Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Escaping from the prison of love
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.23.2006
Commercials. After watching spots for both Poseidon and the DVD release of Aeon Flux, I feel like taping them, wrapping them up, slapping a label reading "Exhibit A" on the package, then shipping the whole thing off to the next person who wonders, "Why is movie-going attendance down?"
Abruzzi is busy reading the Bible while clutching a rosary. Michael approaches him and coolly says hello. Abruzzi gets up and hugs him happily. We cut to a genuinely hilarious shot of Abruzzi draped over Michael while the younger man rolls his eyes in sufferance. Proving he hasn't lost his touch for the transcendently weird, Abruzzi tells Michael, "Any day above ground is a blessing." You won't be saying that when they lock you into that mausoleum, Abruzzi. Anyway, he politely bids Michael to sit. Michael does, looking as if he fully expects Abruzzi to begin speaking in tongues. (Then again, how would that be any different from the pre-converted Abruzzi?) Abruzzi asks if Michael's still planning on escaping, and Michael replies, "That depends. How does the idea of escaping sit with the new you?" Abruzzi says, "Oh, the old sinner who was confined to these walls is dead. The new soul deserves to be free." Michael says cautiously, "The old sinner was going to have a jet ready for us. Is the new soul going to be able to pull that off?" Abruzzi then proves that weirdness transcends all states of the soul by looking at Michael cross-eyed and asking, "Noah had his ark, did he not?" Then he bids Michael to join him in prayer. T-Bag watches this, looking decidedly nervous. He decides it's time to get a razor blade.
Pope is not reacting well to the news that the auto accident left two officers dead, one officer wounded, and one con missing. He snipes to Bellick, "Do you know what the media's going to say when they get a hold of this?" Since Bellick only patronizes Fox News, he does not know what the media would actually say. He promises instead to bring back Lincoln. Pope grieves: "Twenty years in corrections, and this is how they remember." Bellick is confident that he'll be able to track down Lincoln in four to five hours. After all, it's easier to find a highly motivated con on the lam than it is to wrangle a captive construction crew working on your break room. Pope wants to report the incident to the state department of corrections right away, but Bellick argues that going by the book will only backfire on them, the people entrusted to law enforcement.
Meanwhile, on the outside...a car drives into a garage in the middle of a giant auto demolition yard. We see the presumed mystery man dragging Lincoln out -- the camera is very careful not to show us who he is, so as to maintain suspense for the five viewers who are like, "A guy in a baseball hat? What is a man in a baseball hat doing on Prison Break?" And also on the outside...Veronica and Nick have been making a lot of phone calls, trying to track down any possible lead connected to Quinn via his cell phone. Nick moans, "There must be thousands of calls here...it's going to take us forever to go through all of these. And what if these have nothing to do with Lincoln and Steadman and we're just burning time -- we're just that much closer to the execution." Veronica notices that Nick seems to be ready to jump out of his skin, and says belligerently, "It's almost like you want to quit." Nick lies and tells her he doesn't. Veronica tosses him a stack of paper to go through and wanders off, leaving him to marinate in his self-loathing. Or to count the minutes until he's handed her off to whatever nefarious forces are demanding her. It's hard to tell which.