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TV Programme: Prison Break
Season: 2
Episode: 18
Date I watched this episode: 29/05/2009
Time since I last watched this programme: 19 days.

I watched this episode on a plane from London to Tenerife. It feels like ages since I last watched an episode of Prison Break, but I really am quite near the end of season 2 and so am progressing forwards to the finale. Almost every episode so far this season has been great, and so I don’t feel like I am in any rush to get them out of the way.

The start to the episode was very well done; it would have been a real anticlimax to just play the recording. Instead, the silent reactions on the convicts’ faces was all we as the viewer needed to know. The way the recording was eventually rendered inadmissible though was a bit tacky – a computer timestamp, not particularly original.

Sara Tancredi really has been more prominent in the last episode or two, and her resolve to end all of this has really shined through. She and Michael haven’t really had much time to talk since their declaration of love a few episodes ago, but there is a job to be done and they are getting on and doing it. Still, I think it was a little bit reckless of her to visit Frank’s grave – Mahone could well have had people watching that.

I find it difficult to believe that Cooper Green’s secretary was in the bag with The Company. Jane, Aldo’s former employee, gave Michael the number, and so it seems much more likely that Jane is a rogue agent. I’m sure it will become clear one way or the other in time.

In other news, I am very sad to see Franklin go. All of the best characters always die. Outside of Scofield and Sucre, Abruzzi was my favourite, Tweener second, and Franklin third, and now all three are dead and we are left with the likes of Burrows and Bagwell. Hopefully some new characters will be introduced soon to replace all these lot.

T-Bag’s redemptive sequence from the last episode looked like it was going to continue with his attendance at therapy, but unfortunately this was not to be, and he is back to his old ways. I don’t think I will ever believe he can change his spots again.

Fernando is admittedly fairly stupid for returning to that ranch – he is bound to be discovered there, as shown by Bellick’s interview in this episode. It’s heartbreaking to see him and Maricruz looking so happy when it isn’t going to last.

Paul Kellerman was great in this episode; the scene with his sister was touching and he has reached a place where he feels he is very low on options. I know he isn’t thinking logically but it’s hard to know what he is thinking right now – the murder of the President is going to make The Company very reclusive and harder to track down than ever before.

This episode covered various story threads and as this season draws to a close, it will be interesting to see them inevitably coming together and coming to an end. In particular I look forward to Michael’s blackmail of Caroline (which I think will be interrupted by Paul firing that deadly bullet), the escape from Mahone which will likely be at the start of the next episode, and finding out what is really on that recording...