Episode Report Card Sobell: B | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Well, now you've done it, T-Bag
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 11.20.2005
Meanwhile, on the outside...we visit the House of Hale. The missus is wondering why Hale's home during the middle of day, and he tells her in a too-cheerful voice, "I've been thinking! I think we need to make a change!" Mrs. Hale is not the keenest student of human behavior. She has no idea what Hale's talking about. He tries again: "Remember when we first got married and we talked about moving out west. Well, maybe we should give it a shot. It's not too late." Mrs. Hale is still cloudy: "I don't understand. What brought this on?" "Oh, work problems. The overtime's a bitch, and I'm tired of being a conspiracy henchman, and Kellerman keeps threatening to kill me, and it's just a big bummer is all," Hale says. Or perhaps he merely alludes to how the sparkle is gone from the usual routine of killing people for no clear reason. Hale finally says in all seriousness, "We gotta go." "You're in trouble, aren't you?" the missus replies. Hale doesn't nod, but his eyes move up and down.
Back in St. Louis, Sucre's doing some serious grudge digging. Man, if I didn't think C-Note's little turn as Eris was going to be bad news, I'd suggest that he make everyone peevish: it does wonders for the work. C-Note comes in to make some snotty comments about how the workforce has shrunk down to him and Sucre, but Linc's not having any of it. He and Westmoreland switch off in lookout position.
In what has become this episode's most drearily familiar sequence, Michael wends his way back through the pipes. He stops at the usual opening; there's a wet splash. He quickly strips down to his skivvies -- this is network TV, so the man's forced to run around in wet underwear later -- and dives into the water.
I guess the pipe he was in angles down steeply to the chamber, because Michael's now at the bottom of the clean, clear pool of water. He finds the end of the rope and soon begins kicking his way to the top. Somehow, the rope stretches to fit. Michael reaches up, pushes the grate out of the way. We see a origami swan lying on the floor about a yard past the grate. Within seconds, Michael's pulled himself out of the water and is sitting on the floor, shaking the water out of his ear. After checking for the swan, Michael pulls the rope and unplugs the drain at the bottom of his impromptu pool. After tying the rope to the top of the grate, Michael climbs a set of shelves to check the air vent he's been dissolving. As if to provide the data he needs, Sara walks right over the hole and washes her hands at the sink; she does not look down. Michael then watches the water drain down.
Meanwhile, on the outside...Veronica's still waiting around Nick's room when the phone rings. She answers, of course. If Veronica were fleeing the country via airplane and she touched down in a strange airport, she'd totally follow Agent Kellerman to her certain death just because he held up a sign with her name on it. Anyway, Hale's proving that he may not be the brains of his operation either, what with calling her from his house on his cell phone. Hale promises information that'll lead to Linc's exoneration -- provided she meet him tomorrow night at 8 PM at the Highland Café on Kennedy Avenue.