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
Back in his cell, Michael layers the plastic bags into one bag, puts in the fuse, and pours in the rest of the booze. Splenda frets about how Michael has enemies and says, "What I did for you, getting you those things…" Michael assures him that nobody will ever know. He takes his bucket and his bomb and walks back across the courtyard. Michael is supremely indifferent to the prison riot; I guess once you've lived through one, you're all, "Been there, done that."
Mahone is busy dragging Whistler through the sewers toward the courtyard. He uses his pry bar to keep Lechero's flunkies at bay, warning, "You can have him, but two of you will die in the process." The guys all remember that Mahone got deadly with someone the day before, and decide they have better places to be.
In another part of the sewers, Michael is trudging along, using his free hand to feel along the pipe at the top. He finds an L-shaped bend and moves into a hitherto-unexplored room.
Wyatt is leading a prison protest against Lechero and tossing rocks through Lechero's windows. We hear a tinkle of glass and Lechero rolls his eyes, no doubt wondering where he's going to find a glazier. Sammy begs for a chance to go down and slit just one throat. He figures that'll quiet 'em down. T-Bag helpfully adds that the inmates will regroup afterward, with a real reason to go after Lechero. Sammy waves his knife at T-Bag, and T-Bag gives him a flat, cold stare. All you who expect these two to get stabby with one another soon, raise your hands.
Lechero's phone finally rings and he tells his police/military contact on the outside that they've got a little problem of no water. The officer is not all that sympathetic -- "I guess it's too bad there are no more guards in there with you, huh? You could take hostages, have a riot, make demands…" Lechero winces. The police promise to deliver water in two days. And if Lechero gets lippy with him again, "You're not going to see water for two weeks." Lechero looks troubled.
Meanwhile, Michael is in a pump room, unfastening the lid on a pipe and feeding his bomb into it. We get the bomb's-eye view of the obstructed pipe. Michael lights the fuse -- with some difficulty -- as we cut to Mahone emerging in the courtyard with Whistler. He's swinging his pipe and holding everyone at bay. Sammy comes in and frets to Lechero, "They got Whistler."
And we've got a pause where commercials would go. When we get back, Mahone is still swinging his pry bar (which, on further inspection, would appear to be a length of pipe, so…that is some hard-core deltoids workout he's got going on) and fending off the other prisoners. Lechero rolls on over, somehow avoiding any sort of physical harm despite being surrounded by thirsty, rioting inmates who all blame him personally for their parched mouths. Lechero looks at the Mahone/Whistler tableau and says, "I'll decide this." "You'll decide nothing!" Wyatt snarls. Everyone takes a big step back from the two men. As Wyatt says, "You can't deliver, Lechero. You're done here," we get a shot of the fuse gradually burning down to the bomb in the pipes. There's a subterranean explosion that gets everyone's attention, a low and persistent rumble builds up…and then water bursts out of the dry faucet Bellick had been trying to lick earlier. There is much moist celebration on the inmates' part.