Prison Break: Episode 4.19 "S.O.B" Recap
Friday, May 01, 2009
Michael calls Lincoln and tells him about the guy at the airport that he's a scientist, Lincoln tells Michael to leave town. Down by the boat docks Sara and Michael have Vandinsky's phone and call Christina Schofield to demand Scylla and during the call Christina tracks down Michael's location as he knew she would.
Back at the loft, Lincoln, Mahone, Self and T-Bag continue to question Vandinsky but are getting nowhere. Lincoln is about to kill him when the general walks in and stops him. Vandinsky admits to the General he was working with Christina so he knows that the boys knew and didn't yet tell him. Lincoln argues that they just found out and were working on it and getting the correct info before calling him, and the General threatens to kill them all. Vandinsky finally gives up the location of Christina's hotel and Mahone realizes that T-Bag gave up the details to the General when the he is ready to kill them all but T-Bag.
Christina follows Michael's signal from the phone call and arrives at the warehouse. While they search the warehouse Michael goes out to plant something in the a/c vent of the car. Sara drives around the parking lot to cause Christina and her goons to run outside and follow thinking it was Michael leaving, they get into the car and when it starts the vents let out a bunch of dust causing them to stat choking and exit the car. Making some great team work, Sara comes back around to meet Michael and they grab Christina and put her in the trunk.
Christina wakes up in a hotel room with Michael and he asks her where Scylla is? Instead of answering his question she tells how she has waited 25 years to see him. They discuss Lincoln working for the General and they both agree they don't want to see Scylla go back to The Company. Michael attempts to make a deal if she would just give up Scylla, but Christina is not having it and instead begins to tell Michael how he and her are very much alike. She reveals they have the same "condition" where they can see how things work and how she knows he feels much better after the surgery he had. Michael tells her she is running out of time and she needs to tell him where Scylla is.
Lincoln, Mahone and Self take off in search of Christina at her hotel. Mahone freaks out and starts throwing things all over the room when he realizes they are not the first ones there as the room was already searched. While throwing things around they find a rental receipt for a mini-van and a few other items that seem to be important. However after everything they have been through in the past few seasons, they do not seem to realize they are leaving their finger prints all over the room - come on now boys you should know better than this by now!
Back at the loft, Vandinsky tells the General that Christina wanted him to speak at the Energy Conference and the General tells him that her motive is all about money. Lincoln calls the General and asks what the letters DMB (Dave Matthews Band?) stand for? The General has his guys threaten to kill Vandinsky again to get the details out of him... turns out DMB does not stand for Dave Matthews Band and is an abbreviation for Dade Miami Bank and Vandinsky gives up further details that Christina has another hotel near there.
Sara convinces Michael to let her talk with Christina as she will have a bit more perspective considering she wasn't the one who was abandoned 25 years ago and Michael agrees. Christina begins to tell Sara things about the baby and that she can tell Sara is pregnant by the way she is protecting herself. Christina then tries to explain to Sara why she has done the things she has done and Sara tells Christina that there is no way she can justify anything she has done, trying to change the subject from the baby. Christina indicates she can tell that Michael does not yet know about the baby and that Sara should tell him the news. Sara walks out to talk to Michael and tells him she didn't find out anything.
Lincoln, Self and Mahone go to the bank looking for safe deposit box 6468. Mahone tries to pretend it is a matter of National Security and demands access to the box. While they are there we are shown a shot of Lincoln on the security camera... I suspect this will come into play later. The bank manager finally tells them the safe deposit box was just accessed 1 minute ago by the man with the silver suitcase. Lincoln catches on that the guy from the embassy was walking out to the car with the silver suitcase and the boys begin to follow. As the man gets in the car to drive off he receives a call from a man who says if he does not talk to Christina by 5pm the deal is off!
Back at the hotel, Michael attempts to talk to Christina again about Scylla and this time she tries to convince him how different he and Lincoln are... different eye colors, different tempers, different intelligence. She tells Michael that Lincoln is NOT his brother (as if we didn't see that one coming!) She goes on to tell Michael that she should have told him sooner about this and points how he has never seen any photos of Lincoln as a baby. Apparently when Lincoln was about 3 years old Michael's dad adopted him because his parents had worked for the company and they were killed, he felt bad and took the boy in. Christina says that he never asked her how she felt about it and she has always distance herself from him because of this. Michael tells her that he has his reasons why he broke Lincoln out of jail and that he was more of a brother to him then she was a mother (ouch! hows that for a burn) She then tells Michael that Lincoln is in trouble again like always and once again he is going to get him out of it wasting his life. Michael tries to call Lincoln to warn him but he does not answer so he demands that Christina tell him where he is! When she refuses, he drags her across the floor and into the bathroom where he starts running water (a silent threat to drown her) as Sara watches from around the corner. Christina finally confesses the location and sends Michael after Lincoln while Sara stays to keep an eye on her locking her in the bathroom so she can say good bye to Michael. While Christina is in the bathroom we see her start to look around in true Michael fashion as she focuses on some dental floss and the door stop on the wall.
Back at the loft, the General tells T-Bag he will be rewarded if all goes according to plan but he must pass the final exam first and of course that would involve killing Lincoln once they have Scylla in their hands! T-Bag then gets a list of all of the scientists speaking at the energy conference for the General who recognizes some of the names on the list and begins to realize what Christina may be up to - he insists that this will all be over by the end of the day.
Christina rigs the bathroom with the dental floss and attaches it to the doorknob and door stop. She makes a noise so Sara will come in to check on her, Sara opens the door and they have a brief discussion where she tells Sara she had better stay out of the bars as she has friends from AA and although they are not tied to the company they are still friends who will relay the details to her. She asks Sara to keep the door open; knowing that Sara will close it and when the door gets closed the doorstop is ripped off the wall just as Christina had hoped it would be.
Michael attempts to call Lincoln again and of course he does not pick up as they are chasing the decoy with the silver suitcase who is leading them back to the hotel where the Energy Conference will be held.
Christina escapes from the tape to free her hands and feet, and makes another noise so Sara will come back into the bathroom to check on her. As Sara enters the bathroom, Christina grabs the gun and threatens to kill them both (her and the baby) if she makes a move. She then ties up Sara while holding the gun to her head, Sara tells her Michael will never forgive her for this and she tells Sara that's he does not know Michael as well as she thinks she does. Instead of killing Sara she leaves her tied up and alive for Michael to come back and find her. Christina then calls Naveen, a scientist speaking at the conference, to discuss their plans. Naveen wants to talk to Vandinsky about the conference so Christina tells him that there was a horrible car accident and he had to fly out to be with his wife. Naveen tells her that since the plans changed she will get $1 million in exploratory research grants and there will be more to come after the deal is finalized.
Lincoln and the buys are still in pursuit of the decoy with the silver suitcase who led them to the hotel, once reaching the hotel they find the mini-van and discover it was rented in Lincoln's name, the van is running and has passports left in the glove box - Mahone knows it's a setup but Lincoln already took off heading into the hotel following the decoy. We then get a shot of Michael arriving at the same hotel, still looking for Lincoln.
The General is still back at the loft and sees some news coverage about the energy conference and realizes further what Christina's plan must be; at that point he orders T-Bag to kill Vandinsky as a test of loyalty.
Back at the hotel, Lincoln is hot on the trail of the guy with the silver suitcase and is following him through the conference. When he reaches the top of the stairs the man slips into an elevator and what appears to be a room service attendant exits the elevator. The attendant then pulls out a gun and takes a shot at Naveen while he was giving his speech shooting him in the chest. At this point Lincoln realizes it is setup and he had followed the trail directly to where they wanted him to be; everyone in the conference starts to panic and Michael walks in seeing Lincoln at the top of the stairs. He runs up to get him out of there.
The episode ends with Christina getting in the car with the man with the silver suitcase who says that everything went according to plan, the bank manager has a nice shot of Lincoln on the security cameras from the bank and combined with Lincoln's prints being on the bullet that was dropped at the scene there should not be any question to his guilt.