Category: Prison Break (Page 8 of 15)

Heading into this “two-hour event,” I was wondering how the show was going to take off in a new direction once the boys escaped Sona. Would they join (or chase) Whistler and Susan as they looked for whatever it is they want on the bottom of the ocean? Would they try to find the money (from the first season) that’s sitting in a bag at the bottom of the cove as they dodge the Panamanian law? Would Michael discover that Sara was dead and seek vengeance on her murderers?

What we got was four more days in Sona. Oh, and the big twist – Susan’s real name is Gretchen and she knows Whistler. Apparently, he’s her boss. Yawn.

For someone who wants her boss out of Sona safely, I find Susan to be grouchy and unhelpful. First, she kills Michael’s girlfriend, which was a really risky move. She didn’t know that Linc wasn’t going to tell his brother about her death, and if/when Michael found out, he’s just as likely to freak out and stop planning the escape as he was to keep pushing forward to try to save LJ. The best she can do on the photo is give the brothers the same one she gave them before, which is pretty sketchy considering all the resources the Company is supposed to have. I don’t know if these plot holes are intentional or just a natural part of the series, but they sure are distracting.

Apparently, the purpose of Tyge’s arrival at Sona was so that he could be killed, creating suspense around whether or not Whistler would be available for the escape. This is also a very fishy plot point. Is Tyge really just this random guy that got thrown into Sona and just happened to recognize Whistler? Come on.

I’ve got to hand it to Linc. He went almost a whole season without making a boneheaded move then, on the day of the escape, he lets it slip that “something went wrong drugging the guard, but it’s OK now” when he could have said nothing and Susan wouldn’t have known about the daylight escape attempt. Way to go, Linc! I love how he told Michael that “she figured it out.” Yeah, right. She figured it out because you told her, you dolt!

The writers are being a little heavy-handed trying to humanize Bellick. First, Tyge embarrasses him in line and then he’s devastated by the news of Sara’s death. Suddenly, he’s this compassionate, misunderstood guy. Did anyone else suspect that he was in fact Tyge’s murderer? I know Michael found the knife in Mahone’s cell, but that could have been planted. I wonder if that’s going to come up again.

Speaking of Tyge’s death, what does the betrayal of Luchero’s man (discovered via the cigar stub) have to do with Whister? In other words, why did Luchero let Whistler go after killing his man? I don’t know what one has to do with the other, especially when Luchero goes on and on about whatever justice he thinks exists in Sona. I think that the writers sometimes use shocking moments like that as misdirection so that we don’t notice them shoving a bunch of shit under the rug.

How about that brutal fistfight between Michael and Whistler where each guy lands like 10 punches yet neither guy gets a bloody lip or a black eye? I’m sure this had something to do with not wanting to give pretty boy Michael a black eye for the next five episodes, but it’s just too silly to ignore.

As you can probably tell, I wasn’t a big fan of these two episodes. Once Michael sent Whistler back up the ladder, I knew we were in for several more episodes in Sona, and it’s starting to feel a little tedious. This part of “Prison Break” is starting to drag out, and the show feels like one big tease. They tried to kick things up a notch by having Luchero’s power taken away from him, meaning that he now wants to escape, and by revealing that Susan/Gretchen really works for Whistler, but after almost two hours of teasing, it just feels like too little, too late.

The longer that Linc goes without telling Micheal about Sara’s death, the more trouble it’s going to cause down the line. Linc’s probably smart not to break the news, as it would probably cause Michael to flip out and that would jeopardize L.J., but Michael is going to see the omission as a betrayal.

The creators took another shot at Sarah Wayne Callies by having Susan make a reference to Linc losing his head and then saying there’s “a bad joke about Sara in there somewhere.” I think this a cheap attempt at humor and I don’t find it realistic that Susan would make this comment let alone kill Sara in the first place. It’s too big of a risk that Michael will find out about her death and refuse to help the Company. The bottom line is that the creators wanted to kill off Sara and this is the best they could come up with. Regardless, expect some serious vengeance when Michael discovers the truth.

The escape plan is coming together…sort of. Michael wants to break out during the day (nice twist!), only his plan runs into a snag when one of the guards spots Michael watching him through a binocular lens. With his cell locked up, Michael must now figure out how to break the chains (or come up with Plan B) within 24 hours.

I’m not sure what the point was of Sucre taking on the role of drug smuggler nor is it clear how the drug kingpin makes any money off the prisoners. Isn’t there a fixed amount of money flowing around Sona? So when drugs go in, where is the new money coming from? And where is it going? Luchero has a bundle, but I just don’t know how these customers are coming up with the cash. And how can the kingpin afford to give Sucre $5 K for that little bundle? I’m confused.

Linc’s expression when Sofia took off her shirt on the beach was pretty funny. Is this a sign of a new romance? She seems to be fully in love with Whistler (and is willing to go to great lengths to break him out), but if he betrays her somehow, it will be easy for her to run into Linc’s big arms.

T-Bag’s story progressed a little when he stole the heart of Luchero’s whore. He may have overstepped his bounds, but I think she’ll help him at some crucial point in the future. He also has Mahone running a tab for his drugs, so expect him to leverage that debt sometime soon.

Finally, there’s a new prisoner and Star Trek fans will recognize Dominic Keating from his role as Malcom Reed on “Enterprise.” He’s English, and I’m not sure what accent his character is supposed to have, but he shed some light on Whistler’s past when he said that he met Whistler when he was “with the ambassador.”

It looks like the gang will have to try to use the guard’s coffee cup against him. I’m not sure how Michael plans to do it, but something tells me he’ll find a way.

For you irregular readers, on last week’s blog, I wrote:

So that leads us to the box – what’s in it? It’s a perfect size for a head, bringing the final scene of “Se7en” to mind, and the fact that the bad guys have two hostages makes one of them expendable, but a decapitated head of a main (and good) character seems to be a little much for “Prison Break.”

Well, so much for that theory. Apparently, Sara’s dead, and according to some reports around the web, FOX forced Sarah Wayne Callies out. I really thought that the Michael/Sara love story would be the constant, driving force throughout the series run, but I guess that’s not the case. It’s a shame, because there was something really sweet about it, and it offset some of the more grisly parts of the series. Anyway, R.I.P. Dr. Tancredi. You’ll be missed. (One thing’s for sure: the Company better watch out when Michael gets the news. Then the shit is really going to hit the fan.)

Was anyone surprised when Sucre showed up as the new gravedigger? C’mon, really? You didn’t think his move-to-Columbia-and-pick-coffee-beans plan was really going to happen, did you? I don’t know how strong the Columbian Peso is against the US Dollar, but I doubt that would make much of a dent in Maricruz’ bills. Then again, the dollar is pretty weak right now.

Two weeks ago, Michael played MacGyver by fixing the water flow in the prison and this week he used his engineering skill to sabotage the power so that he could gain access to the power lines running alongside the exterior walls. I’m not sure where all of this is headed, but it’s clear by the final shot that he intends to go through the fence after Sucre weakens it.

In other news, Whistler and his girl have decided to check up on the brothers, Mahone is receiving visits from Haywire, Bellick gets burned after trying to rat out Michael and T-Bag has decided to promote himself within Luchero’s organization.

The chess pieces are moving around. How long will it take before they’re all in place?