Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Michael and Lincoln -- not dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 09.03.2006
And we transition back to Fox River, where some poor C.O. is protesting that yes, he trusts Bellick and Geary, but he could get into trouble for this and -- and really, who cares? The whole point to this scene is to show that the Grumpy Old Men are leaning on Manche -- whom we all warmly recall as Captain Calories -- for information about the escape. After a few threats in re: prison rape, etc., we get the idea that Manche is about to tell Bellick about the loot in Utah.
Meanwhile, the Fibbies are now getting a tip about Sucre stealing a car in Defiance, Ohio. The agent with the glasses, Wheeler, looks at the little push pin Mahone's just pressed on the U.S. map and he says smugly, "Someone's going down today." Mahone just rolls his eyes and heads off.
As Sucre drives down the road, the vigorously-shaking head of the Virgin Mary bobblehead on the dashboard pricks his Catholic conscience. "I know, mami, I know," he says wearily. Also, heh. That car makes me think of my beloved Nana and Pop-Pop, whose sea foam (read: minty green) Buick Le Sabres always, always sported at least three plastic statues of saints superglued to the dash.
In a jail somewhere -- the first location NOT identified courtesy of a caption at the bottom -- Dr. Sara is napping with her head on the table. Her dad comes in and pulls down a chair; Dr. Sara sits up and smoothes back her hair. Dear ol' Governor Dad says, "I paid your bail." "You took your time," she replies. I really like how the writers have portrayed this relationship. It's not like we have Sainted Dr. Sara on one side and Evil Governor Dad on the other; he's frustrated, she's petulant, and they are both to blame for how things are between them. I like that. Anyway, after Dr. Sara cordially invites him to go to hell, Governor Dad says, "You keep this up, this may be the only place I can see you." Dr. Sara asks, "Do you even want to hear my side of things?' "Not particularly. Especially when I have no idea what side youâre on. But I do know this. Somebody is going to go down because of what happened at Fox River, and it would be in both our best interests if that someone was not you," Governor Dad replies. To make sure that happens, he suggests that Dr. Sara crafts the kind of testimony that hangs Warden Pope out to dry. Dr. Sara says she can't do that: "I did it, Dad. I left the door open. Me and no-one else." Her father is a little rocked by this; he immediately replies, "That's not true." Ah, but it is. Governor Dad stammers, more loudly and with more than a bit of denial and betrayal lacing his words, "That-that's not true." Then he pulls it together and leans down to bleakly say, "Just do what you're told. Otherwise there will be...consequences that will affect us both. Do you understand what I'm telling you?" That is probably the closest dear ol' ambitious Dad will ever get to admitting that yes, there is a big conspiracy afoot and now he's part of it. Without looking at his daughter, Governor Dad stands up and says, "In one week, I will be appointed the new Vice President of the United States. There will be a ceremony. You will be invited. You will not attend. Goodbye, Sara."