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
Meanwhile, Michael and Linc are still sitting by their father's grave. Oh, Sucre must be stroking out from frustration by now. Michael then flashes back to ten minutes ago when he was busy promising Aldo, "I'm not going to let you die." And then he flashes back to Aldo telling him that he loves him; those were apparently the elder Burrows's last words. Michael finally speaks: "Too many... too many people died because I wanted you to be free." It all depends on how you're defining "too many" -- are we talking a range of one to ten, or a range of one to one hundred? Lincoln tells Michael that he couldn't have anticipated this, but Michael's too busy marinating in guilt to notice. He continues, "They wanted... they wanted him in the ground, and they got their wish." Linc tells him, "This thing's not going to end here, Michael. It's going to keep spreading. Their hands are going to get more and more bloody." Michael then brings it all back to him, him, him with, "The only question is, is the blood on their hands, or ours?"
Mahone's driving and shouting, all dorked up because he thinks he's about to shoot Scofield out of the sky. He also orders some hapless flunky to "call Mexico, get clearance for an international pursuit" and honestly, if I were the Mexican official on the other end of the line, I'd be all, "You people want to come down here? Fine. But you have to re-enter your country by swimming across the Rio Grande."
The little white plane that's supposed to take the boys to Panama swoops in and lands on a deserted stretch of road. It turns around again in preparation for take-off, and Sucre trots on over. As he jumps into the plane, he calls, "Come on, guys! Guys?" Both Michael and Lincoln look like they're not about to go anywhere. Sucre's all, "Huh?" and Michael says softly, "We're staying."
Shocked -- or perhaps realizing that the only way he'll be able to hear Michael's next lines is if he stands really close -- Sucre jumps down and strides over to see what's going on. He protests, "Michael, this is what we've been waiting for." Michael smiles slightly and replies, "Maybe we'll see you down there somewhere." Sucre grins and says, "I can't talk you out of this one, can I?" At what point has Sucre ever talked Michael out of anything? The two guys hug, and Michael tells Sucre to be good. Sucre says, "Thank you, Michael. Thank you for everything." When he goes to shake Linc's hand, he asks, "You take care of him, okay?" As Sucre dashes off, Michael tells him to "fly safe, Papi," which I am going to pretend means "Stay alive! I will find you." Sucre bids the brothers to "give them hell," and then he flies off. Sniff!
As the plane heads off, Linc muses casually, "Panama would have been good." Michael asks him, "Are you ready for this?" Lincoln says, "I've been waiting years." Michael replies, "I'm glad to hear it. Because today's the day we stop running."