TV Review: Prison Break - “S.O.B.” Writers Missed A History Lesson

Part of: Weekly Break With Prison Break

Prison Break's episode "S.O.B." starts off where the series ended last week — with Lincoln (Dominic Purcell), Mahone (William Fichtner), T-Bag (Robert Knepper), and Self (Michael Rapaport) interrogating Sandinsky. Scofield (Wentworth Miller) calls to inform his brother that Sandinksky's cell phone shows emails and calls between him and Christina, establishing the fact that the two were working together.

Before Lincoln can work on that information, the General (Leon Russom) shows up and starts using violence on Sandinsky, thereby retrieving information about Christina (Kathleen Quinlan) being in possession of Scylla and also the location of her home. The General sends Lincoln, Mahone, and Self to examine the house, while he enlists T-Bag as a company operative.

At Christina's home, Lincoln, Mahone, and Self find a receipt for a car rental and account information of a bank that she uses. At the bank, Lincoln is recorded by the bank's video cameras, but the boys are told that Christina's henchman has left with the valuable suitcase that was kept at the bank previously. A chase after the henchman ensues that brings the boys to the vicinity where Naveen Banerjee (the Indian diplomat from last week) is set to address a conference. Strangely, Self and Mahone find passports with their photos in a rented car outside which makes Mahone suspicious that all of this might be a setup.

Meanwhile, Scofield and Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies) are tracked down by Christina; however Scofield manages to use his smarts to come up with some deadly powder that renders Christina and her men unconscious. He and Sara then secure Christina, while they try and get answers from her. Christina though plays mind games with both her son and Sara, informing Scofield that Lincoln was adopted by their father, and explains how she never could connect with young Lincoln as a boy. Christina also guesses by Sara's body language that she's pregnant with Scofield's baby.

While Scofield leaves Sara alone with Christina in order to go after his brother, Christina - through some lackluster manipulation and second rate antics - manages to overpower Sara, but leaves her unharmed and proceeds to Naveen's (Anthony Azizi) conference instead.

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