Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Aldo Burrows -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 11.19.2006
After the sweaty, nervous, shifty-eyed Kellerman turns off the TV, the splashing sounds are more evident. The manager asks, "Is everything okay in your bathroom?" Kellerman merely blinks and asks, "Excuse me?" As Dr. Sara grabs the stopper chain with her teeth, the manager presses, "Your bathroom? There's a noise coming from it?" and Kellerman lies about how his daughter is taking a bath in there and she's quite messy. We switch back to him saying, "I will clean it up, scout's honor," right as Dr. Sara manages to pull out the plug with her teeth. Then he slams the door on the manager (who, inexplicably, is not whipping out his phone to call 911 on the creepy perv that Kellerman appears to be). That sticky conversation out of the way, Kellerman collapses to the bed to reflect on how hard it is to bring the A game, day in and day out, to the killing-people gig.
Meanwhile, out in the desert, Michael is flouncing off in a tizzy, his entourage fluttering nervously behind him. Linc has, of course, jumped to the wrong conclusion: "He did this to you?" He gets Aldo to stop chasing down Michael and heads over to Michael, demanding protectively, "He did this to you? Did he do this to you?" Aldo watches nervously, probably realizing for the first time that his two sons will always be more loyal to one another than they would be to him. Michael finally turns to Aldo and demands, "How could you do that to another human being?"
That, as it turns out, is not "lock your son in a dark closet for however long," but rather "kill the bastard who locked your son in a dark closet for however long." We flash back to the door opening and Michael turning to look at Aldo, who gives him a poignant look. The "younger" Aldo walks in and reassures the bruised Boy Michael, "It's okay. You're safe now. He's not going to hurt you anymore." Boy Michael takes Aldo's outstretched hand. Aldo walks him out of the room, saying, "Come with me, and don't look back." Naturally, Michael does, and he's shocked to see his former foster father crumpled in a pool of his own blood. He runs off.
We go to the present, where Michael is still all worked up. Aldo walks forward, his hands thrown up. Linc gives him a murderous glare. Aldo persists, "Michael... it's going to be all right." Michael does not look like he believes this.
Meanwhile, Kellerman's reverie on the bed is interrupted by the sound of gurgling water. He grabs his gun and heads into the bathroom. Kellerman has only enough time to notice the empty tub and the duct tape everywhere before Dr. Sara pops out and gives him a hot iron to the chest. We hear a sizzle, then Kellerman's agonized scream. He collapses backward, the iron still smoking on his chest. Dr. Sara quickly scoops her assorted belongings back into her purse (I had to go look at these to calm myself down as the chaos was shoveled back into her bottomless bag), but her egress from the bathroom is blocked by Kellerman. So she breaks out the window screen, looks at the two-story drop, then looks back at Kellerman. He's just gotten to his gun -- why she didn't plant that iron in his face is beyond me, because that would have taken him out more effectively, and still not been lethal -- so her mind's been made up for her. Dr. Sara rolls out of the window, taking care to land on her side. We do not see her purse as she falls. You will all have to excuse me as I bellow in agitation over this oversight.