This episode felt a little like Season One, with Michael and the gang wandering around the guts of a building, trying to engineer their way to Scylla. Michael had his MacGyver moment when digging under the water pipe turned out to be a fruitless endeavor. “Maybe we can go through it,” he says gruffly.
“You and the fellas head down the hole and I’ll stay up here and use my Southern wiles to keep the po-po off our tail.”
It’s not often that one of my predictions comes true, so I feel compelled to point it out when one does. Three episodes ago, I wrote the following:
I’m giving 2 to 1 to any brave bettors that his [Don’s] wife is dead and that he listens to that voicemail every so often to remember her.
Don’s wife is indeed dead. She and her unborn baby died during child birth. This is important because Don talks Mahone down off the edge of the cliff with regard to Morpheus. Mahone’s quest for vengeance has been one of the best things about this season of “Prison Break” and it came to fruition tonight. I loved the abruptness of Morpheus’ little speech at the end. Mahone didn’t want to hear it so he just pushed him in the bay. It sort of reminded me of the way villains would always try to kill James Bond. Instead of just putting a bullet in his head, they come up with some elaborate way of murdering him. For Mahone’s sake, hopefully Morpheus is gone for good.
Boy, there was some serious creepiness between the General and Gretchen in his office? What was with all the “my girl” talk and the open-mouth kiss? Yuk.
I’m guessing that Gretchen’s actions in the office were just a part of her overall plan to take down the General and his Company and make a crapload of money in the process. I’m not sure why she’d buy his line of reasoning after he was the one that sentenced her to death a month or so ago. Suddenly, she’s his “girl” again. Come on.
Lastly, we bid farewell to Bellick tonight. I could tell something was up when he had a couple of little moments with Lincoln. First, there was the line about how Linc should be more respectful of Roland’s death and then there was the bit where Bellick asked Linc about what it was like to be away from LJ. Bellick has been a survivor for the entire series run, so I find it hard to believe that he would sacrifice himself for the greater good like he did in this episode. Oh well… rest in peace, Brad.
Now that Gretchen is on the loose, it was just a matter of time before she hooked up with the gang. At the end of last week’s episode, we saw her confront T-Bag in the apartment, so in this installment we were treated to a little villain-on-villain action. For anyone who thought she might have softened up during her time in captivity…well, she didn’t. She is as big of a bitch as ever. I’d like to see what she’d do with Morpheus, but Mahone might get to him first.
