Prison Break - Episode 4.03: Shut Down - Recap

Prison Break
Episode 4.03: Shut Down
Aired: September 8, 2008
Emma’s Recap

Prison Break – What’s Going On and Why?
Sarcasm provided compliments of Emma

So the last we left our band of merry men and a lady (with her head fully intact) they were stressing out over the fact that the 1 card they thought they had to steal (which was done in less then 24 hrs thank you very much) was actually a pizza (I mean not a pizza but like a pizza, slices, anyway) there 6 cards (insert music of doom).

Michael in a rage of anger we have yet to see goes OFF on Agent Self and for wasting their time if he knew there was more then 1 card (which he didn’t or maybe he did, who knows) Now Michael screaming and turning shades of a beet tells Agent Self that they did the job asked. Agent Self was hearing none of that and realizing he has his own ass to cover says look its all cards or back to jail (he loves to just rub that jail thing in everyone’s face). **I must add here that seeing Michael get angry is a nice change from the quiet eye burning he usually does. However something made me giggle when he was yelling. Regardless he looked hot.

Mahone still reeling from the events of last episode where his family appeared to be murdered we come to find its his son (why why why) Mahone skulks off to call Agent Lang (the agent that seemed to have a crush on him and almost smuggled him drugs in season 3.) He asks her for a favor (it seemed it was one she could refuse) but he talked her into it. He told Lang that his son was murdered and Linc trying not to eavesdrop hears this. (for the rest of the episode Linc then is hyper defensive of Mahone which is kinda interesting to see

During the attempt to get the contents of Syclla card #1 the black hole PDA sucks up all of the information from another PDA in the house. When pulling this information off the PDA they find emails and being the genius Michael is he stands there irate trying to figure it out until Mahoney comes in, says something amazing and Michael then cracks the code. (VOILA) It spells out SCYLLA! (wow that’s a shocker isn’t it) sadly the message means nothing and they cant get the other emails which might contain additional information.

During this entire episode they clearly needed to give Wyatt something to do so he spends the entire time at Bruce Bennets house shooting him up with truth serum. Bruce is doing a mighty fine job not telling him where Michael and Linc were. Wyatt even plans a picnic and makes lemonade and talks about his dead dad. Finally after what is in my opinion a total waste of screen time, Wyatt figure out maybe he doesn’t know where Michael and Linc are… but he knows where Sara is. So Bruce points to LA on the map and then Wyatt shoots him in the head. ** in my opinion this could have been condensed to a 3 minute piece it was painful to sit through it for what seemed like 5 different times. Seriously, this isn’t 24 leave the truth serum to Jack Bauer and just move on

So the gang decide they need to get into a building in Anaheim that houses a huge computer server where emails bounce around. After Linc terrorizes Roland, him and Michael head over to see if they can copy and get the info they need. In order to do this Sara must pretend she is someone else (she’s getting good at this) and swipe a security badge while pretending to be a person for an interview. When the guy at the desk catches on, he stops Sara and Linc radios Michael to tell him Sara’s in trouble (again) so Michael doing what he does best figures out a way to distract everyone by pulling a fire alarm, allowing Sara to escape and then panic and stress out when his plan goes awry as the room he and Roland were in seals itself and starts sucking Oxygen out of the air (Oceans 11 much) .. **You would think Michael being an engineer and all would have known once the fire alarm sounded the door would lock from the inside. I guess he was distracted.

So while Roland hyperventilates on the floor Michael calls Linc and tells him he is in trouble but before Michael could say much more, Linc grabs an axe off the fire truck, carries it through a crowd of people (without anyone as much as batting an eye), goes back into a building being evacuated (without anyone as much as batting an eye) and breaks the glass with the axe saving his brother and Roland.

While this storyline is going on T-Bag is investigating his information from Whistlers locker. He calls the company GATE which is listed all over everything and pretends to be Mr. Wright (who apparently is the top salesmen for GATE and everyone wants to meet him) The secretary who played Lindsay on OC (and did a piss poor job of it) is the secretary and I have a feeling we will be seeing her again as she appears in future cast credits. T-Bag thinking he has hit gold (he is supposed to collect some big check) set up a meeting with the CEO (or something) for the next morning.

During this process Agent Self is butting heads with his supervisor who is pulling the plug on the project now that there is more information then he though regarding the cards. Agent Self is not pleased and tries to go above his head but he says its over, its done. So…… Agent Self decides to go after the band of merry men and get them back so he can cart them back off to jail. He gets Sucre and Bellick and the Sucre manages to send Michael a 911 message saying Run. ( and well you know that this is what Michael does best) they pile into the car and begin a car chase through the streets. They get out of the car and make a run for it with just enough time to stop and decipher the other 2 messages which were ads (one for male enhancements or something) now that they have this information they carjack some poor cab driver for his cab and drive to the meeting place which is at a Power Plant in Newport Beach ( anyone living in LA knows there is no way in hell you can get anywhere in less then 30 minutes let alone drive form LA to Newport Beach) however they make it in about 4 minutes and as Self and his agents close in on them they get out again and run going different ways. Linc is caught, Mahone is caught, Roland is caught, Michael and Sara run and Sara looks at Michael and tells him to Run (which Michael does best) so Sara is caught. But Michael manages to outrun them all.

Michael finds the meeting place sees the men discussing Scylla. Padman is talking about something which involves a comment about cadavers (I never understand that guy) Michael sees more people and realizes holy shit its not a meeting with 1 person its a meeting with ALL of them.
He then gets back in the cab and drives to the safe house (again in record time)

As he pulls up everyone ( but Sara who has packed up her stuff and is walking away) is in the van ready to be taken (yep back to Jail) . Michael tells Agent Self look this photo I got with my cell phone it has all the card members, now we know who they are… all we have to do is get the card. Agent Self looking at this amazing cell phone photos which is so clear (even though Michael’s angle wasn’t the best he must have had a top of the line cell phone) he can see who everyone is. This pleases Self who then releases everyone and makes a call to get the program put back on again. He went over his supervisors head who wasn’t very happy, but he didn’t care.

Michael walks over to Sara and she has her arms stretched out. He says one day they will drop her little boat in the water and sail away into the sunset and that it wont always be like this, this room, this place (oh wait that was Season 1) oh well basically he says one day this will be over. (but will it really?)

Meanwhile Mahone goes to retrieve whatever it was he asked Agent Lang for and goes into a janitors closet to open it. Its horrific crime scene photos of his son. ( did we really need to see this) Linc follows him in and tells him that he knows about his son and he is sorry. Mahone says he is going to get these people. Linc says everyone is here for their own reasons and he needs to focus. Mahone says he can do his job (although he doesn’t back that up with the look on his face or demeanor).

Linc then say when this is done he will help Mahone find the person who killed his kid and who ordered the hit and take care of them, he promises him that. Then in what can only be describe as something extraordinary Linc reaches his hand out to Mahone who takes it and shakes it. (without looking him in the eye)

** now I have to admit I cry at a hallmark commercial, I’m just emotional… this had me tearing slightly. Linc never shows emotion and he was HELL BENT on settling with Mahoney when this over for killing his dad. Linc realizes that could have been LJ and he feels and actually hurts for Mahone.

Mahone goes back into the corner to cry and Linc goes out to talk to Michael. Michael asks what’s wrong with Mahone (he sounds agitated with him) and Linc tells him about them killing his son. Michael has that wind knocked out him look as you know the more people that die the more guilt he takes on and the more blood he has on his hands.

What hijinks will the band of merry men get into next week. Will Michael ever wear a short sleeve shirt (If you have ever been to LA you must know its probably about 80 degrees out). Will Linc continue on his quest to change his personality and be a soft caring compassionate guy or he will be bust someone’s ass soon (he is much hotter when he does that) Will Sara realize she is more screwed up then she can admit and that Michael is ever more screwed up then her? Will Wyatt take acting lessons?

We will see what’s to come next week for episode 4.