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Tonight's Prison Break episode was an entertaining, though considerably more sedate outing than last week's. It felt like after all the plot momentum last week, things were largely put on pause again this week to give us the story of Michael trying to get his hands on a cell phone.

On the plus side, it did lead to some fun detective work for Lincoln, and a short but engaging action sequence of him attempting a rescue. Also on the plus side, we got to see T-Bag use his silver tongue to worm his way further into the inner circle of Sona prison. It's always fun to watch T-Bag at his most devious.

But on the down side, there was dead weight in the story too. Last week, I found myself wondering what they'd find for Sucre to do now that his one-track plot thread about Maricruz appears to be wrapped up. So far, the answer is "lie around in a drunken stupor," which is not really an improvement.

Watching Bellick be stupid over a shoe wasn't particularly entertaining either, though at least that storyline finally ended in an interesting place, with him overhearing the argument between Mahone and Scofield. Bellick has shown many times in the past (including already this season) that he's very dangerous with just a little information. It always spells trouble for Our Heroes.

And for the first time this season, Prison Break ended on the sort of cliffhanger it used to wrap up with on a regular basis. As the movie Seven made us ask, "aawww, what's in the box?!"