Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Escaping from the prison of love
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.23.2006
Burrows slips away, then gestures for Lincoln to follow him. Unfortunately, Lincoln's right in Kellerman's sights. And then he does something both shrewd and noble: by stepping out and surrendering to the cops, he keeps Kellerman from shooting him, and he allows his dad to escape. He whispers harshly, "Get out of here. Go!" and with a lingering, regretful look, Burrows does. Linc is apprehended, ungently. Kellerman sidles behind a car and sighs in frustration, wishing Mercury would just move out of retrograde already.
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When we come back, Michael's busy heating up the plastic handle of his toothbrush so he can make a mold of Dr. Sara's key. Sucre comes in, giddy from the latest gossip: "Did you hear about Avocado? Got his salchicha sliced." Michael manages to infer Sucre's meaning ("salchicha" is Spanish for "sausage") and whispers, "How?" Sucre says, "Tweener. Avocado's saying he got caught on the frame while he was hopping down off his bunk." Michael asks heavily, "Why did he lie?" Sucre casually explains, "He doesn't want Tweener to go to the SHU. He can't get him in there. All I have to say is, as soon as Avocado gets out of the infirmary, Tweener's a dead man." The relish with which Sucre delivers this kind of news suggests that in a past life, he was the town gossip. Or someone who gave testimony to HUAC.
Since Avocado and his sausage are all taken care of, Nurse Gossipson is helping Dr. Sara tear apart the infirmary looking for the keys. Nurse Gossipson says, "Just retrace your steps. When did you first realize they were gone." "When I came back from lunch," Dr. Sara says. Then the electrical guitar of foreboding flashbacks kicks up. Dr. Sara flashes back to the lunch and realizes that Nika scooped the keys from her bag. She quickly strides outside to check the visitation log, and sure enough, there's an entry for Michael Scofield -- one Nika Volek. Good to see that she kept her name after she wed. Dr. Sara reels a little as she reads the entry, but quickly composes herself and stalks off.
Outside, Michael's walking across the courtyard, completely oblivious to the impending doom hanging over his head. From somewhere around his knees, a voice issues forth: "I need to know where he is." It's Abruzzi, who was presumably prostrated in prayer until about ten seconds ago. The convict-cum-convert explains, "Fibonacci. You see, my conversion requires that I not only seek forgiveness but also provide forgiveness, even to my greatest transgressors." Michael smirks and Abruzzi protests, "Don't look at me like that, like I'm the same old man I used to be -- I'm not." He practically bursts into tears after this. Abruzzi's new spiritual side is not so much a Saul-to-Paul conversion as it is a Saul-to-Paula-Abdul conversion, complete with inappropriate fits of emotion and incoherence. Abruzzi keeps going: "Trust me! I need to reach out of Fibonacci! So we can heal!" Michael's all, "Skeptic, here!" and Abruzzi struggles to remain meek and mild as he says, "I understand. I'll be patient."