Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT He Sees Dead People
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 12.15.2008
Rita briefly recaps the events of the last episode from her perspective for Gretchen, effectively tipping her sister off to the One World Conspiracy's nabbing of T-Bag and subsequent knowledge of her whereabouts. Gretchen asks how Emily is, and Rita's like, "She's fine. Listen, you need to stay away from us. For everyone's sake." Emily then hops on to pipe, "Bye, Auntie," and Gretchen sort of falls apart at the sound of the click on the other end of the line. Fortunately, her well-honed survival instinct and her irritation at Don Self help pull the pieces together, and she manages to get it through Don's thick head that the One World Conspiracy is a-coming for them. Don looks shocked by this turn of events. What a meathead. I mean, really. He might as well be shrinkwrapped in plastic with a Safeway sticker on his forehead for all that he's London Broil from the neck up.
Anyhoodle, thanks to Rita's call, Sucre and Linc miss Gretchen and Self by a few moments. All that's left are a few shattered mobile phones to give evidence of the two having been there.
And now... Mahone is still staring at the Christmas tree bell. As he does, we go into a festively green-hued flashback of Mahone by his birdbath, and he begins singing:
MAHONE:
Oh, Oscar Shales
Dead Oscar Shales
They would incarcerate you.
Oh, Oscar Shales
Dead Oscar Shales
I had to terminate you.
You were a sick
And deviant guy
That's why it was
Best that you died.
Oh, Oscar Shales
Dead Oscar Shales
I still hallucinate you.
Michael's surgery continues. Dr. Sara rests her tired head against the windowsill for a moment, and when she straightens out again, General Von Baldy is standing right behind her. It is simultaneously very funny and very creepy. Von Baldy lies, "I didn't mean to startle you." Dr. Sara asks, "What are you doing here?' "Customer service. Quality control," he replies. I... I find myself warming to General Von Baldy. This show has gone too long without a magnificent bastard, and since we've lost Kellerman forever to the febrile humpings of Private Practice, I suppose we'll have to accept a substitute. General Von Baldy will do. In any event, General Von Baldy elegantly inserts a blade and twists with, "I admire your devotion, Sara. It's an attribute I prize above all others, but