Episode Report Card Mr. Sobell: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mama's Family
By Mr. Sobell | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.17.2009
When in Miami, be sure to visit the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Route 441 -- site of exciting clandestine meetings like the one Linc is about to have in a trendy South Florida bistro, where they've apparently been expecting him if the "Reserved: L. Burrows" sign on the table is anything to go by. And before he can even order some appetizers -- maybe some fried mozzarella sticks or a nacho platter -- Ma Scofield pops into view. "You haven't changed a bit," she says. Well, presumably, he's balder. And more gargantuan. But everything else -- the face, the body language, the inability to suppress his primordial instinct to smash -- remains unchanged. Ma Scofield apologizes for the inscrutability of her coded message -- "At least now I know where Michael gets it from," Linc says (LINCOLN QUIP!) -- and gets down to business. Scylla is safe, which is all Linc needs to know. Then, as far as Linc is concerned, they've got nothing else to talk about. That's the only reason Linc came, Ma Scofield wonders -- no tearful catching-up, no reminiscing about the time she stiffed Michael with that build-it-yourself birdhouse kit? "I would have thought you would want to know the truth," Ma Scofield says. Lincoln is quite familiar with the truth, thank you very much -- Mom's an agent of the same Company that set him up for murder and tried to kill him and Michael for the past three seasons. "You can think it as much as you want," Ma Scofield protests. "I'm not a monster." Just a really terrible mother.
Lincoln has had quite enough of this family reunion and gets up to go; Ma Scofield grabs him by the arm, begging him to sit down. "Leaving you two boys was the hardest thing I ever did," Ma Scofield continues. Well, then she's to be congratulated for her determination and stick-to-itiveness, because she sure managed to pull it off. [Wait, did Edie Britt work for the Company, too? - Zach] Linc is still hung up on this whole My-Mom's-A-Company-Agent thing. "You think you know what The Company is, but you don't," Ma Scofield sneers. "It's a body that bends to the will of its head, and right now, it is blood-thirsty and war-hungry." Well, that's a hardly a ringing endorsement of General Von Baldy's stewardship. Ma Scofield has an ideal candidate in mind to replace the General -- herself. Linc is unimpressed: "If I get Scylla back to the General, he leaves me and Michael alone, and I get to spend time with my son in peace." There's another solution to Linc's problem, Ma Scofield points out -- do away with the General. "Once he was dealt with," she says, "no one would come after you." All she's asking for is two days to pull off her corporate coup d'etat. Linc nods his assent. And with that, Ma Scofield dashes off, not wanting to raise any more suspicion by running the risk of getting spotted with Linc. LINCOLN PONDER THE RAMIFICATIONS OF WHAT HE JUST AGREE TO!