Prison Break“Bang and Burn”
Original Air Date: November 12, 2007
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
Eight episodes already? Into the break already? Whew!
Gretchen/Susan meets with the General (last seen in the Season 2 finale), who expresses his disappointment in her and announces a change in strategy: Scofield is now expendable, and they will break Whistler out themselves.
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Original Air Date: November 12, 2007
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
Eight episodes already? Into the break already? Whew!
Gretchen/Susan meets with the General (last seen in the Season 2 finale), who expresses his disappointment in her and announces a change in strategy: Scofield is now expendable, and they will break Whistler out themselves.
Michael passes word to Linc to watch his back after he sees G/S talking with Whistler. Although he does not recognize her specifically, he can tell who she works for. Linc had noticed the body bags in the van, and he knows that he, Michael and LJ were not meant to live after the escape. After he receives Michael’s message, he is confronted by a hit squad, one of whom holds a gun to Sofia’s head. Saying he learned his lesson last time, Linc shoots the gunman.
After he meets with G/S, Whistler get a shiv from another inmate and prepares to kill Michael as Lechero shows them a tunnel that had been used to connect this part of Sona to another part no longer in use. Blocked by debris, the tunnel is not completely accessible, but Michael figures it can get them partway to the fence if they dig upward. They just need to brace the tunnel.
Ultimately, Whistler never gets the chance to kill Michael before his rescue helicopter flies in. The guards around Sona try to shoot it down as they drop a line for Whistler, and Michael hangs onto him. A sniper inside the chopper takes aim at Michael, but can’t risk hitting Whistler. Ultimately, the sniper is killed, Michael and Whistler are dropped back onto a Sona rooftop, and the helicopter departs, leaving G/S to contemplate her fate and her failure.
Sofia gets a phone call from a man claiming to be Whistler’s landlord. She gets the address and visits, finding a fake passport with Whistler’s picture, but an assumed name. A shredder is also present, and the paper looks pretty fresh. As she leaves, she comes face to face with G/S.
Mahone confides in his former partner that the medication he was taking was to suppress the memories and flashbacks of killing Shales. Without the prescription drugs, he says, he had to improvise. Going cold turkey and not having his original prescription, his testimony before the committee is rambling, paranoid and ultimately useless, and they prepare to return him to Sona.
After the failed escape attempt, Sona goes into lockdown for the third time. Knowing Michael’s history, the police decide that it is better for Sona if Scofield is moved. They escort him out as the episode ends, but no clue is given where he is headed, or who is taking him there. So the show moves into its break period with more questions hanging in the air:
What happens to G/S? Should we care?
Does Bagwell know anything about the new break plan?
Is LJ doomed?
In reinventing itself, the show has done a great job shifting the focus from the conspiracy angle to the enigma that is Whistler. He has now become the show’s dominant character. It had to be Michael in Season One, and Bagwell emerged as the driving force in Season Two. Now we wait to see the new clues and twists in the Whistler mystery. It’s what’s driving this show now, more than prisoners and fugitives.
Prison Break airs Mondays at 8 PM on FOX. Episodes can also be viewed at the FOX website.