Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Geary -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.12.2006
He then takes his sweet time trying to find an alley in which he can hide out. Michael then leans against a wall. The faces of those he's wronged float before him. (And do you know how long I've waited to be able to write that sentence? I am positively giddy with gratification right now -- because I was able to write it and it was true! I can now end my recapping career. There are no more peaks to scale.) And once we've gotten what amounts to a selective recap of the last 32 episodes, Michael looks up and notices a church's steeple in the distance. Please, please tell me he's going to go undercover as Father Michael. And please tell me he steals a friar's cowl for Sucre. Because that would be like Cannonball Run meets The Fugitive and who among us hasn't yearned for that hybrid?
Then we bounce to Trinidad, Colorado, where Aldo Burrows is taking advantage of this family reunion to explain the plot of Syriana to Linc using small words. Or maybe he's merely saddled with explaining the One World Conspiracy: "It's about corporate interests taking over the government, buying elections, fighting wars. People dying so they can turn a profit. We're trying to stop it." Linc asks, "What are you, a bunch of spies?" Nah, they're members of Moveon.org. Aldo calls them all "a handful of senators, congressmen, people like me who once worked for [The One World Conspiracy]. People willing to expose the president for what she is." Livin' large on her husband's TV show one network over? That's hardly grounds for impeachment. Nah -- Aldo has the sweetly optimistic idea that if he brings down the president, he will bring down the One World Conspiracy. He then explains that he'll be bringing down the president via Linc. Let's hang on every ponderous word: "About a week ago, we finally got a break. An NSA analyst sympathetic to our cause finally worked his way up and got clearance at the Echelon program. E-mails, cell phone calls all across this country, everything transmitted goes through Echelon. It's cataloged, interpreted, then stored for Homeland Security. Nothing is missed by it. Nothing. Including -- by accident -- for a few months after 9/11, the White House. The analyst got his hands on a phone conversation the president had with Terence Steadman -- two weeks after you supposedly killed him. Now, the analyst tried to get this information out of the building. It turns out someone else was snooping too -- someone else wanted answers about the president." Rather than drop the pronouns for proper names and explain to Linc and L.J. that Governor Tancredi was snooping, found the evidence and was subsequently killed for it, we get some flashback scenes of Governor Dad looking appalled as he beholds his laptop.