Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Teddy And His Telephone
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 09.30.2007
And then we come back from commercial with Michael looking up intently at an exhaust fan. Whistler comes up and says bluntly, "Listen, mate. Here's what I know so far: I know you've got a brother in the open on the outside. I know he ran into my girlfriend. And I know he took a book from her that belongs to me. I'd like it back." Michael doesn't bother looking away from the fan as he asks what the big deal is about the book. Whistler snaps back, "Unless it has directions out of this prison, I don't really think it should matter to you." Michael pouts that Whistler doesn't get him, and that he can get his damn book once he escapes. Whistler would like to know when that may be. Michael sighs, "Let me tell you what I know so far. Some very bad people who have done some very bad things want you alive and out of this prison -- which is why every bone in my body is telling me to do the opposite." Whistler asks, reasonably enough, why Michael is doing this. Michael then whips out the Polaroid and says, "You're upset because someone took a book from you. This is what they took from me. So let's be clear: this is what matters to me. Not you, and not your book." And you know, this is the kind of swoony, squee-y moment that Michael/Sara shippers nationwide should be able to savor like a fine wine from Left Hook vineyards...if it weren't for the fact that the actual actress playing Dr. Sara is noticeably absent, and that does not bode well for our inmates in the Prison of Love.
Meanwhile, Lechero's field office has just called in. Lechero idly threatens the guy with death, which is only a little less scary than when Carl Icahn begins showing up to demand greater earnings growth from quarter to quarter. Unfortunately, Lechero's phone craps out again mid-threat. Lechero discovers that this is because his phone charger's unplugged. Going by T-Bag's elaborately pop-eyed expression of innocence, I'm guessing it's part of the plan to get the phone to Michael.
Cut to Mahone multitasking: he's twitching all over in an effort to dislodge the purple spiders and pink centipedes crawling all over his skin and he's meeting with his court-appointed lawyer, Raul Dalinda. The lawyer is all smiles when he tells Mahone that he's got a court appointment relatively soon -- a year away, compared to the two-and-a-half years a non-citizen usually has to wait -- but he is less smiley about Mahone's plan to use Michael as a witness (since it smacks of coercion) and downright outraged by Mahone's request to bring him some more of his sweet, sweet pills. Dalinda backs away with a huffy "Good luck, Mr. Mahone," and Mahone begins clawing at the fence and screaming "Wait a second!" The guards do, and then they begin firing warning shots at the fence. On the bright side, at least we know the provenance of that shot in the credits of Mahone shaking a fence and screaming.