The General tries to add some credibility to this silly and unintelligent plot by talking about the 1962 Sino-India conflict. However, that conflict involved a dispute over borders, and had nothing to do with any Prime Minister or his son being killed! In fact India does have a real history of a Prime Minister’s son being assassinated by members from another nation — Rajiv Gandhi, the son of ex-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and who was also an ex-Prime Minister himself, was shot by members of the Sri Lankan LTTE group. However, this incident didn’t lead to any war declarations between Sri Lanka and India, and it certainly didn’t come anywhere close to leading every nation on earth to clamor onto this incident, thereby bringing about world apocalypse, as laughably suggested by The General in regards to Christina’s actions. This sort of plot development is truly the most inane and puerile angle ever employed in this series, which already had plenty of nonsensical developments in the past.
Also, another insipid plot device employed by the writers was the constant and heavy use of Scofield’s cell phone. In the middle of being chased, with the police mere metres away, Scofield decides to call Mahone for help, and in another scene as Scofield and Mahone leave Lincoln in a hail of gunfire, Mahone says to Scofield, “Call him”, and Scofield promptly calls him brother. Such over-reliance on one plot device to keep the story moving only shows up the sluggish and weak writing/storytelling in Prison Break.
In addition, the whole cat and mouse chase between the brothers and the police was getting tiresome by the minute, and Scofield’s lackluster plan of using the housekeeping cart and supplies didn’t pay off for the audience following this pointless chase in the first place.
At one point in this episode, Self comes face to face with an agent who figured out he was no longer with Homeland Security, and that results in a prolonged fight sequence ending in the agent’s death. The scene seemed to be there just to fill time, or to give Michael Rapaport a reason to be employed, because it neither moved the plot nor added any dimension to the series or characters. Again, this points to writing that is so amateur and deficient.
Article comments
1 - Neilp
That bullshit...If the Chinese Government paid to have the Prime Minister’s son assassinated. That would be considered an act of war..and of course would trigger at least a conflict.if not a war.. Obviously Sharmila your not a politition so its ok..but its not that ridicules
2 - Dr. X
its shit. Agree... but why are you still watching it?
3 - Kozmo
This show started very strong in S1, and kept You on the edge of your seat in S2. The 3rd season was back to its roots (plotting a prison escape in Panama), but by S4 the storyline started to really get thin. The never-ending twists - just for the sake of a twist - were becoming unbearable as it was clear to any educated viewer that the writers were just reaching for straws! so long Prison Break, the ride was fun, even if it WAS dawn out a year too long!
P.S. No last sighting of Gretchen... WTF?!?
4 - PO'd
I absolutely DETESTED the end story line of Prison Break. After all this time of watching this show, and trying to follow and make sense of the twists and turns it was continually taking while the writers seemingly tried to make up their minds about the direction to take the show, Michael died in the end!! WHAT?!?!?!? Are you kidding me?? Couldn't they just let Michael walk off into the sunset with Sarah and FINALLY, FINALLY have the life he'd been fighting endlessly for? The end really, really bugged me. Frankly, in the end, I don't think the writers cared or even thought about the audience connection to the characters, or the time that they'd devoted to watching the show, patiently waiting for it to make sense. A real bummer of an end. Quite the let down. Lesson learned for THIS watcher.