[PRB] John Doe

TV Programme: Prison Break
Season: 2
Episode: 14
Date I watched this episode: 29/03/2009
Time since I last watched this programme: 1 day.

This was originally the first episode of Prison Break after the Christmas break, and served to set up the new state of affairs: Kellerman has joined Michael and Lincoln, and there is a clear power battle going on as to who is in charge. The initial sequence reminded me of Terminator 2, where Arnie breaks John out of the situation, and then a while down the road, John makes Arnie pull over and asks him what the hell is going on. A similar thing happens here; Michael and Lincoln are forced to stay concealed out of necessity but then the knives are out once they are beyond the range of law enforcement.

I think it's rather out-of-character for Paul to go back for Michael and Lincoln. After all he could have executed his plan "on his own". It's a bit of a stretch to think Paul was trying to actually do the right thing by approaching the brothers, but maybe he just felt he needed some extra help, who knows? Anyway it all went wrong in the end, and I'm sure sparks will fly in the next episode because they have lost seemingly their only chance to exonerate Lincoln. The next step would be to contact Sara Tancredi...but Sara is going to be extremely annoyed/confused/angry when she finds out Michael is working with Paul.

Alexander Mahone was a bit below par in this episode. He was pretty naïve to think he could just walk away from The Company, especially when they had threatened his family before. He knows what a character Bill Kim is. About that, I didn't understand what Mr Kim meant when he said "don't bury them". He repeated it more than once and still Kellerman responded with "I'll call you when they're in the ground". We'll probably never find out though, as Mr Kim now knows that Kellerman has gone rogue.

Susan Hollander held her own well in this episode. I think the T-Bag storyline was more interesting than usual. I don't quite know what T-Bag was expecting to accomplish by coming back to see her, whether he really thought they could be a family again, what his endgame is or if he even has one. He has $5,000,000 and surely he doesn't want to throw it all away for something that won't work out? Especially now, where the entire family are tied up and prisoner in their own house. He is a very calculated psychopath.

As usual, the C-Note and Brad threads were less interesting. But overall this was a good episode, not outstanding, but kept me on the edge and set some direction.