Episode Report Card Megyn: F | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT West Suck Story
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.20.2001
Busmalis enters the visiting room to find Rebadow, and asks him brightly if he had a nice visit with his son. Norma-not-Miss-Sally enters to visit with Busmalis, and introductions are made all around. She perks that Busmalis has told her a great deal about Rebadow. Lame joke made about not believing what you hear. Ha ha -- not. Rebadow leaves. She asks Busmalis if he's spoken to the warden about the two of them getting married. He has an appointment the next day to do just that. They coo and act retarded.
Cut to the geri-pod, where Rebadow keeps watch while Busmalis digs in his tunnel, 'cause the floors in Oz are made of...dirt? Sigh. Rebadow begins harking back to the sixties, when the love of his life, Maggie, got knocked up while they were engaged, which was scandalous. He mopes that they could have "weathered the storm," but two weeks before the wedding, he had to go and stab her father. Then the baby died during childbirth. Busmalis gophers out of the hole. All that to wish Busmalis all the happiness in the world and exclaim that he wants to dance at Busmalis's wedding.
Busmalis sweeps into solitary. Omar beckons him from his little window and tells him he "knows [Busmalis's] secret." Busmalis feigns ignorance. Omar says he saw him before getting shipped off to solitary. Now, how did Omar see him digging a tunnel in the middle of a prison, but the guards have missed the whole thing? I'm going to start a new drinking game. Whenever I look for logic, I drink. You kids can play at home if you want. That way, none of you will notice when the recap stops making sense. So, Omar tells him he wants to use this information to get himself out of solitary. The guard finally does his job and breaks up the conversation since, you know, they're in solitary to NOT talk and all. Cut to Glynn's office, where Busmalis sits as meekly as a little lamb. He puts in the marriage request. Leo tells him that a wedding is usually "rewards for good behavior." Busmalis: "I'm very well-behaved!" Leo reminds him that he dug a tunnel and escaped, all the while aiding another prisoner to escape also and causing poor Leo great embarrassment. Busmalis is very sorry and all contrite-cakes. McManus is there and of course disrespects Glynn with, "C'mon, Leo, we could use the romance." Instead of bitch-slapping McManus for butting in, Leo agrees...but if Busmalis digs another tunnel (uh-oh), he goes straight to solitary, never to see Norma again.
Back in the geri-pod, Busmalis sits at the mouth of his tunnel and moons about how beautiful it is. Rebadow tells him to get moving on the filling in. Down he goes, and we hear him swear, and as he crawls back out saying, "I hit something," we see water shooting out of the hole. Guards run in. Lights go up. We see Busmalis being taken to his new digs in solitary. He looks pitiful. Guess Lucy doesn't get to do no 'splaining.