Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Tweener's chance for a new life -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 09.24.2006
Meanwhile, her new GBFF is meeting with Agent Kim... in the Capitol building? Kellerman is busy telling the politely attentive Kim that "Scofield sent her a message through the mail, a phone number that was disconnected... you know, to be honest? I was expecting to brief the president?" Kim gives a polite chuckle and does his best Lumbergh impression: "Yeee-ah, about that. Right now, as you can imagine, Caroline's quite busy." Not one to take a territorial challenge lightly, Kellerman says pointedly. "She's always busy. I've been working side-by-side with her for 15 years." Kim then makes the next dominance-establishing move, saying, "Paul. She's the president of the United States now." Kellerman clears up one tiny, lingering mystery from season one when he tightly says, "Yes, Bill, and I put her there." Agent Kim doesn't look like his first name should be "Bill." Anyway, he smoothly tells Kellerman than he's been shuffled to the boonies with this Burrows clean-up, and until he can waltz into the 202 area code with Lincoln's head in a burlap sack, he can consider himself on notice. And then Kim performs the HR equivalent of whipping it out and spraying the room with urine by noting, "You report to me now. Only me. You're not to try to contact Caroline again without my approval, showing up unannounced."
Anyway, as this is wrapping up, we transition to Governor Dad, who just happens to be in D.C. Some handler is busy prepping him on which senators are gunning for him and which ones are making like the ones currently rubber-stamping White House policies. As they charge down some marble staircase, Governor Dad happens to notice someone leaving by a side door. He flashes back to his meeting of Dr. Sara's new friend "Lance," and in one sharp instant, realizes the humble and slouchy personality was merely an act for some man who moves with single-minded focus.
Meanwhile, Tweener's made it back to the garden center (actual motto on the sign: "You reap what you sow." Heh. The set decorators have a sharp sense of humor. Now if they'd only tell me where they got that bench for Dr. Sara's apartment... ) Ahem. Anyway, Tweener rolls inside. Mulletman is still grunting for help. Tweener opens the door to the supply closet where the trussed merchant is mmmphing away, and pleads with him to "just chill." Oh, sweet fancy Moses, all that time in the hot car trunk cooked his bean-sized brain. Why else would he do that instead of merely getting in and out with as much speed and stealth as possible?