Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Michael and Lincoln -- not dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 09.03.2006
Sucre watches the cop keep yammering, and it has finally hit him that he's not getting out of this one. The Virgin Mary bobbles merrily as a train pulls along the tracks right in front of Sucre's car. We switch to the cop assuring dispatch that this has got to be Sucre, and after that super-duper close-up, we watch the cop approach the car with his service pistol drawn just out of sight. He calls, "Mr. Miller? I'm going to have to ask you to place your arms outside the vehicle, please." That will not be happening, because unlike fellow escapee T-Bag, Mr. Miller's arms are still firmly attached to the rest of him, and that man has taken advantage of the train to put some distance between himself and the cop. The last shot we see is of Sucre running in a cornfield. Ominously, he's running toward a group of children who are muttering something about "He Who Walks Behind the Rows."
Meanwhile, in another plotline...Michael and Linc are driving, and the minute the odometer hits 11.8, we get another shot of the tattoo reminding us that the second number in the series is 12. Therefore, something's going to happen at the 12-mile mark. It does. Michael asks, "You ready?" Linc is. So then Michael spins out the car, right before it hits the rail on a bridge. Michael pops out, shakes a rail and confirms that it's good to go. He and Linc quickly detach it. Michael asks if Linc sees anyone, and Linc -- who is looking not too bad in his sunglasses -- shrugs, "Maybe he didn't get your message."
Ah, but Mahone did. They've just gotten to 38. And a beeping noise alerts Wheeler and Mahone to the fact that the brothers have stopped. Wheeler wonders, "What are they waiting on?" "Or who?" Mahone asks.
They're not really waiting so much as they are "positioning the car." Michael then opens the trunk, and from the area where the spare tire's usually stored, he brings out ... several bags of what appears to be well-preserved meat. Did he actually procure human cadavers somewhere?
And now is when Wheeler and Mahone begin to curse America's agrarian roots, as they're caught behind a tractor going slowly down the road. Wheeler leans on the horn, whining, "Come on." Mahone watches this for half a minute, then whips out a little red bubble light and snaps, "Go red." Right as Wheeler guides the SUV into oncoming traffic, Mahone shouts, "Now! Go red!" Who doesn't love a backseat driver during a stressful road situation? The guys finally manage to get around the tractor.