Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Some poor Mexican hooker -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 03.18.2007
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.So Michael and Lincoln manage to make it to the ship and sail away to Panama, but Dr. Sara is apprehended before she can join them. Mahone is peeved because he only nabs one out of three fugitives. Those of us who are overly invested in the Michael/Sara relationship, perhaps for reasons we do not care to discuss because we think you just wouldn't understand, are peeved becauseâ¦those two, like ships that pass in the night. Why must Terrence Steadman be the most romantically successful on this show?
Anyway, then we get the credits and the episode kicks off in earnest. Mahone's office is now a real-space analogue to the timeline threads in the forums, or perhaps Kevin Spacey's bedroom in Se7en.
Internal Affairs leans on C-Note, but he brings his A-game, reminding them that the last time an agent offered him a deal, there was a string attached. So the agents buckle and agree to check a free C-Note into the witness protection program, provided he testifies against Mahone. Score one for C-Note.
Meanwhile, Sucre and Bellick make the least fun road trip duo since Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson. Bellick is threatening Sucre with Maricruz's life, and since we all know how Sucre feels about Maricruzâ¦anyway, the two of them go tearing around Mexico looking for T-Bag and sparking international incidents wherever they alight.
As for T-Bag, he's busy using Westmoreland's money to pay Mexican hookers to playact in his vivid fantasy life. And since T-Bag is a homicidal pervert with good ol' fashioned values, what he fantasizes aboutâ¦is family life with Susan. Then T-Bag may have killed the hooker, but I was in the shower, scrubbing frantically and screaming, "Unclean! I feel so unclean!" after the initial scene, it was hard to see anything.
Then the brothers are touring through beautiful Panama, and that lasts for about all of ten minutes before they rumble in the jungle. Linc thinks Michael's just sulking over Dr. Sara. Michael's sulking over the trail of bodies his actions have created plus Dr. Sara currently being in the FBI's custody.
And running throughout this episode is The Passion of the Mahone, wherein he's about to let Wheeler bring him in because it's the right thing to do, until Agent Kim comes in and dangles the prospect of the One World Conspiracy making it allllll better. All Mahone has to do in exchange? Head to Panama and bring back T-Bag alive. And if he happens to run into the brothers, so much the better. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
When the episode begins, someone with two of his own arms is retrieving T-Bag's money duffel from the baggage check in Mexico City. We soon figure out that T-Bag's paid someone else to do it so he won't be nabbed. T-Bag smiles as he hefts the bag, but his grin disappears the minute he looks up and sees Sucre and Bellick. Then he's actively scowling once they spot him.
There's a very brief chase scene, and T-Bag hops into a cab. Despite the cab speeding off, Sucre manages to catch up with it while running. The aghast expression on T-Bag's face is just delightful. Improbably, Sucre can also talk whilst sprinting, and he pleads with T-Bag that he needs the bag. T-Bag leans over and shouts at the cabbie, "Andele, you son of a bitch! Andele! " T-Bag! Hasn't The Amazing Race taught you anything? The default phrase for all cabs is "Rapido, rapido." I mean, you're going to bring the cab-brawling cliché, you might as well hit all the marks. Anyway, Sucre begs, the cabbie speeds up, and the only thing Sucre gets is the baggage tag, marked E. Stammel.
Back in Chicago, the cargo freighter's blasting its horn prior to disembarking. Michael and Linc. are walking toward the ship, Michael glumly commenting on how they have to run again and Linc shrugging, "It's different this time... we brought the bitch down." "She stepped down," Michael corrects him. Linc lightly replies, "Because of us." "You're still wanted for murder," Michael grumps. Linc turns around and says, "When you came to Fox River, remember what you said? You said, 'I'm going to break you out of here.' You did that. You want to look for the good, look there." Who is this optimist and what has he done with Captain Bringdown?
Dr. Sara is driving to the shipyard to meet the boys. Her phone rings. It's Michael, anxiously asking, "Hey, are you all right?" She is, but she's a little baffled on account of the President stepping down. "What does it mean?" Dr. Sara asks. "It means it's time to go," Michael replies. Dr. Sara tells him she's five minutes away. Michael tells her, "Listen, Sara. Linc and I are on the ship. This is it. There's no turning back now, so, uh, I know it's not what you wanted from your life, but in case you're interested, there's room for one more." Dr. Sara flirts back: "Michael Scofield, are you asking me to sail off into the sunset with you?" Fortunately, Michael does not kill the mood by replying, "We're actually sailing south, so we'll be sailing parallel to the sunset, on the starboard side of the ship."