Prison Break’s sixteenth episode of its second season is called “Chicago”. Here’s what happened to our favorite cons in the latest installment.
Michael/Linc/Kellerman/Sara: Yep, you read that correctly: Sara has finally hooked up with the guys again. Of course she was more than a little dismayed to see that Michael and Lincoln are working with Kellerman, so she tells Michael about that bathtub incident where Paul tried to kill her. That doesn’t sit well with Michael, and he makes his feelings known to Kellerman.
The gang has a look at the key that Sara found by her father’s body. Kellerman recognizes it right away: it’s a key to a private cigar club in Chicago. So they hop on a train in Evansville, Indiana and prepare for the 5-hour ride.
During this time, Kellerman gets phone calls from Caroline urging him to meet up with her and to bring Michael and Lincoln with him. Once Caroline sees the brothers, she will do everything in her power to make things “normal” between her and Kellerman again. Later on, however, we discover that it’s not really Caroline calling Kellerman at all. It’s one of Kim’s flunkeys using a voice synthesizer. Fortunately, Kellerman figures it out and obviously doesn’t reveal anything regarding their plans.
T-Bag/Hollander Family: T-Bag is still determined to make the Hollanders accept him as part of their family — despite the fact that he has to tie them up (again, how does he do this with one hand?) before they sleep and that he has to carry a gun or knife at all times. Anyway, after entertaining a visitor in the Hollander home for a good, long time, T-Bag decides that they can’t stay there. So he orders everyone to pack up, and they drive off.
Mahone/Bellick: Oy, why is Bellick still around? Am I the only one who can’t stand this guy? Mahone gets him out of prison on condition that Bellick help him track down the remaining cons by working “under the radar”. Bellick’s first lead is a Haywire sighting, so he goes off to Wisconsin to track him down. When Bellick finds him, Haywire takes off running and ends up on trop of a grain elevator, where he stays until Mahone arrives. Mahone goes up there presumably to talk him down, but actually talks him into jumping. Bye bye, Haywire. RIP.
C-Note: He and his daughter were in a Minnesota diner when some drug addict comes walking in and sticks the place up. C-Note can see the guy poses a real danger, so he steps in to help the robbery proceed in as orderly a manner as possible. He even talks the gunman into letting him and his daughter leave before the cops arrive, but turns back when he sees the guy grab a waitress (obviously with the intent to rape/kill her). C-Note disarms the would-be robber, then escapes through the back door with the help of the grateful waitress.
My Reaction: I don’t know, I’m still not feeling the Prison Break love. It just seems like it takes soooo long for anything to happen on this show. I mean, can Michael and Co. do a single thing without having the cops on their trail before the end of the episode? I know they’re fugitives with APBs out all over the place, but geez… it makes every single ep drag on and on. The whole show was about them moving from Point A to Point B yet again. I’d like to see the action speed up considerably.
And I really, really can’t stand Bellick (though I do have to admit that the scene of him practicing how to flash his badge was pretty funny). But it looks like he’s going to be around for awhile, so I guess I have to deal with him.
The only thing I liked about this episode was the fact that Michael and Sara were able to talk a bit and share their feelings. Other than that, it didn’t feel like any other plot point moved forward.