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
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The cons are pressed against the side of the quarry, balanced precariously on a ledge so they're not immediately visible on the ground. We get a shot of the helicopter zooming overhead and a voice announcing on the radio that he's got contact. This is C-Note's cue to break out one of his usual spirit-lifting pep talks. He yells, "It's coming back, y'all! It's coming back! Make yourself small. There's no way we're going to make two miles like this, especially with that bird up there!" You know, C-Note, if what you have to say isn't very helpful, perhaps you shouldn't say it at all. Be like Sucre, who's just spotted a car next to a mobile home at the bottom of the quarry and says he's got a way to make this work.
We then zoom over to a pretty white clapboard farmhouse on the middle of a well-tended patch in the middle of nowhere. There's a girl who looks to be about middle-school-aged in the garage, working on the complex process of attaching playing cards to the spokes of her bicycle wheels. She smiles in satisfaction at the papery clatter. Behind her, Haywire watches through the window. This whole scene simply smacks of the set-up in Con Air, where batshit-crazy serial killer Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene has a tea party with a little girl. I can't be bothered to feel any tension here.
Or here, where we establish that it's finally come to the attention to the air traffic controller at the Goose Park Airstrip that there's an unidentified aircraft on the strip. The pilot and Maggio lie unconvincingly about having engine trouble, and there's about a microsecond of will-he-or-won't-he?-style tension with Maggio fondling his gun, but the whole scene ends with a fizzle. The controller walks away from the thugs, then quietly slips a cell phone out of his sleeve and makes a call, saying quietly, "I got an unidentified aircraft out here at Goose Park. You better have a look at it. Tail number's 986-delta..."
Sucre's sitting behind the wheel of the car; Linc comes up to him and asks how it's going. "Just let Papi work a little bit of his magic, okay?" Sucre replies. Hee! Linc asks if Sucre knows what he's doing and Sucre says happily, "You kidding me? Hot-wiring this thing is like hot-wiring a toaster. Now if it were an Acura or a Chinese car, that's a whole different story." We get an exterior shot; there's frost on the car's windows and Linc's breath is coming in puffs. Sucre continues babbling, "Ignition, computer chip, forget it. But no, we're good."