Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bad Boys Eventually Get Quiet Time
By Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 11.17.2008
The guys then set up for the job. Mahone's got his computer so he can keep an eye on the Scylla chamber. Sucre's marking stuff on the wall. Linc is stringing what look like metal cables across the doorway, and Michael's setting up everything they'll need for their electromagnetic field. Lest we, the viewers, become too confused, the show helpfully switches into a flashback-exposition mode, wherein Michael explains: "We have to break into two walls, one concrete and one glass, and do it without making a sound. In order to get through that, we have to generate an electromagnetic field." Back in the present, we see that the guys have quietly drilled holes in the wall around a taped-off square. Now, Sucre places the rod that will generate the field within the square, and begins running it down the wall. We flash to the inside of the wall -- the magnet's bending the steel fibers this way and that, thereby introducing all sorts of forces to the concrete and causing it to crumble internally. This allows the guys to quietly chisel away at the concrete, and it just flakes away.
Linc and Mahone then take two umbrellas, thread them through holes that have been drilled near the top of the wall, and open the umbrellas via a little pullcord. They lower the opened umbrellas to the floor; we see that each is now the terminus of a line created by a laser.
Eventually, the guys have a hole into the Scylla Chamber. We pull out to get the chamber's-eye perspective of the four guys all crouched around the hole, saucer-eyed as they behold Scylla. They get over that fairly quickly, though. Mahone and Linc climb ladders on either side of the hole and revisit their umbrellas-on-strings. They're now threading steel cables through the holes. The cables have clips on the end; Sucre fastens these to a steel-pipe ladder Michael constructed. Mahone snaps a second part of the ladder into place, and Sucre pushes it out to attach it to another set of cable clips. The guys have now created a suspension bridge over part of the floor.
Sucre's job will be to climb across that bridge -- which traverses an eight-to-ten-foot-wide area surrounding the Scylla pillar like a moat -- and do so without triggering the alarm. The alarm is green when he begins prep -- laying down wooden planks and getting a canister of liquid nitrogen. Then the light flashes yellow, but Sucre hastily releases some gas, and it switches back to green. Sucre continues laying down the planks of wood. My guess is, Sucre is going to sit on one part of the bridge as they build the rest all the way across to the platform. Aaaand, it turns out I'm good at guessing.