Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Let the Water Wash Away Your Sins
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.03.2008
We cut to Michael and Sucre. Sucre's suspended the smaller pipe -- which will be big enough for the men to snake through -- so it's perpendicular to the big one. Michael's drawn a circle on the side of the big pipe. It's now clear that the guys plan to run the smaller pipe as a pass-through. Linc and Bellick had to shut off the water so that Michael and Sucre could use their blowtorches to cut the holes in the pipe, and presumably thread the smaller, pass-through pipe through the bigger one before the water comes back on. However, they've only got about 60 minutes to do 90 minutes worth of work, and Michael's tumor has picked this very moment to act up. Michael no longer has any hand-eye coordination, and then he collapses into a fit of some sort. Sucre, bless him, is all, "Papi, talk to me! What's wrong?"
By the next scene, Michael's recovered enough to protest that he's okay, but Sucre's not fooled: "You're a lot of things right now, my friend. 'Okay' ain't one of them. I may not be the smartest guy, but I hear things. Sara and your brother have been talking about you not feeling well. I'm just saying." I'm saying it's wrong that Michael's hetero lifemate is hearing about Scofield's condition from Michael's girlfriend. Where is the love? Michael tells Sucre, "I need your help, so please, just cover for me." Because Sucre is also doing time in the prison of love, he graciously complies. (Note to writers: I do not care if you the end the season by having Michael's tumor burst out of his skull like an alien baby or something. I would applaud it as a bold storytelling move. But kill Sucre, and I will fire this show from my TiFaux, I swear I will.)
Upstairs in General Von Baldy's corporate lair of evil, the general is pouring two drinks while he puts the moves on Gretchen: "I know you better than you know yourself... when I first met you, you were a 20-year-old girl who had just been dumped by the Wheeling police academy for failing her psych evaluation. Where those good ol' West Virginia boys could only see an emotional disconnect, with traces of sociopathic tendencies, I saw a Machiavellian streak that would make failure an impossibility. I had to let [Agent Blots Out the Sun] do what he did, because I needed to know what my little bulldog would have known about Whistler and his plans for Scylla." Gretchen is still holding a gun on General Von Baldy, but he's about ten inches away from her personal space and getting closer. Gretchen is teary and furious: "I told you that I knew nothing. You should have believed me." The general completely misses the evidence right in front of him and deadpans, "I knew you'd never take it personally." Then he gently takes the gun away and says, "Because you are, and have been, ever since I took you under my wing, my girl." Then he -- eeeeeeeew! I'm sorry, I need to describe the -- auuuugh! It's just that he -- uuuuurgh! Blearrrrgh!