Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The light you see at the end of the tunnel…
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 11.27.2005
When we get back, Sucre's on the phone: "That's Abruzzi. A-B-R-U-Z-Z-I...I don't care what pro-TOE-col is. I just want to know if he's okay! Hello? Hello? Hello? [Click.]" Sucre tells the rest of Team Escarpara (unnecessarily) that the hospital won't give out any information. T-Bag amuses himself by chirping, "I wonder what happened to that boy?" Michael gives him a look like, Have you even HEARD of the word "subtle"? and T-Bag muses that maybe the mafia chickens came home to roost. Michael decides not to acknowledge T-Bag's acting-out behavior, and says they'll have to put the plan on hold. C-Note begs to differ. Michael flares up a little with, "I don't think you heard me! Until I get my brother out of that hole, no one's doing a damn thing." C-Note replies, "Well, God bless Sink, but the man is gone. Once you go to the Tombs, you don't get out...not until they strap you up." Michael wheels on C-Note and says, "If you think I am leaving my brother behind, you have massively underestimated me." Everyone else in Team Escarpara's all, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. We underestimated you already. We don't have to wait around for Lincoln, so we're just going to go ahead and escape already." T-Bag mouths off some more and Michael actually lunges for him, but the rest of the team intervenes and C-Note deflects a CO with a shit-eating grin and an "it's all good, it's all good."
Then he turns around and the grin drops. C-Note tries on a little leadership with, "There are two things everybody needs to get with here. First, hillbilly, you have got to learn some respect. That man here made everything possible. And you, Fish? You are going to have to get with that we are doing this thing this afternoon as soon as we get on P.I." As Michael's been listening to this, he's had his hands clasped behind his head and he's sort of been rocking back and forth. Now, he unwinds and he has a big, mirthless grin. After an equally hollow laugh, he asks, "You're just going to make a run for it, in the middle of the day?" C-Note refrains from replying, "Yeah. That's the kind of thinking Linc used in coming up with a distraction for the CO. Look how well that turned out!" Michael whispers, "You are going to screw this whole thing up" and C-Note chuckles, "That's not for you to decide anymore. Now this train is leaving the station, Fish. And I suggest you get on it." This sentence prods something in the primordial ooze between T-Bag's ears and he begins drawling, "Get on the traaaaaaaaaaaaain," over and over again. I am stunned anew that he has remained alive for this long. Michael storms off, but C-Note confidently predicts he'll be back.