Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Niedermeyer -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.18.2007
We cut to C-Note sitting on some milk crates, cradling Dede and rocking back and forth as he sobs. As he sniffles, "You know Daddy loves you with all his heart, right? I love you so much. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, baby," I wonder irritably how this room's pollen count managed to zoom up so suddenly. I mean, I Swiffered today and everything, yet my eyes are streaming. It's a total mystery. Anyway, C-Note notices a pay phone nearby and within seconds, Lang is patching C-Note through to Mahone.
C-Note asks, "Is this the man in charge?" Mahone says grimly, "Oh, yeah." C-Note, holding the limp Dede, says resolutely, "My name is Benjamin Miles Franklin, and I want to turn myself in, but on one condition. My wife, she goes free. My little daughter, she needs her mother." As Mahone drives, he says coolly, "I don't think I need to make a deal with you, Mr. Franklin." C-Note pauses for a moment, sets his jaw, then says, "What if I got something you need." We cut to Mahone who -- although silent -- is just second away from crooning, "Goooooo onnnnnnn?"
Cut to a pristine hospital room, with lovely robin's-egg-blue walls. Mahone walks over and gently lifts the sleeping Dede's IV-tubed arm, so he can tuck the "Get Well Soon" bear beneath it. He looks at her for a moment, clearly imagining Cameron in his hospital bed. Then he walks over to C-Note and says, not unkindly, "Your wife was released an hour ago. She'll be here soon." C-Note's leaning against the doorjamb; his reddened eyes are fixed on Dede. He whispers, "Promise me she will be okay." Mahone looks back at the girl, then snaps into agent mode, saying. "Just hold up your end of the deal." C-Note replies, "I will -- I'll get you Scofield."
Back in... someplace else, the fugitives have checked into some plushy hotel suite, cleaned up real pretty (Linc is wearing a new, sternum-baring shirt for the occasion), and procured a laptop computer. Michael plugs in the memory stick and says, "You ready?" "Let's do it," Linc replies, and... we don't hear the conversation that exonerates Lincoln, because the episode's OVER. Tune in next week, true believers.