Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Agent Von Blondie -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.21.2007
Meanwhile, Kellerman's SUV merrily rolls along. Michael leans over the back seat and asks, "Who are you?" Kellerman cheerfully tells him, "I used to work for the president." Linc looks alarmed by this. Michael asks, "Why are you helping us?" Kellerman decides now is not the time to go into the complex office politics at the One World Conspiracy, because there's a police blockade to get through.
The boys get down. Kellerman wheels up and identifies himself: "Federal agent. Let me through?" There's some back -and-forth and the upshot is, the diligent young square-jawed officer wants to search Kellerman's vehicle. Kellerman uncrates that tone of amiable menace we've come to know and love, and says, "No offense, but you either let me through or you get me your supervisor." Ha! Diligent young square-jawed officer is like, "How convenient, as I am a supervisor! Now let me search your vehicle." I hope he's got an extra dozen men to help canvass the Chevy Sunblockeroutter. Kellerman hops out and says, "Sergeant... Humphries? Burrows and Scofield have been loose for less than ten minutes. At this stage, every second is critical, so if you detain me, I will have all of your jobs. Do you understand me?" As he delivers this threat, Kellerman whips out a phone and pretends to be calling someone. The bluff works; the resentful officers let him through. Back in the Chevy Leviathan, Michael and Linc manage to make eye contact across the acres of floor that separate the front and back seats.
Once they're out of the roadblock, Michael says, "You still haven't answered my question." Kellerman smiles and says, "Why am I helping you? Because the enemy of my enemy is my friend." No, the enemy of my enemy is a big pile of personal drama I don't need to deal with. But I'm prickly that way. Michael goes to exchange a look with Linc, but the big lug's gone goggle-eyed. Perhaps he's agog at the wonders of riding shotgun. The poor guy has been stuck with a lot of the driving this season.
Michael persists, "You said something about taking down the president. I assume you have a plan." "I do," Kellerman says, in a cheery voice. As Michael keeps up the Scofield Inquisition, we learn that Linc is not popeyed with joy at the mere experience of riding shotgun roughly 15 feet off the ground. No -- he's having a flashback to his previous interactions with Kellerman, both of which were decidedly less amiable than this one. Linc gives Kellerman a searing glare, and right as I say, "Linc, please don't be so dumb as to deck Kellerman when he's driving"... Linc does.