Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dr. Gudat -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 08.27.2006
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When we get back, the clerk seems stunned -- stunned! -- that those nice boys would skip without paying. Michael and Lincoln have sidled out a back exit, but the cops appear to have covered that egress as well. "We can make it to the courthouse on foot from here," Lincoln says. Michael, who is quietly freaking out, says, "You don't understand. Everything is in that car." Lincoln exhorts Michael to liberate himself from his possessions, including that car, as it's currently surrounded by cops. They head out. Michael looks like he's filing away his freak-out over this plan's deviation for later. Much, much later.
And now...Tweener the co-ed. He's striding along in his shoplifted campus togs like he's starring in his own version of 8 Mile. Only since it's Tweener, it's more like 8 Meters (Before Something Happens). As he scopes the St. Louis Tech ride board, he sees a notice from one Debra Jean Belle for a ride to Utah. Debra Jean has the kind of tidy writing, all judiciously embellished with a few clean and careful curlicues, that implies a sweet, naïve, upstanding personality. I already fear for her odds of survival now that Tweener's taken notice of her. This will not end well for the earnest young lady, I don't think.
Speaking of things not ending well...Bellick and Pope are standing before the board as Pavelka pronounces their findings. Pope is to be docked two weeks' pay and placed on three months' probation. However, Bellick is fired. As in "the minute we get done lecturing you, you're out of here." I am personally incredulous as to this turn of affairs, because I cannot believe that there is not a prison guard's union, and that Bellick would have stepped into that room without a union rep by his side to scream "Wrongful termination!" However, my brief fit of fact-based reasoning is quickly clubbed into submission by another knock-em-out-of-the-park scene by Wade Williams. Bellick reacts to his firing by shakily saying, "I...I've worked at Fox River since I was 18 years old. Being a C.O. is my life." Pavelka plays the asshole card with "And we appreciate that." Pope snaps, "We could have saved a lot of time if you just told us from the beginning that this was going to be a railroad." Beside him, Bellick slumps in despair. Pavelka attempts to cut Pope off, but the man continues to have his say: "There's only one person responsible for this escape out there. His name is Michael Scofield. It's not Officer Bellick, and it's not me! If you need a fall guy, fine. But you're not going to be taking just Officer Bellick's job. Even though I am not proud of many of his actions, it will be a cold day in Hell when I turn my back on one of my own men. I quit. That will be all." Cut to Bellick marinating in shame, fully aware that he is an unworthy reason for Pope to walk away from his career.