Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Aldo Burrows -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 11.19.2006
Out on the dark and lonely road, Michael and Linc are still trying to shake Mahone. Michael's also trying to get mobile phone service. He orders Linc to stop the car so they can head over to a radio tower and pick up a better signal. Lincoln asks, "What about your friend back there?" Michael shrugs, "If we're going to go down, we're going to go down swinging." Says the man who engineered an elaborate "If we're going to get out, we're going to go to Panama" plan? Linc turns around; Michael manages to call Sara. He grins to Linc, "We're in business. It's going through." Hands up, all of you who think he's just relieved to have an excuse to call Dr. Sara.
Unfortunately, before we can get to what promises to be an entertainingly awkward conversation, Mahone's car glides out of nowhere and T-bones the brothers' beater. There's a glorious explosion of the kind you see on TV -- lots of pyrotechnics, very little fatality -- and both brothers sort of fall out of the car. A couple feet away from Michael, his phone is ringing merrily, and he crawls toward it, whispering, "Sara." Unfortunately, right as he gets to the phone, a remarkably intact Mahone gets out of his car with his gun drawn. Lincoln is holding a forearm that is plainly broken, but he staggers over to protect Michael. (I have to give Dominic Purcell and the writers a lot of credit here; they have really crafted a solid portrait of Lincoln's feelings toward Michael without getting all showy with it.) Mahone has his gun trained on both men, and at the point where Michael is slumped in defeat, Dr. Sara picks up: "Hello? Hello, Michael? Michael?"
Alas, we will have to wait until next week to find out how this conversation's going to go.