Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Score one for the Darwinists
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.06.2005
Linc asks, "What's the right thing to do now, Michael?" Michael admits he doesn't know, but if he doesn't give up Fibonacci, the whole breaking-outta-jail thing is over. Linc concludes, "You're telling me, if I'm to live --" "A good man has to die," Michael concludes.
Commercials. Oh, Johnny Depp. Your protean ability to swing from Captain Jack Sparrow to Ms. Anna Wintour -- excuse me, Willy Wonka -- delights and frightens me.
Meanwhile, on the outside...Agents Hale and Kellerman are waiting in a swanky hotel suite. Hale's picking at a hamburger and fries, and Kellerman's on the phone with his dark mistress. Or is that Madame Vice President Dark Mistress? Anyway, she's telling Kellerman that a friend of hers will be along shortly, and Kellerman skeptically asks, "A friend?" Apparently I'm not the only one who can't imagine her having social relations that don't end in knifeplay. Over the course of the conversation, Madame Vice President Dark Mistress makes it clear that she thinks the two agents have bumbled through this like it's amateur hour, Kellerman tries to knock her off that track so he won't have to, you know, hustle to cover up how he lied, and Madame Vice President Dark Mistress more or less tells him to cram it. Hale listens to all this and begins looking progressively more worried.
Kellerman clicks off the phone, and boy, is he pissed. He tells Hale, "She's bringing someone in." Hale wants to know what that means, and Kellerman snots, "Something in her tone changed." Hale immediately goes to his unhappy place: "You think she knows about the kid? We shouldn't have lied. We shouldn't have told her we had the kid." Kellerman gets pissy because he knows Hale's right, and Hale sighs, "I swear to God, it just gets deeper and deeper." Kellerman snaps, "What's that supposed to mean?" Hale says, "It means, if I'd have known how this whole thing was gonna turn out, I'd have gotten some crap job with the Feds -- push pencils, drink coffee all day long behind a desk. God, that sounds good." Kellerman stalks across the room, then turns around to say, "Keep talking like that, I'll be forced to put a bullet in your head." Hale turns to look at him, all, You sound a little too happy about that prospect. Then Kellerman decides they'll just work around their dark mistress's friend.
Back on the inside, Sucre collects Michael from his staring spot in the yard so they can go shout oblique inquiries at the PI crew like, "Hey, are you planning on putting that carpet in the guard room? You find anything in the floor yet?" After Sucre finishes quizzing the PI crew, he increases the pressure on Michael with, "We gotta do something." Why not riot? It worked so well last time.