Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sarah, Plain And Tall
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.07.2007
Up in Lechero's lair, the boss man is asking T-Bag, "Your amigo...he's a builder, an engineer?" "He's no amigo of mine, boss, and trust me: you do not want to get under the covers with that hombre," T-Bag replies. Lechero is not in the mood for lectures and storms off to find Michael himself. Within five seconds, he's asking, "Scofield, what do you know about electricity?" Michael smarts back, "Only that we don't have any right now." Lechero holds up his mobile and says, "Let me tell you something: this phone keeps all the food coming through the gate. It keeps my business running. It keeps Sona running. Electricity die, phone die. Phone die, we die." Michael replies, "We die or you die?" Lechero pauses, visibly reins in his temper, and says, "Boy, you've got enough education but you're not being smart. Now I come to you. That is an opportunity. Be wise and take advantage. Now...can you fix the electricity just like you fixed the water?" Michael tells him, "It's not that simple. The water pipes were inside the prison. The electrical lines are probably running underground along an exterior wall, which means they're out there somewhere in no-man's-land...last I checked, they shoot prisoners who go out in no-man's-land. So I'm thinking the answer is no." Lechero grabs Michael by the shoulder and says, "Now, you listen to me, and you listen carefully, Water Boy. Like it or not, soldiers or not, you're going out into no-man's-land." Michael gives him the Blue Steel.
When we get back from where the commercial break would have been, Michael is busy telling Lechero it's a suicide mission (Lechero shrugs at this) and asks, "You're going to keep me safe?" "Best I can," assures Lechero. Michael says, "I don't think I can do this." Lechero stops that foolishness: "No, no, no, no. You will do this. Look, I will do something for you. I get you a new pillow -- goose feather, like mine. Or a small TV." Michael bargains for a corner cell, telling Lechero, "It's the first one to get sun in the morning. You get me that cell, I'll get you electricity." They have a deal.
Meanwhile, on the outside...Sucre is busy crafting a fake ID in Linc's hotel room. Linc comes in and numbly drifts to the window, and Sucre assures him he'll be moseying along real soon now. The coffee growers in Colombia are hiring Panamanians for the picking season, and Sucre plans to work there and send money home. The bus leaves in the afternoon. Linc asks Sucre to do one favor before he goes -- he's meeting someone and he needs a translator. Sucre balks. Linc begs, "I'm in Panama, I don't speak the language --" but Sucre insists, "I can't miss that bus. I'm going to make money and send it home. On the run or not, I'm going to be a dad, Lincoln. You, of all people, should understand that." Further self-righteous justification is interrupted by a knock on the door. Linc lets in Sofia, who's come over to announce, "You and I, we both have people in there we care about. Please, let me help you." And that is how Lincoln gets a translator.