Episode Report Card Sobell: A | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Where The Wild Things Are
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.17.2008
Meanwhile, on the outside...we cut to Sofia, looking dazed. You can't really blame her: anyone who wakes up to Susan B. and her roll of duct tape, then breaks up with her boyfriend, then gets shot immediately after has a lot to process. L.J. comes in and checks on Sofia. Aw, bless his heart. Sofia draws him down and whispers something, and the next shot is of L.J. meeting his fugitive uncle and wanted dad...right outside the hospital. L.J. updates them on Sofia's condition ("radiant, like sick people so often are on TV") and then turns to Michael, saying, "Uncle Mike, I wanted to wait until we were safe to do this, but I found this in the room where Sara and I were held. I thought you might want it." L.J. hands over the origami rose that Michael folded and left for Dr. Sara on her birthday. The music swells dramatically, Michael gets all verklempt, and we flashed back to the scene where Dr. Sara discovered the rose. Wow, seeing Sarah Wayne Callies again on screen -- however briefly -- really makes me miss her character. Back in the present, L.J. apologizes to Michael, and it takes Michael a minute to pull it together before he can thank L.J. in a whisper, clap the poor kid on the shoulder, and go lean against a wall so he can brood in really flattering light. This lets L.J. and Linc discuss Sofia's general health and chat about how Sofia just told L.J. of the mysterious case in her apartment. Michael rejoins the conversation right then, and Linc tries to head him off with, "This is over. It's done." Michael gets all pissy as he repeats, "I said, 'What is it?'"
We see Mahone looking at the Banco Sol across the street from the bar, and for one giddy moment I think he's going to pull a Scofield circa season one, episode one. Instead, someone enters the bar from the back and walks up behind him. Mahone says, "You're late," and we see that he's been watching a clock on the bank; it's 4:35, so presumably he was supposed to meet with whomever at 4:30. Mahone tells the mystery guest that "you owe him for my drinks." We see a masculine hand peeling off a $100 bill and ordering the bartender in a low voice to "give us a minute." And I get giddy again because that sounded so much like Kellerman, I am now fantasizing that he somehow survived last season, joined some anti-One World Conspiracy, found Mahone and is recruiting him to the cause. Oh, baby, come back!
Aiigh! It's not Kellerman at all! It's Whistler, looking considerably unamused. Mahone gives a dry smile and comments on how nice the tip is. Whistler replies, "She handles the money." Both men look outside where Susan B. is standing on the sidewalk, sulking on the phone. So Mahone's back in the arms of the One World Conspiracy? Whistler would like to know as well, asking, "You in?" Mahone replies, "She better be able to handle a lot more than [the money]. Because if she has done what you think she has -- to Sara -- she's the weak link. And he will find her. And then Scofield will find you, and me, and I'm not paying for your mess." Ahhhh -- Mahone's actually choosing to throw his lot in with the One World Conspiracy because he fears the wrath of Scofield? Michael should be flattered. Whistler asks stonily, "Are you in or are you out?" Someone is not taking his breakup with Sofia well. Mahone gives a nonchalant half-smile and says he's in.