Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Geary -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.12.2006
I have a bad feeling about Dr. Sara's bubble bath too. For one, there are no bubbles in the tub. For two, it doesn't look like Kellerman's made plans to join her. For three, it doesn't even look like he's planning to untie her first. Dr. Sara fixes her trepidation-filled look on the plug at the bottom of the full bathtub. As Kellerman dumps out Dr. Sara's messy purse -- argh! It kills me every time I see it -- he walks through the timeline of Governor Tancredi's last hours. Frank Tancredi accessed the information, made a few calls on his mobile phone. He asks Dr. Sara, "What did he say to you." "Just that he was coming back to Chicago." Kellerman stops rummaging through Dr. Sara's purse leavings long enough to look over and say amiably, "Good. You're being honest. Good." He then asks if Dr. Sara can explain the goings-on in the half hour between Governor Dad's landing and his arrival at home. She cannot. Kellerman asks, "Did your father give you anything?" Dr. Sara says, "Do you think I'm withholding information because I like hanging out with you? If I knew something, I'd tell you. I don't know anything about any of this!" Kellerman asks a little snidely, "Really? Then why did you give your father the file on Lincoln Burrows? Why did you open the door for Scofield and help him escape? Why did Scofield send you those coded notes? Why did you come to New Mexico to meet him?" I can't decide if he's peeved because he thinks she's lying, or if this is part of his pre-show routine. As Kellerman continues working himself into a fit of righteous interrogation, Dr. Sara looks over at the contents of her purse on the countertop -- among them, lots of gum, some dental floss and some hand sanitizer, so nice job, prop guys -- and realizes that the key she took off her dad's body leads to whatever it is that Kellerman wants. Kellerman says, "Don't try to float a babe in the woods routine by me. It's really going to piss me off." And then, just in case the line he uttered wasn't filled with enough foreshadowing, Kellerman grabs Dr. Sara by the back of the head and forces her underwater. He keeps her there just long enough for her to begin panicking underwater, then hauls her up, dries her off with a perverse solicitude, then tells her, "We're going to have to come to some sort of understanding."
Oh, great, an hour of water torture. Between last week's episode and now this Esther Williams-meets-the-Marquis-de-Sade plot twist, I wonder if this is just Fox softening the ground for the inevitable workplace sitcom based at the Abu Ghraib prison.