Episode Report Card Sobell: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Agent Von Blondie -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.21.2007
And now, Prison Break gives us Cutback Mountain. I wish I knew how to quit you, unwieldy conspiracy plotline! Kellerman and the boys have landed. Michael asks what the neighborhood's like, and Kellerman tells him, "There's no neighborhood. The house sits on 50 acres." And on it goes -- they'll go out by a different road than they went in, and there will probably be guards. Lincoln grumbles, "The second I feel this thing going bad, you get a bullet in the head." Kellerman dismissively replies, "I'd expect nothing less."
Back in D.C., Kim is on the receiving end of an angry phone call from someone. An underling comes in and tells him that there's a private jet headed to Montana, booked by one Owen Kravecki. Lee smarms, "Stop it from taking off." "It's already on the ground, sir," the guy replies. I get the feeling that everyone in the One World Conspiracy is regarding the latest developments with mixed feelings: on the one hand, it's a pisser to have your life's work undone by an engineer and a petty criminal. On the other, isn't it fun to keep ruining Kim's day? Some of those guys have probably dreamed of that moment for years.
And then we cut to a pacing Steadman. His handler is getting the news that it's time to am-scray. He asks Steadman if he could maybe put a jacket on over his PJs before they go outside, and Steadman snaps, "I don't want to leave. I want to talk to my sister." His handler shuts that right down. Terrence says stiffly that he'll need to get his dolls, his beautiful dolls, and his handler's like, "We roll in five minutes."
Then they're out the door. Steadman asks pissily if he gets to know where he's going, and the handler's like, "After you're there, sure." Steadman heads out with another agent as the handler's phone rings. He answers; it's Kim saying, "We need to move Steadman to location B. We're sending a car to pick him up." A black sedan screeches up to the front step, and the handler replies, "It's already here, sir."
Cut to Kim's eyes bugging out as his no-good, very bad day turns horrible. As he says, "It couldn't be. The car just left... " we fade to Kellerman popping out of the sedan with his gun fixed on Steadman, shouting, "Weapons down! Weapons down!" We fix on Steadman's shell-shocked expression -- he's gone tharn, as Hazel and the boys would say -- and then we go to commercials.
Commercials. You know what movie I'd pay to see? One in which Thomas Harris and John Grisham are forced to duel to see who has flogged the same premise to death in more movies. Obviously, the winner would face down Michael Crichton in the sequel. (And obviously, I will not be seeing Hannibal Rising.)