Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Madame Evil's administration -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.04.2007
Terence Steadman: I'm the Isle of Terrence, far off to sea.Madame Evil: But I'm still here for you. Now listen to me: don't dwell on the negative.
Terence Steadman: People deserve to dwell, Caroline.
Madame Evil: You know I'm only a phone call away.
Terence Steadman: Mmm-hmmm. And 3000 miles. Do you know how cold it is here?
Madame Evil: We talked about this, Terrence. You knew that you would be lonely, but it's only temporary. The appeals process has started already -- this is going to fly by quicker than your twenties! And soon the world will forget all about him, and they'll forget about you too, I promise.
Terence Steadman: But it's killing me, not being able to see you, sweet Caroline.
Madame Evil: I want to see you too, but that can't happen right now.
Terence Steadman: The house is so big. I just -- I just think of you, lying in bed ...
Madame Evil: I know. Me too.
Terence Steadman: The warmth of your touch --
Mercifully, that is when Madame Evil snaps the phone shut. I can only imagine that the reason Michael, Linc, and Dr. Sara were busy gaping through all of the last episode is because they did not have the sense to hit CTRL-Q when the phone call began degenerating into the 1-900 stuff.
Also -- putting aside that whole consensual incest thing, because really, I don't want to think about it long enough to make any jokes about it, I just have to say this: Oh, Caroline. Steadman? Really? STEADMAN? You could have had Kellerman and you went with Steadman? That part I absolutely do not get.
Anyway, back to Madame Evil in the kitchen with Michael. She looks grief-stricken. Well, it has to have sucked to have had her brother/lover die some time in the last week and her not able to express any grief at all because the world thinks he's been dead for two years. Then again, if Madame Evil hadn't lied about his death, maybe the whole situation wouldn't have come back to bite her in the ass. She turns around to look at Michael. Her expression is only half-composed; his is entirely resolute, if a little bloody.
Madame Evil asks, "Was it quick, when he killed himself?" Michael replies, "It was a lot quicker than how my father died. They shot him, in the back. He died in my arms." Madame Evil says, "I just want to know what happened." Michael tells her: Steadman apologized, then he shot himself in the head. He adds, "It was quick and it was his decision. Now it's time for you to make yours." He Blue Steels her, and we see that Agent Kim has once again screwed up: blackening both of Michael's eyes and dulling the power of the Blue Steel should have been his first order of business.