is warm” – was especially cool, even though Mahone was too smart to fall for it.

Lincoln brought up a good point when he asked Michael about AE’s motives in finding Sarah. I think AE was serious about helping the brothers until the President called. Now that option is back on the table.

Well, Mr. Medsker was right on the money last week when he said that Sarah was going to pull out the drain chain with her teeth. I cheered when she pressed the hot iron on Agent Evil’s chest. He just squealed and dropped like a rock to the floor. I thought Sarah might be able to get the gun from him and end this chase once and for all (or just hit him over the head with the iron), but her leap out the window made for pretty good television. It now appears that the tables have turned on AE since Mr. Kim is none too happy about his performance of late. To utilize Jeff Foxworthy’s comedic structure: when you’re boss is erasing you from pictures, you might be a dead man.

Meanwhile, Bellick is another baddie that is getting what’s coming to him (sort of). The dynamic between Bellick and the detective was pretty good, and I loved Bellick’s line, “That’s the way Roy would have wanted it,” before he took a big bite out of a chocolate donut. But I kept waiting for the detective to play his voicemail message for him. It would have been more of a surprise had they not shown him threatening Roy in the “previously on…” clips at the beginning of the show. Anyway, it looks like Brad is going to be on ice for a while.

C-Note’s storyline is getting a little old. He and his family go camping, but they forget their daughter’s medication. Then the pharmacist just happens to have a newspaper with pictures of C-Note and his wife on the front page. The pharmacist calls the cops and they cart wifey off without even bothering to look around the parking lot. Of all the characters, I think I’m least interested in C-Note right now.

But back to the desert. After firing off about 40 shots without a hit, it’s clear that Agent Mahone didn’t go to the Jack Bauer School of Shooting. He did finally make contact, conveniently killing off Proud Pappy and shifting the whole direction of the series. No longer is Panama the #1 priority – the brothers need to find Sarah. Let’s hope their dad expanded on his statement, “Sarah can end it,” which is almost as cryptic as “Save the cheerleader. Save the world.”

Now, for a few gripes. I don’t understand why cell phone coverage was so spotty. Michael can’t get a signal, yet Mahone wasn’t having any problems making calls. Did anyone else think it was a little fantastic that Mahone would have the power to scramble fighter jets on a moment’s notice? Puh-lease.

For those that are counting, the hospital switcheroo (substituting Fu Manchu Drug Dealer for Proud Pappy) makes four this season. I wonder how many more times they’ll use that trick.

All in all, it was a pretty action-packed episode. It’s a balancing act trying to intertwine four (or more) different storylines, and they did a good job this week. The next episode is the fall season finale, which means we’ll be sans “Prison Break” until the New Year.

Did anyone catch the “24” promo? It looks like Jack escapes the Chinese. Whew! (I was really worried about that.)