Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Madame Evil's administration -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.04.2007
The waiting Linc hears a knock on the office door. It's his good buddy Derek, come back with gifts: three one-way tickets (the fugitives will be sharing a cabin and oh, would that it were Cabin of Comedy Gold instead of Cabin of My Brother, For Whom I Sacrificed Anything, Is Getting In the Way of My Scoring with My New Girlfriend, And Wow, Isn't This Awkward?); a six-pack of beer, and $50 --half the winnings of a bet Linc inadvertently won for Derek. The guy explains, "When you broke out, Eddie bet me a hundred bucks you'd be caught within a week. I said, 'No way -- not the Linc I know. I figured I'd split it with ya.'" This guy is all right! I would want him to engineer my escape from the U.S. The two of them shake hands because they're too manly to hug, then Linc is left to wait for Michael.
We flash to Michael, who's hustling to his appointed meeting with Dr. Sara. We flash back to earlier in the episode -- handy for those of us who have very short-term memory problems. Michael stands around under 3rd and Racine and checks his watch anxiously.
We cut to Mahone, who appears to be having one of his patented pre-killing meltdowns (just ask Tweener or Haywire. Oh, wait... ). He rambles, "You can't say that I didn't give you a choice but you, you never pick the easy way. And I noticed that about you!" He puts the gun down for a moment and turns away to get his pen of Mahone's little helpers. Dr. Sara tries to keep her eye on him and the gun. Mahone continues, "I should have never expected it to be any different, but I have a job to do, which I'm being made to do." Fumble, fumble with the pills, and within moments, the mobile phone on the table is ringing. Both people look at it. Mahone orders Dr. Sara to pick it up. She doesn't, he goes to grab it and ends up scooping it off the floor, and she grabs the gun. Within seconds, Dr. Sara's stammering, "Don't move. Just, ah, don't move." Mahone seems to be okay with admiring the nap on the carpet. Dr. Sara asks for the phone, then grabs her bag and backs out of the room with, "Stay right where you are. Please?"
As Mahone stands up, he says, calmly and clearly, "You don't really want to do this." Dr. Sara finally pulls it together enough to snarl, "You don't know the first thing about what I want." She leaves. Mahone counts to ten, stands up, then reaches inside his pocket. We see A) a mobile, and B) a bullet, which tells us all we need to know: Dr. Sara is not dealing with some conspiracy stooge like Kim. She was dealing with someone who played her like a piano, and was counting on her bolting with the (empty) gun because how else can he get her to lead them to Scofield? Mahone confirms all this to Lang over the phone.