Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The light you see at the end of the tunnel…
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 11.27.2005
Inside the prison, the guy who's the tech for the electric chair asks Pope and Bellick if there's a reason they're on direct current, since it's much more conservation-friendly to go with alternating current -- "You could kill a man with half the energy." And make Thomas Edison very happy in a vindicated sort of way. The techs check the chair. From the Tombs, Linc hears the buzz of electricity.
Commercials. Good God, how I loathe the holiday Lexus commercials where people are always surprising one another with luxury cars. I want to see the follow-up commercial where, the next year, the giftee's all, "Well, it's nice, BUT IT'S NO LEXUS."
When we get back, Veronica's actually inside the prison. The guards open the door to Lincoln's dark little cell, and the poignant plinking piano starts up as she beholds her former squeeze sitting on the floor. She tells the guard, "I think you better turn these lights on, Officer." The guard snorts, "Look, lady, your client's being disciplined." Veronica proves that she finished in the middle of her class, and not the bottom third, with, "You're violating my client's Eighth Amendment rights. Now either you turn those lights on in the next five seconds, or you're going to be the first defendant named in a lawsuit." The guard complies, muttering all the while, "When Dick Cheney gets in the White House, this won't even be an issue."
The lights go on, Veronica walks into the cell, and the door slams to give them some privacy. There's a long, long hug and Lincoln's all weepy as he asks if Veronica's okay. She is; she also assures him that LJ's okay. Face glowing, Veronica tells Lincoln, "I found someone who's going to talk...I don't know [who he is], but he knows things. I'm going to go meet him in a few hours." Linc gently tells her, "A few hours is cutting it close, sweetie." These two! They really do have that affectionate-exes thing going. Veronica tells him, "You have to have faith, okay? Nick's got a friend on the court to hear our case. And whatever Michael's doing, he doesn't need to do it now. We're going to beat this thing the right way." Linc is fairly skeptical. Veronica smooches him a few times, then tells him, "Don't give up on me. Promise."
Meanwhile, on the outside...guess who's come to visit the very pregnant, very alone Mrs. Hale? Even the background music sounds alarmed when the camera reveals Kellerman. Mrs. Hale is laughing awkwardly as she asks, "Paul, how are you?" He tells her he's fine. He's also attempting to get in the house, but she's blocking the door very effectively. Kellerman asks, "Where are you going?" Mrs. Hale tells him they're off to the Bahamas. Kellerman looks a little thrown for a moment, then asks with a little less levity, "Packing kind of heavily for the Bahamas, aren't you?" Mrs. Hale replies, "You know women." Kellerman replies, "...Yeah," in a way that totally implies the answer's actually, "...No." He then asks where Hale is, and the missus lies like an amateur with, "Running errands? I think?" Kellerman is less amused by the second; he asks where the errands are.