Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT …And Now Miguel
By Sobell | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.23.2007
We then cut to the Banco de Versailles, where we see that "V. Madrid" is actually banking representative Vera Madrid, and she's meeting with the fair young maiden who has Whistler's other note. And that's the story of "Versailles V. Madrid," I think. We learn that the young lady is Sofia Lugo, and she's James Whistler's girlfriend. She better hope that Whistler's not upgraded to a series regular -- things have a funny way of happening to the girlfriends on this show. Just ask Veronica, or Dr. Sara. Oh, wait. You can't. Linc looks over casually from his spot in the bank lobby. Meanwhile, we see that Sofia's a signatory on the Whistler safe deposit box (number 1989) and Vera Madrid brings her the box.
Outside, Sucre is sitting on a bench next to another young woman who's rocking her baby. Sucre leans over and beams radiantly at the baby, and says in Spanish, "She's beautiful." Oh man, Sucre, I think you just made women across America spontaneously ovulate. Sucre begins to make small talk about how his girlfriend is pregnant and he's going to see her, but the presence of two armed guards causes him to clam up and act so shifty, it raises the guards' radar and skeeves out the young mother. When she walks off, the music throbs and we see that Sucre has just realized that he'll be spending the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.
Then we return to the sewers, where Whistler is trying to escape Mahone. It is not going well, as Mahone's right there next to him, trying to persuade him to come up.
Meanwhile, on the surface world, Michael is busy twisting a long rope -- or fuse -- out of his cotton bedsheet. Splenda comes in with a big bucket of murky-looking liquid. I wouldn't drink out of that on a bet, and I spent high school getting hammered on Sun Country wine coolers. Two-liter bottles of Sun Country wine coolers. That should tell you how vile that liquid looks. Michael then asks for lots of plastic bags. Splenda says sadly, "You didn't get [the booze] for to party, did you?" Maybe it's a party ending in autoerotic asphyxiation, Splenda. Did you ever think of that? Michael begins soaking the cotton in the gin.
At the bank, Sofia looks in the box and asks, "Is that all?" before scooping up the disappointing (yet hidden) item and walking out of the bank. Linc tails her. Outside the bank, he engineers a meet-cute, then quickly cuts to business: "You can lose the whole grieving-widow thing. You're Whistler's girl, right?" Sofia tries to walk off, and Linc says, "I gotta do something, all right?" "Do what?" Sofia asks. That would be "snatch your purse," lady. Sofia threatens to call the cops; Linc calls her on that. He pulls out a battered book titled "Birds of the Northwest Hemisphere." It has what appears to be a spoonbill on the cover; interestingly enough, the Platalea family of birds is also quite common in the southern hemisphere as well. However, Linc's interests are not at all aviary; he'd like to know why Whistler wants the book. Sofia claims to have no idea, as Whistler's just a fisherman. Linc snarls, "Tell your fisherman friend Scofield's brother has this." As he leaves, Sofia inquires loudly, "Why won't you people just leave him alone?"
Linc wheels around and lets her have it: "You think we want to be forced into this? You think we want to be here, lady?" Sofia's all, "Huh, what?" Read the recaps, missy! Catch up! They split; the middle-aged white dude stooge who offered Scofield the deal last week watches them go.