Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dr. Gudat -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 08.27.2006
Michael and Lincoln are still walking. They've arrived at an underground garage and Michael points out the car he stashed there, warning Linc, "Don't touch the radio." Michael does a check of the car while Linc calls in to the courthouse and lies about being with the Des Moines Herald so he can get the skinny on L.J.'s hearing. Linc is hanging out on the phone while Michael slides behind the driver's seat, plugs what may be a battery into the lighter socket, and juices the car. Linc is still hanging out on the phone. Hah! It serves him right. Impersonate a reporter, get the same joys we get -- i.e. spending interminable minutes hacking our way through ever-denser phone trees. Lincoln's all tense because some yuppie getting into his shiny, expensive car keeps giving him the fish-eye. Frankly, I think the paranoid con is forgetting the possibility that on the outside, when you lurk around parking garages looking like an unmade bed and staring at strangers, you're going to get a few nervous looks.
Inside the car, Michael digs out the keys and manages to start it. He pulls a container of wipes out of his bag and whips a few out. While Linc blathers on about L.J.'s hearing, Michael then cleans off the dusty windshield. He asks, "How do we get close to (L.J.)?" Linc replies, "When I was locked up, I had nothing to do but study the briefs. Nick Savrinn's bar number is on the front page of every one." So the boys plan on posing as some of L.J.'s attorneys.
Cut to Pope saying angrily, "Hogwash. That is absolute hogwash." No, he's not talking about the let's-pretend-to-be-lawyers plan, but rather, the line of inquiry D.O.C. board member Ed Pavelka has laid out. Ed reiterates the question: "How was Scofield able to have exclusive access to you? Pull a shank on you and bind you to your chair? The Warden of the penitentiary?" Pope says, "I trusted him. Obviously, he betrayed that trust?" Pavelka can't go any further with that, so he turns to Bellick and asks, "Is it true that almost all the inmates who escaped or tried to escape worked for (P.I.)? ...Why did they have so much time to dig a hole in the floor of the guards' break room while working?" Pope smoothly steps in and says he'll answer that: considering the meager pay, it's often in the inmates' best interests to stretch out a task for as many hours as possible. Pavelka can't tear into Pope for that, so he turns to Bellick again, asking, "Is it true you sold PI to the highest bidder?" Pope's face goes black with fury as he turns to look at Bellick. The guard heartily denies it and Pope snaps, "This is unbelievable! While we're wasting time in here, there are eight escaped convicts out there --" He stops because former C.O. Geary has come in.