Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Well, look what you've done now, Michael
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.02.2005
The FRA hears them and hoists the skinny white dude with the blown-out knee. He's evidently their advance scout. Above him, Michael asks Sara if she uses the visitation room door; she didn't before, but she thinks her access card should work. He notices the tiles being poked up by Wee White Willie. Michael stops, waits for Wee White Willie to poke his head up, then gives him a boot to the face. Wee White Willie goes down like a sack of potatoes. Michael and Sara scamper.
Outside, we see a chopper wheel over the wrecked lawn, and then zoom down to Pope groveling in front of Governor Crankypants. Seriously -- Gov. Tancredi's a big whiny bitch and he eventually takes the attitude, "Prisoners, schmisoners -- kill 'em all and let my little girl toe-tag 'em."
Inside, the FRA has not yet got the memo that they're putting their lives in danger. Michael and Sara watch them head off in the wrong direction. Then Michael shimmies down -- because in addition to being an engineer and a master prison-breaker-outter planner, he evidently had time to moonlight with the Cirque du Soleil -- and gestures for Sara to slide down. She manages to make it onto a file cabinet, but freezes at going any further.
On the ground, Michael raises his arms, indicating that he'll help her down. Sara pitches forward as he reassures her, "I got you." Thuds are heard around the nation as viewers imagine themselves taking Sara's place, then swoon. Sara and Michael have A Moment once she's safely on the ground, but before they can just kiss already, the FRAs find them out.
Commercials. The lady with the sinus headaches is going to be courting some sort of toxic skin syndrome next if she doesn't stop layering on makeup with a trowel. Can Excedrin do anything about that?
We get back from commercials and Stroke is put out because Michael appears not to be sharing. There is some random fighting business, and the upshot of it is, Michael ends up clinging to Stroke's back like a monkey, his hands attempting to choke the bigger man. Stroke tries to scrape him off the nearest wall. Sara...does not try to help in any way until Wee White Willie comes along and makes an FRA sandwich with Michael as the filling. Then Sara darts forward and kicks him in the leg that was just healing from surgery. Wee White Willie goes down, screaming like Tom Cruise on Oprah. Stroke is finally subdued, so Sara and Michael go sprinting away.
Outside, Bellick watches the guardsman move into position on the walls outside the prison, and decides now is a fine time to brownnose Gov. Crankypants. He brings up his views on prison reform, which can be loosely translated to "I'm opposed to it," and intimates that Pope is a big softy who brings the inmates flowers and candy.