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 we cut back to the prison. Assorted prisoners (including Whistler, Michael and Bellick) pick up shovels and begin digging into the hard red dirt out in no-man's-land. Bellick continues to hector Michael about his escape plans, and while he does, Michael casually picks up the duct tape and replies, "I'm just fixing the electricity, boss." Bellick snaps back, "Yeah, right. And I'm just single 'cause I'm choosy." Why, Bradley. How unusually self-aware of you. Bellick adds, "Don't make me tell anyone what I know." Michael replies, "What is it you think you know?" Bellick tells him: "Some people called The Company wanted you in here to work with that Whistler guy. Am I warm?" Michael replies, "What's the Company? What do they want with Whistler?" Bellick says, "I don't know, but I bet you do?" Michael gives one of his ineffably smug smirks and replies, "It doesn't sound like you know much after all." Bellick replies, "I don't need to change a diaper to know that it stinks to high hell." Two zingers from Bellick in one conversation! I fear he may have bagged his limit for the month. Michael continues to maintain plausible deniability.
Cut to these guys digging. I am impressed with how deep they've dug in such a short time with such hard-packed, parched soil, but that's because I recently spent a weekend digging up plants out of a garden that hadn't seen rain in six months. Anyway, Michael eventually finds a junction box that’s been buried near the wall. As he clears it out and opens it, Bellick watches intently. Michael is assessing the wires. Wheeler asks, "I assume we're doing more than just playing electrician?" Real discreet there, Panama City's Most Wanted. Michael replies, "Rest assured, we're exactly where we need to be." We see Michael futzing with something in the junction box and kicking dirt on to it, then crouching down to tamp more dirt around the area. Bellick watches all of this, then invents an excuse to leave. After Bellick goes, Whistler stops rolling his eyes long enough to ask, "You mind telling me why he's even out here with us?" Michael continues digging as he says, "He knows something's up?" Whistler's all, "And hoooooow?" Michael dryly replies, "I have a bit of a rep." "From Fox River?" Whistler asks. Well. Michael's gobsmacked. I tell you, Scofield, just operate on the assumption that there are no such things as nice surprises and you won't have any more moments like these. Whistler tells him, "I know who you are, mate. I figured it out just lately. It finally made sense, why they'd pick you out of all people...no worries. It's in my best interest to keep your little secret. But Bellick can't be trusted."