Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT An innocent civilian -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 10.22.2006
Oh, who are we kidding. Of course they survive. And of course they're okay. And of course they elude the cops by running away from the river the minute approximately fifty cops show up.
In another, drier plot, Kellerman's flunky has figured out what Michael's code means, right as Dr. Sara has. The dots correspond to numbers on a mobile phone pad, so each number could mean one of three letters -- for example, the number two could mean A, B, or C. Therefore, whomever is trying to decipher a message will have to mix-and-match a few different alphabetical permutations. Both Dr. Sara and Kellerman conclude that the first bird reads "rendezvous."
Their aquatic adventure over, the boys have dried off in record time. Michael is busy buying a jalopy from a jovial salesman, telling the guy he's in the market for "four wheels and a gas pedal." Insert your own joke about needing a transmission and ignition switch here. Sucre has called his friend Petey to break the bad news about the motorcycle.
Petey has an amusingly jaded look on his face, and he says, "I was wondering when you were going to call." Now that his curiosity is sated, he can move on, eh? Sucre stalls on breaking the news and Petey misinterprets the reason Sucre's stammering, saying, "I heard! You ruined it." Sucre's confused as to how Petey could have already known about the bike: "You heard already?" Petey continues, "Everybody's heard, and let me tell you something: Hector is pissed." Sucre asks, "What does Hector have to do with it?' "It was his wedding," Petey points out. Then it finally dawns on the two guys that they're talking about totally different things, and to make a long conversation short: if Sucre was at all concerned about Petey's reaction to the bike being trashed, that is washed away in the wake of learning how Maricruz got cold feet at the altar. Petey adds, "Left Hector at the altar holding his spam in his hand." His spam? This is what I get for having a television with no closed-captioning. (Loooooong story: suffice it to say, it includes the words "four-year-old boy," "flood" and "station wagon.") But now I am intrigued by a wedding that features the caressing of pork-derived products.
Sucre skips over to Michael, who tells him, "We've got a couple of stops to make. First is this place called Blanding, and then we'll meet up with Lincoln --" Sucre whispers joyfully, "I can't go. She said no, Papi. Maricruz told that son of a -- she told him, 'No.' You got it?" Michael is happy for Sucre. Since our favorite Spaniard now has to go follow his heart -- and generate many episodes' worth of secondary plotlines -- the two end up buying their own separate cars and splitting up. Michael hands him a folded up crane and says, "This is in case you run into trouble," When did he have time to make these folded-up cranes? And how is it dry? Did they not just get out of the water? I... can't think about this too much, can I? I should just go with it, the same way I can accept that their little adventures are still taking place in daylight despite Dr. Sara sitting around at night.