(S02E08) A commenter a few weeks ago mentioned they thought Sucre and Michael are in on a scheme together, where it was planned all along for Sucre to take the money and meet up with Michael and Lincoln in a later episode. Looks like they weren't far off. Though I will say it would've been pretty cool if they could've pulled off fooling us for an entire season.T-Bag is definitely making us want to see him dead with every move he makes. I swear, if the writers string him along when they encounter him again I swear I'll go ballistic. Come on guys, at least make his hand fall off, huh?
Oh, Sara. Don't you know the old cliche that you should never trust some old dude friend of your dad's to "send a car" to get you. Sara really should have left her ID with the dead woman near the pay phone to at least temporarily make people think she was dead.
God, that scene with Sucre and Michael in the river was something right out of Discovery's 'I Shouldn't Be Alive'.
Say, I just remembered there was that hard drive that Michael had and the feds recovered. so the only thing useful to them on it was the information regarding D. B. Cooper?
Slick move on the part of Lincoln ... for once. Finally he makes a clever move instead of riding along on Michael's ingenuity. And for once it wasn't a move I saw coming at all. Nice!
A lot of folks commented on the answer to the origami code that Sara finally solved. Bravo to you guys for figuring that one out. I mean, it makes a lot of sense when all is said and done, like it was staring me right in the face all along.
Woah! Either I'm totally spacing out and I don't remember any of this, but Mahone working for Kellerman! And the plan being that he kills all of the escapees! Holy hell, they stepped things up this episode I'd say. That is, unless I missed any clues in the past, that these two knew each other. Did anyone see that coming?
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10-23-2006 @ 10:11PM
A said...
omg this episode was the best so far I think just like a season opener. did you see the woman they shot instead of sarah!
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10-23-2006 @ 10:14PM
oddworld said...
there was a clue - when he shot tweener, he said "i don't have anything against you, kid, but they do" or something along those lines.
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10-23-2006 @ 10:42PM
A said...
I thought he had multiple personalities cuz of the medicine
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10-23-2006 @ 11:35PM
Chris said...
What was the timeline situation for tonight's episode? With all the characters and action it seemed like more time should've passed.
Didn't see the Mahone working for the President but it makes sense and should make for great TV. Who knows, Mahone could die by the hands of Paul in future episodes. Bellick and Gary finding T-Bag and the $5 million? And Haywire is off building his raft unaware Mahone is coming to kill him.
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10-24-2006 @ 1:51AM
Brent said...
That was the most boring episode of Prison Break ever aired.
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10-24-2006 @ 2:18PM
dwacon said...
I'm still stuck to the edge of my seat. I noticed Sucre stuck in the water was derivative of the great film "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1971) where Richard Jaeckel is trapped under a log and Paul Newman tries to save him. In the movie, Newman tries to save Jaeckel (after he is stuck under water) by blowing air into his mouth. Jaeckel's character finds this funny and laughs -- thus causing him to drown. I am so happy Michael didn't have to blow air into Sucre's mouth... that would have ruined the episode for me.
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10-24-2006 @ 6:43AM
another fan said...
I'm sorry, I'd comment on more but I'm still reeling over Mahone being in bed with Kellermen. THAT I did not see coming.
In regards to the "but they do line" he gave Tweener - I thought he was talking about the other escapees. Not sure now why I did.
I'm still not sold on him getting the job done though. He seems uncomfortable with the idea that they all need to die. I assume (nothing to support this of course) that the "Company" has something to blackmail him with (Shales? the drugs?) and he's going along with it to keep out of trouble...but for how long? Maybe he'll turn all sort of Javet a la Les Miserables and leap off a bridge instead of shotting Michael point blank. :)
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10-24-2006 @ 12:45PM
Gordy said...
That was me! I KNEW IT!
Anyway, it sucked that T Bag got over on them. I think we all see Bellick catching up with him and getting the money. Michael and Sucre should be able to get far away from the search team, since they, apparently, couldn't hear that motorcycle.
This kinda gets me to a post I made last season. Are we seeing great writing or poor direction? The search team didn't hear to bike, but Mike and Sucre heard the sirens as they stopped at the search location.
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10-24-2006 @ 4:39PM
Tucker said...
Haha! Dwacon, I was waiting for the exact same scene... Very funny.
Although this show has one of the largest suspension-of-disbelief factors of anything I watch (bigger, dare I say, than even 24) I still find it consistently impressive that despite some "give me a break" moments, it still keeps some damn good forward motion.
The two biggest surprises for me were also Lincoln acting smart for a change and Mahone/Kellerman. I feel like they were such subtly introduced little nuggets this episode that we're inclined to think we should have been expecting them.
Very pleased I got into this show, it hasn't disappointed. Considering I never thought the premise would last beyond a few episodes, this has been worth the run so far.
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