Prison Break 4.09 'Greatness Achieved'
Wow. That was... wow. I am all a-churn.
Brad. Ah, Brad. It was obvious it was coming, what with last ep's 'call my mom if anything happens' and ths ep's attempts at comradely bonding, but it still broke my heart a little. I expected him to die but I thought it would be an accident rather than a deliberate self-sacrifice. I loved his 'you've got a son' to Linc. RIP, Brad. You started out as a scumbag but you went on one hell of a journey, and you ended it in a good place.
So, Michael's 'I'm fine, I don't have a tumour' denial is really getting a workout, huh? I hated seeing him so helpless, but I'm glad it was Sucre there with him. They are such BFFs. But this doesn't look good for the future, no Sir. And damn, Sucre did well to cope with that much physical exertion after just having been shot. I hope there's a long restful lie down in his future.
T-Bag just amused the shit out of me this week. His 'I'm just the new kitten' spiel to the cop was beyond hilarious. But still, he got the job done. He can think on his feet, that one.
Gretchen/The General? Dude, there is not enough eww in the world for this. I guess she's not his daughter, then? Although... no, let's not go there. It's bad enough as it is. I cannot conceive of the amount of Major Daddy Issues you need to have for this to be viable. Just... eww. Seriously. He seemed awfully, awfully certain of his hold over her, even after having her tortured. Is he that good? (Ewwwww) Hopefully it's just all part of her plan to fuck them over and become undisputed queen of the universe. ::scrubs brain with bleach, to be on the safe side::
Alex. I just. ::flails:: I don't know what I think about this right now. I knew he was going to kill Wyatt -- I wanted him to kill Wyatt, but the torture... he was so very good at it, and the whole scene rocked me more than I thought it would. At first I was all 'go, Alex!' and I loved the scene between him and Self (Aw, that was a shame about his family) and how nobody (apart from maybe Sara?) had any doubts or qualms about the certainty of him killing Wyatt. But. I don't know. Killing him was justified, but the torture... I don't know. Lincoln beating the shit out of him was different somehow, as was Alex's own attack the week before. It's like rage, passionate rage, is one thing, but the thoughtful, planned, systematic infliction of pain... at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I don't know. And the thing is, it might have made him say sorry but it's never going to make him actualy be sorry. If I was Pam, I wouldn't have wanted that. His death, yes, but an apology forced by torture? What is the real value of that? Does it make anything better?
I think it also freaked me out because for quite a while now I've been watching a show called The Redemption of Alex Mahone, and this... I don't know how it fits into that show. In TROAM, Alex comes to terms with his past, his demons and his losses, and he atones, and he finds happiness with Michael and Sara. I think Michael will deal with this -- he's nothing if not pragmatic, and what's done is done--and I think he believes he was going to do the same to Gretchen, when he thought she'd killed Sara, (although I've not convinced he would actually have been able to go through with it, up close and personal). But Sara -- Sara, I don't know. I think she had made herself come to terms with the fact that Wyatt was going to die, but I don't know if she'll ever get over the torture enough to learn to love Alex. I'm no longer even sure Alex is going to get over it. Everything just got so very, very much darker. I'm pretty sure TROAM just became a purely fic AU that branched off at the end of last ep, and I'm now back watching Prison Break. Which Alex Mahone is not going to survive.
Yikes.
Hold me?