Appointment (episode of Prison Station-wagon)

" Go " is the thirty-second episode of the television serial Prison Station-wagon , it is the tenth episode of the second season.

Detailed summary

At the office of FBI to Chicago, in the Illinois, the agent Lang announces with satisfaction that Lincoln was stopped by the police force of Wilcox in Arizona. But Mahone remains injoignable.

With the Sundown hotel, Sara Tancredi receives a fax of Michael fixing the place and the hour of the appointment to him. The agent Kim request with Kellerman to make so that Lincoln is finally eliminated. Shortly after Mahone announces with Kellerman that it is about to find Michael Scofield in company of Sara Tancredi in Gila with the New Mexico. It makes the turn of all the town halls and ends up finding that of Sara. It takes note of the place of appointment thanks to the fax remained in memory in the apparatus.

Michael and Sara ends finally up meeting. He thanks it for being come with go but she answers him that she did not have the choice and that she wants to know the plan that it evoked in its first message. She is disappointed when she learns that it is a question of fleeing with the Panama with him and its brother, she hoped to obtain more answers in connection with all the events which were connected in its life but it is unable to provide them to him. She reproaches him for having lied to him, to have never spoken to him about the other prisoners and especially to have made it accessory to the escape from T-Bag. It is touched by its remarks and tries to be excused. He affirms that he only made it to save the life of Lincoln but she stops it by announcing to him the death of sound father. Upset by this news, he beseeches his forgiveness while acknowledging to him that the fact of having made him evil is its larger regret. But Sara remains on the defensive. He excuses himself once again and its assistance offers to him so that it is not alone any more. At the time when it approaches Michael by recognizing that it does not want to be alone, the car of Mahone emerges to far. They climb in the car of Michael and are done pursued by the agent Mahone, they return in the court of an unused factory and press a wall. While escaping inside the factory, Michael affirms with Sara that the agent Mahone will not call the helps because he wants to kill it. Mahone enters in its turn the factory but is made take with the trap by Michael. It is locked up inside a latticed cage. Michael opens the propane tank to prevent Mahone from making use of its weapon, the least spark would cause an explosion. Michael breakage a pane to let the air return because, as Mahone included/understood it well, Michael is not a killer. The young man redemande with Mahone to drop, not to more seek to follow them because it knows perfectly that Lincoln is innocent crime which one shows it. But the agent of FBI refuses its proposal and swears to him that it will follow it everywhere where it will go, even until the Panama, and which it will kill it. Leaving in the factory, Michael and Sara take again their road. They stop in a motel after having bought a kit of help, cellphones and toothbrushes. While Sara looks after the wound with the arm which it was made inside the factory, Michael recognizes that it forever be diabetic. It informs him of its concern about it: she thinks that at the bottom of him, he likes to live dangerously and that frightens him because it knows what is the dependence. It there thought forever but it asks him to grant one day additional to him. She does not answer. Before entering the bathroom, he repeats to him that it is content that she came to go. But after having taken its shower, it is ploughed up when it notes that she east flees by leaving him a mot. Sara moves towards her car but does not start immediately. She remains a few minutes at the wheel and realizes with emotion which she is unable from to go away. While leaving the vehicle to join Michael finally, it falls nose to nose with the agent Kellerman.

In the police car, Lincoln request with the police officers to let leave his son L.J who suffers only from light contusions. But those refuse. Suddenly a vehicle with the tinted panes emerges behind them and voluntarily causes an accident. The police car leaves the road and is embedded against a tree. While Lincoln and its son, always handcuffed, extirpates vehicle, men and a woman with the fair hair from the other car, try to catch them. Lincoln struggles and strikes the fair young woman but she announces to him furious that they are on her side as well as sound father. They take refuge shortly after in a detached house. Inside this house, Lincoln remains on its guards, it does not rely on these unknown even if the fair young woman tries to render comprehensible to him that they are on their side. While waiting for the arrival of his/her father, Lincoln explains to his/her son why his/her father is at the origin of all his troubles, that he worked for people who wish to see it dead. The young woman, who is called Jane, also worked for the Trust, it affirms with Lincoln that his/her father wants really to see it thus that his brother and the last time that he would have seen Michael, this one was 10 years old. Lincoln reacts by involving L.J with him because it knows very well that his/her father left before the birth Michael. But Aldo Burrows enters the house and calls it. A little later, Aldo makes knowledge with its grandson L.J then explains to Lincoln why him and Michael do not need more to flee with the Panama. During this time, the henchman of the Cartel dissimulated among the associates of Aldo Burrows receives the order to kill them all the three.

With Platform with the Kansas, Bellick and Geary torture T-Bag in vain so that he acknowledges to them where he hid the money of Westmoreland. T-Bag tries to flee but Bellick and Geary is able to catch up with it. It makes fall the key from its trunk during the fight and swallows it to prevent that they steal it to him. Bellick and Geary thus decides to attach it on the toilets and to give him chews and of the laxatives, bought with the credit card of Bellick, while waiting for that nature makes its effect. Several hours later, T-Bag finishes by " restituer" the key. Bellick request with Geary to recover it, which it does with dislike. Before leaving the house of Susan Hollander, the two men attach T-Bag, begging, with the radiator then call the police force. At the station, they find the bag filled with money in the trunk and go in a place isolated to check the contents. Geary decides to go it alone and strikes its associate.

In Dinosaur in the Nebraska, leaving its car broken down, Sucre carries on its way with foot and finds a phone box. It calls Maricruz but fall on his Theresa sister. This one announces to him that it and Maricruz leave in the afternoon to the Mexico. It gives him the phone number of the cabin so that Maricruz can point out it. Unfortunately at the time when the telephone sounds, of the police officers are close to the cabin. Sugar in front of remained hidden, it cannot take down. As soon as the left agents, it fall on the responder from Maricruz and a message leaves him in which it informs to him that it will be the following week with the airport of Ixtapa to see it. During this time, Hector arrives furious in a friend of Maricruz and Theresa, Kalinda, to see Maricruz. It understands that the young woman left to the Mexico by using the tickets honeymoon.

Additional details

Chronology

  • the action of this episode is held on June 3rd. Mahone specifies that it ran out one week since the escape from the prisoners.

Culture

  • Zihuatanejo (alias Ixtapa), the city where Maricruz and its Theresa sister envisaged to go on vacation, is a reference to the film the escaped prisoners .
  • At the beginning of the episode whereas he speaks on the telephone with Mahone, Kellerman declares: We have a bird in the hand , it is an allusion to the American proverb: A bird in the hand is better than two in a bush . In French, the Proverbe equivalent is: A " Tiens" than two " is better; You it auras" . It is resulting from a fable of the Fountain, the Small Poisson and the Fisherman and means that it is to be better satisfied with what one has, rather than to be likely all to lose while trying to obtain more.

Others

  • It is the first time that Michael and Sara are found in the second season.

  • When Michael reveals in Sara her plan (to flee with Panama with him and his/her brother), the young woman does not have the reaction until it waited: ( Wait. It is that your… plane? ). In an interview with the magazine TV Guides , the actress Sarah Wayne Callies explains that she adored to pronounce this counterpart and adds: ( Of all the brilliant plans that Michael Scofield went up, it is really not the best. ).

  • With the motel, while Sara looks after it Michael says to him: ( I know that it was already said to you, but that will not be always like that. ). It refers to its own words.

Errors

  • Sara is recorded in Sundown Hotel under the name of Kelly Foster . However, Michael succeeds in sending a fax to him, whereas he is unaware of his false identity.
  • Just after having left Mahone in its cage, Michael approaches the car of Sara which it went to seek. When it is parked, it has the detached hair, then in the close-up which follows, its hair is attached in chignon. When Michael opens the door and enters the car, its hair is again detached.

Critical reception

With the the United States, a certain number of series are stopped towards the end of the autumn to take again a few months later. Right before this pause, are held during all November: " november sweeps ". During this period, the series are analyzed in a very precise way by the critics, the producers, the diffusers and especially the advertisers. Thus, it is notorious that the sweeps decide survival or not of a series. The American large chains of television devoting itself to a fierce competition, awaited events or guest-stars make their appearance mainly during this amount of time. " Go " is the first episode of the second season of Prison Station-wagon has to be diffused during the sweeps of autumn. The fact that Michael Scofield and Sara Tancredi are re-examined in this episode, for the first time since the beginning of this second season, is thus not the fruit of the chance.

In term of audience, if the emission " Country Music Association Awards " on ABC rises in the first place, " Go " is first at the 18-34 years, with 8,6 million televiewers.

To translate: This episode attained varied responses from the critics. The San Diego Union-Platform gave has positive criticism for the episode, giving it year has rank and the author commented that " the pacing is back, and I' m back one the edge off my seat". Similarly, the Victoria Times-Colonist called it has " briskly paced hour off entertainment television". One the other hand, the critic from the Arizona Daily Star stated that the episode " underwhelmed" him and that "all it did was create more cliffhangers". The TV Fodder made similar comments one the episode, stating that the episode was filled with small stories that " needed to Be told in order to move one to nap bigger stud points". The author concluded his review with "I was mostly bored during this episode". -->

Counterparts

Michael Scofield : ( It will not call reinforcements. He wants his intimacy. )

Sara Tancredi : ( Why? )

Michael Scofield : ( It does not try to catch me. It tries to kill me. )

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