Episode Report Card Sobell: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Tweener -- dead, yo!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.01.2006
Grinning like a fool -- a relieved fool -- the now-radiant Tweener is hauled off. He keeps turning his head back to beam at Debra Jean while he's marched to a nearby van. Debra Jean is left to stand there and wonder, So, does this mean we're going steady? Mahone looks at Debra Jean and nearly smiles for a moment, before going all broody.
Meanwhile, back at Jeanette's, it turns out the vehicle Team Escarpara heard belonged to some guy named Keith, who was supposed to pick up Jeanette and take her to the club. Michael is dispatched to take care of Keith, so he just gives the guy the Blue Steel and acts creepy until Keith retreats to go have an attack of the screaming mimis elsewhere. Then Michael goes inside and lays it out for T-Bag and C-Note: "We've got to hurry, because once he gets to the club and finds out (Jeanette's) not there, he's going to be back."
Back in Mahone's SUV, a newly sweaty Tweener is telling Mahone, "You know what? You were right. It does feel good to get stuff off your chest." Ah, Tweener: you have all the survival instincts of a squirrel on the side of a highway. Because that guy who was all, "Hi. I take the crazy pills so the voices don't talk to me"? That one you just screwed over? That one who is sitting silently in the driver's seat? Is the only one in the car with you. So maybe gloating is not the best idea. I doubt your apology -- "Sorry I had to play you like that, bro" - is going to hold much water.
After Mahone's pulled over in an especially remote area, well away from any main roads, he stops the car and exhorts Tweener to get out and stretch his legs for a bit. This is when it occurs to Tweener that perhaps he could have spent more time pondering the post-confession part of his scheme.
Cut to Chicago, where Kim is calling Kellerman to hector him, all, "I thought you were going to deal with the L.J. Burrows situation?" Kellerman says casually that he did. Kim floats around on his cloud of ineffable smugness and asks, "Then why is he being released from custody tomorrow?" Kellerman points out that L.J. becomes valuable if Linc comes looking for him. He then changes the subject: "More importantly -- Governor Tancredi? Not part of our plan." Kim says placidly, "Last time I checked, you left no shortage of bodies in your wake." Kellerman justifies his murderin' ways with, "I did what I had to do to get Caroline where she is. Now that she's there, let's not draw any more attention than we have to." Kim pounces on this opening: "You think getting to the top is the hard part? She's a hundred times more visible. She has a hundred times more enemies. Anyone who knows anything has got to be dealt with. If someone is a liability, they go. Tancredi was becoming a liability. So was his daughter." The unspoken statement here: And so are you, Paul Kellerman. Kellerman, however, seems shocked -- shocked! -- to discover that Dr. Sara's on the short list for execution.