Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The light you see at the end of the tunnel…
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 11.27.2005
Time elapses. Linc bounces his head against the wall as he waits for 8:10. We scan to Michael doing the same thing. Sucre tells him it's 8:15. Michael continues to gently bounce his head against the wall. Sucre asks if he's okay, and Michael says he's not. That's okay. Lincoln's not either -- he's on the floor, writhing in pain between bouts of retching.
We get the second stretcher sequence, this time with Linc being wheeled to the clinic. Michael then checks his watch -- it's 9 PM. C-Note comes over and says, "Nine o'clock, Fish. Showtime. Let's go, man." Michael takes a moment so he can have a good stare in private.
Team Escarpara then heads to their hole. Westmoreland bolts the door. Everyone looks at Michael with varying degrees of apprehension, save for Westmoreland, who simply looks excited. Michael says petulantly, "See you on the other side," then slides into the hole.
Commercials. You know, it's too bad that I hate Jack In The Box because I adore the mascot. He's the Anti-Burger King and -- OH! MY! GOD! A miniseries with both Sam Neill AND Lou Diamond Phillips? How did this get made? I mean, without creating a black hole of suck? I have to go TiVo this immediately and find out.
When we get back, a considerably less bilious Linc is being told by Dr. Sara that: A) he's got food poisoning, and B) unlike most food poisoning patients, when he wishes for death, he can take comfort in knowing it's only 24 hours away. After Dr. Sara leaves, Linc looks over at the grate, which is now suspiciously shiny and new-looking.
Meanwhile, on the outside...down in Wrigleyville, Veronica's meeting up with Hale in a dark, sketchy alley. He comes over and says quickly, "We've got a lot to talk about and not a lot of time to do it. Your boyfriend -- he can still be saved. Burrows was chosen a long time ago, hand-picked to be an assassin. But he never pulled the trigger... Nobody [killed Terence Steadman]. Terence Steadman is still alive. There are three sheets of paper inside [this envelope]. You'll find all the names you need are on them -- everyone who started this whole thing from top to bottom." Veronica is so stunned, she forgets to say, "Why don't you hand over the envelope right now?" Instead, she stares. Hale sees something and tells her crisply to get behind the car right now. Veronica stumbles behind a dumpster, again forgetting to say, "And why don't you hand that envelope right over."
Back in the prison, Team Escarpara is scampering down the wide, clean pipes beneath the joint. C-Note and T-Bag manage to multi-task, what with simultaneously escaping and goading each other.