Prison Break aired its twelfth episode this week, “Selfless”, and it was a spectacular episode indeed, arguably the best of this season in fact.
“Selfless” starts up where the series left off last week, with Scofield (Wentworth Miller) in front of the machine he and the gang worked so hard to gain access to, only to set off the silent alarm and cameras, showing the General that his nemesis had gained entry to the General’s most prized possession. However, we soon find out that Scofield had a solid plan all along involving Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies) holding the General’s daughter as captive, thereby ensuring safe passage for Scofield and the gang.
Meanwhile, T-Bag (Robert Knepper) and Gretchen (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe) get ready to double-cross Scofield and gang; however they instead trip the boss’s suspicion and the duo then pull their rifles on the workers there, holding them as hostage.
A third storyline takes place between Self (Michael Rapaport) and Trishanne (Shannon Lucio), who are held by Feng, and after a shoot-out which leaves Feng dead, Trishanne ends up at her old place of work, where she helps the hostage workers escap. She also ends up capturing T-Bag, as Gretchen manages to escape.
This episode was packed so full of punches, that one could barely take one's eyes off the screen for the entire 42 minutes! The entire episode was paced just frantically enough so that it grasped the audience’s attention all the way through, like a fish on a hook. From start to finish, this episode piled on electrifying twists, engaging turns, and gripping developments, thereby proving to be a very sensational episode.
Given how tired and weary the other episodes of this season (and the last season) were, it was simply delightful watching “Selfless”, which was intense, riveting, and absolutely titillating. A series like Prison Break has to rely on adrenalin-charged scenes and plot developments, and in this episode, the series dipped once again into its arsenal of mind-blowing scenes and storylines to give us a truly stimulating experience.
Of course, there were a couple of scenes that went against logic (because this is, after all, the highly improbable Prison Break) such as Trishanne not shooting Gretchen and T-Bag as they were inattentive and immersed in an argument with each other, and the General being able to delay all the flights at the airport within two minutes of thinking about it. However, the most illogical scene would have to have been Sara pulling a gun on Lisa, and the General actually believing that Sara would be capable of killing his daughter, just because Scofield spews something about everyone changing over the last three months.
Article comments
1 - pbisfun
The General wasn't about to gamble with his daughter's life. So he had no choice, really.
2 - Guy, Paris
However, Sara did held a scalpel to Gretchen's throat, and even made her bleed... something "old" Sara would never do...
3 - Beth
Sara survived torture at the hands of Gretchen AND KELLERMAN. If I remember correctly Sara almost strangled Kellerman with a cord (season 2)and she was the one who killed Bill Kim.
4 - Sara
Although Wayne Callies potrays Sara as a demure, sweet lady..her character is anything but. Sara is an ex-drug addict, who apparently supplied her junkie bfs with drugs, instrumental in allowing convicts to escape from prison, nearly strangled Kellerman, shot Bill Kim in the heart to his death, bled Gretchen's throat...and if these are not enough to prove she is capable of holding a gun to someone's head, then the simple fact that Michael asked her to is enough.
Sara is way head over heels in love with Michael and will do anything for him...he is all she has left!!
5 - mel
You are wrong ! Sarah Wayne Callies is a really great actress !!!
6 - Joebohio
I have to wonder how much time the writer has invested in actually watching the show. Sarah Wayne Callies is very good. As others have already noted; she nearly strangled Kellerman to death and shot Bill Kim to death at the end of season 2. This before she was tortured by Gretchen.