Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Agent Von Blondie -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.21.2007
Just then, Stolte the C.O. comes over to have another iteration of the good news-bad news-worse news conversation. The good news: Karma is alive and well. The bad news: Banks is connected with the night guards. The worse news: Because none of the night guards want to be working that shift and Bellick is the one who put them there, they are more than okay with pulling Bellick from his cell so Banks can extract revenge. What? I didn't say the good news had to be Bellick's good news. I thought we could be cheered by proof that what goes around comes around.
Off in Montana, Kellerman's busy making travel plans for the gang -- they'll head up to Canada via Montana, cut across that lovely country until they get to New York, then head back into the States again. Steadman snickers and sing-songs, "The borders won't be a problem. Not at all." Kellerman gets unexpectedly touchy and asks, "Is this fun for you?" Steadman replies, "No, no, this isn't fun. What was fun was when Caroline and I would talk about you and the schoolboy crush you had on her." Steadman turns to Michael and says snidely, "He proposed to her. Hee hee hee! You actually thought that you would be First Husband. The serf who would be king?" I can think of no one better for the role. Imagine how the annual White House Easter egg roll would go once Kellerman was put in charge! Caroline Reynolds, it is all your loss. Steadman keeps snickering -- presumably to drown out Kellerman's rebuttal that the upside to Caroline's decision is that it spared him the irritation of Steadman as a brother-in-law. Linc is not laughing. He surges from the bed, grabs Steadman by the throat, and pushes him against the wall. He screams, "You stood there and watched them kill Veronica!" Linc then whips out a gun and holds it to Terrence, yelling, "You did nothing! She died because of you!" Kellerman now has his gun on Linc, but it doesn't appear to be an effective deterrent. Steadman looks from Linc to Kellerman and realizes his life's in the hands of the person he was just mocking. Ah, karma.
And then we go to commercials. Those Apple commercials don't really work on me because I find John Hodgman simply adorable. If I get a Windows machine, I have an adorable experience? Is that the message here?
We get back from commercials. Kellerman makes his first strategic error of the night: he tries to use logic on Linc, telling him, "Terrence has no identity and he has no strategic value to us dead. If you kill him, he's just a John Doe." Michael gives Kellerman a look like, You think appealing to delayed gratification or invoking logic works? Then he steps in and tries to smooth over the situation, pleading, "Linc, we're so close."