Episode Report Card Sobell: B | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Well, look what you've done now, Michael
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.02.2005
Well, if Abruzzi gets any closer to Sucre, he's going to have to skip the courtin' gifts and go straight to the marriage license. Abruzzi grabs the drill and says, "Dem-o-li-tion runs in the fam-i-ly." You could not deliver that line more strangely if you tried. Tim Burton wishes he were that strange. Peter Stormare's performance...did the director go, "So, Peter, if you can make that line as odd as possible...no, no, try bugging your eyes out a little more...now try grinning...there! Beautiful!" or WHAT? Anyway, Abruzzi goes from hyper-enunciating to slurring, "The whole thing is presssshhhhure. You shhhhould pusssssh hhhard...but not too hhhhard." He's making Carol Channing sound like the Mistress of the Fricative. Anyway, the two of them mother-hen over the drilling in a scene very clearly meant to show that they're both a little nervous about not screwing this up. Sucre finally says, "I mean it! You make one slip and you hit a gas pipe." Abruzzi's all, "Gas...pipe?" Sucre helpfully supplies, "You know? As in 'pipe that carries the gas'?" Heh.
Just then, the power to the prison gets cut, so El Diablo ha desaparecido. Abruzzi takes advantage of the dark to cuddle a little closer.
Michael and Sara are running, but they appear to be hemmed in on both sides by inmates. Sara has a minor freak-out over all the routes to Visitation being blocked by the FRA, and Michael points in a whole new direction. "That won't help," she says, and Michael tells her, "Trust me." That won't come back to haunt him or anything.
The guys drill in the dark. Bafflingly, the outline of the devil appears to still be there. So does Abruzzi's weird way of speaking.
Unfortunately, this means that T-Bag's left to babysit the hostage. He's holding the photo of Bob's daughter and staring in a mirror, drawling, "When I was her age, I had such bad skin. Ah! Eeeek. Accccck-ne, they called it. Yeah, she looks just like all them girls who made fun of me." T-Bag leans in and tells Bob, "After I kill you, I'm gonna crawl out of that hole and call me up a limousine." Won't that be kind of showy for an escaped con? T-Bag continues, "And me and yo baby's going to the prom." T-Bag spent too much of his lonely adolescence identifying with Andie in Pretty in Pink, I think. This is when Abruzzi's thug makes a back-off noise. Nevertheless, T-Bag's now fantasizing about corsages and maybe -- just maybe -- being crowned king of the spring cotillion.