Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sarah, Plain And Tall
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.07.2007
Cut to Sammy -- who is fast becoming my favorite thug, which is sort of a disturbing thing to admit, because how often does one confront one's hierarchy of thugs from most- to least-favorite? Anyway, cut to Sammy getting up in Scofield's grill and snarling, "Trouble has a way of finding you here in Sona, doesn't it?" He then picks up Michael by the scruff of the neck and herds him over to Lechero. That man is not amused by the idea that Scofield abused his good faith by burying something in the junction box.
After the brief interlude where commercials would be, Lechero has Michael had back to the junction box and open it. Michael moves out the dirt at Lechero's request and brings up...some taped wires. Michael explains, "It's duct tape. It's to repair the frayed wires. That's why the power was so inconsistent. I didn't want the tape to become loose, so I packed it down with dirt." Lechero's got a look like ...oh.
They're back inside; Lechero and Sammy have decided to follow Michael down to the main power switch and watch him turn it back on, a development that Splenda regards with no small amount of chagrin. Michael is not too thrilled about this either.
Once they're down by the switch, we see the real reason both Michael and Splenda are nervous. Michael used the cross to disrupt the power circuit that keeps Sona humming, so flipping the switch will not restore the power; only removing Splenda's very recognizable cross will. Now that he's got an audience, how will Michael pull that off?
By taking one to the eye, is how. He throws the main switch and nothing happens, and after Michael puts on a show of dismay -- which puts him right in line with the circuit he needs to pull the cross from -- Sammy knocks him into the box. Michael makes a big show of stumbling, palms the cross, and the lights come back on. Michael -- whose face is untouched despite the loud and crunchy punch he took -- gasps, "Transformer delay." Check out Scofield's mad improvising skills! Lechero's all, "Um. Perhaps I should not have had my henchman punch you so quickly. You just rile me up, is what you do." But of course, he doesn't say any of that.
We cut to Nieves and T-Bag sharing a moment of commiseration over how tricky it is to work for a homicidal boss with a hair-trigger temper. Nieves promises, "When Lechero's in a better mood, I'll put in a good word. Help you -- how you say, move up the ladder." As T-Bag empties out a plastic bag filled with heroin bundles, he says, "I appreciate it, compadre. But I was always taught God helps those that help themselves." Then he walks behind Nieves and suffocates the man. There's the T-Bag we know! Didn't it feel weird to go three and a half whole episodes before the unidextrous pervert killed someone? After Nieves' remarkably quick death, T-Bag makes it look like Nieves overdosed.