Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Michael and Lincoln -- not dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 09.03.2006
Back at the garage, Chuck picks up the phone and immediately gets an earful of "This is Agent Mahone, from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Who am I speaking with?" Why, with Chuck, of course. This is Mahone's cue to use Chuck's name approximately ten times in the next two minutes. He asks, "Has anyone come by looking for a gray Accord with a busted rear window?" Cut to Chuck, turning to look at Michael. He gets very rattled, but answers, "Yes." Mahone wants to know when he was by. Chuck: "Uhhhh." Mahone gets snappy, asking, "Chuck, can you tell me when he was by?" and Chuck says tentatively, "Right now?" Michael's head swivels around on that and...we're at the commercial break.
God as my witness, I cannot figure out whether Celebrity Duets will be the most brilliant thing ever or just a really sick, sad joke.
Cut to Mahone excitedly telling a room full of people that Scofield's at Brewster's Towing. Much activity ensues. Meanwhile, Michael is giving Chuck the fisheye, and Chuck weakly explains that he's on the phone with his manager, hoping to get clearance to release the car. Mahone's tinny voice pipes out of the phone, "Chuck, you there? Hey, Chuck." That boy is going to go home tonight and tell everyone, "From now on, I want to be known as Charles." He turns away from Michael and whispers into the phone, "Yeeeah, that vehicle may not be here when you're here. You need to send somebody now." Mahone shouts into the phone, "Do! Not! Let! Him! Leave!" Chuck has the panicky look of someone who does not get paid enough to deal with this hogwash. As the car peels out, Chuck says with dull vindication into the phone, "Uh, he got the keys."
Cut to Mahone screaming, "Where the hell are those units?" He then sweeps everything off his desk in a fit of fury. Amid the detritus, we see a folder bearing a mug shot that looks an awful lot like an older Lincoln, and the name "Oscar Shales." Please, please do not tell me that Oscar is somehow linked to the Bros. Burrows/Scofield or The Company or anything like that. Agent Lang snaps Mahone out of his Shales-induced reverie by telling him they've traced C-Note to a payphone downtown.
Goody! With the Bellick/Geary development, Sucre's trip east. Dr. Sara's arrest, the Bros. Burrows/Scofield running around, and Mahone running after him, I don't think we have enough going on in this episode. Why not toss in another plotline? Anyway, C-Note is on the phone doing some pretty fast talking. That he's talking, and not holding the phone a foot away from his ear while his wife screams, "Iraq? IRAQ? Did you confuse the postal abbreviations for Iraq and Illinois?," is a testament to his smooth talking. Kacee asks tearfully, "Were you ever even in the military?" C-Note seems angry that she's questioning his sincerity. That is some unjustified pique, is what that is. He replies, "I served my country, and my country served me up...I wish I could lay this all out for you right here, right now, but just know, baby, I am sorry and I love you. When the time comes, I will explain everything." The tender love theme from Prison Break plays softly in the background. Kacee says, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't turn you in right now." C-Note replies, "Because the viewers adore hearing the dulcet tones of my ceaseless bitching, that's why." No, no, no. He actually argues that he has three good reasons: "Me, you, and that beautiful little girl of ours." He then continues with the fast talking and we get a long shot of Kacee looking...conflicted? Comatose? It's a little hard to discern. C-Note asks if anyone's tried to contact her about him, and Kacee says they haven't.