Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Girl Named Disaster
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 01.13.2008
Sammy is not looking too happy at the moment either. He catches an eyeful of Whistler and T-Bag walking off, and then Whistler makes himself scarce. We are left to see T-Bag, still channeling his inner greaser, as he glowers at Sammy.
Meanwhile, on the outside...we're back at the hotel. A very sweaty Lincoln is getting out of the elevator when Sucre accosts him in the lobby and says he's thought about it, but he's not giving up the job any time soon. After all, Augusto can afford to pay him, and at this point, Sucre's all about the dinero. Also, he would like to borrow some money from Linc, and Linc replies, "I told you, I don't have any cash!" Sucre protests, "What do you expect me to do?" "Do whatever you want," Linc says dismissively, and makes to go. Sucre blocks him with, "You can still use my help?" and Linc says snidely, "You gonna start charging me for your friendship?" Going by this scene, the answer is apparently "yes." Linc decides to head outside and go buy some new friends cheaper somewhere else. No sooner do the boys huff off than one café-sitter whips out the mobile to call Susan B.
Back in General Zavala's office, the good general has just put down the papers he was reading, and admits to Michael, "Much to my surprise, there seems to be some degree of truth to your tale." Michael reminds him that "everything I told you is true." Zavala snaps, "That's for me to determine." "What more can I say?" Michael asks. He can say the name of the inmate the One World Conspiracy wants sprung. But will he?
Whistler is blissfully unaware of any burning sensation in his ears as he strolls on out to see Sofia. Sofia confronts him about the apartment and Susan B., tearfully asking, "Why didn't you tell me? Who's Gary Miller?" Whistler sighs and ladles on the sincerity before telling her, "That apartment, that passport, it's all for us. It's how we're going to get away. When I get out of this place, I've been working on a way for us to be together. Remember how we always talked about France?" Oh, that hits Sofia where she lives, and she puts up only token resistance with, "James, how can I believe you? How can I believe anything anymore?" Before Whistler can talk his way around answering those questions, the guards summon him. As he's marched off, Whistler tells Sofia he loves her.
Then we cut to an interrogation room where Zavala is busy asking Whistler about the One World Conspiracy. Naturally, Whistler is denying everything. He adds slyly, "Scofield's a smart man, but he's got a rabid imagination." Zavala asks if Whistler is calling Scofield a liar. "More or less," Whistler admits. Zavala sits down and says, "I've been able to verify his story. I already know everything, Mr. Whistler, in detail. I just need a name." It's to Zavala's credit that he doesn't add, "Ha ha ha HA ha!" in a singsong after all that. Whistler gulps. Then he attempts to play stupid one more time, and says, "What are you talking about?" Zavala doesn't take kindly to being lied to. He orders his flunkies to bring in the waterboarding equipment -- a chair with restraints, a bucket, a hose, a rag -- and offers Whistler one more shot to tell the truth.