Episode Report Card Sobell: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Unready, Unsteady, Go
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.07.2006
So we come back from commercials, and the COs are walking outside St. Louis when Bellick's wrathful bellow comes wafting up. Mack turns to the Anti-Pope and asks, "Did you hear that?" They amble back to St. Louis to investigate.
Bellick continues to ululate right up to the moment when T-Bag slaps a sinewy hand over his face and slides a blade next to his throat. Michael comes over to see what's going on, but Bellick is silent. Frustratingly (for Bellick) or tensely (for T-Bag and Michael), the guards decide that they must have imagined whatever they heard, and they take off.
In the tunnels below, T-Bag says with relish, "Scream and I'll cut out your windpipe." Michael tasks T-Bag with getting Bellick's jacket and hat. T-Bag undresses him ungently.
Meanwhile, on the outside...Dr. Sara broods some more. It's a good look on her. She apparently brooded all the way to Fox River, but that's not saying a whole lot, as she evidently made it from downtown Chicago to Fox River in all of ten minutes. Crafty use of tesseracts? A secret talent for teleportation? Or merely more proof that things like "space" and "time" are merely guidelines for storytelling and not actual constraints? Anyway, Dr. Sara strides back into the prison.
In the pipes, Bellick contemptuously asking, "Brains of the outfit, huh, Scofield?" Well, yes. How is that simple observation an insult? And why has nobody thought to gag Bellick again? Bellick, more loudly, "He's leading you off a cliff, boys," and C-Note dismissively says, "You acting like you still in charge? Shut your mouth, bitch." T-Bag leaps over in a very Gollum-esque move, and seizes Bellick's skull in his hands. He is aching to be allowed to do him some harm. Sucre wanders by, taking the time to call Bellick a pendejo. Again, it kills me that they allow the Spanish cussing. Manche passes by T-Bag without comment. Then Tweener comes by, and Bellick's face curdles with derision. He says, "You...you know what he's --" We'll never know, because Tweener's punch to the jaw interrupts him. Tweener is finally the one to put the gag back on. Abruzzi comes by to bid him, "Ciao, bello." Then T-Bag makes another sideways Gollum leap to Bellick's front. He forces the guard to look at his grinning face, and then leaves, satisfied that Bellick knows he only lives because T-Bag couldn't be bothered. After Michael takes off, we see Bellick staring, plotting intently.