As Naveen starts to talk at the conference, one of Christina's people shoots at him and wounds him, just as Lincoln and Scofield find their way to the same room. The brothers realise that their mother has set them up again, this time for Naveen's murder.
This episode had a lot more plot development and twists than the previous episodes since the return of Prison Break a few weeks ago, and it was a relief to see the storyline finally move ahead with some flow. However, in an attempt to portray Christina as being on the same level of smarts as her son Scofield, the writers failed miserably. Christina's ease at guessing that Sara was pregnant, and her warning her son that she can't be manipulated fell short of showing us that she is anywhere near as brilliant as her son. Also, her little strategy of using Sara to slam the door in order to break off the doorstop so that she could use it to set herself free was amateurish and contrived. Couldn't Christina just have slammed the door herself, from the inside? And is dental floss really that sturdy to withstand such force? Scofield has come up with far better schemes, in far less time, in the past! So clearly these scenes didn't work in portraying Christina being as brainy as her son.
Also, this entire episode seemed to hinge on chance, and the coincidence of things happening the way they were supposed to. How did Christina know that Sara would slam the door? How would she have known that Lincoln would open the right drawer and handle the bullets, thus leaving his prints all over them, conveniently allowing Christina's men to shoot Naveen with those very bullets that Lincoln touched, and to leave one the touched bullets behind as evidence? How could Christina have known that Lincoln would've found the bank account number, inconspicuously scribbled no less on a used bank envelope, and would trace the bank's name with the help of Sandinsky, and thereby manage to get himself captured by the surveillance cameras? It just didn't make sense that anyone with high intelligence would hatch a plan that was so dependent on coincidence and chance, to this degree!
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