Episode Report Card Sobell: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Brief Wondrous Life of Cole Pfeiffer
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 12.08.2008
We then get footage of Michael assembling his makeshift gun -- alas, not enough footage to teach us how to jerry-rig a deadly concussive device using materials found in our local Wal-Marts -- and then monkeying with the fire escapes outside the hotel windows. He gets distracted by a tumor twinge, but manages to shimmy down a pipe and swoon in the alley below.
Back in the hotel room, Gretchen tells Self she'll do reconnaissance in the hallway. "If anything happens, get Scylla and get out. I will find you," she orders. Once she leaves the room, Self locks the door. Gretchen heads down the stairs, kicking a bum on the landing who's in her way. Bad move -- the bum is Sucre, who's been waiting for her. He tackles Gretchen from behind, they go flying down the stairs, and then commence fighting on the cleanest and most well-conditioned wooden floor ever to grace a fleabag no-tell motel. Sucre's got the upper hand for a while, but Gretchen eventually remembers his injury and gets him there. He is saved from being killed only by Dr. Sara's timely arrival. The former torture victim shoves Gretchen down another flight of stairs.
Meanwhile, Linc fires the smoke bomb gun and drives Self out of his hotel room. Self goes to escape via the fire escape ladder, but it breaks under his weight per Michael's monkeying around, and Self ends up flat on his back in the alley. Sadly, it appears he has not shattered his spine. But he does get a good punch to the face courtesy of Michael. Yay, Scofield! Michael then grabs the remainder of the Scylla device and scampers off.
Gretchen recovers enough to scamper down one last flight of stairs, take a shot at Lincoln for good luck, and run right into the embrace of the One World Conspiracy. The goons may all have submachine guns, but Gretchen manages to overpower them with her pistol and steals one of the SUVs. Lincoln also manages to escape. We then switch to Michael, who has just had a bad attack of Television Tumor, or its mysterious and serious side effects. He passes out in the alley, blood pouring from his nose and mouth.
Unfortunately, neither landing on his spine nor taking a concussion-grade blow to the head can stop Don Self and his reign of meatheadedness. Don comes up to Michael, snatches Scylla back, and points his gun at him, repeating, "Like I said before, this is just business." But before he can kill Michael, the lead conspiracy goon is shooting at him, and then Gretchen's rolled up with an SUV, Don's escaped and the goons have absconded with the passed-out Michael. Linc attempts to chase down the SUV, but his superpowers largely lay in beating things up, not chasing them down.