Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Denise -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 11.26.2006
And... credits. You will all be relieved to know that I am sparing you my ad-provoked pique this week, courtesy of iTunes Music Store.
When we get back, Weaver is chatting it up with Mahone for expository purposes: the Illinois Department of Correction is sending down a giant caravan to bring back the two brothers. Mahone snaps. "Remind them that this is a federal case and we'll handle the transport. Weaver rebuts that he did, but because "it's an election year" -- yeah, especially since Illinois is out a governor, not that we've seen any newscasts about that or anything -- everyone wants some credit and Pavelka called in some favors with the Chicago bureau chief. Mahone has an expression like What next? How else will this day go wrong? He looks over and both Michael and Linc are giving him the stink-eye. So Mahone glares back and says loudly, "I want to be placed in the prisoner transport vehicle." Weaver asks, "What for?" and Mahone sounds a little desperate as he asks, "Just get it done?" Weaver stolidly insists, "Sir, these were the big fish. You reeled them in. You should feel good about that." Because Mahone really doesn't want to discuss his feelings with his coworkers, he hangs up.
Meanwhile, Linc uncharacteristically looks at the holding cell as half-full rather than half-empty: "At least we're together." Michael sighs, "Yes, there is that." Then he realizes that Linc is in a talking mood. With little prodding, Linc says that he's thinking about Aldo, and "what he tried to do. Tough to go down swinging when you're locked in a box." Ah, there's the Captain Bringdown we all know and love! Michael says that it's not over yet. Eying his confiscated mobile phone, he says confidently, "We're entitled to a phone call. If I can call Sara and she has the information Dad says she has, we can get you exonerated before this whole thing goes down." He then heads over to tell the guards, "Hey! We're entitled to a phone call." The guard replies, "You're entitled to precisely squat until you're officially in custody." I like this guy; he's quick on his feet. Michael turns back to Linc, but Captain Bringdown has noticed the way Mahone's looking at them, so he mumbles, "A lot of ground to cover between here and Illinois. I mean, what are the chances we even make it to Fox River alive?" Michael glares at Linc all, the last thing I need to be doing is worrying about MORALE here.
Mahone, meanwhile, is on the receiving end of a call from Agent Kim. The agent says brightly, "I saw you on the news, Alex! The brothers too!" There's a pause and Kim continues, "They were a little more, um, breathing than I had hoped." Mahone points out that once Border Patrol showed up, they cramped his style. Kim is unsympathetic. After taking a piece of paper from a man who's a dead ringer for Colonel Kurtz, he says, "Burrows and Scofield? Can you see them from where you are?" Sure Mahone can. "Then put a bullet in their heads," Kim replies coolly. Mahone protests that perhaps the armed guards might not care for that, but Kim really doesn't care: "If they get back to Fox River, it is over for all of us. There's not much more this country loves than a bad man with a good story. How much longer do you think it'll be before someone puts a microphone in front of them?" Mahone says desperately, "With the security here, what you're asking me to do is tantamount to suicide." Kim is okay with that: "I wasn't asking anything. That would imply you had a say in the matter." Twisting the knife further, our man who's not in the field says, "Pull this off and you're halfway home. You remember what home is like, don't you, Alex? 90 West End Avenue? White fence, red door?" Mahone panics, "Stay away from my family!" The smirking Kim clicks his phone shut.