Episode Report Card Mr. Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mama's Family
By Mr. Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.17.2009
Over to Ma Scofield's lavish South Florida home -- say what you will about The Company, people, but it looks like it pays very well -- where Ma Scofield is staring at a digital picture of her younger self and a small boy. Presumably, the boy in the picture is Lincoln; Michael is apparently hiding in the woman's belly. One of the bland henchmen these conspiratorial operations seem to have on hand in bulk comes in to tell her that someone's been poking around the security company's account looking for data about those high-tech keys. "And what information was compromised?" Ma Scofield asks; the bland henchman does not know. "And who was trying to access it?" Ma Scofield asks; again, the bland henchman is clueless. "Thank you for bringing that to my attention," Ma Scofield says flatly. "Good work." You know when you say it that way, it really doesn't sound that complimentary. Oh, there's one another thing bland henchman wants to bring to Ma Scofield's attention -- her son. "We already have safeguards in place to deal with Lincoln," Ma Scofield says. No, not that son -- your other son. The one with problem-solving skills who's happened to escape Company custody and is on his way to Miami. That son. Ma Scofield's face shifts from expressionless dispassion to expressionless concern. "If only they understood what it is I'm trying to do," she murmurs. Well, that's the problem with conspiracies, isn't it? They're so darn hard to decipher.
Having eluded the world's clumsiest assassin, Michael and Sara have bummed a ride in perhaps the one vehicle you'd least likely expect to find in a tale of international intrigue and betrayal -- a minivan. They've made it to a truck stop, presumably not too far east of Central Arizona. And since there's no caravan of soccer moms waiting to take them to Miami one minivan at a time, Sara suggests that it might be time for Michael to suck it up and call his brother. Michael needs a moment or two to glower.
In Miami, Mahone hangs up the phone and announces he's tracked down the location of the two key locks -- one is in Little Havana, while the other is down by the waterfront. Thank heavens this vital bit of detective work happened off-camera so we could continue to follow Michael and Sara's snail-like march through Arizona. T-Bag wants to split with Lincoln, but before he can finish that thought, Mahone tells him that he'll be teaming up with Don Self to go to Little Havana; Mahone and Linc will be the ones to investigate that waterfront location. You ever get the feeling that Don Self got picked last for a lot of kickball teams?