Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dr. Gudat -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 08.27.2006
Not anymore, they're not. The guys are hauling ass down the street, and they jump into the nearest open vehicle. It happens to be a delivery truck. Some cops shoot at them and the truck. They don't hit the truck, but someone does manage to put a bullet in Lincoln's thigh. The guys drive off.
We abruptly transition to a neighborhood packed with modest brick bungalows. When we move inside, we see that it's the Bellick residence. Bellick opens the door to his room. It doesn't seem to have changed much since high school: weight bench on one side of the door, a rack of videotapes and DVDs on the other. Bellick lives with his mom, not the other way around. Brad quietly closes the door and surveys his tiny domain. Bellick sits down on the bed; all we see is his slumped back.
On the other side of the door, we hear his mother ask, "Bradley?" "Yeah, Mom?" he replies brokenly. Ma Bellick asks, "What are you doing home so early?" Bellick lies, "I had to take , um, a personal day. You know, before they went away." Ma Bellick cannot believe an administrative requirement will stand in the way of him looking for those convicts. Bellick can't bring himself to look at her. His mom asks if he's okay. Bellick looks at her, then gets up and walks over. He leans in to kiss his mom on the temple; going by Mrs. Bellick's expression, this is not something he does all that often. Bellick assures her he's good, and she leaves him to his privacy.
In short order, Bellick's pulled out his shotgun, loaded it and swallowed hard. Out at Fox River, Pope is looking at the Taj Mabadidea and realizing that verily, it was a bad idea. After suffering through an acutely infuriating flashback to this scene and then to this scene, Pope decides he's had enough of the Taj Mabadidea and smashes it to pieces.
Meanwhile, on campus, Tweener's whiling away the minutes to his meeting with Debra Jean by reading the paper THAT HAS HIS MUG SHOT RIGHT ON THE FRONT OF IT. When Debra Jean taps on his shoulder, Tweener leaps up. He then forgets he's supposed to be Scott Kolbrenner. Tweener recovers, and Debra Jean burbles about how funny it is that Tweener called right before she left. Oh, she will not be finding it very funny in subsequent episodes. She adds, "I guess there's not a lot of Utah people out here." Is she even one of them? Everyone I've ever known from the Beehive state calls themselves a Utahn. Anyway, Tweener claims he's heading out to claim an inheritance from a dead grandpa. "I'm sorry to hear that," Debra Jean automatically and politely says. Tweener shrugs: "It's a'ight. He went out with his boots on." Well, sort of -- Westmoreland did leave a lot of money in Utah and he did die with his boots on. I'm just not sure how he'd feel about any intimations that he's related to Tweener. Debra Jean asks where Tweener's stuff is, and he stammers that he mailed it yesterday. This practice seems odd to Debra Jean -- as does the lily-white presumably collegiate Tweener's explaining "I got a boy at UPS so he hooked it up" -- but not odd enough for her to ditch him as a traveling companion. Tweener asks, "So, you wanna bounce?' and Debra Jean gives him a long look that says, There is no chance of this turning into a When Harry Met Sally thing somewhere down the line, is there? Then she smiles nervously and tells Tweener she's parked out front.