Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT He Sees Dead People
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 12.15.2008
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MICHAEL:
Come on!
SUCRE:
I wanna wish you a merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a merry Christmas, but I sort of hate this so-on-ong.
Lincoln grunts menancingly from over by the eggnog-filled punch bowl. Seeing this, Sucre hastily sings...
I wanna wish you a merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a merry Christmas
I wanna wish you a merry Christmas, but I sort of hate this so-on-ong.
We finish with Sucre throwing the sombrero on the floor, and announcing he most certainly will not be performing a hat dance.
Back in the real episode... Michael's out of surgery and in recovery now; Dr. Sara is sitting beside him, but has slumped to his chest while sleeping. She wakes up and notices the bottle on a table beside him, labeled "Series 022-7, Lot 9-1." Raise your hands, everyone who thinks the One World Conspiracy is killing a few birds with one stone by testing some sketchy drug on Michael. Dr. Sara drops the bottle so the other doctors don't see her poking around, and then Michael wakes up. First words out of his mouth: "You look beautiful." That's it: all other TV boyfriends can go home now. Scofield coming out of surgery and immediately complimenting his girlfriend is clearly best in show. Dr. Sara gently tells Michael that the drugs must have addled his brain, but Michael's all, "So please fill me in on where I am and what happened?" and Dr. Sara breaks the news on how Michael's medical insurance is now covered by the One World Conspiracy. "Well, at least they're not an HMO," he says. Kidding! "At least it's not Cardinal Health," he says. Kidding again! Michael's not terribly interested in assailing the companies that have turned American health care into a monstrous boondoggle.
He wants to talk about his brain's baroque imaginings: "You're going to laugh, but I had a dream about Scylla. The only thing we really know about it is what Self told us. What if it's not just the One World Conspiracy's little black book, what if it's... something more... something good. Why go to so much trouble to protect information about the past, information the One World Conspiracy could just delete at any time they wanted to? The General said 'As long as we have Scylla, we have power.' I don't think he was talking about power like control or influence. I think he was talking about energy." Michael then breaks down "BARGAIN" for Dr. Sara: "Boron, argon, gallium, indium. There's a theory that if you can find a way to combine these elements, in the design of a solar cell, you can harness 100% of the sun's energy. With that kind of power, the possibilities are limitless." Dr. Sara figures, "They're not protecting the past, they're protecting the future. Wow. I wonder what else is on it -- I mean, the equipment and the drugs you were treated with, none of it exists on the open market." Michael dryly points out, "Which would explain why some people are willing to pay hundreds of millions to get their hands on Scylla. It's not about taking down the One World Conspiracy, it's about becoming the One World Conspiracy." Dr. Sara sighs, "What do we do now?" and Michael gives her a look like, "I just got out of brain surgery -- don't you think I should give my noggin at least a week's rest before hatching my next big plan?"