Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT An innocent civilian -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 10.22.2006
Cut to Dr. Sara figuring out the code. Over the next few minutes, her mental effort is compared and contrasted with Kellerman's labors: he has collared a scripting geek and gotten him to make his little elves inside the computer run all the possible code combinations for the different numbers on the origami birds.
It is not yet dark on this unnamed Utah river. Sucre's still there in full martyr mode: "They say people come into your life for a reason. Maybe my reason was to help you get out of Fox River, to help you save your brother. It's okay, Papi... let me go." With all the scenery Sucre's chewing here, you'd think he can apply those choppers to the tree and gnaw his way to freedom. Michael's holding Sucre's head above the water and listening to the police radio; this is how we all learn that the cops are right near their location. And then he notices the rope swing that's on the ground by the tree. There's still plenty of rope dangling from the tree.
With new urgency, Michael tells Sucre, "I want you to hold your breath, okay?" Mister Go-Ahead-And-Leave-Already snaps, "Why?" Mister Exposition?-What-Exposition? tells him not to worry his pretty bald head. Sucre holds his breath. Michael clambers onto the tree and ties the rope around it. Then he pulls Sucre back up long enough to instruct him, "I want you to go under, and stick your arm up, above the water, high. And when you start running out of air, wave it back and forth so I can see it." Michael and Sucre clasp hands, and then Michael counts to three. Sucre goes under again, with his arm up.
The soundtrack gets percussive again, since percussion equals pressure. We see the police running around with the dogs. Michael sprints back to the motorcycle. He's carrying a coil of rope with him. He loops it around a tree, then ties the other end to the motorcycle. Michael then kick-starts the motorcycle. As he revs it up, Sucre's arm begins waving wildly. Then it sinks below the surface. Sucre's going down, down, down to the commercial break.
Oh, the Yaris commercials just keep getting scarier. Now it eats MP3 files? What, is it on the RIAA payroll?
When we get back from commercials, we see Michael zooming the cycle downhill. As he does, the rope tied to the bike uncoils and grows ever more taut. As the bike hurtles toward the river, it acts as a weight for the rope, which then yanks on the log that's pinned Sucre. The log thus lifted, Sucre is, in theory, free. That is, if Michael survived being flung into the water and Sucre survives running out of air.