Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sarah, Plain And Tall
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.07.2007
Then he runs intro Mahone, who has the coveted pen. Michael totally blows him off.
Whistler's watching the guards outside when Michael startles him by appearing and asking, "What do you think?" Whistler's like, "I think I have no idea why you thought fixing the fence was a good idea." Michael says it's in everyone's best interests for the fence to be as deadly as possible, and all he's waiting on now is for Linc to come through with the gravedigger.
Speaking of whom...we see the gravedigger thumbing through a fat wad of cash, then telling Linc and Susan B. that this makes a nice start. However...he'd like more. Linc advances on him, snarling, "You said $15,000" until he gets to the guy, and then it's more like, "LINCOLN NOT LIKE ADJUSTABLE-RATE BRIBERY!" As the guy dangles, he squeaks derisively, "You want me running games in Sona?" Susan B. shouts that she's got this one. She tells the guy to calm down, then rummages in her handbag as she muses, "If it's more money you want..." and her handgun finishes that sentence with "...perhaps you'll get it in Hell." Linc is all, "We needed that gravedigger!" Susan B. reasons that the gravedigger will sell them out to the cops, then plugs him a few more times as a precaution against that possibility.
Back in Sona, Michael's packing up to move to a new cell. Mahone watches as Haywire urges him to kill Michael. T-Bag interrupts with his idea of good news: "Due to the untimely demise of Señor Juan Nieves, I have now been promoted to manager in charge of retail distribution and customer liaison." As Mahone tells T-Bag to get away from him, T-Bag sets up the works for heroin and tells Mahone he doesn't look too good. He sets down the dope and says, "No strings attached," before walking off. Mahone closes his eyes and leans against the wall. The phantom Haywire jumps into his face and hisses, "Get your head straight." Mahone bugs out and begins to stare at the heroin. Frankly, I have a hard time believing it would still be there, given how opportunistic most of the inmate population is.
Lechero is watching more soccer when Sammy and Bad Haircut Guy escort Bellick into the room. Bellick nervously asks, "You guys call this football down here, right?" Sammy -- who has an arm clamped around Bellick's shoulders turns to him and politely says, "Very good, very good." Sammy is this season's break-out badass; I think the way he goes from zero to kill-y in sixty seconds is chilling and therefore riveting to watch. Sammy continues, "It's World Cup. Football without the silly hats you wear in America, where they all jump on top of each other like a bunch of batty boys." Having made the requisite small talk, he offers Bellick a seat. Lechero sends T-Bag to go get a pot of coffee.
Bellick looks around nervously -- Sammy's arm still draped around his shoulders -- and Lechero finally begins speaking. He says, "The only thing I hate more than a rat is a rat with bad information." Bellick protests that it's not him, it's that tricky bastard Scofield. Wrong answer! Sammy soon has Bellick prostrate on the coffee table. Lechero pours himself a piping hot cup of joe and walks over while Bellick gibbers about how Michael's planning to escape. Lechero sits down on the coffee table and pulls up the back of Bellick's tee without looking at the guy; Sammy and Bad Hair Guy have Bellick pinned down. T-Bag looks down but does not participate. Lechero reminds him, "I heard something this morning about 'if I'm lying, I'm dying.' It's a good thing I don't hold you to that." Instead, he'll settle for scalding the skin on Bellick's back by pouring the hot coffee on it. T-Bag actually winces and looks away as Bellick begins writhing and screaming. Is anyone else amused by the idea of this stone-cold killer being grossed out by other people's dirty work?