Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Tweener's chance for a new life -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 09.24.2006
Meanwhile, in the flat bean fields and riparian woodlands of northern Utah (ha!), we hear the droning buzz of a motorcycle as it winds down a lonely highway. We then see C-Note, clad in a wife beater and his my-mom-dresses-me hat, walking along that same road. He watches the bike roll by, and then we get a slo-mo shot of Sucre riding the bike and watching C-Note, and I swear, these two are but one Meatloaf song and a fog machine away from a big, dramatic kiss hello. How did this show get more homoerotic once the boys got out of the big house?
Anyway, the two of them have a little confab in the middle of the road. Sucre asks dazedly, "Did you walk here?" Heh. He is like the absurdist version of Occam's Razor: instead of thinking of the simplest explanation, Sucre instinctively goes for the most implausible. C-Note sighs, "It's a long story." The two forlornly admit that their reunions with their loved ones have not gone as planned, then C-Note effectively buys his seat on Sucre's bike by whipping out the map he drew of the coordinates and saying, "I'll make it worth your while." Sucre glowers at him. I don't like this newer, darker Sucre. Damn you, Maricruz! Damn you!
Meanwhile, back at Chicago's FBI field headquarters, Wheeler is crowing about how they've spotted Haywire in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin. Mahone is all, "Psycho killer, schmycho killer. This is the Michael Scofield show and don't you forget it!" He then clicks off the phone and saunters into the Salt Lake City FBI's conference room so he can babble about how he's going to talk to the gas station attendant who handled the only D.B. Cooper bill in circulation, one Harold Jenkins. Agent Lyle dolefully notes that he worked on the D.B. Cooper case when he was but a wet-behind-the-ears academy graduate, then asks, "What makes you think these escapees know where the money is?" Mahone replies, "Because he has a beautiful mind, a beautiful, beautiful -- oh, was that in the out-loud voice? I meant, 'Because they may have been locked up with the real D.B. Cooper.'"
We then catapult back to the Windy City, where we are once again in Dr. Sara's lovely robin's-egg blue apartment. She's received another origami crane in the mail. This one is yellow, and it's bearing the numeric sequence "786-369-6468." Dr. Sara dials the numbers into her phone, but the line is disconnected. So she opens the book where she's stored the other crane -- it's bookmarking a chapter titled "Safe Haven," and I totally hope that's an intentional detail on someone's part. Together, the yellow and blue cranes have the numeric sequence "786-369-6468-736-339-8687." She mulls them, wondering what it all means. You and the rest of us, sister.