Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Geary -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.12.2006
And now that Linc's worked so hard to reunite with L.J., it's time to blithely hand the boy off to Jane. Aldo assures them all, "You can trust her." Linc swallows this whole. Good to see he exhausted his supply of suspicion in the previous episode. Jane says, "I know this is hard, but it will work out. You have my word." Linc thanks her for that, and Jane adds, "Be careful." Linc doesn't bother to dignify that with a response. He heads over to tell L.J. he has a new guardian. L.J. points out, reasonably enough, that he doesn't even know Jane. Linc blithely assures him, "She's all right. She's been working for Dad for a while." And again, he had trust issues with his dad as recently as last week, so why the sudden change of heart? Anyway, Linc assures L.J. that he'll see him again soon, and L.J. says, "Isn't that the same thing your dad told you?" I may actually miss L.J. if he keeps delivering the zingers at this rate. Linc points out that he means it, then hugs his son.
Back out in the desert, Michael walks some more. Despite being fully covered up by dark clothing and carrying no water whatsoever, he appears not to be suffering from heat stroke.
Meanwhile, Mahone sits in his new ride, parked by the side of the road and trying to figure out if "Bolshoi Booze" is an anagram for something or what. After a while, he decides to turn his attentions to the infinitely less agonizing task of calling the ex-wife with whom he parted on acrimonious terms. Since Pam's not home, he leaves a message that seems to suggest he's not quite resolved to the whole not-married thing. Then he goes back to being frustrated. How fortunate for Mahone that he happens to see a photograph of the tattoo when it's backward and upside down in the mirror, so we can see that "bolshoi booze" is actually a way of encoding the GPS coordinates 32° 00' 9" latitude and 104° 57' 09" longitude. Simply flip "ez oo b oih sl ob" in a mirror and you'll see the l33t-speak alphanumerics. We cut to Michael at the exact spot right as we go to commercial.
Commercials. I'm going to have to go see that prison movie just for Will Arnett, I think.
When we get back from commercials, we see that Michael's actually squatting in front of a derelict cabin. A truck rolls up. A sweaty Michael stands up and greets the guy we used to know and love as Detective Cavaliere over on CSI. Jose Zuniga is one of my favorite That Guy actors. Without preamble, Jose -- known here as "Coyote" -- asks if the cardboard box contains Michael's payment. He adds, "Medical nitroglycerin." "As promised," Michael says. Vincent tries to make a little small talk about how hard it is for him to get this kind of medical-grade nitro, even with his contacts. Michael's all, "Yeah, yeah, now pay up with the airplane." Coyote replies, "They call me a couple of hours before with the drop-off point. It keeps the DEA off our backs. So it's going to be a while. You might as well stay out of the sun." Coyote then calls to his "cousins" to hop on out of the truck too. I have a bad feeling about this.