Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Niedermeyer -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.18.2007
Right as Kim sits up, he has the misfortune to run into Lincoln's fist. And right as the blond goon goes to take out Michael, he's shot from behind by Kellerman. Linc continues to pound on Kim while Michael shouts at him, "Let's go! Linc!" Linc hops over and gets in the car. But right as Kellerman jogs over, Dr. Sara locks the door on him. The car drives off, leaving Kellerman alone with the dead blond guy and the battered Kim. He sprints off right as the police arrive. I believe I speak for many of us with, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
And after the bitter stench of betrayal clears, I catch a warm whiff of gulf breezes, overlaid with the fecund fragrance of camellia and the faint top notes of canned Southern Gothic Drama. We are back at Bagwell Acre, and we soon see that the police have found Susan and her kids, frightened but otherwise unharmed, in the cellar where T-Bag imprisoned them. A remarkably drawl-free local policeman says, "We got a call -- someone said there was a hostage situation here." A stunned Susan can only reply, "No one knew we were here."
Cut to a broken mobile phone lying on a gravel road, and T-Bag sitting above it. He's in the driver's seat of the car, sobbing like a man with a broken heart. Ten bucks says he goes on a killing spree, and his new signature will be using the victim's blood to write on a wall, "If you love something, set it free... "
And then we skip to Minneapolis, where Dr. Overworked is giving C-Note the results of the tests he did on Dede. The little girl is suffering signs of renal failure. C-Note is rattled. Although Dede needs dialysis, neither she nor the clinic are prepared for that, so the Dr. Overworked plans on putting a catheter in Dede's neck so she can be examined at a nearby dialysis clinic. However, once C-Note gets an eyeful of the trocar that'll be used to place the catheter, he is not cool with what's going on. You can tell he was the kind of dad who got the shakes if he was asked to hold Baby Dede for her shots at the pediatrician's office. Right before poor Dr. Overworked can get everything going, C-Note picks her up and bundles her off, saying, "I can't do this."
A few miles to the east, Michael, Pope, Dr. Sara, and Lincoln have pulled up at Pope's place. I bet that was a fun car ride back. Pope gets out and looks at Michael. Lincoln asks, "What's going on?" Michael says shortly, "I made a deal with Pope." He gets out of the car. Lincoln understandably wants details. Michael rolls his eyes and sighs, "If he came with us, if we got what we needed, I said I'd turn myself in." Linc, understandably, flips out: "What? We don't even know what this thing is! It could be nothing, Michael." He turns to Dr. Sara and asks if she knew anything about this. Why would she know anything about this? The plan is coming from a guy whose idea of saying "I'm in love with you" is "Me too." He's one of prime time television's least communicative characters. Anyway, Michael's being all noble, telling Linc and Dr. Sara to go on and take the One World Conspiracy down without him. Linc hollers, "I'm not going to let you do this, Michael! There's no coming back from this!" Pope pipes up with, "Your brother's right. I wouldn't count on the courts to show you any leniency in this." Michael's head swivels from one father figure to the other. He says stubbornly, "That doesn't matter. I said I'd hold up my end of the deal." Pope then tells him, "You already did." He then holds up the memory stick: "I listened to this. You have something here. I think there are going to be a lot of people who wish you didn't, but you do." Michael says, "Listen, Henry --" "I'd go now, if I were you. And don't consider this forgiveness. In fact, I'm about ten seconds away from changing my mind," Pope says. Michael thanks him, and the fugitives take off.