Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Geary -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.12.2006
Dr. Sara immediately says, "I don't know where Michael is." Kellerman says shortly, "This isn't about Michael." Somewhere in his cage, Mahone screams, "Oh, yes, it is!" Kellerman continues that it's about Governor Dad, who left Washington "with something that didn't belong to him, and we need it back." "And you killed him for it," a surprisingly composed Dr. Sara says. Kellerman vigorously and sincerely protests that he didn't, then adds, "But I hope that his death properly illustrates the magnitude of the situation that weâre in right now." Cut to Dr. Sara thinking, "We? The only way 'we' would be in this situation is if you were the one tied up and the safety word was 'disclosure.'"
So then we have a little exchange where:
10: Kellerman prints "Where is it?"
20: Dr. Sara prints, "I don't know what you're talking about"
30: Goto 10
40: End
Kellerman finally breaks the routine and tells her that there's a next, presumably unpleasant step involved, but I'm still stuck on why he didn't just clear up this little communication gap by explaining that "it" is the keychain drive upon which these incriminating conversations are stored. We see him move to this next step, which involves drawing a bath in a large, deep, beautifully tiled tub. So he's going to give her a bubblebath. Is that where we're going with this?
Michael is going to confession. I'd make a joke about how one conspiracy per show is enough, but I neither read nor saw The DaVinci Code, so I'm not exactly sure exactly how that whole Catholics-and-conspiracy conceit works. I can only say personally, the only conspiracy I have been involved in was the one in which my family tried to convince my grandmother that the chicken she was eating one Friday night was fish. (Nana never cottoned to Vatican II, you see.) But other than that, I got nothing.
Now, where were we? Ah, yes -- Michael is admitting that this is his first confession in s long time. The priest asks, "And what are the nature of your sins?" I hope the priest has an hour or ten. Michael says, "I'm not really sure." The priest is all, "Bzzzt! Try again, sinner." Michael replies, "Righteousness? Believing the ends justify the means." The priest would like know what those ends might be. Michael whispers, "Saving someone's life." The priest now wants to know what those means are. Michael replies, "I've broken just about every law you can name. But it's not just what I've done. It's what others have done, because I let them, because I was doing what I thought was right." Michael, perhaps your biggest sin is pride, for your mistaken belief that your decisions can completely obliterate the free will of others. Michael mutters, "I should have known better this time." The priest jumps on that: "This time?" Michael whispers, "When I was a kid, I watched a man bleed out and die. And I was glad, because he deserved it." The priests says something to the effect of "Who gave you the right to decide who lives and who dies?" -- see how it all comes back to pride? -- and Michael plows on that when this happened, "There was this dark space inside of me. And I knew that it was wrong. But here I am." The priest tells Michael, "There is a way to stop this. Surrender your will to God." Oh, how we all laugh with irony at the thought of the control-freaky, defiant Michael simply shrugging and saying, "Que sera, sera." Michael protests, "If I surrender now, I lose everything I love." The priest counters, "But do you lose your soul in the process?" Michael counters, "We all have our crosses to bear."