Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Let the Water Wash Away Your Sins
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.03.2008
But wait! The next shot is of Mahone calling Pam. She is not exactly thrilled to hear from him, but Mahone ignores that and says, "Somebody needs to tell you something." He then holds the phone to Agent Blots Out the Sun's mouth, instructing, "You call her by her first name." We see Agent Blots Out the Sun whispering, with great difficulty, "Pam ... I'm ... sorry." Mahone takes away the phone and retreats, telling Pam, "It's over, and I love you." Pam starts crying, and we flash back to Mahone, repeating, "I love you." He closes the phone and clasps it tightly, then turns back to Agent Blots Out the Sun. We then see a car pull up at the end of a pier, and a gun-wielding Mahone gets out. He pulls Agent Blots Out the Sun out of the back seat; the other man's wrists are threaded through the holes of a cinderblock and chained together. He slouches toward the end of the pier, shirt covered in blood, stupid from pain. Mahone gives Agent Blots Out the Sun one last, level look. Agent Blots Out the Sun tries one last head trip with, "You and I are the same, Alex. We've done things --" and Mahone gives him a look like, Shut up before shoving him off the edge of the pier. We see Agent Blots Out the Sun sink in the water, and then we zoom up to Mahone, who's looking relieved that that's over, but also surprised that murder didn't really address any of his larger issues.
Getting back to the rest of the episode, we head back to One World Conspiracy HQ, where General Von Baldy is about to review the "Get them! Form an angry mob and hunt them down!" press release devoted to Michael and Linc. Before he can, he gets a call from Agent Blots Out the Sun's phone. Don Self plays the recording "They're all dead. It's over," and General von Baldy purrs, "Good work. Your payment will be left where arranged." Don Self hangs up, and General Von Baldy tells the flunky and Lisa, "This is no longer necessary." (By the way, I totally think that he's on to Don Self's ploy; that "payment arranged" thing might have been a test.) But before anyone can get too festive, along comes a gun-wielding Gretchen. She casually mentions to General Von Baldy, "The access code to the covert entrance is still both your daughters' birthdays." General Von Baldy coolly orders everyone out of his office, saying, "It's okay. She won't hurt me." Lisa takes a little extra prodding to leave, but once she does, the General coos to Gretchen, "I knew you'd come home."
The rapid humanization of Bellick continues, as he and Linc stop by some control box outside and Bellick asks how Linc's holding up away from LJ. Linc shrugs that he's fine, since he knows LJ's a smart kid, and Bellick says, "I could see it. I see how much you love him. My dad died when I was a little kid. He was a good father--" "Let's just focus and get this done," Linc says. "This thing," as it turns out, is sabotaging the manual override on the LA water system so that it shuts down water to the good people of Los Angeles.