Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Girl Named Disaster
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 01.13.2008
So we're back at the prison, and Mahone's just strolled in. Whistler comes by and Mahone shakily says, "Looks like things didn't go so well. You should be gone." Whistler gently replies, "So should you." Mahone would like to know what happened, and Whistler declines to tell him, "Hey, it turns out we have a sinister employer in common! And that sinister employer tried to break me out with a lot of firepower, and yet, one scrawny engineer managed to thwart the operation. I can see why he drove you crazy." Instead, he says something about how it sucks to be Michael right now, but they can still escape without him. Also, he promises Mahone, "I won't go without you. You have my word." Lechero watches all this go down, and when he meets Whistler's eyes, he nods slightly.
Across the courtyard, Sammy's new recruit Octavio is thugging out in a corner while Sammy just leans against a pillar and watches. (By the way, Sammy is such a bad-ass that even when wearing a t-shirt tied around his head, a suit vest with no shirt underneath and baggy cargo pants, he looks stylish. It helps when you have a lot of muscles to accessorize with.) As Whistler walks by, he rolls his eyes at Octavio and his pals, and that gives us a transition shot to Bellick -- looking not at all stylish in his too-small tee and MC Hammer pants -- and T-Bag, who is inexplicably coiffed and dressed like he's playing Kenickie in the inmates' Grease revival.
Bellick asks T-Bag, "You seen Scofield in that redneck sauna?" and I am temporarily transported on a flight of imagination to the Tobacco Road Day Spa. T-Bag gets off the best line of the night with, "Let's see if he has a tattoo to get out of that one." Bellick discreetly inquires as to whether or not T-Bag's in on any escape, reasoning, "Scofield's got to have a plan to escape." T-Bag correctly points out, "If so, I know none of it." However, Bellick's not buying T-Bag's protestations of innocence.
The conversation is then interrupted by some anonymous inmate losing his lunch all over the courtyard. Octavio looks over and T-Bag murmurs, "Here comes trouble," immediately before melting away. Octavio orders Bellick to clean it up, and Bellick blows him off. Octavio's all, "No, no, no -- I'm sort of the new Sammy, so hop to!" but Bellick isn't having it. He pushes Octavio away, ordering, "Go bug someone else," and Octavio steps right in the vomit. We do not see whether Bellick immediately sprinted away, leaving only a damp trail behind him.