Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Agent Von Blondie -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.21.2007
And now, four men in a hotel room. What could possibly go wrong? Michael is musing that with a camera, they could get a photo of Steadman holding a current newspaper. Kellerman punctures that with, "It'll prove we found a guy who looks kind of like the president's brother." Michael rebuts, "Fingerprints, dental records." "We whitewashed them. We pulled his teeth and burned off his fingerprints." Michael says, "DNA." Kellerman explains, "To compare against the homeless guy we killed and put in Steadman's car. But we destroyed all exterior DNA samples so there'd be nothing to compare them to." Michael does not snap, "Mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down through the mother's side and will therefore be easily compared to President Reynolds' mtDNA." Boy, is he going to be sorry he spent so many evenings planning a prison breakout and so few watching CSI. Michael fumes, "There's got to be someone, somewhere, who can identify this man." Kellerman says, "Which is why we did the surgery. Cheekbones raised two centimeters, ears lowered a quarter of an inch. Not so much that someone who knew him wouldn't recognize him, but any forensic comparison to a photograph of that man would conclude that he is a look-alike, a hoax. Trust me -- we're very good at what we do."
Michael walks over to Steadman, who pops up and pleads, "Please, just let me go." Michael looks down from his high horse and decrees, "You made every man in this room a prisoner, including yourself. You let us go." Steadman starts the downer monologues. Kellerman snaps, "Cut the act! He was more than happy to play along when he was lining his pockets with taxpayer money funneled through EcoField, and then, when the indictment is about to fall, who do you come running to for help, Terrence?" Steadman fumes. Kellerman decides they're all going to hang out for a day or two until everyone's convinced they're a thousand miles away. Then they're off to DC!
Michael skeptically asks whether bringing Steadman to the epicenter of the One World Conspiracy is a good idea. Kellerman tells him DC also has "government agents still in power who've been working from the inside with your father. People who can get that pain in the ass to safely tell his story on the record." Michael says, "We'll stroll right into the lion's den and pray we don't get mauled." Bold words coming from someone tagged "Pretty" the minute he strolled into prison. Kellerman cheekily says, "I don't think they're going to come to Montana, Scofield, so we're going to go to them."