Episode Report Card Sobell: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Tweener -- dead, yo!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.01.2006
Dr. Sara tries to take off. Kellerman blocks her cart with his hand basket, and the soundtrack clangs alarmingly. Because we wouldn't have known she's all tense and in danger without it. He says feebly, "Your cart's empty... " Dr. Sara lies unconvincingly that she's good, but she's got to go. As she takes off, we see Kellerman's face twist from bafflement to near-murderous anger, then back in just a moment.
By now, all five men from Team Escarpara have managed to subdue, tie up, and gag the two women. They are in the kitchen; Sucre has been tapped to guard them. Michael is standing there, looking agitated, and whispering, "This is going wrong in every possible way." Now he thinks that? Where was his attention twenty-some episodes ago? C-Note is running around bellowing about how this whole tying-people-up thing is a bad idea. T-Bag coolly tells him, "Hat's over the wall, now." C-Note speaks for us all with, "What's that supposed to mean?" T-Bag snaps the kitchen shades shut with a small, economical gesture; the off-handed way he does this suggests his criminal mindset and past misdeeds far more evocatively than any number of lip-licking monologues.
He tells everyone else, "We're committed now. It's time to go get the hat. We don't have a choice." C-Note begs to differ, arguing, "We can walk out of here right now, man." T-Bag presses his advantage, asking, "And then what? They're already in the house. Those women are bound. We have already committed this crime. We leave, it ain't gonna change any of that." We pull back to get the hostage eyes' view of the four men: T-Bag is facing the unhappy C-Note and Michael, while standing at a 90-degree angle to the arguing men... is Linc. Whomever staged that scene did a really great job of illustrating the ever-shifting alliances and stances among the guys.
Michael abruptly peels off and walks into the living room, muttering plaintively, "Why couldn't it just be a silo in the middle of the field, with no-one around." As he stresses out by the drawn shades in the living room, Linc comes over and calmly says, "We'll figure it out, we'll get the money another way." Michael shoots back, "Yeah. I could rob another bank." Linc refrains from pointing out that Michael hardly made off with any ill-gotten currency during his previous knockover job. Instead, he just lets Michael talk. Michael says, "You know what Charles once said to me?" "Owwww, my stomach"? That's my guess.
"He said there's no such thing as an ex-con," Michael says, and continues, "Because I used to think there was a way we could wipe the slate clean, make up for everything we've done...the hat's over the wall, Linc. For everyone." Lincoln just looks at Michael. It's not clear whether he's busy mulling over his own lack of a clean slate, or if he's sort of wigged by Michael's meltdown, or if he's not sure what to do if it doesn't involve actively menacing other people.