Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sasha's dad -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 01.28.2007
So then he asks whether Bellick recognizes anything in the message. Miracle of miracles, Bellick does. But he won't say until Mahone can promise him a move to AdSeg. Mahone does, so Bellick tells him: "The stuff about 'another chance' and 'safe haven,' that's out of the Big Book... those are the names of some of the chapters in the book they use in A.A."
Cut to Mahone reading a version Fox River just happens to have on hand. As we hear Michael intoning, "Sara, listen, I know I can't ask you for another chance," Mahone flips to that chapter, but sees nothing significant. Michael intones, "I can only hope by now, you have found your safe haven." Again, flip to the chapter, and again, nothing. We flash to Michael saying, "I took advantage of you and your commitment to help others, and put you in a place that's every doctor's nightmare." Mahone flips to a section titled "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and notices a passage with a location: St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio. Michael's Mental Mate is back in the game!
We cut to St. Thomas Hospital, and once again, Linc is a big ol' doomcookie. Just dip him in the milk of misery and have a sad snack. He intones, "It's getting late." Michael says, "I know." In the same sullen voice, Linc says, "She's not here." Michael gives him a look and says shortly, "I know that too." Heh. I love it when Michael gets irritated. Is that wrong? He says, "There is a chance that she didn't get the message." Linc replies with something along the lines of, "Or maybe you're not the catch you'd like to think you are." But before Linc can continue to run down Michael and his big plans and his even bigger brain, Michael notices that someone's been paging "Michael Crane" for a phone call. He sprints inside.
Mahone is now walking around Fox River, barking instructions in his mobile phone along the lines of, "Call the Akron police and tell them to get the entire force over to St. Thomas Hospital." We do not get to hear Agent Lang snap back, "Why don't you call them your own damn self? You have a phone, don't you? I am not your switchboard operator, twitchy!"
Michael moseys up to the front desk and says, "Michael Crane. I think you've got a phone call for me." The receptionist just hands the phone on over. Know how you can tell it's a fantasy hospital? No, it's not that the receptionist doesn't ask for ID. It's that she's actually making eye contact with someone who walks into a hospital, as opposed to staying behind a wall of bulletproof glass and flinging a forms-packed clipboard toward the people who walk in the door.