Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT It's so hard to find good conspiracy participants
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 09.18.2005
Meanwhile, on the outside…Pope's all, "Hey, American legal system at work here, nothing I can do. It'll be a month, maybe two. Sorry!" Hale asks, "Why do I get the feeling you're not all that disappointed?" Kellerman jumps in with, "May I ask you a question, Warden? More of an observation, really. I was looking at the morgue photos of that boy back in Toledo, Will Clayton. And, my Lord, if he wasn't the spitting image of his daddy. Apple fell real far from the tree with that one, didn't it? Fell off the tree, fell all over the pavement…" Oooh, Kellerman is just so nasty. I love it. Bellick wishes he could be this kind of remorseless machine. Pope's gaping for a response while Kellerman continues, "Your wife gave you a pass on the affair. Something tells me that's pretty much all the forgiveness she's got left in her bag." "When she finds out you've had a child…" Hale adds. Kellerman picks-picks-picks, "What happened to Will?" and Pope invites them to leave his house right as the missus breezes in to ask if they'll be staying for dinner. Kellerman says they're leaving, but takes special care of schmooze the missus with, "Judy, a real pleasure. That may have been the best iced tea I ever had." He flings an arm around her and grins, "Warden, you better do everything you can to hold on to this one." Kellerman, I don't think I could love you any more than I do right now. Pope says he will do everything he can, which is pretty much a tacit admission that he'll lose Michael's motion. Or, as we see in a few moments, he'll shred it.
Commercials. When I see that Lunesta butterfly, I do not associate it with a pill that gives you a good night's sleep. I associate it with absinthe. Wouldn't that be a much more interesting ad?
When we get back from commercials, Dr. Tancredi is preparing to examine Linc. She opens the proceedings with, "Believe me, I apologize in advance for the heavy dose of irony we're about to participate in." Linc tells her, "That's all right -- you're just doing your job." That does not provide the moral expiation he thinks it does. Dr. Tancredi says, "Letting the state know you're healthy enough to execute is not why I went to medical school." You know, you'd think she could save these conversations for a family Thanksgiving dinner with her dad the governor, who could theoretically pardon all these people. ["Or…get a better job, if she's that bent about it. Could we get a female character on this show that doesn't annoy me, please? Besides Marilyn?" -- Sars] The doctor then asks about a family medical history. We learn that Lincoln's mother died of liver cancer and his father's a big unknown. Dr. Tancredi fishes, "Siblings?" Linc shakes his head and Dr. Tancredi tries again: "Other than Michael?" Lincoln looks over like, Please don't ask me to pass him a note reading "Do you like me? Check [] Yes [] No." Dr. Tancredi's all, "Hey, it's the talk of the prison now." Well, that and who T-Bag's going to take to the spring cotillion. Lincoln's gently swinging jaw telegraphs his slow realization that maybe he shouldn't have revealed the link to Abruzzi earlier this episode. Dr. Tancredi asks, "You close?" "We were," Lincoln allows.