Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT …And Now Miguel
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.23.2007
Linc -- who really does manage to channel that cool menace this woman wishes she had -- doesn't bother replying with a "yes, ma'am." He wants a photo of Dr. Sara and L.J. to confirm their continued survival. Linc asks why the One World Conspiracy decided to pick on them. The woman explains, "I'll answer that question so you can put it to bed and focus on your work. There's a political spotlight on Whistler due to the nature of his crime. Raids, bribes, what-have-you are not an option. We have to go in through the back door." All those who think Whistler may have tried to put himself in prison Scofield-style so he could escape the long arm of the One World Conspiracy, raise your hand. …Gosh, you're paranoid. Then Linc asks for more time, but that's not going to happen.
So then Linc finally turns to the woman and asks, "What's your name?" She introduces herself as "Susan B. Anthony." I don't know what I love more: proof that the One World Conspiracy, for all its other flaws, doesn't acknowledge a glass ceiling? Or the possibility that Susan B.'s part of a cell of feminist conspiracy stooges who took their noms de guerre from America's great feminists? Oh, please let us meet Victoria Woodhull as a conspiracy stooge gone off the reservation! Let us learn that Lucrecia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are busy writing memos about Project Seneca Falls back at One World Conspiracy HQ!
Linc continues, "I'm assuming you weren't born by immaculate conception…family trees being what they are, moms, dads, brothers, sisters. Anything happens to my son or Sara, I'm not coming after you, Susan." Susan replies, "You'll be going after yourself, after we reveal that I'm your half-sister by Aldo. So ha ha! We got you coming and going." (I am totally making that up, by the way. But this show is so twisty-turny, I would not put it past the showrunners to reveal some secret connection between Susan and the brothers.) Actually, Susan just tells him to get to work.
And now -- oh my gosh, it's Sucre! And he's not a sunburnt, bloodless husk on a street somewhere. He's nicely dressed and busy procuring a gun and bullets from a local shop in Panama City.
Then we're back inside Sona, and Michael's back in the relatively fresh air of the courtyard. Mahone notices Michael's reappearance. Everyone else is listening to the angry bald prisoner who's busy pointing out that Lechero's flunky is the one who's responsible for the sudden water shortage, but he'll likely see no consequences for it. Mahone is still watching Michael's perambulations, but Splenda is giving Mahone a really intense look.