'Prison Break' recap: series finale
Feb 19, 2008, 09:36 AM | by Aubry D’Arminio
Categories: 'Prison Break', Mini TV Watch
And then we came to an end. Or a season finale at least. So let’s be honest — who isn’t a little bit relieved? I for one, as a fan of Prison Break, began to see Monday nights as a burden. I watched out of loyalty to the show and duty to the job if nothing else. And maybe a mild crush on Chris Vance. But the last few weeks, let’s admit, have been right twaddle and though I don’t share in the belief that Fox should put us out of our misery and cancel the show, I do propose the following: Give us a few more episodes this summer to take Mike and Linc to a proper end. And make them good. And I mean very good. Just keep Michael in Linc’s brown blazer. It’s smoking.
That said, let’s recap with a head count:
1. McGrady. As we all figured, minus a little setback on the road, he basically made a clean break. But did he and pops really need to make a pit stop to party with the family 20 miles before crossing the Colombian border? Don’t you think the cops are going to be questioning granny and the cousins soon?
2. Sucre. What an upstanding guy this one turned out to be: He’s willing to be buried alive rather than sell out Mike and Linc. Luckily — or not — he escaped that fate and now he’s back in Sona where archenemy T-Bag (the dude that sold him out) is king.
3. Lechero, T-Bag, Bellick. Lechero was in a bad spot, bleeding out
with just T-Bag to rely on. He, of course, ended up getting smothered
by the double-crossing creep and I’ve practically forgotten about him
already. So now what’s T-Bag going to do with Sister Mary Frances and
the $50,000 bucks? How’s he going to keep up his prison-yard promise of
“all cons are equal” to the Sona inmates and stay out of trouble?
4. Linc, R.J. and Sofia. Two things: First, so Linc’s falling for
Sofia, getting all mushy over her after she’s shot and ending the show
in her hospital room with L.J., like a nice cute modern family. What I
wanna know is, what about Veronica? She couldn’t have died more than a
few months ago, and don’t tell me that Linc still believes that she’s
“missing.” He’s not that dopey. Second, was Gretchen’s henchman
aiming at Sofia or was he trying to shoot Whistler? I can’t tell. If it
was Whistler, was he trying to shut him up and why?
5. Gretchen, Alex, and Whistler: I knew Whistler and Alex were making
googly eyes at each other! Now Alex thinks it’s worthwhile to go
(back?) to work for the company and up (once again?) against Michael?
I wonder what they offered him. On the other hand, apparently they're
all in trouble over Whistler losing that book, since Gretchen
practically had a coronary when he mentioned that to her. And we
thought what he had written in it was gobbledygook. It may not be the
coordinates, but something in it is worth something.
6. Michael: Being that Mike’s the series’ main character, it’s sad that
there’s so little said about him in this episode: He’s still on his
revenge trip, and now he’s driving down the Panama highway in a beat-up
old car with a gun and an origami flower, trying to get to Whistler and
a dude named Jason Lief.
7. Jason Lief: Okay, so he’s not a real character and may never show up
on the show, but Whistler did have a surveillance report tailing one
“Jason Lief.” What do we know? That he’s from Scottsdale, Arizona. He
once walked southeast on 23rd street talking on his cell phone and
holding a bagel. I think it’s time for some stunt casting again. I see
Aidan Gillen in the part. What about you?
So that’s it. See you next fall for another (hopefully better) season.
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