Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT An innocent civilian -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 10.22.2006
Dr. Sara is cleaning herself off in an alley. As she does, a willowy woman with long, dark hair walks over to use the pay phone. She's just picked up the phone when a dark SUV slowly drives by... and the passenger shoots the lady a few times. The car speeds off into the commercials.
Speaking of those commercials, there's probably a master's thesis on the mass mobility of design trends based on a commercial block in which we have an ad for Apple computers, another for Target, and a third in which Lipton's all "Hey! Our tea comes in pyramids now! Aren't we cool?"
Whatever shock Dr. Sara went into when she watched someone else take a bullet for her... dissipated over the commercial break. She snaps into action, directing passers-by to call 911 (everyone runs from the phone, probably operating on the theory that whomever picks it up will promptly be shot) and checking the shot lady's wallet to determine that her name is Kelly. Dr. Sara immediately reassures Kelly that she's a doctor (she being Dr. Sara, as opposed to Dr. Sara saying, "It's okay! You're a doctor! I say so!") and she'll be fine. Dr. Sara tries to keep the wounds closed, and tells Kelly to "take some deep breaths and hang in there for me." Kelly dies quite prettily. Dr. Sara realizes this, then takes a look at the wallet and realizes the resemblance between herself and Kelly.
Cut to Sucre, who is up to his chin in water and asking, "It's going to be okay, right?" Does anyone else here get the feeling that Sucre was perhaps the last of his peer group to stop believing in Santa Claus? Michael grimaces. Sucre reasons, "If you can get eight people out of prison, you can get my Puerto Rican ass out of this, right?" Michael doesn't reply because he is too busy making a second-class lever out of a hefty tree branch. Unfortunately, the branch breaks. Michael screams, "Dammit!" I like that his temper frays a lot more this year than it did last year. It's about time all that stress started adding up. Just then, a klaxon sounds and Michael grins: "Did you hear that? I know that sound. It means there's a dam up there. That's a signal. It means they're opening the locks, and that means the water level's going to rise. And that means the log will float right off." Now Sucre is skeptical. Also, now there is more pressure on the situation, as the cop radio cues us all in to the cops combing the woods. Michael reasons that the cops will take about an hour to get to this particular spot in the woods, and by that time, the water level will have risen enough to free Sucre, and they'll be long gone. Sucre asks if Michael's sure, and Michael grins, "Yeah, I'm sure." I am not sure if he's grinning because he's used his engineering-fu to solve a problem, or because Sucre makes him feel like the capable big brother in any situation. I mean, as much as Michael loves Linc, it has to be a drag when your brother's all, "Yeah, thanks for breaking me out of prison. Now let me never listen to you again." Or maybe he's just grinning for Sucre because when he turns his head, there is no more smiling.