More Reunions

Reunited and it feels so good! Sucre and Maricruz finally came through for each other and met up in the airport as planned. The reunion was exciting mostly because it means we'll stop seeing him pine for her. There's only so much pining in a bus, pining while driving a punch buggy, and pining while riding shotgun in an airport security guard's car we can take. I was really happy to see them together though and hope that at least one of the convicts will get a happy ending.

Michael reunited with father-figure Pope to get a USB flash drive locked in Sara's father's cigar humidor, in order to prove Linc's innocence of a crime he was framed for because of his father's betraying The Company. Pope's being a member of the cigar club was a clever way to have him cameo without making him part of the overall conspiracy. I also like how they are intersecting all the storylines. First there's C-Note. I was relived when C-Note turned himself in to get his daughter proper medical care. But instead of that taking C-Note completely out of the picture, it put him right into the Mahone-Michael-Lincoln main storyline with his promise to help Mahone find Michael. This should make things easier to follow rather than having so many stories going in different directions.

T-Bag, "the sin" of his father, revisited the site of his painful childhood and confessed to Mrs. Hollander and kids that he can never be a biological father, and is glad to be the last of his cursed bloodline. T-Bag might end that bloodline sooner than anticipated. The last we saw of him this episode, he was wildly sobbing and had just told the police where to find his unharmed victims. He had asked Mrs. H. to love him a little and she told him she couldn't. At the time that seemed like a foolish answer to give Captain Crazy while so near a weird steel killing shack — but it turned out that her answer drove something home to T-Bag.

And the direness of his daughter's illness was driven home to C-Note in the dankest-looking doctor's office on the planet. Could that office have been any more creepy? It had a lightness waiting room full of blank-faced patients, no receptionist or nurse, and a doctor smoking a cigarette in his examination room. I wouldn't have let that guy give my daughter a catheter either. The first hospital's refusal to see Dede was puzzling. Yes, the staff knew C-Note was a wanted man and they argued to stall him. But you know what else takes a long time, hospital staff? Treating a kidney disease. They could have seen his daughter just as easily as argue, and thus kept C-Note there for the cops to arrest. Even a criminal's daughter deserves care. That was inhumane.

When Kim showed up at the club to take the USB drive from Pope, I was sure he wouldn't leave alive. It's understandable why Linc wouldn't have shot Kim, but why didn't Kellerman take that opportunity to take Kim out? He already had shot Kim's doughy thug/chauffeur. It would have been nice to see Kellerman and Kim in fisticuffs at the very least. They are the characters who most inspire air-punching dangerously close to the television screen. Watching them kick the crap out of each other would be so satisfying. Also, Michael's nailing Kim with that soccer mom car was the best moment in the episode.

In previews for the next episode, the now-solo Kellerman gets himself a "big game hunting" gun. While any number of people could be on his killing list, my money is on the president. When Kellerman was talking to Linc on the roof, he sounded like a crazy stalker. "You're not capable of understanding our relationship," only comes out the mouth of a man who has a crawlspace wallpapered with photocopies of a woman's license photo. And "You don't love someone who loves power more than life" only comes out of that man's mouth when he's been burned one too many times. I guess we'll see next week.