Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Niedermeyer -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.18.2007
Then, to my great amusement, we cut to Pope snarling, "I don't give a rat's ass about your or your brother." Cut to Michael, looking stricken by this possibility. Pope continues, "I trusted you. I took you under my wing. I treated you like my own son. I believed you. Day after day, you lied to me. What kind of a man does that?" Michael rolls his eyes all, "Overreact much? I am a convicted felon!" He tells Pope he's the kind of man who's a desperate one. That has to have been hard for him to admit. Because Pope's still the kind of guy who believes in the rule of law and all, he tells the two fugitives he's going to call the authorities right now. Michael pulls out a gun and says, "I'm sorry. I can't let you do that." We go to commercials as I say, "I don't believe Pope didn't just reply by pulling out his own piece and capping Scofield. For pete's sake, the man was in law enforcement. Those dudes are on it."
Commercials. I am missing the part of the human genome that is coded to respond positively to auto commercials. Sad but true.
When we get back, Michael's got the gun trained on Pope and he's saying, "I don't want to hurt you, Henry." "Said by the man with the gun," Pope dryly replies. There's a little more back-and-forth, then Michael says, "I'm not the man you think I am." "I have a pretty good idea who you are, Michael," Pope ripostes. Go, Pope! Michael replies, "Then you already know I never wanted to be in Fox River. I never wanted to meet you, Henry. I certainly didn't want to ruin your life." "Yeah? Well, you've done a pretty damn good job," Pope says. Dr. Sara says she's tried this same song-and-dance number on Michael and all that happened is that it turned her into a crusading fugitive with one hell of an interesting love life. Michael adds, "I just want my brother's life back. I want people to know the truth. I'd lay down my life." "That's easy for you to say, standing on that side of the gun," Pope says with asperity. So Michael lays down the gun, spins it around, and asks, "What if I'm standing on this side?"
Meanwhile, back in Minneapolis, the hospital personnel are busy explaining to C-Note that they don't see people who might need medical attention. They only see genuinely ill people. The manager lady finally snaps, "This is a hospital, not a homeless shelter." That cuts C-Note to the quick. Nearly in tears, he says, "I can't believe you people." Then he stalks off, gathers up the listless Dede (remember: not sick according to those medical professionals) and leaves. I ask the cats, "So does this mean the subplot's not going to turn into John Q?" But they don't read spoilers so they can't reply one way or the other.
As soon as C-Note leaves the building, Mahone screeches up in a sedan. Well -- now I'm wondering if maybe the hospital personnel weren't bureaucracy-bound tools, but merely trying to stall the fugitive until the FBI could get there. Maybe I'm giving them too much benefit of the doubt. Anyway, C-Note picks up Dede and tears back through the hospital. Mahone strolls on after them. C-Note galumphs out another side door. There's a little chase through a parking lot and then C-Note boards a parking lot shuttle. Mahone pulls his gun, and C-Note's like, "Okay." He turns around and puts one hand up in surrender. When he tells Dede to let go and get down, she clings more tightly. Trying not to lose it, C-Note says, "No, no, no, sweetie, you got to get down." Still holding his gun and looking all bad-ass, Mahone coaxes Dede with, "You gotta let him go, honey." C-Note's still trying to talk Dede down, and she won't go; Mahone calls again, "Honey, you gotta let him go." But Dede won't let go, so C-Note manages to escape (?) via shuttle bus (?) with an invisible driver (?). Poor Mahone. All he can do is implore, "Don't let her pay for your mistakes. You hear me?" This plotline is killing me, with the parallels between the two days and their desperation and the look on C-Note's face.