Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Higher Power Of Lucky
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.04.2007
In the next scene, we see that the four body-toting guys are still carrying Tyge's body around the courtyard. (Ew. Why?) When Mahone comes up to the lurking Michael, Michael gets all Encyclopedia Brown on him and whips out the now-cleaned shiv. There's a little back-and-forth wherein Mahone reintroduces Michael to the idea of framing people for crimes they didn't commit. Regretfully, he does not add, "Didn't something similar happen to your brother?" Instead he scowls, "What are you going to do -- take that to the Sona crime lab?" Michael's all, "Nuh-uh. I'm going to take it to Lechero!" Mahone is left protesting his innocence to himself -- and probably suffering another wee psychotic break as he contemplates how he may just go down for the one wrongful death he didn't commit.
Meanwhile, on the outside...Susan B. and her black tote bag head into L.J.'s room. L.J. is tied to a chair. He tremulously asks what's going on, and Susan B. slams the contents of the bag onto a nearby table: bleach, duct tape, big knife. As Susan B. unrolls a plastic tarp around L.J.'s chair, she snarls, "Your father tried to be a hero." L.J. breaks down and begins begging for his life. Susan grabs the knife, unsheathes it and stares at it like a woman possessed, saying, "Once I cut the spinal cord and sever the nerve endings, you won't feel a thing." She bends L.J. over, and as the music builds and L.J.'s screams become even more panicky, places the knife right about where the base of the skull meets the spine. I shudder for a moment, wondering if this is how Dr. Sara went down too. And then Susan B.'s phone rings. She snaps out of her killer fugue and answers it; on the other end, Linc is frantically gibbering apologies. Susan holds the phone to L.J.'s ear (and the knife to his throat) and L.J. weeps into the phone that he's going to be killed. Oooh, Susan B. is good. Don't you wish she were available for side jobs like scaring the piss out of your no-good cheating rat bastard boyfriend? And because she's so effective, Susan B. soon has the entire plan -- the early escape, all of it -- out of Linc. He pleads for L.J.'s life, but she just snaps the phone shut. Oooh, she is really good. I believe I may have to revise my opinion of her following this scene. Linc crawls into the front seat of Sofia's car and has a huge panic attack.
Back at Sona, it's visiting time for Mahone again. This time, Agent Lang has brought Sullins, the guy who was nosing around Mahone all last season. Sullins chortles, "Living the good life, huh? Is that what this all is? Having too good a time to contemplate leaving?" Mahone's impassivity breaks down and he admits, "I needed some time to think." And...he thinks he will be taking the deal Sullins offers: four years in prison after he testifies in front of a special prosecutor. Sullins assures him the hearing is "just a formality," as the Justice Dept. is extremely motivated to unwind the One World Conspiracy. (Probably because it provides a nice distraction from sticky issues like "Is waterboarding really torture?" and "How in the hell did we get to the point where former AG Ashcroft looked like a maverick civil liberatian?")