Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Geary -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.12.2006
We go from Michael's conflicted face to Dr. Sara's pained one. She's got her eyes closed and it looks like she's trying to hold it together. Kellerman says, "Sara, I care about you." Some people say it with flowers, he says it with near-drowning experiences. As he smoothes her hair off her face with his rubber-gloved hand, Kellerman says, "This is not what I wanted, Sara." She jerks her head away so she doesn't have to endure his touch. Before Kellerman can explain how this hurts his feelings, his phone rings. It's Kim, who asks brightly, "What's going on with Sara?" "My usual first-date stuff," Kellerman replies. Oh, he does not. But for all that I think these scenes are sick, sick, sick, I do have to give Paul Adelstein plaudits for his portrayal here: the sincere and warm way he delivers his lines coupled with the ruthless economy of the torturing motions is great characterization. Instead of being completely repelled by him -- as I was by T-Bag during his Dr. Gudat scene, or by the cartoonish brutality Geary and Bellick served up -- I'm paying attention to these interactions because I feel like Kellerman's got a back story we're getting over the course of this plotline.
Anyway, we take a break from the water sports to listen to Kim and Kellerman's conversation. Kim figures that Dr. Sara's outlived her usefulness, and Kellerman says, "Well, she knows something --" "You disobey me, you are done. Do you understand me?" Kim snaps. We cut to Kellerman, who looks uneasily at Dr. Sara as Kim shouts, "Put her in the ground, Paul!" We cut to a close-up of the trembling, harrowed Dr. Sara right before commercials.
Commercials. Thank you, TobaccoFreeCA, for that haunting image of a cowboy bursting out of a camel's hump. This hour didn't have nearly enough eye-popping scenes in it.
We cut to a shot of T-Bag in the hotel suite. He's cleaned up somewhat, and is chilling to the strains of "Mama Tried." The pack full of money is resting on the floor next to him. T-Bag eats another little amuse bouche, sips some champagne, then opens up the backpack. At the top is the plastic bag containing the remainders of the items that the Bozo Fetts had used to torture T-Bag. In that bag? A receipt with Bellick's credit card number. T-Bag begins to grin.
Meanwhile, the Passion of the Scofield continues. Michael eventually decides to cut Coyote loose. Sucre snaps, "You're doing it wrong! He was going to call the cops, get his buddies or something --" "He's not going to make it!" Michael replies. And since we all know Michael once watched a bad man bleed out and it made him all dark and hurty inside, he's going to avoid repeating that bit of personal history. Michael applies first aid to Coyote's shoulder, then unties the goons and orders them to get Coyote to a hospital. And then, shocker of shockers, they do. Me, I would have taken the few minutes necessary to disarm Michael, take Sucre out, and then hit the E.R., but I guess my goon vindictiveness standards are unreasonably high.