Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Niedermeyer -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.18.2007
Meanwhile, Linc and Kellerman are making awkward small talk on a Chicago rooftop. Linc points out that Kellerman wanted him dead; Kellerman replies that he was merely following orders. Linc does not reply, "You mean like the Nazis?" Linc quickly figures out that Kellerman followed all these orders because he loved Madame Evil. Kellerman disses Steadman's say-so of this matter and adds bitterly, "You don't love someone who loves power more than life. I don't [love her]. No offense, but you're not capable of understanding the relationship." Linc gives him a long look like, You are really not fooling me, son. Kellerman decides to change the subject, moving on to the far more cheery possibility that this whole caper will end in their sticky deaths. He tells Linc, "One way or another, you and I, we die. And your brother too, which is a shame, given all he's done for you. I have a sister I haven't talked to in 15 years. Think she's better off for it?" I am incredibly curious to find out what Kellerman's sister is like. Do you suppose she rules her PTA by threatening to shoot dissenting soccer moms in the head? Linc merely tells Kellerman, "We'll make it." Kellerman snaps back, "What is that -- faith?" Linc says it is. Kellerman replies, "All I see is a black hole." On the couch, I say, "So he's a nihilist?" As if on autopilot, the husband replies, "Nihilists! Fuck me! I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, dude, at least it's an ethos." Wait -- wait, Kellerman has an ethos: "Sooner or later, they're going to suck each one of us into this [black hole]. But when they come for me, I'm going to take as many of them with me as I can." Linc smirks, "She must have really broken your heart, Paul."
We then get a picture of the heartbreaker herself as Fox "News" reports on her attendance at a Chi-town fundraiser. We see Agent Kim watching the footage as he makes notes on something at his desk. Another agent pops in to give Kim the heads-up on Dr. Sara's appearance in Chicago at the cigar club. Once Kim hears that Governor Dad kept a private humidor at the club, he picks up the phone and orders his assistant to get him a jet to Chicago.
Meanwhile, at the Ixtapa aeropuerto, Sucre is trying to split from his good Samaritan without rousing any suspicion. The very minute Sucre leaves, an uniformed guard approaches Cadena, asks if he has his pistol, then adds, "We may need it. Here's our guy. Cadena looks down at a leaflet bearing the face of... the guy he just drove to the airport. Everyone runs off into the commercials.