Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT He Sees Dead People
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 12.15.2008
And now... We see Tweener, Haywire and Abruzzi, still clad in their Fox River uniforms and accessorized by red velvet Santa hats. They begin singing:
ALL:
We three cons were killed by Mahone
Now we're naught but moldering bone
Or in flashback, to a soundtrack
When someone is feeling low.
Oh-oh
When the ratings need to rise
A regular meets their demise
Why should it matter
If it shatters
Viewer trust? Or makes them cry?
... and then Lang comes over to Mahone with a cup of hot cocoa and says sympathetically, "The holidays are hard, huh?" Mahone doesn't answer. He's staring at a silver bell on the Christmas tree.
Back in the real episode, we're getting to the point in Michael's surgery where it's time to start cutting out the tumor. To make sure that Michael's brains aren't being scrambled, one of the surgeons asks him to recite the alphabet. As Michael does, he sinks back into his hallucinatory state, and when he gets to I, it's... "I'm sorry, Charles." Westmoreland, who is still holding Marilyn (awwww!), asks, "For what?" Michael replies, "For everything. For all the lies I told. For all the pain I caused." Westmoreland asks if Michael wants forgiveness, and Michael broods about not being worthy of it. Westmoreland points out, "That's for a power higher than us to decide, isn't it?" Michael then grieves over what he perceives as the end of his quest. "It was all for nothing," he concludes, and as Westmoreland says, "It doesn't have to be..." we all turn around and see that Michael's once-empty cell wall is now filled with a collage that blends his original prison plan with the many improvisational schemes he's had to devise since then. Conveniently, many show regulars, past and present, have mugshots in there. Westmoreland says, "You have the answers, Michael." "What are the questions?" Michael responds. Westmoreland's all, "Not my call, college boy."
In another plotline, Lincoln and Sucre are racing to the pier to meet Gretchen, Self and the Scylla buyer. We zoom from Car of Idiots over to Pier of Pissy Partners. Self is all irritated because the buyer's not there yet, and then, after Gretchen tells him to check Vykin's PDA for an extra messages, Self gets irritated at how it broke after Vykin hit the ground. Well, dipwad, nobody asked you to shoot Vykin. As the two bicker over this, Rita calls Gretchen. Don tells her not to answer it, and whips out his gun to make the point, but Gretchen's like, "Go ahead."