Tonight's episode of Prison Break was fairly entertaining, even though not the best the show can offer. Fracturing the group seemed to be a pretty good technique in this episode, again breaking up what would otherwise be a monotonous gathering of "Scylla card" data.
Mahone gets to repay the rescue from last week right away, bailing Michael out when he's captured by T-Bag. That chunk of the story offered a few interesting character moments, like T-Bag's test of how far Scofield has fallen, but for the most part it was only moving plot forward.
The Vegas plot seemed like the more interesting one this week, not for its complexity or suspense, but because it used the characters well. It was a nice change of pace to see that the latest attempt to use Sarah as eye candy wouldn't work this time out, and better still to see Sucre in a job that (despite the initial impressions) turned out not to be pure comic relief. Plus, Linc let Sarah (and the audience) in on the details of Michael's nose bleeds.
Gretchen and T-Bag did make an interesting team, but I did find it a stretch (even for this show) that she would be so determined to look out for him so quickly. I had a hard time accepting that she'd be trying to bargain with Our Heroes for T-Bag at the end of the episode; it seemed more plausible that Gretchen would simply cut her losses and keep going. (Of course, that would see T-Bag off the show, and we can't have that.) Perhaps the writers will offer more justification for this in the next week or two.
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