Episode Report Card Sobell: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Tweener -- dead, yo!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.01.2006
We then switch to a shot of Kellerman waiting behind the driver's wheel of a car, just to give us that "Oh no, he isn't!" moment, where we wonder if Kellerman really thinks he can pass himself off as L.J.'s lawyer. While that would be deeply amusing, it's merely one of the show's clever fake-outs. Kellerman's actually stalking Dr. Sara in downtown Chicago. But the show's not done messing with our tiny, TV-addled minds, because we see a shot of Kellerman watching Dr. Sara walk around in slow-motion as her hair billows quite dramatically. This shot is to TV-related supposition what a dinner bell is to Pavlov's dogs. And so I respond as I've been conditioned to: by gasping aloud, "Kellerman's not carrying a torch for Dr. Sara, is he?"
L.J. is continuing toward his meeting with the mystery lawyer, raising his well-reasoned objections the whole way. He's ushered into a holding cell and there's a long moment when he -- and we -- wonder exactly who he's going to meet. Answer: some heretofore unknown guy who introduces himself as "an ADA here in Mojave County." This unnamed man serves L.J. with release papers. The music swells ominously.
Then we're whisked off to Chicago, which is apparently where the governor lives? What, no love for Springfield? Dr. Sara just waltzes on up the driveway. No word on whether or not Kellerman's slowly driving behind her as part of his ongoing stalking effort. Anyway, Dr. Sara heads inside and the security guy at the door tells her Governor Dad's in his study.
We get a shot of the closed door, and Dr. Sara knocking on it. She heads inside, calling for her dad. As she rounds a corner, she sees her father's body hanging.
To Dr. Sara's credit, she only stops short for a moment, and she does not once scream, "Is there a doctor in the -- oh." Instead, she rushes over to her dad, while shouting for help, swiftly lets him down -- we see a key fall out of his pocket -- then immediately begins checking his vitals. Dr. Sara begins CPR, but we get a tight close-up of Governor Dad's gray face and, because we are well-conditioned TV-watching droolers, we in the audience know he's a goner.
Commercials. I see the ads for the X-Men DVD and it is like flashing back to season one.
When we get back, Sucre's busy brooding over how unfair it is that he has to watch the women instead of digging with the men. He's distracted by Ann saying through her gag that she needs her pills. Why? Do they keep her from going all Mahone-y on unsuspecting strangers too? Sucre comes over, pulls down the gag and demands, "What?" Ann repeats that she needs her pills. As Sucre tells her to forget it and goes to yank the gag back up, she says hastily, "You don't understand. They're for my baby." Well! That's the one concept that is like kryptonite to the heartbroken con. In fact, Team Escarpara better hope they don't drive past any Babies 'R' Us on the way out of town or else it'll be Sucre having that full-blown break with reality as he sobs into a pile of blue onesies. Ann tells him she's taking Metformin, to prevent a miscarriage. Sucre goes to get the pills, which are in a drawer in the kitchen, and some water.