Episode Report Card Sobell: B | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Well, look what you've done now, Michael
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.02.2005
Outside, Gov. Crankypants is all, "Blah blah blah, why can't you be more like Bellick, blah blah blah." Pope is all, "I seem to recall telling Bellick not to run off at the mouth. Funny how he completely ignored that." I do love how in trying to bust Pope's chops, Gov. Crankypants more or less torpedoes Bellick.
See Michael and Sara run. Run, Michael and Sara, run.
See Abruzzi sink his drill into the wall, make a face, and grunt, "Oooh, yes!" Oh, God, I need a shower. And a brief stay in a convent until this mental image passes on. Sucre leans in and says, "Time to put this theory to the test." Abruzzi hands him a length of pipe, actually backs off by six inches, and lets Sucre take a swing just in case they're anywhere near a gas pipe. This way, Abruzzi's guaranteed an extra thirty seconds before his lungs are flash-fried. A few quick swings, and the wall comes tumbling down. Sucre begins laughing jubilantly -- I'll take more of that, please -- and then the camera swings so we get the tunnel's-eye view of Sucre and Abruzzi peering in and giggling.
No giggling for Michael and Sara! They're still hauling ass, and Michael's taken her to some sort of office with windows. Michael tells her that this is how she gets out. Sara turns back to him and says, "But I can’t leave you here!" Michael gets that irritating little smirk and coolly points out, "You don't have a choice. I'm one of the bad guys, remember?" His point is more or less invalidated by the FRA closing in, because on the bad-guy scale, rescuing a live woman does not carry the same heft as trying to smoke-cure her and rape her.
While this is going on, the sharpshooters are surrounding the courtyard that Michael's steering her toward, and Sharpshooter No. 8 has just tagged Michael as Sara's assailant. Sara asks Michael what he plans on doing, and he's all, "Go back to my cell. Stay out of the way. Totally miss this red dot that's just settled on my forehead." Sara points it out to him, breathing, "They see us." Michael looks down at the red spot on his chest and back up at her, saying, "You have to go." Sara replies, "I can't. They'll kill you."
Commercials. I can't take any horror movie about fog seriously, which is probably fortunate, seeing as I live in San Francisco and all. But that Six Flags guy absolutely terrifies me. Where is the horror movie The Pitchman?
Once we're back from commercials, Michael's Blue Steeling and telling Sara, "You go out the door. I'll drop to the floor." Sara says, "They're sharpshooters, Michael. They won't miss." Michael says, "That's why you can't stay here." Aaaaand here comes the FRA.