Episode Report Card Sobell: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Safe and Sound
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 09.22.2008
Speaking of the good doctor, there she is making conversation with Roland, who is dreamily speculating on the vast amount of filthy lucre the One World Conspiracy is playing with. Dr. Sara is unconcerned with petty pecuniary matters. She begins doing non-Google Internet searches to see why the One World Conspiracy is so into Laos all of a sudden.
Caper time! Michael is, I think, using thermite to help melt the metal so that he and Linc can easily cut through the metal back of the safe. We switch to the outside of Sam's office, where the secretary is still persisting in her attempts to work. More fool her.
Mahone has just found the dive where Dr. Sara was, and he's chatting up the bartender with a lie about how he's a private investigator working for Dr. Sara, and the reason he works for her is because he's trying to save her from a life of domestic violence courtesy of her ex, Agent Blots Out the Sun. The bartender actually buys this story -- or perhaps has enough personal experience with this sort of thing where she's loath to call anyone out on lies regarding domestic violence -- and she gives Mahone an ID on a gray rental-car sedan.
We flash to said sedan, and Agent Blots Out the Sun bribing his check-in clerk with $300 for "a small kindness." There's a phone number wrapped around that $300.
Caper time! The secretary's finally had enough, and when she switches off the vacuum cleaner, the boys have a brief moment of panic. Fortunately, Bellick and Sucre are sufficiently convincing as cleaning-obsessed idiot savants (or just plain idiots ...) and Sucre manages to get the mail from the desk for the irritable secretary, thereby freeing the boys to finish their job.
But now there is a new complication: General Von Baldy has decided to drop in and pay Griffen Oren a visit. When Michael hears the footsteps in the office, he has a brief moment of panic, as they're still a drilling revolution or two away from their goal. However, Linc argues (in a whisper) that they'll have to do it manually.
We then go to Mahone having tracked down the hotel where Agent Blots Out the Sun is staying, and we see him pull a gun out of the brown paper package that Pam handed him. (There's a little echo of Macbeth with those two, as she's urging him to kill someone to ease a moral outrage, little dreaming that it was his first righteous killing that actually brought them to this point. O, tragedy!) Mahone goes in, gun hidden, to make his inquiries. He confirms with the clerk that indeed Agent Blots Out the Sun was a guest of the hotel, but the clerk lies about Agent Blots Out the Sun having checked out. Mahone fishes for hints as to the agent's whereabouts -- paying $19 for a key to the room -- and on his way out, it hits him that something's amiss. He comes back in right as the clerk is saying on the phone, "You wanted to know if anyone came looking for you?" "Did they?" Agent Blots Out the Sun asks. Mahone's gun on the clerk's temple is enough to convince the clerk to say, "No. I was just calling to let you know my shift was ending and nobody showed up." This is how Mahone ends up with that phone number too. It was a fruitful day for him!