Episode Report Card Sobell: B | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Well, now you've done it, T-Bag
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 11.20.2005
Meanwhile, on the outside...we meet the Bagwells. They are not what most HOA boards would consider desirable neighbors. A guy driving a moving van rolls up and tells Cousin Bagwell that he's got a delivery.
Meanwhile, LJ and Veronica are just chilling out in the local hospital. Improbably, the waiting area is conveniently located. Even more improbably, it's got reading material that's less than two years old. How is this possible? I had occasion to hang out in a hospital waiting room last year -- a hospital waiting room that had just opened up that week, no less -- and the most current reading material was a 2002 issue of Reader's Digest. I figured there was some sort of superstition about letting news of the outside world into a hospital.
Anyway, there's a paper, because what better way for LJ to find out that his mom's getting buried today at 2 PM? Fortunately, Veronica's too busy making up totally improbable lies as to how Nick got shot ("He was in the garage, underneath his car") to notice that LJ's slipped away. She's what you call an "asset" to any team. You just know if she was part of Team Escarpara, everyone would be unanimous agreement to leave her behind.
Speaking of team members whose value fluctuates from minute to minute, it's Agents Hale and Kellerman. Hale's hanging out in a cemetery and Kellerman's strolling the Miracle Mile; they're checking in with each other on the phone. I guess he thought he could give valuable strategy tips like "We want the trifecta today" in between trips to the Gap and the Apple store. He's right. The whole reason Hale's staking out Lisa's well-attended funeral is to see if LJ shows up, then follow the little fugitive to wherever Nick and Veronica are.
Back on the inside, Abruzzi's little thug is checking in with the boss. There's good news and bad news. The good news: T-Bag's insurance policy will not be calling Warden Pope at any time on the night of the breakout. The bad news: That would be because Abruzzi's guy popped him during a gun battle. Proving that some behavioral traits may well be encoded in our DNA, Cousin Bagwell also contrived to get a little kid killed too -- his own, whom he used as a human shield. Nice. Abruzzi takes the news of the toddler boy's death hard. I pause the TiVo to grumble, "Suck it up. Scorsese's mobsters never snivel over the deaths of innocents."
Commercials. That Nasonex bee makes me wish the African killer bees would invade his neighborhood.