Prison Break: "The Sunshine State" - Episode 416

Happy holidays, Prison Breakers! Tonight's 'The Sunshine State' is the last of 2008, and man, all I can really think about as I begin this recap is how many fingers I'd be willing to cut off to be in Florida right now. Brrrrrrr! Cold enough for ya out there? Colder than a mother-in-law's love. More Prison Break after the jump...

 

 

 

MICHAEL - After getting a complimentary brain surgery from the Company, Michael wakes up in some remote mountain complex way out in the middle of nowhere. No one is telling him where he is, but the psychiatrist on duty to watch him drops a big ol' bombshell on him - his mother is still alive, and is working for the Company. Michael doesn't believe him at first, but once the shrink starts pulling out some old photos of he and his brother from back in their childhood in Chicago, he starts to realize that he might not have a choice. The psychiatrist tells Michael that he doesn't have a problem with making a happy family reunion happen, but as always, there's a catch - Michael has to join the Company if he ever wants anything to do with his mother again. The General calls the psychiatrist in charge of Michael and tells him that it's go time - no matter where Michael is in the indoctrination process into the Company, he wants him brought in immediately.

 

 

The psychiatrist and the team of Company goons at the cabin attempt to drug Michael so he can be transported, but our boy's got other ideas. Michael rigs a MacGyver bomb in the hot water heater and does his damndest to make an escape. He gets out of the cabin and down the mountain a bit, but as he's making his way towards the gate and freedom, the Company goons catch up with him. It's looking bad for Michael here, but hey - who is this driving full speed up the mountain road in a Jeep? Why, it's Sarah (I'll explain in a minute), and before you know it, WHAM! She's crashed dead-on into the goons' ATV, and they go rolling into a big pile down the mountain. "Get in!" she cries to Michael, and the two of them go roaring off into the sunset. Well, a couple hundred yards down the road, anyway. More than enough space to get away from a couple guys with machine guns, right? Oh yeah. Definitely.

 

THE B-TEAM: LINCOLN, MAHONE, SARA, T-BAG, GRETCHEN, & DON SELF - In this week's convoluted mess, Lincoln starts us off with his mission for the Company. After checking in with Sara (who is being kept quiet in a luxury hotel by the Company), he then starts following a few leads on the guy who made off with Scylla last episode. He finds himself at a swank bar downtown, but when they don't exactly jump at the chance to give up any  information, he whoops all three of their asses with an espresso cup and takes off with some blonde chick who claims to know who he's after. Blondie sets up a meeting with her friend Erica, claiming she knows more than anyone does when it comes to the guy Linc is looking for. Well, turns out Blondie set Lincoln up, and the minute Erica shows up to see what's going on, Blondie's friends from the bar roll up and start blasting. Linc shoots back, but because no one on this damn show could land a bullet to save their freakin' lives (or to take somebody else's), Blondie escapes. The joke's on her, though, because as soon as she meets up with Mr. Scylla Stealer himself, she realizes her wallet is gone. That's right - Linc stole it from her, and he hands it over to his newfound allies of T-Bag, Gretchen, and Don.

 

Don and T-Bag head over to Blondie's house to see what they can find, and as they're going through her great big bags of nothing, they make a pact - Lincoln's no longer in charge of the show. Apparently Don hasn't convinced himself of how bad a leader he is yet, so he tells T-Bag that he'll be stepping in as the big bossman now. Linc doesn't take to that news very well when Don and T-Bag get back, but right when they're about to slap one another silly over it, Mahone walks in and busts up the fun. Hell yeah, Mahone's back!

 

Following the lone tip they got from Blondie's apartment, Don and Mahone head down to the Miami docks to head off a boat they think the Scylla Stealer may be trying to smuggle Scylla to the Bahamas on. After nearly pounding some tourist's head in for trying to sneak a few joints out to the islands for the weekend, Don and Mahone strongarm their way into nabbing a copy of the tape from a security camera down at the docks. They still think Mr. Scylla Stealer is trying to ease Scylla out of the States as low-profile as possible, and they also think that going by boat would be the best way to do that. 

 

Gretchen, however, does her best to keep one step ahead of everyone else by setting up a secret meeting with Mr. Scylla Stealer himself. Apparently she recognized him as an ex-Company contact of hers from a while back when he popped up on the security camera tape, so off she goes to set up a deal for $10 million in exchange for keeping Lincoln's crew off his back. Gretchen's two-timing makes itself apparent later at a meeting with Mr. Scylla Stealer, but fortunately for Don, she decides to switch teams yet AGAIN and not shoot him dead when she had the chance. No, Mr. Scylla Stealer gets himself shot dead instead, but not before he fires off a round into Gretchen's gut. Down she goes, and Don wants Lincoln to finish her off for double-crossing them (even though she didn't). Mahone convinces Linc not to do it, though, and the team leaves her bleeding in a parking lot as the police arrive.

 

What about Sara? Well, after being coaxed out of her gilded cage at the hotel by a mysterious text message, she's abducted by the General's daughter and told where Michael is being held. That was about it for her this episode until she showed up in the nick of time to rescue Michael, actually. Mike did tell her that he thinks his mother is still alive, though. So she's got that, at least.

 

Speaking of Michael's mother, turns out that she really IS still alive after all. In fact, not only is she alive, but she's also the mysterious Scylla buyer that has been running everyone ragged for so long. It's sitting on the coffee table right in front of her as she makes an anonymous phone call to Lincoln. "That was my son," she says.

 

 

Quite a nice view out the window of Linc's room, eh? I didn't know they made postcards that big.

 

Linc is so much of a bad-ass that he can beat up two dudes using nothing but a frilly little espresso cup! Hell yeah! Seriously, Linc, that's the first thing you go for in a bar fight?

 

Yeah, Don! Tell that ignorant ol' T-Bag the meaning of disembark! WTF? That boy is totally setting himself up for an old-fashioned ass-whuppin' from our favorite cannibal pedophile, isn't he?

 

Did Gretchen's propositioning of Linc really mean anything at all? Jeez, Gretchen, show a little respect for yourself. Isn't having your kid being held at gunpoint by that very same cannibal pedophile bad enough?

 

 

That was the last episode until SPRING?! 

 

Who was that in the room with Mrs. Scofield/Burrows/Whatever at the end of the episode? Please let it be Bellick, please let it be Bellick...

 

Bruce Liberace FTW!

 

-littlebigmouth.