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
Speaking of Dr. Tancredi, there she is. She's wandering outside with Nurse Gossipson, talking about the Kafkaesque task of giving a physical to a condemned man when Nurse Gossipson's all, "Ooooh, did you hear? Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield are brothers? Isn't it too-too?" Dr. Tancredi looks aghast to discover that her obsessive Google-stalking of her future husband failed to unearth this little tidbit.
Bellick walks into Pope's office and drops an interlocutory injunction with the preamble, "More bathroom reading." "Westmoreland again?" Pope says wearily. Bellick grins, "Scofield. He's blocking his transfer." We get a look at two sheets of notebook paper covered with Michael's handwriting. Naturally, it's very tidy writing.
In Sucre and Michael's cell, Michael's telling Sucre that "even if the motion's denied, it's going to take 30 days to process. And that means…" Sucre makes little bird motions with his hands. Because they're flying the coop. There's a celebratory knuckle bump, and then Michael's all, "Okay, time for me to do a test run, to make sure that I can get up there during our other test runs." Beta testing frightens and confuses Sucre. Michael suggests that doing laundry will block other people's view of the cell, allowing Michael to pop off into his little rabbit hole. Sucre sets about making their whites whiter and their brights brighter, grumping, "I ain't touching your drawers." Because you can catch the gay from someone's drawers, I understand.
As Abruzzi's line of cons goes walking through an uncharacteristically well-supervised line in the yard, Abruzzi orders one of his little thugs to punch a prison guard. Cue the melee, Abruzzi's in the back, along with some guy in a gimme cap, headphones, and glasses, and grinning in a way that seems moderately inappropriate during a prison brawl. The little thug somehow manages to lift some keys in the few moments between thorough beatings by angry guards, make an impression in a bar of soap, then drop the soap in the grass where Abruzzi can slither over and grab it. Yes, really.
Michael pops into the spacious, well-lit corridor that runs between the prison walls, then checks one of the details on his tattoo to see how far down the corridor he needs to go. He checks his watch and takes off, looks up at a certain light-filled grate, then hoists himself skyward. Given that this follows the exact pattern of the tattoo, does this mean we now have to start treating torso shots as series spoilers?