Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Madame Evil's administration -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.04.2007
Speaking of decision-making, C-Note is busy trying to avoid making whatever decision Agent Wheeler has just put before him. He says, "You don't get it, do you? You can't stop this guy." Wheeler says that with C-Note's help, he can. "You tell me what's going on, I can take care of you. You've got to trust me, Mr. Franklin," he urges. I would love, love, love it if it turned out that Wheeler was actually a reform-minded good guy. This show is brimming with morally-compromised antiheroes, and I'd love to see a character who's committing to doing good. However, I fear that Wheeler is merely another cog in the One World Conspiracy. Wheeler then looks down at his notes and looks up, asking, "C-Note, right?" C-Note rolls his eyes all, Lord, save me from the WASPs who are trying to "get down" with a man. Wheeler brings out a tape recorder and asks C-Note to tell him exactly what Mahone had said, finishing, "If you give me Mahone, I'll give you your life back."
Having gotten to C-Note's cliffhanger of the week, it's time to wrap up the Sucre and Bellick storyline for this episode. Bellick has Sucre cuffed, and as he walks him through the house, he gloats, "God's been smiling down on me, I can tell you that. First I cuffed Haywire up in [Wisconsin], but he did a swan dive off a grain elevator before I could put him away -- but I still get the reward! And --" Sucre interrupts to ask with genuine pity and curiosity, "He's dead?" Bellick cheerily confirms this is so. He then adds that Sucre's fine ass is worth $100,000 in reward money. Thinking fast, Sucre says, "Wait, wait, wait! What if I know where you can get $5 million dollars?" Bellick goes slack-jawed with avarice. Sucre presses his advantage, smiling, "You heard me... I can take you there. And you don't have to take me back to the States and turn me back in. T-Bag's in town." Bellick blinks the dollar signs out of his eyes and asks thickly, "Where is he?" Sucre confidently assures him, "I can take you to him." Oh, these two working together promise to be nearly as fun as Car of Comedy Gold.
Back in the kitchen, Madame Evil is actually sitting down now, very near Michael. She tells him, "A long time ago, I agreed to put my country ahead of myself, as a mother does for a child. And I thought what I was doing was noble and I would be rewarded." Michael, who has some very recent and bitter experience in putting someone else's welfare above his own, says, "You were wrong." Madame Evil cries, "Can't you see that I'm a pawn in this too! The power that has taken over this country is like a cancer, and it will stop at nothing. It is out of my control." Michael is unmoved. Madame Evil asks him what he wants. Michael replies, "Uncuff me... I want you to arrange for me to walk away from here alone, under no surveillance... and finally, I want a presidential pardon for me and my brother, fully exonerating us of all our crimes, and I want it today."