November 5, 2005 Prison Break

So, prison break failed to get ont he schedule tonite, in favor of pictionary.

Afte the amazing heroes ep, we knew we couldnt handle 2hrs of prisonbreak. however, we decided to fastforward thru the entire eipsode in 10-15minutes.

There was a lot pf pressure on this episode. it was being billed as the escape episode. via email, i was predicting all day that it would be an hour and 50 minutes of nothing, then an escape in the last 10. lets go to the emails:

Rachel: from TVGuide.com-- tonight is "escape night"

me: I have a bridge id like to sell you...

caryn: When an inmate is found murdered, Whistler becomes the prime suspect and Michael must prove his innocence in order to save his life; Michael demands evidence from Susan that Sarah is alive, or he will cancel the escape; Lincoln and Sofia monitor the guards' morning rituals; Mahone gets an offer that may get him a ticket out of Sona in the two-hour "Photo Finish/Vamonos" episode of PRISON BREAK airing Monday, Nov. 5 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (PB-306/307)

mike: in case you didn't know, vamonos means "we look for water"

rachel: vamanos means "let's go" as in "let's get out of SONA" or "VAMOOSE!" such as when Jay-Z says "poof! vamoose, son of a bitch"even the TITLE of the ep implies ESCAPE!

me: last 10 minutes. it will not happen before the last 10 minutes

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So, as we are fastforwarding, we pass the fake go out the window scene. then, at the 1:30 mark i start bragging about the 10minute nut. as we hit 1:50 i note out loud for the first time that i had considered predicting no break out at all this week, instead of what seemed like the safer 10minute prediction.

Result? Watching the last 10minutes wondering if in fact they would really be so stupid as to have them NOT BREAK OUT in the 2 hour BREAKOUT SPECIAL was BY FAR the most excitig prison break of the year. there was much laughter.


CB Note: Since we didn't actually watch - here's the blog recap from TVGuide.com:

Michael Learns the Truth About Sara! And the Escape Fails!

Episode Recap: "Photo Finish/Vamanos" (Nov. 5, 2007)
Such an eventful two hours, where to begin? (um, seriously???) How about with kudos to my wife for watching the whole thing alongside me this week. (She's not big on the intense/thriller genre. At all.)

So today was the great escape... almost. The clock struck 3:13, Guard 1 was (ultimately) waylaid by the glare, Guard 2 was KOd by the drugged java, and... damn Mother Nature for sending that cloud along! Michael raced back up the makeshift rope ladder only to realize, "Oh yeah — Whistler and I were supposed to have that fight to the death." As Prison Breaky luck would have it, the hastily stowed rope ladder got noticed by Guard 1, the prison break alarm was sounded, and Michael's chicken leg-induced mano-a-mano got postponed. Oh, and some random goon took a bullet in the belly for Mikey's ladder.

Let's back up a moment to give Wentworth Miller props for playing the Sara reveal so well. He spoke for many a MiSa fan with his anguish, his near lack of comprehension, his distress over never getting a chance to say goodbye... or enjoy the love he discovered and fought hard to someday behold.

On the outside, Lincoln played a risky card: leading Susan B. to believe the escape did happen. Man, he was really grasping at straws, especially after seeing LJ come thisclose to his own decapitation. Amazingly, Linc (after Sucre's heroic if unsuccessful gesture) was able to coax one more chance out of SBA.

Elsewhere, Mahone has been offered a chance for freedom, thanks to some Fed buddies who previously had left him for dead. Mahone, though, can't shake his paranoia and thinks he's being double-crossed. Fair enough — this is Prison Break, as I explained to my confused wife.

But for me, the payoff in this two-hour sprawl came in the final twists.
• Lechero is wise to Michael's escape mission — and wants in on it. Looks like patron senses that the walls are crumbling around him now that the lead bull has exposed his true nastiness and (gasp) selfishness to the inmates.
• Susan B. Anthony — aka Gretchen — is in direct cahoots with Whistler, and is all but following his lead on the when of his breakout. Four more days he can stay behind bars, he said, or else he won't be free in time to... well, the writers are probably still hammering that one out. Or not. Strike and all.

The bullets:
• Is it really wise to walk around a prison, as Michael and Whistler did, with what is obviously a rope ladder in plan sight?
• T-Bag re: Lechero's real name: "Norman?! Does he kill you before or after he does your taxes?"
• The guy playing Lechero? Robert Wisdom? Really good casting, I am coming to appreciate.
• Mahone re: the shiv Michael found: "What, are you going to take it to the Sona crime lab?"
• Bellick misses Sara, too. His "I'm sorry" was a nice and meaningful moment, and one that needed to be played.
• And then... "Kick him in the junk, Scofield!"
• Linc noting the body bags that fell from Susan's van: No one was coming from that rendezvous alive.

Now the question is, Did Michael get a good look at Whistler's visitor, and how can he and Linc come to realize it's who it is?