I swear, this show just keeps getting better…
Last night was a great episode. My brain is still reeling, trying to compartmentalize everything. I hope some of the discussion here will sort it all out for me. 
But I’ll start with this question. The previews said there are four episodes left. Is that for the season, or for the series? God, I hope this show keeps going on.
Of course T-Bag’s flight is going to stop in Chicago. I wonder how they’ll work him off the plane and out of the airport.
I also wonder about C-Note - the way he fell was not conclusive. We’ll see next week.
WHOO HOO!. Season three is a go.
When T-Bag started talking about his physical resemblance to the doctor, my heart stopped. What a clever scheme. I wonder if the bag of cash will make it safely in the cargo hole of the plane.
It looks like a great episode in Chicago next week.
Also, wasn’t Bellick in the plane with him? He must have overlooked T-Bag, since first class boards first.
Are you sure? They keep talking about season 3, but it keeps reading like season 1. 
I’m a bit unsure about what they can do for a third season, as they’re running out of plot threads to follow. But I said something similar before this season, and it has turned out pretty well.
I like trying to figure out the misdirections that they throw into most episodes. This week I was guessing that the guy with Sara was the fake, and the one with Michael was the real guy, in a double-double cross.
My guess was a real boner. I thought for sure it was going to be Mahone when he opened the door, especially after his reaction when he realized while talking to Kim that Burroughs was innocent. The show had been going to a lot of trouble to emphasize how humane and soft-hearted Mahone was underneath it all, and so when the knock came immediately after the park scene, I thought it was Mahone coming to help the guys out.
Considering the number of people Mahone has killed in cold blood, I’m having a hard time seeing the soft-hearted side.
On the double-double cross, are we 100% sure that isn’t what’s going on? Could it have been the secretary setting up both Michael and Sara with phonies? Maybe I’m overthinking it.
I’m also getting a bit tired of T-Bag being an unstoppable one handed killing machine.
How many people has he really killed in cold blood, i.e. without regret? He killed the escapee from before we met him, which as I recall was because the guy was a total scumbag, he killed Abbruzzi but didn’t seem terribly happy about it, ditto Tweener and Haywire. He never strikes me as being terribly thrilled about having to kill anyone and indeed has tried to get out from under only to be dragged back in following the attack on his son. Of all the escapees I think he sees himself most akin to C-Note, who did much of what he did to provide for his daughter the way Mahone is trying to protect his son. There’s some complexity there well beyond the “cold-blooded killer” trope.
Bite your tongue! T-Bag’s whole interaction with the doctor, including the murder, was very well done. I don’t have a hard time at all accepting T-Bag’s being able to kill the doctor, who he caught by surprise.
That episode with the shrink was very effective after T-Bag’s decision last week to give up on his hostage dream family and let them live. When he walked into the doctor’s office, I wondered if he really wanted to try to change. That made “I couldn’t help noticing our similar visages” even more chilling.
And I suspected the same double-doublecross: that the guy in the park was the real guy they wanted after all. Guess I was wrong about that.
Is C-Note really dead? It seems like they are really going to have a dearth of characters for season 3, with five of the eight escapees already killed.
Oh, and Kellerman: once again, a magnificent bastard. Will he be able to go all Lee Harvey on us?
Check your math -
Lincoln Burrows - alive
Michael Scofield - alive
Theodore (T-Bag) Bagwell - alive
Fernando Sucre - alive
Benjamin (C-Note) Franklin - ?
David (Tweener) Apolskis - dead
Charles (Haywire) Patoshik - dead
John Abruzzi - dead
That’s three dead, maybe 4.
Talk about being damned with faint praise. Sure, I murdered all those people, but I wasn’t really happy about it. :dubious:
The doctor I don’t mind so much, but when he killed the prison guard, I was not believing it for an instant. He just ripped off his own hand, followed the guy to the hotel, and beat a healthy, large and presumably tough man to death one handed, without so much as getting a black eye.
I don’t know, I think Otto has a point. With a combination of surprise, experience, and an object of sufficient mass, it would be easy to kill a human being. Toughness helps in a fight, but not so much in an ambush. A tough guy’s skull is just as fragile as a sissy’s.
I don’t think the ex prison guard was either healthy or tough, and being fat doesn’t exactly help in a fight, plus he was terrified of him and T-Bag had plenty of motivation to kill him.
Liberal, that works for the doctor, but how about Geary? Despite the silly robe, he had enough time to turn that (offscreen) fight around, and Bagwell should have been in pretty shitty condition. As a prison guard, Geary should have been tough and trained to handle unexpected situations. Bagwell approached him head on, with no doubt to his intentions.
Geary was absolutely stunned to see Bagwell there, and …well, let’s just say most of his blood was not in his brain. All T-Bag needed was the 15 seconds it would have taken for Geary to even start thinking clearly.
I’m actually not very happy with a 3rd season. They should just wrap this up and start anew. If Kellerman (who’s turning out to be one of my all time favorite bad guys) shoots the prez (as I suppose will happen), then there’s no one to blackmail and the brothers will just keep running. It’ll turn into The Fugitive * meets Lost, with forever more convoluted twists. I’ll skip the weekly episodes next year and watch it all on DVD.
*That’s what I’m saying now. With good enough cliffhangers, I’m so gonna be there in Septembre, lapping it up.
Great episode last night.
I love that I have the ability to not think during shows like this, and Lost, and not figure stuff out. Then, at the end of the episode, or movie, I turn to my husband and say “So when did you figure it out?” LOL
I have one question though…
When Kellerman went to see his sister, she called him Paul. Wouldn’t she have called her brother, Owen Kreveki (sp), by his correct name?
Anyone else catch that?
Owen Kravecki is his alias. His real (character) name is Paul Kellerman.