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8/10
Bad Timing
claudio_carvalho10 December 2008
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Sara injects another shot and tells Michael that he needs a doctor. The lookout Lincoln keeps watching on the outside of the warehouse; when Self throws gas bombs trying to force Michael and his group to leave the place, Lincoln surprises Self, hits him on his back and brings him into the warehouse. Self justifies that his motivation was not personal, just business, and proposes to sell Scylla and share the amount among the whole group; however Gretchen appears out of the blue and balances the situation and they leave the place without a shootout. Meanwhile, Mahone meets agent Lang and tells her what happened in the last days, and asks who would be trustful in FBI since the agency and the National Security are compromised with infiltrated agents from The Company. General Krantz decides to chase Gretchen using a satellite; Lisa gives her resignation letter to he father. Michael does not want to sell Scylla; Sucre hides himself in the truck of Self's car and finds the low budget Fauntleroy Hotel where Self and Gretchen are lodged. He calls Michael and steals several cartridges of gas from the car. Michael hides the missing chip of Scylla on the ceiling of the bathroom, but Self sees the location using a camera he planted in the warehouse. Self calls T-Bag and asks him to kill Rita and Emily if he does not return the call within two hours. When the seller Ralph Becker arrives on the front door selling Bibles, T-Bag sees his ring and knock-outs the guy, telling Rita that he is a Company agent. He interrogates the man and Rita convinces T-Bag to release Ralph and T-Bag lets Emily and Rita go. However the seller is actually an agent and T-Bag is arrested by The Company. Meanwhile Mahone has a meeting with Agent Wheeler, asking to see someone to trust; Wheeler proposes the Scylla per a meeting with thee General Attorney. General Krantz also locates Gretchen and Self in the hotel, but Sucre fights against Gretchen while Michael disassembles the emergency exit; when Self leaves the room through the fire stairway trying to escape, he falls on the ground and Michael recovers the complete Scylla; however, he starts bleeding though his nose and faints. Self retrieves Scylla and The Company catches Michael. Sara and Sucre see on the screen of Self's notebook the hidden camera in the warehouse. When they return to their hideout, they find that Self has found the chip. When Mahone calls Lincoln and finds that Scylla was lost, he is betrayed by Agent Lang and arrested by Wheeler. Lincoln surprisingly arrives at The Company to see Michael, and General Krantz proposes the best doctors and facility to Michael's surgery per Scylla, and gives a file named Tombstone II to Lincoln. Meanwhile Self kills the intermediate Vikan and his bodyguard to deal Scylla directly with the buyer.

"Just Business" is a stalled episode, with many exaggerated twists and betrayals. If Michael and his group wanted a meeting with a trustful authority, why not the General Attorney Cooper Green they met on the episode "Wash"? The bad timing rules this show: Michael faints in the exact moment he has the complete Scylla; Lincoln unexpectedly hits Self and the whole group is surprised by Gretchen; why Sucre would try to dominate a skilled killer like Gretchen with bare hands, when a weapon should have resolved the whole problem. Why Mahone would schedule a meeting with his opponent, the ambitious Agent Mark Wheeler, without having Scylla? It would be more reasonable if he had helped Michael, Sucre, Lincoln and Sara first to retrieve and schedule an encounter with Wheeler later. When T-Bag does a good deed, he is betrayed. My vote is eight.

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7/10
Bagwell
Abdulxoxo20 June 2022
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Self attacks the team inorder to get the missing piece of Scylla. But he is eventually sheepishly captured and manages to come to an agreement with the team that they sell Scylla so that both sides will get what they want. After the initial encounter of course they wouldn't trust one another. Infact the whole thing is just moving in circles, they can't kill each other, can't trust each other, and can't work together also. Self Bugged them and the Sucre hides in Self's car trunk. Michael and co attack them and gets their hands on Scylla but there it is another setback, Michael gets sick and Self flees with Scylla. Company recovers Michael, and Burrows make a deal with Krantz to return Scylla in exchange of Scofield's surgery. This part has the potential to be interesting. Working for the man they swore to destroy and to recover the same thing they stole him? That's crazy.

Mahone meets FBI agents Lang and Wheeler, who can grant the team full immunity in exchange for Scylla. But things didn't go as planned and Alex gets arrested instead. What could this mean for Mahone?

Now last but not least and perhaps my favorite part of the episode involves T-bag. Bagwell is a villain you can't hate. He goes a long way from Fox River. I like his character development as he went from a vicious detestable villain to a kinda likable antihero. In the episode we see him continues to mourn the loss of his new life. When a bible salesman asks to come in, T-Bag believes him to be a Company agent and takes him hostage. After saying he wanted to be Cole Pffeifer and not Theodore Bagwell, he is about to kill the man when Rita tells him not to, saying that he has a chance for a new life. So he lets Rita and Emily go and unties the man, although things didn't go as he expected but it just shows how he changed for the better, because the T-bag from S1 or S2 will not hesitate for a second to pull that trigger!
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3/10
Amazing how bad this show got
Zedyeti8 March 2021
This show really turned to crap this season. Kinda hard to follow 3 seasons but this is just a flaming garbage dump. Nobody gets hit by gun fire. Storyline is too predictable and bad. Gretchen is a terrible character. Really sad the path this show took. Prisoners in jail season to expert secret spies and thieves haha wtf
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4/10
How much longer do we have to put up with this?
ttapola23 February 2010
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Actually, not much, since the show was canceled because it lost 1/3 of it's audience during this abysmal season. This also explains the low number of users (around 375 per episode) who have rated each episode - others simply couldn't bother waste their time on this garbage that defiles the memory of the rather good first season. Thus, the ratings of the episodes are skewed because most of the people who rated the episodes were rabid fans with serious positive bias towards this show. Whereas I have no bias.

This really was a good show during it's first season, and it's sad to see it sink this low. Everything is not only completely built on bull**** at this point, it is just unengaging and... boring. Episodes ago, Michael was diagnosed with a condition that needed IMMEDIATE surgery, yet he just keeps on trucking with the aid of injections, day after day, and when Sara tells him his dosage needs to be increased, Michael declines because of the side effects - apparently he can do just fine without ANY medication. You have to be an idiot to buy into this.

Everything is just revolving around like a merry-go-around, some of the passengers just change. What's worse, the writers sideline their best character, Bagwell. Big mistake. The good thing is that Gretchen gets the spotlight and we get *actual* insight into her character. When has anything like that happened to any character in this show the last time? Also, she gets a bitching (tee-hee!) fight with Sucre which is the only high point in this predictable episode. Lots and lots of shooting guns here, yet no one hits no one. How bad are the highly trained agents and mercenaries? Yes, Prison Break is hardly the sole guilty party of this kind of unrealism, but at least in, for example, "24" people manage to hit their targets...

So, the "big" surprise is that Michael gets caught by the Company. Whoopee! What a shocking turn of events. I am just unable to see where this is going next. No, wait, I'm not (and I haven't read the plots of the following episodes anywhere) - there's more bargaining and exchanges that always seem to go awry. Like I said, this is like a merry-go-around, they just keep changing the object (inanimate or animate) of the transaction. Why so I put up with this? Because maybe some potential future viewers/box set buyers will be convinced this show just ain't worth it anymore, hasn't been since season 2. I'll give this 4/10 - Gretchen's part would have made this a 5/10, but the recycled garbage deducts another point. Honestly, who was surprised about the bible-man twist? Or that Mahone gets double-crossed? And who finds Self's ruthlessness at the end just a bit a stretch too far? Or... etc. etc.
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