Prison Break“Five the Hard Way”
Original Air Date: Oct 6, 2008
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
tom@thetwocents.com
The episode picks up where last week left off: With Gretchen’s boot on Bagwell’s neck. She takes the bird book and starts to torture him. Bellick gets a call from the GATE receptionist, offering up Bagwell for two thousand dollars. Once they are at the drop site, she ups the price with Bellick. When Michael and Mahone show up to bargain, they find themselves double-crossed by Bagwell. Mahone is the only one to escape.
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Original Air Date: Oct 6, 2008
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
tom@thetwocents.com
The episode picks up where last week left off: With Gretchen’s boot on Bagwell’s neck. She takes the bird book and starts to torture him. Bellick gets a call from the GATE receptionist, offering up Bagwell for two thousand dollars. Once they are at the drop site, she ups the price with Bellick. When Michael and Mahone show up to bargain, they find themselves double-crossed by Bagwell. Mahone is the only one to escape.
Held by Bagwell with Gretchen out of sight, Michael begins to piece together the bird book, finding that it forms a blueprint. In the shadows, Gretchen notices the ankle bracelets, but seems unafraid of agency intervention. When Mahone returns to rescue them, they have moved on, but Michael was able to leave a note behind about GATE. After Gretchen kills off Andy, Bagwell and Michael return to GATE to retrieve Scylla. In the closet behind Bagwell’s office, Michael tears up carpeting and tile to get to a trap door. Once they descend the staircase, Mahone jumps Bagwell, and the two of them lock him away. Michael lets Mahone and Self know that the bird book blueprints lead to a tunnel underneath General Krantz’s building, which makes him vulnerable. They plan to infiltrate posing as IRS agents, but Self gets a call from Gretchen, who offers the remaining pages from the book in exchange for Bagwell.
Linc, Sucre, Sara and Roland head off to Vegas after the next cardholder, Scaderi. As the enter the Planet Hollywood casino, security notices Roland on the video monitor. Alone for a second, Linc is able to give Sara the family history concerning brain tumors and aneurysms, which Michael may be developing. Roland finds that the “digital black hole” is picking up too many signals in the casino, chiefly from the slot machines. They need to get Scaderi alone to download. Sara tries to get him to take her upstairs, but he dismisses her. The bartender implies that Scaderi is more interested in men, so the crew sets up Sucre. He goes back to Scaderi’s room, where the download is able to work. Scaderi, however, is not interested in Sucre. Unable to perform due to war injuries, he asks him to pleasure his wife, which Sucre says “will stay in Vegas.” As they are about to leave, Roland can’t resist rigging the slots with the DBH. Security throws him out of the casino and confiscates the device.
After approving the road trip, Self looks to Mahone for advice in dealing with the Company. Mahone offers his experience with Michael instead: He stopped running, he got aggressive, and he took the game to him. General Krantz tells Wyatt that killing an agent is difficult, even for them. Self’s death must look like and accident. Wyatt agrees, then tells the General that his fee just doubled. He arrives at Self’s home, but it’s been cleared out. As Wyatt calls the General, Self shows up in his office. Self shows the General a file on past activities, but the General seems to be able to have it all dismissed as conspiracy theories. Nonetheless, Self has given copies to a number of lawyers, with instructions to release in the event of his death. When he works Laos into the conversation, the General tries to buy him off.
There’s my two cents. What do you think? Drop them in the comments or drop me a line at: tom@thetwocents.com.