Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Escaping from the prison of love
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.23.2006
Michael is lurking around the door of the clinic, the better to "accidentally" close it so Dr. Sara has to whip out her keys and open them. Michael observes that she uses one with an orange key ring attached, then gives Dr. Sara his best flirty eyes so she won't notice he's scoping the locks.
Meanwhile, on the outside…Bellick is heading this elaborate, purportedly secret operation that is sure to go undetected because no reporter covering Kane County would ever listen to a police scanner. Some random uniform walks him over to talk to purported accident-scene witness Kellerman; he also frets about not being able to keep this thing under wraps for long.
So Bellick walks over to Kellerman, who introduces himself as "Roy Hawkings." Before Bellick can say a word, Kellerman's up and wandering off, explaining vaguely that he's "late for a meeting in, uh, Aurora." It's with these two metalheads who have their own basic-cable show. Bellick asks where Kellerman's coming from and he answers, "Chicago." "Hell of a route you picked to get to Aurora," Bellick sneers suspiciously. Oh, Kellerman -- how low you have sunk! When Bellick is blowing holes in your cover story, it's a sure sign you're not bringing your best stuff. Get your head in the game! I don't care if it has been dinged by LJ's bullet and half stove in by a fire extinguisher. That's no excuse.
Back in the prison, Dr. Sara's closed the clinic door again and pulled up a privacy screen so she can examine the shirtless Michael without getting distracted by the catcalls of other lonely inmates. Michael watches her avidly. Or perhaps he's eying her key ring with moist-eyed longing. Once Dr. Sara finishes cleaning out Michael's burn, she turns to face him. That's when he leans forward and kisses her. Apparently there's something in the Hippocratic Oath about reciprocating your patients' affections, because Dr. Sara's hands come up and pull Michael's face to hers as she kisses him back. They smooch for a few seconds, which suggests one of two things to me: either there's some mutual attraction there, or there's a shortfall in the tongue depressor budget and Dr. Sara's improvising on ways to test for strep throat. Once they're done, Dr. Sara laughs ruefully, then reluctantly pulls her hands away from his face. She asks, "What do you want from me, Michael?" He gapes, because that will go over better than "Your keys."
The tender love theme from Prison Break continues, and Michael sighs Dr. Sara's name before looking down, eying the key ring one more time, then sighing. He looks up again and gives her the full Blue Steel before saying, "I need you to do something for me." That is like Spanish Fly to Dr. Sara, and she leans in, stroking Michael's face. He gives the key ring a long, loving look, then transfers that fervid regard to Dr. Sara juuuust in time to say, "Wait for me. It won't always be like this, in this room, in this place." Yes -- soon, he'll be a fugitive. Can you think of a better romantic prospect for a prison doctor than love with an escaped convict? Dr. Sara's all into this until it hits her that until Michael's not a con, this is what her coworkers might call an "unprofessional situation." Before Michael can craft a protest, a giant orderly wanders in. Has he no romance in his soul?