"Sweet Caroline" recaps and reviews
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The moment is finally at hand on Prison Break. Armed with the evidence they need to force president Reynolds hands, Lincoln and Michael set the stage for a potentially deadly showdown. It’s the Prison Break that fans have waited two long seasons for. Will Lincoln and Michael go free? What kind of fun would that be for Prison Break fans? Read on to find out.
Michael gets himself intentionally taken in by the secret service so he can force a one on one with the president, but it’s not going to be that easy. First he has to endure a beating at the hands of Agent Kim.
Meanwhile, south of the border, T-Bag shows up in search of his money and Bellick shows up in search of Sucre. Sucre figures out that T-Bag is in Mexico looking for his money just before Bellick shows up to capture him. Sucre offers to take Bellick to the money if he lets him go. Cliff hanger time.
C-Note, meanwhile, is still fearing for his families life and tries to make contact with Mahone, but his hails are intercepted by an agent that wants to take Mahone down.
Mahone, meanwhile, is in pretty hard shape. Sara calls him out as a drug addict and they compare crappy lives. Is all of this an attempt to soften Mahone for a heroic turn at the end of the season? I’m crying foul.
So the big question, do Linc and Mike walk? Mike confronts President Reynolds with the tape and she is, as you might imagine, moritifed. Michael tells her it will take a full pardon for the tape to go away. She winds up releasing him and he travels off to meet up with Linc, expecting that a pardon is moments away. Instead, Reynolds holds a conference to announce she is stepping down as President. She has terminal cancer. Linc and Mike have lost their leverage, permanently. Their only choice: disappear.
The confrontation was not on the par of what I was hoping for, and it was a strange cop-out to have her step down before issuing the pardon, was the mortified act just for show? Why not just have Mike held? Is she counting on them continuing to hold the tape? Seems an unrealistic wager.
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From TV Fodder
Prison Break: Sweet Caroline
Jeff is on vacation, so I am jumping in this week. He will return to his regularly scheduled write-ups next week.
If you thought that last week's episode was uneventful, this one will make your head explode...
C-Note
He's alive -- alive! Of course, C-Note did not die. He didn't even come close. I mean, c'mon -- they couldn't afford some makeup or something that would make him look almost dead?
So C-Note couldn't die right, and he also can't leave very good phone messages. When he called to apologize to Mahone about the not-being-dead thing, he instead left an incriminating message with the agent that has been watching Mahone like a hawk. Nice going C-Note!
Now they want C-Note to turn on Mahone. The agent promised he will get his life back. I wouldn't hold my breath, C-Note!
Sucre
Sucre has officially become the black hole of "Prison Break," taking over for C-Note.
He headed out to get cherries for a pregnant, munchie-crazed Maricruz, and when he got back, Bellick was waiting to haul him back to the States and collect the reward. One minute Bellick is in prison getting a beat-down, and the next, he's Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Thankfully, Sucre had just seen T-Bag on TV, running from the airport. He offers to help Bellick find him and the money, in exchange for his freedom.
T-Bag
How awesome is it that T-Bag and Bellick ended up on the same flight? Even funnier is that T-Bag beats up yet another guy -- a guy that can load heavy luggage no less -- with his one gimpy arm.
Hey, we've all wanted to do the same at one time or another. Unfortunately, it doesn't get gimpy his bag o' money and he runs out of the airport never to be seen again in this episode.
Kellerman
I am not sure if I am liking the new psycho Kellerman. Just when I was starting to like the guy, I see his whole plotline ending poorly. Whether he was burned by love or is disgruntled about his firing (and the subsequent erasure off the planet thing), Kellerman has decided to kill the president.
He dropped in on his sister, who he had not seen in eons to tell her that he is a good guy and she should remember him that way. I guess he is prepping her for all of the reporters that will be looking for insight after he is caught and/or killed.
After witnessing the longest Presidential parade in the history of parades, he can't focus in on a good shot and then got upstaged by Michael, who had slipped her a note -- and it wasn't a love note from Kellerman. It was the "we have the tape" note.
Michael, Linc, and Sara
After ditching Cooper Green (the real one and the fake one), Michael declared his love for everyone (Sara and Linc being everyone), which hinted that something bad was about to happen. That and that Mahone was scaling the stairs in the hotel at the same moment.
Of course, by the time Mahone reached the hotel room, Sara is the only one left. She should never be left alone! When Mahone came back into the room, I literally jumped. Ha! Well... he can be downright creepy sometimes.
Sara is not such a good actress, so Mahone didn't believe her "we broke up" story. Apparently, Mahone isn't a good actor either; Sara spotted his drug habit and tried to connect with him.
After some chitchat, Sara got a hold of Mahone's gun and headed off to meet Michael. What she didn't realize is that Mahone planned the whole thing; the gun had no bullets, and they tailed her.
Linc goes to his friend for a favor, which turned out to be three plane tickets and a cabin -- and a six-pack for good measure. Yeah -- he won't stick out carrying those. He'd better start chugging!
Michael, in the meantime, managed to make his way to the front of the handshaking line and got to press the flesh with Madame President herself. I am guessing this is harder than getting Police tickets, but hey -- it's TV. We did learn that hanging on to the President's hand and/or passing notes to the President will get a bag put over your head and a meeting with Mr. Kim. The note, of course, let the President know that the tape was out there.
Why is Mr. Kim so scary? He weighs nothing, he does nothing, and he's never killed anyone directly, has he? He's just a weasel, and I really wish Kellerman had ran over him repeatedly in "Bad Blood."
Oh yeah -- he went to a military academy, where I am guessing aside from his training, he spent many nights getting swirlies in the latrines. Just as Kim is about to shoot Michael (yeah, like we believed that was going to happen), the President walks in to have a chat.
For a minute there, it looked like Kim was going to disobey her and kill Michael anyway. Who does he think he is, Kellerman?
After the chat, the President calls Linc and gets to hear -- THE TAPE! Enough was given away to know that Linc was set up, and ew ew ew... not only was Steadman the President's brother, but he was also her LOVER.
She wouldn't sleep with Kellerman (who I think is hot for some reason), but she'd sleep with her brother? He's no Brad Pitt. Did I say ew?
Mr. Kim
Just when this guy couldn't seem like a bigger jerk, he decided to rat on the President before she gives Linc and Michael their pardon. Who was that guy that he was talking to? The head of the Company? The Man of LaMancha? Let me know if you know...
Anyway, Kim sounded like he was willing to jump on board with Kellerman's Presidential killing spree, but then Mr. Clean handed him a file marked SONA.
Apparently the Company knows the President's sickening secret as well, so instead of dealing with all of the drama, she doesn't pardon anyone; she declares that she has cancer and resigns. Wow wee. So now the tape is useless. These guys just can't get a break...
Well, if there was a pardon tonight, there probably wouldn't be an episode next week. And what would Jeff have to come back to? -- Rachel Cericola
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From Sign On San Diego
Prison Break: March 5
Awe, man! You mean we have to wait not one, but two weeks to see what happens next?
This was one of those episodes that makes me wish I had just waited until the entire series came out on DVD so I could spend some freakish loner time locked in my apartment with a case of coke zero and an endless supply of kettle chips.
But I'll tell you this was the first time I've ever said I was glad to see the president.
The Queen of Cold managed to save Scofield's rump as the nasty, military-trained Bill Kim was having his way with him. Of course, as we came to see in the bombshell that fell in the closing minutes of the episode, her usefulness as a savior for the brothers ended as he walked out of her presence and away from Kim.
She sacrificed herself to save, well, herself. And for good reason. When you've got a couple of desperate fugitives holding proof of the fact that you faked the death of your brother to cover up his wrongdoings, and they also know that you had a very close relationship (and I mean very close) with said brother that was discussed and recorded over phone lines, well, you succumb to their requests.
But then to find out that the very people who were supposed to be her allies had the same information and were willing to use it against her if she pardoned Scofield and Burrows.
Most impressive of all was how she managed to come up with her out in just a matter of seconds. Having been threatened by The Company just before walking on stage, she didn't miss a beat as she came up with her reason to step down from the presidency: cancer.
And you have to wonder what was going through Kellerman's mind as he watched her neuter herself on live television. I'm figuring he's liking his chances to get back with her, since she's about to become a commoner again.
So now we have to wait two weeks to see if the brothers can escape. Does Sara catch up with them? What's they're next move? Obviously they won't just disappear, and The Company still needs to be taken down, so I'm sure there's plenty of adventures left for the brothers.
In other news, Bellick caught up with Sucre and they're plotting to catch up with T-Bag, who just happens to be on a layover in Ixtapa airport.
C-Note was found before he died. So now he's working with an upwardly-bound FBI agent who really wants to take down Mahone.
And Sara is on her way to catch up with Michael, with Mahone's sidekick agent tracking her.
Episode grade: A.
See you in two weeks.
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