Episode Report Card Mr. Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mama's Family
By Mr. Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.17.2009
So here's the deal: Mahone and T-Bag are going to follow Cub... er... Caribbean Mandy Patinkin into the back while Don Self keeps his eye and gun trained on the pony-tailed henchman dude, who is probably also Caribbean, though he could be from Oceania or Middle Earth or one of those other vaguely identified parts of the globe that are unlikely to fire off angry letters to Fox for their depiction on Prison Break. It's all going swimmingly until Caribbean Mandy Patinkin attempts to pull a gun on the boys; of course, that gives T-Bag the opportunity to smote Senor Patinkin with his Prosthetic Limb of Whoop Ass. That threat put down, Mahone can open up the locked door -- the fancy-pants, high-tech key fits the lock perfectly. Inside the locked room, Mahone discovers a box full of security badges (one of which he pockets) and enough assault weapons to arm every man, woman, and child of Caribbea. Persuaded perhaps by the business end of T-Bag's handgun, Caribbean Mandy Patinkin confesses that there was a woman who once accompanied the deceased Scylla mule to this garden spot, but that's all he knows. So no word on whether she answers to Ma Scofield's description, though signs and portents point to yes.
Say, this mission is going well... unless you've remembered that there were a more henchmen at this church during T-Bag's earlier visit. With Don Self holding one at bay, that leaves others unaccounted for... Whoops, one just decided to account for himself, jabbing a cocked gun into T-Bag's neck and telling him to drop his weapon. He does, right into the waiting hands of Caribbean Mandy Patinkin. Now it's time for T-Bag and Mahone to find themselves on the wrong end of a revolver. "I told you not to come in here," Caribbean Mandy Patinkin says, as he gets ready to pull the trigger. Ah, but he didn't tell that to Don Self, who busts through a side door and shoots the henchman. A startled Caribbean Many Patinkin doesn't notice Mahone going for his other weapon -- he won't notice much of anything any more after Mahone pumps two shots into his chest. See Mahone? You can pull off a mission and kill people. The two are not mutually exclusive.
While Team Scylla flees from Mission of the Holy Chicken Blood, Michael and Sara continue their own flight -- over the fields and through the scrub to some sort of long-abandoned industrial plant they go. Unfortunately, their gun-toting pursuer has not lost their scent. And after Michael and Sara hole up in one of the abandoned warehouses, we notice that Sara seems to be favOreng her right shoulder -- must have injured it in the leap off the truck. Meanwhile, fresh-off-of-brain-surgery Michael is as spry and limber as ever; he hands Sara a lead pipe to fend off any gun-toting henchmen who happen by and scurries off to carry out the next phase of his escape plan.