Episode Report Card Sobell: A- | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Brief Wondrous Life of Cole Pfeiffer
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 12.08.2008
Meanwhile, at the One World Conspiracy HQ, the little white-collar stooges are beavering away in an effort to find Team Scylla. It is about as riveting as any scene where total strangers staring intently at computer screens can be. (Nobody will be distracted during the "Random white guy points-and-clicks" sequence!) General Von Baldy cuts through the head security goon's bitching and moaning about this needle-in-the-haystack mission by reasoning that the One World Conspiracy doesn't have to look for everyone associated with the Scylla heist. They can look for the person who has the connections to move Scylla on the black market -- i.e. Gretchen -- and then it'll be easy enough to find Scylla.
And now, we switch gears. T-Bag is left to mind hostages Rita and Emily, and it finally occurs to him to ask Rita where Emily's daddy is. Rita: "Gretchen doesn't talk about him." I bet. Because it's creepy as all hell. Anyway, T-Bag quickly deduces that Emily is unaware of her biological parentage, then wanders over to take a gander at a framed photo of her. "Cute girl," he comments. Rita gets up and faces him down: "Don't hurt my little girl. And if you have to do something, do it to me." For some reason, T-Bag gets huffy, and he snarls, "What do you think I am? A monster?" Well, yes, Mr. Child-Rapist-And-Killer. Rita points out that T-Bag is holding her hostage, so excuse her if she ascribes weak morals to his character. T-Bag then introduces his theme for the evening: "I'm just as much a prisoner as you." He whips out his GATE corporation business card and says wistfully, "Eggshell white. Bold lettering, double embossed -- I was Cole Pfeiffer, a respected businessman, top salesman in the northeast region. And now I'm back to being prisoner of my own identity: Theodore Bagwell, convict." He tosses the card and shrugs, "To hell with it. We are who we are, right?" Rita asks T-Bag what he was originally selling, and T-Bag answers shakily, "Never you mind. You just pray your sister comes through."
Back at Team Scylla HQ, Linc and Michael are still debating the merits of selling Scylla. Michael wants to break the cycle of shadowy cabals rising to power through a combination of money and other people's desperation. Linc is like, "I believe we are desperate, and I also believe I would like to be on the money end of things for a change." But he drops the argument and the brothers move on. Sucre texts them with a message: "I'm in," and we find out that he's hiding in the trunk of Gretchen and Self's car.