Episode Report Card Sobell: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT He's handy in a tight spot
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.14.2006
We go from a shot of the sour-looking Madame Vice President to a sour-looking Bellick, who has found the bloody handprint Tweener left on the barn wall. He orders the canine guy to get the scent of the blood, then heads over to ponder the pieces of shattered taillight left behind. The anti-Pope brings over a local who works as a caretaker on the property. The caretaker says he saw a blue van parked on the property. Bellick asks, "You didn't think to report it to the authorities?" "No, because I totally thought the bumper sticker 'These cons are pros at escaping!' was a joke,'" the guy shoots back. Sort of. Bellick shoves him in disgust. I wonder if that's how he ends bad dates t-- wait. Who says Bellick actually goes on dates?
In the carload of cons, T-Bag's practicing his best psycho hillbilly looks while Abruzzi says, "If you think I won't cut you myself to get that key, you're in for a big surprise." T-Bag coolly drawls, "I encourage you to remember the last time you came at me with a knife." Oh, Robert Knepper. What must it be like to look at a script and decide, "Here -- yes, here is where I will pick up the scene and put it in my pocket and walk off with it"? After a line like that, Michael's screamed, "Shut up! Both of you! Shut up! We can settle this in Mexico" seems sort of wussy-boy and lame. Sucre looks back -- I imagine the sight of Michael screaming in anger is something of a novelty. Linc looks like he's about ready to snap, "If I have to stop this car..." He settles for asking how far it is to the airstrip. It's five miles. C-Note pops up from wherever he's been stashed and mutters threateningly in Abruzzi's ear about how the plane better be there. Abruzzi could not care less what C-Note thinks.
My little sans serif friend! We're where? At the Goose Park Airstrip? And it's how far away from Fox River? Ten miles? Okay, mysterious text dispenser -- thank you. You can go now. The pilot's getting nervous about the prospect of taking off, with the cops everywhere. Maggio's getting nervous because he's running out of snacks.
Back in Fox River, Pope's grilling Nurse Gossipson: "You're saying you don't know anything about this?" She doesn't. Pope protests, "The door was left open, Katie!" and she replies with some exasperation that it wasn't her. Pope asks, "Then who was it? Only you and Dr. Tancredi were left at the end of the night. The orderly confirmed that!" Nurse Gossipson is clearly in a rough spot, but repeats that it wasn't her. Pope says quietly, "Then you're telling me it was Dr. Tancredi." "No!" Nurse Gossipson says vehemently. She then catches sight of Pope's expression -- the hurt he's evidently feeling that something in this escape can be linked to his employees -- and she clams up. Pope then puts on the full-court press, reminding her that if she's sitting on information, she could be charged as an accessory to the crime, should he feel like it. And he feels like it. Nurse Gossipson says reluctantly, "Sara...Sara had a thing for Scofield." Which you encouraged! So I hope part of that guilty expression is linked to you remembering that, Katie Gossipson. Pope deflates visibly, but thanks Nurse Gossipson.
Meanwhile, in the carload of cons, Sucre's carrying on all, "I just want to put my hand on her belly." Well, Michael's looking like he wants to put a fist through your teeth, so tone it down, Papi. Linc speaks up, saying calmly, "We got trouble." There's a blockade ahead, and there's cars coming behind them. Linc kills the lights, and there's a hasty confab: they've got to get off the road, but this is the only road leading to the airstrip. C-Note contributes in his own inimitable way -- i.e. making sullen threats -- and Michael gets the bright idea that perhaps they can drive around the roadblock through the woods. Excellent! What could be easier than driving through unfamiliar, unpaved terrain at night without headlights?