Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Aldo Burrows -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 11.19.2006
When we come back, Michael's ordering Sucre to drive them to a hospital. Sucre's all, "Do I look like Mapquest to you? How the hell do I know where anything is?" Michael and Linc then reassure Aldo he's going to make it, but Aldo begs to differ: "It's bile. He got me clean through." Linc repeats that Aldo's going to make it. Aldo begins wrapping up his business: "Listen to me, both of you. I wish I'd never left." Michael begs Aldo, "Don't talk. Just breathe, okay?" The camera focuses on Linc's face, which is frozen in grief. ["Because now that he's been shot, everything is hunky-dory emotionally... ?" -- Sars] We cut back to Michael breathing in time with Aldo, as if to will his father to keep going.
Back in the police station, Bellick is picking up a doughnut and telling Slattery, "If we nail Bagwell, he might still have some of Geary's things on him, like his backpack, which has his personal stuff in it. I know his wife would love to have that." Slattery assures him that if they find Bagwell, he'll get it from them personally. She continues, "It's the least we could do, considering how you're helping me out. Though some of the guys on the force are concerned that you're -- ah, nothing. You know what? Why don't you tell us what you know? We'll track down Bagwell, we'll get Geary's effects back to his wife, and I'll make sure everybody involved knows your help was invaluable. I'll even recommend that you get most of -- if not all of -- that reward money." Around a mouthful of doughnut, Bellick asks, "What is it exactly that the guys on the force are concerned about?" That some rogue streak of animal cunning might bar him from being stupid enough to blunder right into Slattery's exquisitely calibrated manipulation? Slattery downplays how maybe Bellick's been lying about how he got his head injury. Bellick sighs, "You got me. Geary and me had a little dust-up over how to go about finding Bagwell. It got physical, and he hit me. The two of us, we fought like brothers. I didn't want to rat him out to the cops. After the fight, we split up. And then... " And then Bellick begins crying around a big fat mouthful of doughnut. Slattery suggests gently, "Why don't we focus our energy on finding the man who killed your friend." Bellick tearily says, "That's what Roy would have wanted." And then he takes another bite of delicious Boston Crème doughnut, because that's what Roy would have wanted too.
Sucre's beater speeds along toward a hospital. Going by how the piano's plinking along, they really needn't have bothered. Aldo weakly protests that they shouldn't go to the hospital because they'll be caught. Michael sniffs, "Then we'll be caught. I'm not going to let you die." Linc is all teary, but he cocks his head back as Aldo says, "Listen to me. You find Sara Tancredi. She can end this. It's up to you now."