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
We cut to Lincoln and Sucre parking in front of One World Conspiracy HQ; Linc wants to visit with his brother. Sucre wants to know what's next, asking, "Scylla's out there somewhere. Are we really going to keep chasing it?" Sucre, the entire viewership would like to know the answer to that question. Linc mumbles that he'll figure it out later, but Sucre says, "I won't be here later. I can't do it anymore. Sara said Michael was okay, and that's all I needed to know. Now I've got to live my own life. And that's a life where I can go a day without seeing a dead body or almost becoming one. I'm not running away, papi. I'm just moving on." And then... he's gone. Who is this pod person, and what has he done with Sucre? The Fernando Sucre we know and love -- car thief, reluctant Las Vegas gigolo, devoted papi -- would not just crap out on Team Scylla like this. I blame the One World Conspiracy. They are somehow responsible.
Linc then has to deliver the bad news regarding Scylla's disappearance. Shrewdly, he tells the pissed-off General Von Baldy that Gretchen and Self are sure to know who the new owners of Scylla are. General Von Baldy spits, "Good. Then you've got your team." Linc protests that he's not working with them, and Von Baldy snarls, "You will work with a basset hound in a birthday hat if I tell you to, that's what being an employee means." Linc, he doesn't lie. Many corporate gigs have you working for the intellectual equivalent of a basset hound in a birthday hat, so if the general wants you to work with the real thing, jump on it. It may actually drool less than the typical wage slave. The general then channels his inner Stern Dad with, "You all took something from me and you're all going to get it back!" Linc is like, Fine. I get it. Don't ground me. Sensing defeat, the general can afford to be magnanimous again: "Who knows? You may find you like it here. Stranger things have happened. They've certainly happened in your family. Now, about Michael: are you going to tell him or should I?" We don't find out how Lincoln decided to answer.
We quickly flash to the Scylla buyer telling a woman over the phone that he's got Scylla. Whatever -- it's but fodder for the next episode.
Then it's back to Michael's sickbed. He's sitting up and looking bored, but then Lincoln comes in. The older brother hides a thick dossier behind his back before commenting that the last time he saw Michael in a hospital was when Michael had broken his arm playing little league baseball. Michael comments, "Yeah. Some bruiser knocked me down sliding in to second." "Sorry about that," Linc says without an ounce of repentance. Michael's all, "So! Time to escape, yes? Tell me the plan." Lincoln then has to break the news: "You're not getting out of here, Michael. I made a deal -- your life in exchange for Scylla." Michael stops for a moment, and you can practically see him sorting through responses like "Are you nuts?" to "So do you enjoy undoing all my hard work?" before he finally settles on "Why would you do that?" Linc replies, "For the same reason you covered your body in tattoos and broke into Fox River." Michael protests that "This isn't about us, Linc," but Linc has news for him: "This is exactly what it's about. This is all it's ever been about. We do this one thing for the [One World Conspiracy] and we're done for life." Michael doesn't believe that, but Linc points out that the alleged good guys don't have a record of being terribly trustworthy either. Then Michael makes the tactical error of trying an intellectual appeal: "Scylla's not what we thought it was." Lincoln doesn't care for any college-boy fancy thoughts. He protests, "The only thing worth fighting for is family. I am going to do everything and anything I can to end this, so you, me and everyone can get on with their lives." Michael sets to more sneering, but Linc drops the episode's big bomb: "Mom worked for [the One World Conspiracy] before she died. I'm just moving on in the family business." Michael gets up and shouts Linc's name a few times, but Linc's out the door. We're left with Michael impotently giving the Blue Steel to an empty room. And honestly, that's a downer ending, so let's just return to A Prison Break Holiday Fest, shall we...?