Episode Report Card Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Aldo Burrows -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 11.19.2006
She lands on a car's windshield and just twitches for a moment. Kellerman gets up and sticks his head out the window, bellowing her name... but she's managed to hobble off somewhere, leaving only a bloody windshield behind.
We leave the show behind and go to the commercials. I see the diamond people got their licks in before any Blood Diamond previews this week.
When we come back, it's to a shot of dusty oxford stepping across the sun-baked desert floor. Mahone's made his way to the cabin of last episode, and within seconds has figured out that some sort of scuffle went down. He walks out, following the bloody footprints that lead out of the cabin.
A few yards away, Michael's still carrying on. When he blows his cool, he really blows his cool. That's what decades of repression will do to you. He says, "Six months! Six months I was in that place. Where were you? How long did you know?" Aldo protests that he found Michael as soon as he could, but the state kept moving Michael around. Michael snarls, "Then you went away again, right?" Aldo asks why nobody's thinking about his feelings. The four men continue walking and Aldo points out, "I was the problem from day one. Your lives are what they are because of me!" Michael replies, "Lincoln told me about [the One World Conspiracy]. Apparently, you were some kind of analyst. That's the job you chose over your family." Aldo protests that he thought he was doing the right thing by protecting them. Michael stops and says petulantly, "From what, Dad? From who?" We cut to Sucre, who's rolling his eyes warily. Aldo says that the One World Conspiracy had enemies, and if those enemies wanted to get to Aldo, they would have targeted his family. It seems to me that those enemies would have targeted the family anyway, reasoning that it would smoke Aldo out of hiding, but I'm hardly an evil genius on the same level as the One World Conspiracy stooges or their antagonists. Anyway, Aldo's incoherent justifications end with him saying he left once he realized the One World Conspiracy was actually conspiring to put politicians in charge and decree Tickle Me Elmo X the hot toy of the holidays. Michael completely loses it by this point, shouting, "You could have come back at any time!"
Aldo says he couldn't have come back, because turning on the One World Conspiracy only made things more dangerous. Michael doesn't see Aldo's actions as a loving sacrifice. Instead, he says, "We were your sons." Aldo rebuts that they still are. He says they can fix all this. Michael -- who appears to have cycled through his unresolved childhood anger about being abandoned and is now dealing with his adolescent rage at his parents being flawed -- says, "This can never be fixed." He walks off with Sucre.