…but, apparently, they do still hawk popcorn.
I’m sorry, but this is just creepy. It’s like the animated version of Colonel Sanders, but taken to the next, more disconcerting level.
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“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.
Now that, I did not see coming. Gray, last season’s Bluetoothed leader of the Overseers, is none other than Graham Bauer. I turned my head doglike when I heard Jack mention a brother, and within a matter of seconds, they do the Big Reveal. Brother hates brother! Son hates father! Brother had a fling with brother’s wife before being betrothed (more on that later)! It’s like “24” has suddenly turned into “Rome.”
The general storyline didn’t move much – the President deals with the aftermath of the bomb, while southern Californians run for their lives – but some pretty colors have replaced the shades of gray. The tastefully coiffed Hamir Al-Assad gave CTU the name of a Russian contact named Gradenko (while Police fans everywhere laughed out loud), and a cursory search of Gradenko’s call history pulled up none other than Jack’s father who, we discover, hasn’t spoken to his son in over nine years. Well, he hasn’t spoken to Jack, anyway. Whether he’s in direct contact with Gray has yet to be determined. Meanwhile, Abel pays a visit to Cain for info about their father, exchanges a longing look with Heidi Petrelli (yep, that’s Rena Sofer playing Gray’s wife)…and then ties his brother up in a chair in order to “extract” information from him. I don’t remember the exact exchange, but it was something like:
Jack: Don’t make me hurt you.
Gray: You’re already hurting me.
Jack: Trust me, I’m not.
Sweeeet.
Meanwhile, over at the local Minority Round-Up, Sandra Palmer’s boyfriend Walid is coerced into cooperating with the authorities (i.e. wear a two-way transmitter) after a tip he provided to the Feds revealed that there were four other suitcase nukes. The Feds do a good dog and pony show in order to give Walid some street cred, beating him up in the bathroom (and giving him the transmitter at the same time), and Walid bravely chats up one of the men he suspects has terrorist ties. Walid goes fishing for links to Fayed, but the man doesn’t bite. Still, the man welcomes Walid to meet the other men in his group, men who don’t trust Walid at all. The whole setup screams “dead informant.”
Which is why I think Walid knows more than he’s letting on.
The scene where Walid is talking with the man who calls him brother (IMDb isn’t giving up his name yet) is shot very carefully. They show you Walid talking to the man, and they show the man answering Walid’s questions, and they show you the security feed that’s taping them. But they never show the two men in the same shot. Walid tells the man, rather convincingly for a reluctant stool pigeon, that the Feds found Fayed’s name in his wallet, and asks if he knows who Fayed is. The man says no, but still invites him to meet the others. What Walid just did is a dead giveaway that he’s a mole, which is why I think there was some non-verbal communication between Walid and the man that we, and the security cameras, didn’t see. Ten bucks says he mouthed the word “No” to the man after he asks about Fayed. The man takes the cue, and brings Walid into the group, knowing that they can blow so much smoke in the Feds’ faces through Walid’s transmitter that the government won’t have a chance to find the bombs before it’s too late. (The one pushy Fed chortles about how it usually takes weeks to get an informant into a situation like that. Methinks that’s about to bite him in the ass.) As an added bonus, this makes for two great subplots. Sandra Palmer spends the whole show defending her boyfriend’s innocence only to discover that he’s guilty, and Wayne has to deal with the fallout of his sister’s lack of judgment, much like David Palmer had to deal with the evil machinations of Lady MacBeth when she denied that elderly politician his meds and he subsequently died.
Let’s get back to Gray’s family for a second. Is there anyone who doesn’t think that Josh Bauer is Jack’s son and not Gray’s? That would certainly explain the bad blood between the two brothers and the awkward conversation between Jack and Josh, not to mention Heidi Petrelli’s frosty but heated look at Jack. I remember a shot from the pre-season clips that showed Jack embracing a brunette. Mystery solved. The show is getting back on track. Whew.
Oh, and IMDb accidentally revealed that Old Yeller is slated to return next week. Good dog. (Actually, they have him listed for tonight’s show, too. Did anyone see him?)
“Battlestar Galactica” is back with nine new episodes. I like the fact that they plan to show them consecutively, while only taking off one week for the Super Bowl.
This episode picked up right where they left off last year, with the tense standoff between Adama (with his nukes) and the Cylons (and their Raiders). This is what I would call a “versus” episode, with lots of one-on-one conflicts throughout the show.
Dee vs. Starbuck
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who found it hugely ironic that Lee ordered his wife to risk her life in trying to save his mistress. Dee’s interaction with Starbuck was terrific, right down to that slap when Starbuck was starting to get punchy from the drugs. Once they got back to the ship, it was nice to see Lee embrace Dee (wow, it just occurred to me, “Lee and Dee”) in the hanger. Lee needs to cut all romantic ties with Starbuck. She’s a complete mess.
Sam vs. Lee
Most of this conflict happened in the previous episode, and for the most part, Sam and Lee worked as a team to fight the Cylons. I don’t know what it is, but my skin crawls when those toasters appear on screen. I think the creators have done a terrific job of painting them as killing machines, and have used them judiciously, so that they keep their impact.
Helo vs. Roslin
How great of a moment was it when Helo slowly walked towards Roslin, blaming her for their current situation? There were no guards around, and this is a guy that just shot his wife. All Adama has to do is put his hand out and Helo (pretty much) stops. That was a powerful scene.
Boomer vs. Athena
I wasn’t expecting Boomer to flip out like that, but I guess that’s what a few weeks with a crying baby will do to you. Caprica’s decision to help Athena and Hera escape threw me for a loop. Now she and Baltar are on Galactica…this should be interesting.
Biers vs. Baltar
So who is the Chosen One? Biers? Baltar? The Chief? Biers was the one who saw the five Cylon faces, but she only recognized one. What clues can we garner from what she said? “You. Forgive me. I had no idea.” Obviously, she was apologizing to someone she felt she had wronged…so who would that be? She’s had limited interaction with the humans. It’s doubtful that it was Baltar, because she seemed genuinely surprised, and Baltar had been blathering on and on about being a Cylon. Though, when she touched the Cylon’s hand, she ended up holding Baltar’s.
One thing’s for sure, the fact that she recognized a face means that we’re in for at least one more huge surprise before the series ends.
About a month passed between episodes and Lucius is still mired in guilt over the deaths of his wife, children and Caesar. Titus continues to be a good and loyal friend, but it’s clear that his new wife doesn’t want to stay with Lucius any longer.
Mark Antony has bit off more than he can chew and is quickly finding that the day-to-day responsibilities of consul are more than he can bear. He has to deal with Octavian, who justifiably wants his inheritance, with Cleopatra, who wants her son proclaimed to be Caesar’s, and with the gangs, who have all tried to fill the power vacuum present after Lucius’ antics last week. For the last bit, Antony enlists Lucius’ help, giving the soldier a swift kick in the ass in the process.
Lucius takes to his new mission with vigor and declares himself a “son of Hades.” Titus continues to worry about the dark path that his friend is taking, but hasn’t shown any signs of leaving Lucius’ side.
Atia’s loyalty to Antony has more to do with her underestimation of her own son than any true affection she has for the consul, though she did throw out a unreturned “I love you” early in the episode. She is still distracted by her hatred for Servilia, but has a new foil in Cleopatra, who has certainly caught Antony’s eye.
Towards the end of the episode, Octavian made his move by promising to deliver the money that Caesar originally pledged to the plebes. He decided to borrow against his inheritance, which caused the throw down between he and Antony. Octavian has decided to leave Rome, and will no doubt return with an army and loads of support from the citizens of Rome.
Now, for a few of the best lines from this episode:
Atia: (to Antony) “I love you.”
Antony: (to Cleopatra) “Your son will eat shit and die before I make him legal.”
Antony: (to Lucius) “Look at the fucking state of you.”
Cleopatra: (to Atia) “I have made a friend for life.”
Lucius: (at the parlay) “I am a son of Hades and I fuck Concord in her ass!”
Cicero: (to Servilia) “I doubt [Octavian] will be more than a nuisance to Antony.”
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