Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Nice plan, brain trust.
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 07.19.1998
Glynn's office. Alvarez is alone and back in the chair when Sarah enters, looking for some file. Alvarez starts hitting on her, which doesn't help her search efforts. It probably doesn't help her underwear, either, but these things happen. Glynn enters, and starts looking for the file as well. He freaks out at a comment from Alvarez, saying he doesn't speak unless spoken to, and he never talks to Sarah. Alvarez: "Talk to her? I already fucked her." Not quite the right thing to say, I'm guessing. Glynn whacks him. Alvarez hits him back, but we see why Glynn was once a hack, as he wrestles Alvarez to the couch and starts choking him. Sarah goes for help, and two hacks get Glynn off Alvarez and start dragging him away. Glynn: "Take him to the hole!" And those, my friends, are the five words I have most been longing to hear with respect to Alvarez. Sarah tells Glynn that his lip's bleeding. She looks horrified. Yeah, prison's just a walk in the park, isn't it, dear?
Alvarez gets thrown in the hole, naked. Pause. Rewind. Play. Pause. Rewind. Play. Pause. Rewind. Slow-forward (tm Demian).
Gym. Leo's working the heavy bag when Pete comes to see him. She tells him that Sarah's thinking of quitting after what happened, and says that when she thinks of Glynn, the first word that comes to her mind is "balanced." The first word that comes to my mind is "Ghostbusters," but I'm just the recapper here. He asks her not to tell anyone else, but his oldest daughter was raped on her way to her college, and she's in the hospital, completely in shock. His voice breaks as he says that she never had a bad word to say about anyone. Aw. Pete asks who did it, and Glynn fills in the blank that it was some Latino kids. Pete sages that he shouldn't punish Alvarez for that, and I understand where she's coming from, but she's really not coming off as very sympathetic to Glynn's plight here, I have to say. She didn't even say she was sorry, for God's sack. She leaves, and Glynn punches the bag as we flash to his very pretty daughter. She walks through an alley, and is suddenly accosted by two young guys. She tries to back up, but two more appear behind her. One of the first two hits her, and they advance as we fade out. Yikes.
Hole. Mukada enters with a big smile. Yeah, he's definitely gay. He's got clothes for Alvarez, and says he can go back to Em City. Alvarez asks if Mukada convinced Glynn to let him out, but he says no. Alvarez starts to apologize for what happened during the riot, but Mukada emotionally says he doesn't want to talk about it. "I've already forgiven you, all right? I expect you'll do the same for Warden Glynn." They walk out. Glynn's in the hallway, still wearing his workout clothes, so apparently he came straight from the talk with Pete. He and Alvarez stare balefully at each other. Yeah, these two will be sailing on the Friend Ship together soon, for sure.