Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Geary -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.12.2006
And in another part of Kansas, Bellick is busy blaming an innocent ethnic group on his own mischief: "Some black male, early twenties, jumped me from behind. I didn't get a good look at his face." The woman quizzing him, Detective Slattery, is not buying the story at all: "He jumped you from behind?" "That's what I said," Bellick replies. "Yet he managed to make contact with your forehead," she points out. "That's right," Bellick says. "With what? A boomerang?" she asks. I like Detective Slattery. Bellick says, "I'm a retired prison guard outside Illinois. How 'bout showing me some professional courtesy, honey?" Slattery gives him a look to let him know she's not sure which is more ridiculous: his attempt to make them professional peers, or his ridiculous sexism toward someone who could make his life very hard. Bellick, naturally misses this eloquent message. He then calls Geary and growls into Roy's voice mail, "You thieving son of a bitch. You better get down on your knees and pray to God I don't find you, because if I do, mark my words, I'm going to gut you bow to stern."
Bellick got voice mail because Geary's in a comparatively plushy hotel suite. As the Fox "News" anchor provides exposition in the background about how President Reynolds is dogged by questions about Lincoln's escape from custody, Geary pads around in a bathrobe, checking the multiple bottles of Ripple chilling in ice buckets all over the room. We get a shot of the Fox "News" screen. Even if that organization's election-spinning weren't enough to call its media credentials into question, I do wonder what it thinks it's gaining by lending its name, look and feel to a completely fictional TV show. Ah, well, silly me and my questions about "ethics" and Fox "News."
Anyway, there's a knock on the door, and I say aloud, "Please don't let there be a hooker waiting on the other side." And the powers that be show me that it's unwise to make vague pleas. Because, true, there is not a hooker waiting on the other side of the door. There are three hookers waiting on the other side of the door. And one of them looks like Li'l Kim, c. a long time before the surgery binges.
In a non-hooker-y plotline, Linc is busy telling Aldo how he's hated him for the last thirty years, running out, not knowing Michael blah blah blah. Aldo says shortly, "I've seen Michael before." Lincoln says, "Not in the papers, Dad." He then adds, "I'm trying to work out what kind of a man abandons his family. Now I'm doing the same damn thing." Over on the driver's side, the thought bubble appears over Aldo's head: "Abandons his family? Who saved you from the electric chair? Who staged your van-breakout last episode? What am I, chopped liver?" Aldo promises Linc that he'll see L.J. again. He also tells Linc they'll be meeting up with Michael in about three hours.