Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Let the Water Wash Away Your Sins
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.03.2008
We cut to Bellick gossiping about Mahone with Linc, who says only, "The guy's hurting." I am not the greatest fan of Linc as a character, but kudos to the writers for making him a big enough man to be empathetic to another father's loss. It makes Linc more likeable. Bellick says, "That's more than just hurting -- that's pain. I've never cared about anything like that. I look at what I've done with my life, beating on cons at Fox River, chasing money, trying to keep my own ass out of prison... " We come to a dead end, which I am sure is in no way symbolic of any impending plot twists in any way. Now the guys have to climb up a ladder and then they'll be on a raised walkway that runs under a courtyard; on the other side of the walkway is the entrance to the Scylla bunker. Sucre hears the low rushing noise again, but nobody can identify that.
Then Sucre, bless him, lays out the rest of the episode's caper: "Just so we're clear, we get to go up that ladder, head toward that noise [that] we don't know what it is, but if we're lucky, we basically get to walk smack into the [One World Conspiracy] HQ." Michael grins, "Sounds about right. You up for it?" Sucre smiles back at his brohomie: "Oh, yeah." Michael can't help but smile back.
Meanwhile, Agent Blots Out the Sun is still working on Dr. Sara: "I am no different from that man over there who wants to kill me. Alexander Mahone was forced to do things by the [One World Conspiracy] and so was I, but I know people, people in government, people that can help you and Michael. I can give you a phone number. Arrangements can be made. All you have to do is trust me, and this will all be over." Gosh, Agent Blots Out the Sun says that like it's such a bad thing to share a loft-like space with four bald, beefy guys and one crazed ex-FBI agent. What girl doesn't dream of shacking up with her beloved in such style? Dr. Sara finally walks out. As she locks the pen again, she says, "There's honor."
Back in the GATE office, T-Bag is conferring with Trisha to see if White has anything new to say about the missing Andy. She's all, "Now that the police are on the scene, he just might." T-Bag has no time to escape, because LAPD detective Connor Merrick has just collared him for a little quiz about Andy, and T-Bag has no choice but to play along.
So the four expeditionary members of Team Scylla are now on the catwalk, and in the time-honored tradition of these things in TV and cinema, there's hissing and steam and crappy lighting. As they continue to head toward the mystery noise, Sucre's holding his side (where, presumably, his still-healing bullet wound is giving him trouble), and when they finally get to the impediment wall thing, Michael pegs it: "It is where the sound is coming from. This is one of the main conduit pipes for the L.A. water supply. Thirty thousand gallons of water rushing through this very spot, every second." Bellick wonders if maybe there's a way to get around the giant pipe, but Michael quickly disabuses him of that notion. Michael's proposed solution: dig down beneath the pipe. Out comes the sledgehammer.