Agreed. Wasted opportunity that actually hurt some of the characters. I wonder when Michael and Sucre are going to tell the others what they found inside the hatch.

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I liked the episode for what it tried to do, but the one in Iraq and TBags should have been done differently. They make everyone out like they were actually good when it's okay to have "real" criminals.

We already know the details, and since all these stories were happening at roughly the same time, he already would have been in prison at the time.

Great episode I liked the way they humanized some of the characters. I was mixed up about a couple of things what was he digging up at the grave, and what was with the piece of paper that guy slid to him in the bar.

Exactly my problem. I can't believe how much this show lacks any kind of balls. They can't possibly let these prisoners escape out of prison without setting up the fact that they're all "really good guys in bad situations". Well except for T-Bag, so that signals his death I'm sure.

The show was starting to wear thin for me leading up to the break, and the last two episodes have started to turn me against the show completely. However I feel like I got all this time invested into the show, so now I have to see it play out. Dammit.

yes

I thought this episode was going to suck, be a filler episode which is was, but it was great. So I guess they all were sentenced around the same time.

So why is Sucre in there for holding up a convenience store?

I thought it was Fox River State Pen...

ok, some things I am reading about the show now say it is a state penitentiary. Maybe it changes depending on the episode.

I'm pretty sure the piece of paper had to do with the location of Fibinacci. I think he was buying that info to trade for the plane.

I thought it was a great episode. I loved the interaction between the brothers. The comment about the keys being 4 feet to the left was pretty damny funny.

Please! You believed that story? Total BS. He said that only to further his emotional terrorism of that woman and lead up to the threat of tracking down her family when he's released.

I agree. Had she been caught self-medicating at the hospital she would surely have had her license to practice medicine suspended if not completely revoked.

I would say that what Michael was digging up (even though you need like a serious backhoe to dig in what looked to be frozen Chicago ground) and the information he got from the guy in the bar are two items that will be played out later.

Nice catch. I couldn't quite figure out what that was supposed to be. Makes sense now.

Question that remains now is why does the VP need the brother to appear to be dead?

I'm pretty sure it all has to do with the Temporal Cold War. A Denobulan walking around 21st Century Earth would raise some red flags.

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I also LOL when the VP's brother turned out to be Flox.

I thought this ep was OK. There were some really good scenes, but overall, I thought this ep was really unnecessary. Most of the stuff that we find out could have just as easily been revealed in dialogue. I guess it was worth it for the few good scenes that we got though.

Oh okay - that was John Billingsley. I was like - does he mean Phlox?

Agreed. Actually, some of the scenes could have been revealed in Lost-like flashbacks inside of normal episodes. They did some of this in the early episodes, such as Michael getting his tattoo.

- Sara's story and the Veep's scenes were the only real revelations here.

- The Michael/Lincoln interplay and the playout of how it all went down was interesting, but really was mostly recapping. It added very little as far as things that could be payed off down the road.

- The C-Note 'Iraqi' subplot was silly enough before but even worse when actually played out. Totally unneccesary.

- Sucre's story was typical and mostly stuff we could have filled int he blanks with ourselves but at least sets up storylines (if Sucre gets out) with that last shot of the betrayal.

- T-Bag's scenes were played completely wrong. They had a chance to really build the character up as even more menacing than we thought but they blew it.

Did we know that there was no insurance money, and that Lincoln provided the money so that Michael could go to school/college? It's been so long ago, I have no idea if that had already been revealed as the catalyst for Michael's actions (plus the origami crane) to spring Lincoln from prison.

Patman, I don't think we knew about how Lincoln wound up in debt before, or at least not the real reason.

Yeah, I actually liked that bit of information. It really helped me understand just why Michael would go so far for him. I mean, yeah, he's his brother, but that was quite frankly not reason enough for me to believe that any human in his position would do what he did for him. Makes much more sense when you find out he pretty much owes his entire life to Lincoln.

That's got to be the fastest 911 response ever. Two patrol cars before the guy even closed his cell phone.

Yea, I mean did they really need to show him at the scene? We pretty much knew he was the one who set him up..

I think T-Bag will get out, go to Susan's house where she will be waiting with a gun and blow him away.

This is why I enjoyed this flashback episode in terms of revealing character motivations from their pasts that extend to the present.

I really liked parts of this (the reveal that Lincoln borrowed the $90K for Michael and that's what got him intpo trouble) but other parts really sucked.