Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The light you see at the end of the tunnel…
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 11.27.2005
Meanwhile, for reasons that pass beyond understanding, the inmate who's in super-duper-solitary lockdown has access to matches. Good thing nothing in a prison is flammable, huh? Linc stares hard at the match, thinking, "Someday, I will be a real boy and not a wooden one. Someday!"
Things are tense in the Sucre/Michael household. Michael's seated at their little desk area. Sucre's semi-sulking on the bunk, and decides that he might as well pile on a little passive-aggressive pressure by pointing out that if the rest of Team Escarpara goes through the hole, that more or less blows his chances of doing so later. Michael says pissily, "Sounds like you're thinking about it." Sucre replies, "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't. I want to be out of here yesterday. I got a kid coming, man." He looks over -- expecting congratulations, perhaps? -- but Michael's all distracted by the rosary he's just found. Sucre tries to keep arguing that Michael can't get Linc out of the Tombs, but Michael's too busy monkeying with the rosary to listen. Sucre then jumps out of his bunk and says, "Can I say something? You may not want to hear it, but, uh...they're strapping him up either way. Once he's gone, you'll be stuck for another five years. And if they trace the hole back to you, they'll toss another dime. That's fifteen years, Papi. [Thoughtful pause -- inasmuch as Sucre's capable of such.] 'Course, if I were you, I wouldn't leave my brother behind either. Not to die like that, no." Hector, yes -- in a heartbeat. But a brother, no way. Sucre barrels on, "Worse thing a man can do to another man is strap him to a chair like that." Thank you, o clown prince of philosophy. And the point to that jumbled monologue was…?
Meanwhile, on the outside...Nick puts down the phone he's been chatting on and tells Veronica that they're in business: a friend of his at superior court is not averse to revisiting Lincoln's case if "the informant" has any actual information. Veronica breathes, "I gotta tell Lincoln." Before you do, why not tell us how you happened to rustle up a whole new outfit, little Miss I'm-On-The-Run. Nick points out that if Veronica goes to the prison "they" will be all over her. Veronica replies, "They've wanted to keep us on the run this entire time because if anybody hears us out, we can do them damage. Maybe it's time to do the exact opposite -- go big." Veronica's idea of "big" is to go to the media where, she correctly reasons, reporters will be very interested in hearing about how a bunch of disparate murders all tie to Lincoln's false conviction. Nick asks, "Are you ready to show your face again?" She will be once the boys in R&D figure out why her right eyebrow's an inch higher than her left one.