Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Teddy And His Telephone
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 09.30.2007
Linc has just gotten off a bus when his phone rings. He looks at the number for a moment, and then clicks the phone on without saying anything. On the other end of the line, Lechero does the same thing before finally asking, "Who is this?" The brother of the guy too stupid to not clear the call register before returning the phone, that's who. Lechero now has one of his flunkies on Operation Track Down This Phone Number. I suppose that's less labor-intensive than asking each of the inmates what they know.
Meanwhile, on the outside...Linc's efforts to take a taxi are temporarily foiled by Sofia'a walking up behind him and pressing a knife to his back. Linc impatiently talks her down -- "You want your boy out of Sona, right? Well, I'm one of the guys that's going to help break him out" -- but Sofia thinks otherwise, since she's still under the impression that Michael is a lawyer and is going to help him that way. Of course, since this show specializes in conversations that lead people to silly conclusions based on partial information, Sofia doesn't say, "He told me your brother Scofield was a lawyer" or anything like that, because then that would lead to her and Linc actually communicating, and who needs that? Instead, she pulls the "he's but a humble fisherman" card, and Linc is like, "Yes, because people routinely kidnap my son because they want fishermen out of jail. It all makes perfect sense now." He gets his cab, and asks the cabbie to take him to the statue of Saint Rita. That just happens to be in the red light district.
Back in prison, Whistler's stopped by to chat with Mahone. First things first: Whistler's not holding a grudge. "My head was a free ticket out of here," he says. "I don't begrudge anyone trying to do what they had to do to get it." He settles in for a chat, first asking Mahone where he's from (Boardman, Ohio) and sharing that he's from Kalbarri. Mahone is familiar with Australia's western coast -- he passed through the fishing region -- and Whistler remarks, "Small world." Mahone declines to say what he was doing in Panama, but Whistler's got it. He snaps his fingers and says, "You're that cop! I was looking at that Scofield, trying to figure out why he looks so bloody familiar -- then just now, hearing your voice. I remember watching the press when that just happened. Now you're in here together." Mahone looks up with bloodshot eyes and bitterly says, "Small world." Whistler asks whether Mahone's trying to extradite Michael, and Mahone brokenly replies, "I'm not really in that line of work anymore." Whistler casually asks, "What's he all about, Scofield?," but he's looking super-intense. Mahone would like to know why Whistler cares. "Just curious as to what kind of chap I'm dealing with," says Whistler. Mahone slowly says, "I guess that depends on why you'd be dealing with him." Whistler casually says that you never know when you need a friend. Mahone says, "See, one thing about Scofield is that for those that he cares about, he'll do just about anything. But he'll screw you three ways to Sunday if he doesn't." Mahone does not add, "Of course, my view may be affected by how he sent me down the river after I killed his father and tried to trade his brother's life for a boat and a big bag of cash." So Whistler is left thinking that he'd better figure out which three ways Michael will be screwing him. And he does not look thrilled by that mental exercise.
Meanwhile, on the outside...Linc has gotten out at the statue of Santa Rita. Since this is the red light district, a half-dozen hookers immediately descend upon him. Linc fends them off and begins looking around, trying to figure out the 3 o'clock reference. He asks passersby if there's a clock nearby, he flashes pictures of Dr. Sara and LJ, he basically acts as if he has never, ever sat with anyone and muttered, "Total hottie, my 2 o'clock."