Sum It Up ~ Drama sum @ reviews: November 2008

In the previous episode, the scene ended with General Krantz took the lift down to Scylla with his armed guards. As the lift door opened, General was standing face to face with Michael. The guards came out with guns pointed directly at him, but to their surprise, the intruders had guns right at their back, force them to surrender instead.

While General handed over his 6th card, and sarcastically telling Michael he was few cards short, Michael presented him all the copied ones and General went speechless. Sucre said ‘Suck it, General’ and the expression on General’s face was one of the memorable moments!

If you are wondering how was Self and the Miriam (the real name of the undercover agent, or best known as the sexy, pretty secretary in previous episodes) they both got off fine, and finished off Fang and his men.

Gretchen and T-bag were waiting at GATE anxiously for Michael and others to resurface, with some heavy weaponry under the desk. Unexpectedly, Mr.White came in to talk to Cole (T-Bag), and accidentally saw it. Gretchen went nuts and held her gun in public, stopping White from calling the police and took some GATE staffs as hostages. A very unwise move for a military-trained Gretchen for making such a big scene, a little farfetched, don’t you think? Oh well…

Michael used the 6th card and the rest, which performed as a key to obtain Scylla, which shaped like an external hard drive. With General as their hostage, they made it to the General’s office. The guards locked down the entire building, covered all the exits, armed and waited for their force entry upon General’s signal from inside.

Michael seemed to be waiting for a confirmation call from Sara. General was trying to talk Michael and the gang out with his manipulative words, promising freedom, wealth, whatever they desired. Upon mentioning Michael and Lincoln’s parents, Lincoln got heat up, and Alex had to stop him from doing anything to the General. Michael told Krantz, the only thing they want, was to see the Company burn to the ground, and General in prison.

Self was waiting for Michael’s good news at the office. His superior, Herb asked about the progress, Self reassured him they would make it to the finish line soon.

Lisa Tabak was at the luncheon, a careless waiter accidentally dropped the food on her. Frustratingly, she left for the ladies room to clean her skirt, but hey, look who had come to join her!

General was still pretty confidence and fearless about the whole thing, even attempting to walk out the office, as he knew, he was their only chance of getting out of here alive. Or is it? Just then, Michael received a phone call from Sara. He set the phone to speaker mode, and let the General listened to Lisa’s voice at the other end. Honestly, I didn’t even think General would care THAT much about Lisa over Scylla, until she said, “Dad, please, do what they want”. What a perfect leverage! Possible, that was the information that Gretchen asked Self to pass to Michael in a yellow envelope in previous episode. So, the expression on the General, again, priceless! He had no choice but to walk them out. Before they took off, General told Lincoln his father worked as an executioner for the Company, and now his trained men would come after them. The gang left with Company’s armored truck.

Miriam went back to GATE, saw Gretchen and T-bag confined themselves with the hostages. She sneaked in, successfully untied everyone without been noticed, but White was too eager to save his own life until he messed up the whole thing. Gretchen opened fire and shot him dead. Both her and T-Bag escaped from the office.

Gretchen wiped off her fingerprints and threw the gun away, ordered T-Bag to do the same with his MP-5. As he did so, she gun-pointed him, just about to pull the trigger when Miriam came into the scene. Gretchen ran off, leaving T-Bag captured and handcuffed by Miriam.

For his own daughter’s safety, General Krantz had no choice but to compromise and walk them out. Before they took off, General told Lincoln his father worked as an executioner for the Company, and now his trained men would come after them. The gang left with Company’s armored truck.

Sara tied Lisa up, and escaped after Michael and the others reached outside safely. However, she did not forget to ‘tip’ the waiter who did the ‘plate-falloff’ scene deliberately.

Now is time to escape from been trailed. Michael called Self and informed him they got Scylla. As soon as they reached the airport, they broke into 2 groups with Michael and Lincoln entering the airport while Sucre and Alex headed to somewhere else.

The guard followed the Scylla-holder group. General ordered to cancel all the flights that day until they were captured. Michael texted Alex ‘Now’, and Alex made a phone call to the authorities, stating there was someone at the airport with things that ‘you guys definitely want to check out!’

The guards caught up with Michael and Lincoln, demanded for Scylla or else, got shot. Reluctantly, Michael passed the bag over to the guard. Just at that nick of time, a troop came in and ordered the beg be checked. Michael and Lincoln ran off, leaving the angry guard and a Scylla-less beg and a book by Shakespeare ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’. The Scylla was with Sucre all along.

In General’s office, he looked depressed. While the guards waited for his next order, the General just replied, ‘I don’t know’. Another priceless expression on his face! I bet General never expected that much surprises coming his way in one day!

Self met with the victorious gang, and gave them the release papers, even promised an ambulance for Michael. Everyone waited with anticipation, and relieved that everything was over. But after a long wait, no signs of any vehicles or ambulance as Self promised. Michael called Self, but unable to reach him. And the release papers, they were all blanks!! Oh Nooooo…

Self met up with Miriam, showed her the Scylla. T-Bag was still cuffed in her car. Self mentioned he wouldn’t be going to Senator Dallow for the moment. Hmm.. something fishy was going on, for sure. Then he asked Miriam about whether she overheard Gretchen mentioning about other buyers besides Fang. Miriam told him no, but T-Bag might know something. Then, Self did something unexpected, he shot Miriam! The scene ended with the shocked T-Bag and a traitor, Self.

~ Sneak Peak For Episode 13~

Sucre and Alex were drilling through the walls, in order to insert a camera through it for inspection and monitoring purposes, using the laptop.

Gretchen was determined to get the 6th card from the General, by sending him her sexy picture, dressing up as a schoolgirl. General went for it, unfortunately, did not bring the card with him. General spotted Gretchen lying to him, and threatened to kill her on the spot. However, he changed his mind and let her go instead, after Gretchen told him “I’m the mother of your child” & the magic word “I Love You”. So, no 6th card for Michael!

Michael was having second thoughts about his surgery, as he was unwilling to leave the gang all by themselves on the critical mission. Sarah & Lincoln tried to convince him to go for his surgery at 3pm or else, he might not get the chance to be treated without alerting the authorities (police).

Sarah was explaining to Michael the process of his surgery, when they were interrupted by Self, bringing in more tools they needed for the Scylla mission. Self mentioned about Michael’s father approaching him earlier about the whole Scylla incident, and ‘today IS the day to bring the Company down’. Now Michael was worrying even more.

Alex and Sucre came back from GATE. Now they needed to figure out how to get Scylla in 4 hours, before Michael leave for the hospital. Their obstacles were:
- to bring down 2 walls in complete silence (1 concrete, 1 glass),
- to avoid triggering the alarm by microphone sensors, weight sensors and thermal detectors.

Mission Impossible! But they would work something out. And, Michael was having blurred visions again.

Mr White rewarded T-bag for his brilliant job on impressing the Idaho group the other day, and earned some big bucks for GATE. For Scylla’s sake, he had to turn down the annual cruising experience, which normally no one would refuse from their boss. Mr. White didn't see that coming at all.

Agent Self passed an envelope containing ‘useful information’ to Michael, from Gretchen. Something that would be helpful to crack Scylla, without the 6th card? No idea.

Before leaving for the mission, Alex shared a story with Michael, which then helped him to finally make up his mind: He would join the gang for the mission, and take surgery afterwards. While passing the envelope (from Gretchen) to Sara, Michael told her, he wouldn’t be able to live with himself, if the gang failed and got killed, leaving him the only guy surviving, just because he called in, sick.

Outside GATE building, before the gang went in, Sucre prayed and Sara gave Michael a shot so he wouldn’t have seizure while their mission was ongoing. The gang went in, down the basement, and started the ‘silent’ mission. Sara, armed, sitting on a bench, outside, waiting.

T-bag and Gretchen, made a trap for Trishanne (the secretary) and Self, causing them to be captured and tied up, with the help of Fang and his people. T-Bag and Gretchen were now waiting upstairs for the gang to come up with Scylla. They would give them chance to surrender, but if they needed to fight for it, T-Bag told Gretchen, she could have all others as she pleased, but leave Michael to him!

Back in the basement, everybody worked in silence.

They broke the concrete wall using electromagnetic field, which was generated using the car batteries.

Umbrellas to prevent falling concretes to hit the ground, triggering the sensors.

Using a ladder to build a bridge across the room, all the way to Scylla, without touching the ground. Liquid nitrogen was used occasionally to regulate the heat from their body temperature, avoiding the heat sensor.to go off.

Sucre saved the nitrogen tank from falling onto the ground, but left him hanging on the bridge. Lincoln had to pull him up! Luckily the bridge didn’t snap!

It was Michaels turn to be on the bridge. Although he had blurred visions and intense headache at first, fortunately, he made it to the glass wall, cut it, and standing right in front of Scylla.

As soon as he moved it, the sensor beneath Scylla was triggered! General saw Michael from the only surveillance camera in the room, immediately ordered some men to go down with him... uh-oh! Desperate to know what happen next? Episode 12 is on the way...