Episode Report Card Mr. Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mama's Family
By Mr. Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.17.2009
Hope that plan includes having that guy with the gun stumble upon Sara's hiding place, because that's what's about to happen. The henchman creeps through the abandoned warehouse's open window, inches his way ever so slowly to the room where Sara is hiding and... gets a two-by-four to the back of his head courtesy of Michael, who snuck up behind the guy. Things go from bad to worse for the henchman, who just happens to break his fall by smashing his head into a cinder block -- I don't think those are strawberry preserves leaking out of his skull. To add insult to injury, Michael riffles through his wallet and pulls out a slip of paper containing a series of numbers and letters. If you're playing the Prsion Break Lucky Numbers game at home, those numbers are: "7/31 I10R4AZMS" and "8/1 B2348ROCKWELL1630VS." Good luck to all players.
"The General should know by now not to mess with us," Michael says to the dying henchman. He should... but the henchmen isn't working for the General or for The Company. Michael demands to know who he is working for, then, but the henchman thoughtlessly picks that precise moment to die. How terribly rude.
Team Scylla returns to HQ with their shields instead of on them, when Linc drops the news -- they're to stand down for two days, while Ma Scofield eighty-sixes the General and turns The Company into a kinder, gentler worldwide conspiracy. The other lads are, to put it bluntly, skeptical. What of the cache of guns they uncovered, Linc? And how's about those fake IDs -- they're all dated for two days from now. Coincidence? Mahone and the others think not. "You can't be surprised that a woman who would abandon her kids would be less than truthful about her intentions right now," Don Self says. The hamster responsible for keeping the gears that power the inside of Lincoln's skull passes out from over-exhaustion; Linc decides, against Mahone's advice and his mother's warning, to pay Ma one last visit.
When he returns to the corner of MLK and Route 441, the bistro he met Mom in before is locked up tighter than an oil drum. Linc takes the photo of him and his mom out of his coat pocket. LINCOLN CONFLICTED!
You know who isn't conflicted? Lincoln's mother. Her bland henchman is reporting to her right now that not only has Lincoln returned to the restaurant but that Team Scylla's recent string of successful missions prove her son is a threat to her plans for global domination. Oh, and one other thing, Mom -- one of your snipers has Linc right in his crosshairs. Would you like him to take the shot? "Take it," Ma Scofield orders after not near enough deliberation as you'd like to see. And when that shot gets taken next week, look for Sobell to be back to chronicle every last splattery detail.