Episode Report Card Sobell: B | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Well, now you've done it, T-Bag
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 11.20.2005
T-Bag's no-good, horrible, very bad day is continuing with a juicy pummeling. Abruzzi calls it off, and the thugs leave T-Bag on a work bench. His hands are duct-taped together. As Abruzzi pulls the shiv out, T-Bag whimpers, "You don't have to do this. You don't have to do this. You don't have to do this." Abruzzi runs the blade against T-Bag's skin and says, "You brought it on yourself. I'm just an emissary for all the pain and suffering you caused, all the families you ruined, all the little kids." Thinking fast, T-Bag asks, "What about Jimmy? He had nothing to do with this. You had to kill him? And what about his beautiful son?" Abruzzi does not point out that the minute T-Bag called his cousin, Jimmy did indeed have something to do with this. T-Bag's crying, "You didn't need to kill a beautiful child. After all I've done, maybe I do deserve to die." Maybe? Anyway...T-Bag keeps talking fast, "Maybe I do. But you are no better than me." Abruzzi lifts T-Bag up and grits, "But I can be! If I want! God has given me the chance to choose." T-Bag's now genuinely scared.
Abruzzi then proves that faith is no guarantee of brains, reasoning, "Maybe I should give you a chance to choose too." T-Bag thinks that's a fine idea. Abruzzi tells him, "Back out [of the escape] or die." T-Bag chortles nervously that "I wouldn't make it out there anyway. Not with my proclivities." Oh, Lord save me from the fallacy of the talking criminal. How is it that mostly non-criminal Michael is the only who knows enough to shut up? Anyway, Abruzzi wants T-Bag's word. T-Bag gives it eagerly. It's amazing what a knife aimed at the eye socket can do for your motivation. T-Bag collapses on Abruzzi crying, and after a minute of this, Abruzzi barks, "All right! I have forgiven you. I have forgiven you. You just have to pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will do the same."
Abruzzi makes his second mistake then -- cutting T-Bag's bonds. (His first, frankly, was keeping T-Bag alive.) Then Abruzzi makes his third mistake, and turns his back on T-Bag as he walks out of the shed alone. Again -- how did this guy survive? And how is this only the first attempt made on his life? It looks to be pretty darn successful too. T-Bag's been hiding a razor blade somewhere, and he spits it out. Then he calls for Abruzzi, and when the man turns around, T-Bag says, "About Jesus...say hi to him for me, will you?"
Meanwhile in St. Louis, the digging members of Team Escarpara have just gotten through the pipe. Linc pops in to tell them that the bulls are coming. Westmoreland tells him, "You gotta stall them. We're not ready [to hide the hole again]." Clearly, EVERYONE has a case of the stupids today. You have two canny thinkers in Westmoreland and C-Note, so you ask Linc to think quick on his feet? His idea of thinking quick is to slug a guard.