Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT An innocent civilian -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 10.22.2006
Meanwhile, back in Chicago, Mahone is being gently grilled. The delicious scent of Lying Agent fills the office as Sullins walks us all through the two Team Escarpara killings at Mahone's hands. Mahone snaps, "If you knew anything about a manhunt, you'd be out there running one, instead of hamstringing the men who are." Sullins lets that roll, and points out, "You have two dead bodies." "I've got two dead felons," Mahone counters. Sullins rehashes the Tweener shooting, and it is clear he does not buy what Mahone is selling: "You are driving along alone with a cuffed prisoner, and he reaches forward, across your chest (to your left hip) and grabs your weapon. Huh." Mahone has snapped Sullins' hands in his own without blinking, and Sullins shrugs, "It's too bad you didn't act that quickly with Apolskis. He'd still be alive." Mahone is so busted!
In another part of Chicago, Dr. Sara is crouched in an alley, trying to get her head on straight. Can you blame her, with the day she's had? She looks at Kelly's wallet again (smart of her to keep it, as the credit cards will come in handy later), then digs in her capacious bag for the haiku birds she keeps there. We see the first one -- "There's a plan to make all of this right" with its sequence of dots below.
Speaking of plans and tying up loose ends, it's the weekly Kim-n-Kellerman territory-marking incident. Kim wants to know what the origami birds have to do with anything, and Kellerman points out that Scofield sent the birds so... crack the code, they've got the lead on Scofield. He adds, "Since your brilliant plan to eliminate Sara Tancredi failed so completely --" "I wouldn't say 'failed completely,'" Kim says, and Kellerman shoots back, "There's a dead woman in a phone booth... a civilian. There's a number of bodies you can sweep under the rug. The president's rug is getting so full you can barely stand on it." Kim's polite smile straddles the line between Thanks for that insight and I will not outwardly smile when I kill you and use your skull as a drinking goblet, but rest assured, I'll be grinning on the inside.
L.J. exits a bus terminal and puts a piece of paper in his pocket. One of the approximately two dozen suits trailing him notices this and calls Kellerman to tell him, "Junior's on the move, and still no sign of Burrows." He then suggests that perhaps Linc doesn't know L.J.'s out. Kellerman impatiently snaps that Ann's story has Linc leaving to find his kid, so... not so much with that hypothesis. He adds, "If we want to make sure that (Linc) is there, we need to do something to draw him out."