Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The light you see at the end of the tunnel…
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 11.27.2005
Then it's 4 PM. Sucre's looking like a little kid on Christmas Eve. He and Michael hug, and Sucre whispers, "Good luck to both of us." Then Bellick bellows, "PEEE! EYE! Let's do it!" At 4 PM? They work the swing shift now? What -- oh, never mind. There's no point in even asking. Team Escarpara heads to St. Louis, and T-Bag heckles Michael, who is just not into it.
Down in the Tombs, the chaplain visits with Linc. On goes the light, in goes the chaplain. He tells Lincoln that Michael's been praying for him, and Linc says with some amusement, "He must be desperate." Yeah, well, Mr. Desperation's the one passing on rosaries and you're looking for entertainment. Linc begins playing with the rosary after the chaplain leaves.
Outside the prison, we see that two more agents have been added to the mix. The lady posing as a reporter is Agent Tangrin. Michelle Forbes -- who has more or less made a career of playing no-nonsense women -- is the other one. She's chatting with Kellerman. (Which is a weird thing to write, because when Forbes was on Homicide: Life on the Street, she had this very dramatic and screwed-up romance with a detective named Kellerman. So now I'm steeling myself for a slightly doofy cop with an unfortunate habit of shooting people, as opposed to the not-at-all-doofy agent with an unfortunate habit of shooting people.) She tells him Agent Hale is MIA. Kellerman's all, "What do you mean MIA?" and Forbes snaps, "I think it was a fairly concise term." Oh, these two should just get together. This way, they can be snippy to one another and the Kellerman relationship streak can remain unbroken.
Kellerman then tries calling Hale's house, but Hale's not picking up the phone. He tells Mrs. Hale to finish packing; he's got to meet someone in Wrigleyville, and he'll be back to collect her later. Hale is not what you'd call a "strategic thinker," is he? Or perhaps he's just not very fond of his wife. I'm just saying -- if I had a partner who was always threatening to kill me, I wouldn't even let a house pet out of my sight, much less my spouse. Anyway, the be-sweatered Hale tells his wife he has to deliver a letter. She does not reply, "Honey, I know you work for the government. So does the post office."
Outside the prison, Veronica marches over to a TV news crew. Agents Forbes and Tangrin watch. They look very menacing. This is why I could never be a homicidal secret agent -- I appear so unthreatening, people routinely stop me to ask for directions. Anyway, Veronica soon catches the attention of one Angela West, news producer for Channel Six News. Jackpot!
Cut to Linc in his lighted cell, studying the crucifix. Not since our hominid ancestors regarded fire has there been such a concentrated effort to comprehend so much with so little. Lincoln finally notices that Michael's smuggled his little Arm Pill into the cross, along with a little slip of paper reading EAT 8:10. Lincoln struggles to remember whether Eat was in the Old Testament or the New Testament.