Episode Report Card Sobell: C | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Agent Kim -- dead! Also, many other conspiracy stooges!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 22 | Aired on 04.01.2007
Now, it's a dark and stormy night. A Panamanian police van pulls up in front of a building that looks like it was transplanted from either Gotham City or Basin City. Michael is helped out of the van and his restraints are taken off. As he is walked toward the entrance of the building, we see another wet man being similarly untrussed. We see that it's Mahone. He and Michael exchange a long look. Then Michael is escorted in one direction while Mahone is pushed in another.
At the entrance, the guard tells Michael, "This is as far as we go." He gives them a look, then looks at the open doors and walks in. The doors close behind him; above them, we see a partial legend, with the letters "... IARIA... EDERAL... E... SONA."
Then we cut to bright and beautiful Basil Island Research Facility in Long Island, New York. It does not appear to be a civilian research operation. We see Baldy Von Stringpuller hanging up a lab coat, and someone approaches him saying, "General... " Oh, so he's General Baldy Von Stringpuller? How delighted the citizens of the U.S. will be to discover that the One World Conspiracy has its roots in the military-industrial complex. The flunky tells him, "It's Scofield. We got him." General Baldy Von Stringpuller's reaction is to whip out a keycard and hustle into a secure area.
And now it's time to find out what Sona looks like. Short answer: like a NIN video. Dank, poorly lit with arty blue light, all sorts of pseudoreligious imagery all over the place, people who look like they should be standing on a stage next to a chicken-biting geek. Michael slowly walks down the hall, taking it all in as he inches along.
We cut back to General Baldy Von Stringpuller in a big, shiny white hall. There are MPs standing at attention at a doorway. The little flunky says, "Scofield back in the pen. Gotta be honest -- I didn't think we'd see it happen. You know he's going to break out. It's in his blood." General Baldy Von Stringpuller turns back to the flunky and says, "That's exactly what we want him to do." Then he pulls up a face mask and heads into season three.
Then we're back in Sona, with Michael still inching the way down the hall. He passes the usually collection of men who are not so much into the dressing like dudes, then passes a few junkies who are nodding off, the rubber tubing still wrapped around their arms. See, what did I tell you? NIN video, circa 1995. Look it up on YouTube. As Michael keeps going, we see a man on the ground: he's wearing only his underwear, shivering violently and glistening with filth. Michael looks down and his eyes widen slightly in dismay. We get another look: it's Bellick; he's been beaten, and it looks like his jaw is broken. Bellick gives Michael a dumb, despairing look, then begins shivering again. We pan up to the seven-foot slab of muscle that's standing over Bellick without a lick of concern on his face.