I have real mixed feelings about these developments. There has already been a little too much “suddenly, after all that work, we got nuthin’” this season. They seemed to be on track to finishing up the whole story in a satisfying way when we suddenly learn there is yet another layer, higher up, in The Conspiracy. (Was that Elaine Benes’ father in the limo with the mysterious folder?) It’s like the writers got word at the last minute that they were “go” for a third season, so…
They should have wrapped it up this year. Then the people behind this show could have put all their creative energy in a totally new show with a completely different concept and a fascinatingly innovative new story-telling technique and …
Boy, do I not understand how Hollywood works, huh?
Did anyone else think they were going to have Kellerman succeed in his assassination attempt right before she announced the pardon? Ok episode, i too don’t like how they killed a plausible solution and left them with nothing.
Yeah, I was thinking pretty much the entire episode, “this is so obvious, he’s going to shoot her.” Figures, as usual, the show does something entirely unexpected.
Still, can’t they reveal the recording anyway? Doesn’t it show her brother was alive after he was supposed to have been killed? Shouldn’t that help, at least a little?
A bit off topic from the OP, but while we’re talking about Lawrence Tierney, give a listen to the commentary track for the Simpsons episode Marge Be Not Proud, from season 7, which he guest starred on. The producers considered him the hardest guest star they ever worked with, and give an absolutely hilarious story about what it was like.
Is Prison Break really doing a third season? I thought it was pretty close to wrapping up, and as much as I love the show, I would have been happy to see it end on top, rather than getting dragged out.
We learned last week that the recording they have does not prove the date it was recorded. The datestamp on the recording is the copy date, not the recording date. That part of Michael’s plan was a semi-bluff. The idea that the President of the United States was in an incestuous relationship with her brother (ick) is implausible enough on its own that any dating discrepancy would be fatal to the story, especially after the last tape they sent was discredited.
I missed about the first three minutes. How did C-Note survive his suicide attempt?
I doubt Kim was lying. He needs to die and he needs to die soon.
I bet the Pres’ doctor was very surprised by her diagnosis! So, Pres’ lovers include her brother and Kellerman. Talk about bad taste in men. Almost as bad as Dr. Sarah.
I like the game of one-upsmanship going on between Kellerman and Scofield.
I don’t think the “higher up” thing was a surprise at all. I remember (maybe falsely, but still) several references to “The Company”, and it was clear to me from the context that the President (then Vice-president) worked for them.
Was she actually involved with Kellerman or was that unrequited? I gotta say I woulda been all over Kellerman. He’s hot and crazy, just like all of my ex-boyfriends.
Yeah, weren’t they the one that killed the previous Pres in the first place, promoting her from VP? So, she was only in office for perhaps a few months max?
I enjoyed the episode and liked (a) C-note’s not dead, (b) Mahone’s tactics are falling apart, (c) T-Bag finally wasn’t conveniently superhuman, (d) we got a nice shot of Marie Cruz’s rack before we left Mexico, (e) the money’s back in play!, and (f) the Pres had a very surprising-yet-credible end-around to Scofield’s very effective “negotiation”.
The only thing I’m worried about, based on next week’s previews, is out of nowhere Michael starts getting a guilty conscience about T-Bag. Dude, he’s on the ropes–let the cops take him out. That poses as the most contrived of distractions to string things along. Grrrrr.
I like the President’s switcheroo too, Archive, but how does she pull it off? I mean, won’t she have to actually have cancer? If she has it already, I missed hearing about it.
Michael had expressed guilt over T-Bag before. Sarah told him his escape plan let Theodore Bagley out, and he said he regretted that more than anything else.
She resigns, goes into seclusion for a while and then announces that she’s gone into remission. Assuming no one puts a bullet through her skull in the meantime.