Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Let the Water Wash Away Your Sins
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.03.2008
So Dr. Sara waltzes into the storage area where they're holding Agent Blots Out the Sun. He sneers, "So they sent Florence Nightingale to get me all ready." She replies that she's here to tend to him because she's still a doctor, and because she'd like to try and prevent him getting tortured if necessary, "So I figured if you and I had a talk--" "You'd make me see the light," Agent Blots Out the Sun asks lazily. He does know how to get to people fast, doesn't he? Dr. Sara points out, "If you don't call [General Von Baldy], you're as good as dead." Agent Blots Out the Sun replies, "I've already been many things a lot worse than 'dead' in my life, doctor. You better have more than that to threaten me with." She doesn't.
We cut to Michael fidgeting outside -- I love that they've kept his nervous-hands thing as a consistent character tic through all four seasons; it may well be the one last shred of continuity in this show -- and Don Self reassures him. Michael's not having it: "[Agent Blots Out the Sun] is a trained killer." Don Self tells him to quit being such an old woman and get back to work. Michael then asks what happened to Roland's body, and Don Self lightly says, "He's been 'reconfigured' and given a permanent resting place." Hee! Lincoln says, "Good. Take his bowling shirts and the rest of his crap with you when you leave." Bellick is like, "Respect for the dead?" and Linc is all, "You did not have to share a car ride to and from Vegas with him. He is not a good travel buddy -- and that's even before he tries to sell you out!" Or something to that effect.
Michael brings everyone back to the project at hand: getting to Scylla via the map in the bird book. There's a walkway that connects the GATE headquarters to the Scylla site, but it's bisected by a big, mysterious-looking pipe block in the middle. Michael notes, "Whistler marked it with an 'X', so I'm thinking it's some kind of wall or impediment. That's why we're going down there prepared -- tools, thermal lances, sledgehammers." Sucre's like, "And once we get through the wall, then what?" Michael testily points out that he is not psychic and does not know all, plus it doesn't help that Gretchen has the relevant pages, and Lincoln sort of face-palms at this news. Sucre reasonably asks, "What's her game in all this? If she wants [the One World Conspiracy] to go down, she should just give us the pages." Don Self says, "I'm going to deal with Gretchen when the time is right, okay? You guys go down to GATE and get started. I'm going to stay here and make sure we get what we need [from Agent Blots Out the Sun]." Michael looks troubled by that. Why, Michael? Do not weep for Agent Blots Out the Sun, for he is already dead.