Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sasha's dad -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 01.28.2007
We then go back to the abandoned building, where Greg is watching the Car of Comedy Gold confer in the distance. We finally zoom in on what they're talking about -- Michael says, "It'll take the Feds a while to figure that out." Linc says, "It's going to be tight." Michael adds, "450 miles in 6 hours -- what do you think?" I think they won't be making a lot of bathroom breaks, but it's doable. Kellerman instructs the hostage, "Eyes front." He tosses Michael a canvas and Michael says, "It's perfect," and oh, COME ON. We all know Greg's not getting killed today. Enough with the fake suspense.
Welcome to this week's Plotline-In-A-Paragraph! This week's winner of the pithy summation: Sucre. He's on a brightly colored bus; the caption text tells us he's in Sinaloa state, Mexico, on highway 15. Inside the bus, plenty of folks are eating tamales or sitting with chickens on their laps. A bemused old man tries to make small talk with Sucre, which is how we find out Sucre's roughly a thousand miles from Ixtapa. We also find out that Sucre will talk about Maricruz with anyone within earshot. Then Sucre gets kicked off the bus, and his chicken-toting friend invites him to dinner: "If you cook, I'll give you a place to stay for the night." We have a cozy chicken dinner, wherein we learn that Sucre's new dinner companion is an extremely recent widower. Sucre is touched by this, and asks what the secret to the 42-year marriage was. The old man declines to share. The conversation gets around to Sucre, who says he's running toward something, and the old man says ruefully, "A man who lives on hope." Sucre says, "You say that like it's a bad thing." To the old man, it is: "Hope is for people who do not already live in grace." Despite this, he offers the strapped Sucre a bed for the night. Sucre thanks him, but keeps one eye on the car keys. Seconds later, he's rolling the car out of the driveway. And then Sucre is apprehended while driving the stolen car. There's a tense little scene where his dinner partner is busy talking to the cops, who explain that they pulled Sucre over because "we recognized your car -- but not him." The old man nods and says, "I see. I'm glad you brought him back." Sucre looks down, thinking his proverbial goose (or chicken, in this case) is about to be cooked. Then the old man adds, "I didn't get a chance to give him gas money." Or that second silver candlestick? Is that coming too? Sucre is struck dumb by this. When the cops take off, it's just Sucre and the old man. Before Sucre can stammer his gratitude or anything, the other man makes a cursory gesture, then says gruffly, "Find your girl. Then find grace."