US Episode 4.10 - The Legend - [Spoilers - USA/Sky]

JP Liz

US / IRL: 4X10 - "The Legend" [** SPOILERS WITHIN **]
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Episode Title: "The Legend"
Airdate: November 10th 2008

TV.com Summary:

Sara is left with no choice but to take Michael to the hospital as his condtion rapidly worsens. Sucre and Lincoln are faced with unknown territory as they are left in charge of the operation. Agent Self makes a surprising ally.

This episode shall air on:

(US) - FOX - November 10th 2008
(IE) - RTÉ 2 - November 18th 2008
(UK) - SKY 1 - November 11th 2008

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Rick_

Come on JP Liz, can't you make these threads the same as all the others?

This episode is on Sky 1 tonight and RTÉ TWO next Tuesday.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

At least this show has found it's feet again. Great episode last week and this week was just as good. Let's hope they can keep it up.

Sherifu

Another very good episode I thought. I liked the tributes to Bellick. They got it just right, not too much to make it feel forced. I wonder how the team will survive if Michael is out of action for a while. I'm not sure they can pull it off without him.

Our man in Havana

Paddy C wrote: »

Come on JP Liz, can't you make these threads the same as all the others?

This episode is on Sky 1 tonight and RTÉ TWO next Tuesday.

Fixed now.

Now now on, each weeks thread will follow the usual format as above.

Stephen P

Great episode. Will miss Bellick. I didn't like him in season one but when it was thrown in Sona I grew to like him. He looked very squashed in the coffin
Good speech from T-Bag, was he genuine though? I think he was, him and Bellick had a love-hate relationship.
IMO I think there will be complications with Michaels surgery (if he goes ahead with it), I don't think it'll be as straight forward as operating and he's cured.
They'll have to think of a good plan to get to Sycilla(sp?)

Our man in Havana

Is Scylla a bunch of cards or a some sort of super computer? Since Chinese guy died they have not bothered with the cardholders. Are the cards a backup of what might be on this super computer.

What exactly is the company trying to move?

Clareman

They have backups of the 5 cards that they got already on their superduper ibook.

I like the episode, really moved things along, I think Mahone is coming to the fore a bit more, nice excuse for no cameras to worry about.

Clareman

Bond-007 wrote: »

What exactly is the company trying to move?

That's the 1000000 dollar question Looks like it's a computer that reads the contents of the 6 cards that contains all the information that's needed

MisterAnarchy

Another fine episode.
I was about to give up on the show after the first few episodes of Season 4 but its redeemed itself.
Some of the characters seem to have no brain though ,Sucre and Linc

The bit where Sucre is squealing for Linc to get Michael when he stands on the mine was hilarious.Can these guys think for themselves at all ?

J-blk

It was a good episode overall but even though the tributes to Bellick were interesting, I find them a bit jarring still - Bellick was a complete d**k to most of the inmates back in Fox River and actively went after them during Season 2. All that happened, according to the time line of the show, what, a year (or less) ago? And they've all forgiven him and will greatly miss him? Ok, they threw in the part about him saving Sucre but even that felt forced, to give an explanation of why they actually liked him now...

ziedth

It was prob a case that they had been through so much that they felt attached. They are not "bad guys" so prob wouldn't want to see anyone die.

I thought it was very good again, I maybe wrong but it seems they are setting it up for an ending of this "story arch". IE if there is another season I don't think it will involve the company!! I personally hope they end it with them taking down the company and they will have finished a series that rarely dipped in form.

Slippin Jimmy

Sherifu wrote: »

Another very good episode I thought. I liked the tributes to Bellick. They got it just right, not too much to make it feel forced. I wonder how the team will survive if Michael is out of action for a while. I'm not sure they can pull it off without him.

I thought the main thing from this weeks episode was everyone giving tributes to Bellick. Not really much happened other than Michael.Still tho it was a good episode!

Sherifu

Duffff-Man wrote: »

I thought the main thing from this weeks episode was everyone giving tributes to Bellick. Not really much happened other than Michael.Still tho it was a good episode!

Well there was getting the legend, stepping on the land mine and finding out about Self's ace in the hole.

I liked the way T-Bag used Brad in his story to BS the suits in particular. Funny and sad.

Hyzepher

Did T-bag and Self ever meet - can't remember. If not how did he recognise him just from the sound of his voice?

Ron DMC

Hyzepher wrote: »

Did T-bag and Self ever meet - can't remember. If not how did he recognise him just from the sound of his voice?

They did meet. Remember when they had T-bag locked in the tunnel and his arm fell off trying to get out. I think Self was going to transport him to prison until they realised they needed him as a cover in his office in Gate.

lukin

Good ep I thought. I am only guessing but the Scylla project seems to be

a plan to flood the US with fake banknotes, just like the company previously did in Laos. That's what that David Baker guy worked on I think

T-Bag has now twigged that the hot receptionist is working for Self, she messed up by mentioning Whistler to him, be interesting to see what happens there.
I like the bit when Sucre attacked Self about Bellick and the part where Sucre put the police badge in his coffin. It was sad that he tried to become a cop and failed. In spite of him being a bad guy in previous seasons I felt sorry for him.
Also, when the doc in the hospital said he knew who Michael was, it struck me that it was a surprise more people didn't recognise him, considering he was one of the "Eight most wanted men in America" in Season Two!
It seems they are setting up the next ep for a Mission Impossible-style break-in to The Company's HQ to get the last card.
The series has picked up in the last few eps, no question ,but it's unlikely it'll be enough to get it a fifth season.

Agamemnon

Great episode, T-Bag's eulogy for Bellick had me in stitches. Nice twist to have the receptionist working for Self all along. T-Bag will have to plan an escape route for himself now that he knows he can't trust her.

It'll be interesting to see how Michael's illness plays out - we saw in this episode how much the others depend on him and having him in surgery while Scylla is being stolen will be tricky. Mahone or Gretchen would make capable enough leaders though.

glenjamin

Good episode. Liked the way they honoured Bellick including T-Bag, very moving. When Sucre stepped on the mine I thought it was going to be one of those ancient Egyptian mine things were you need two people to step on them in order to gain access. How wrong was I? Still getting more and more confused about the whole Sylla thing. I think that the writers don't even have a clue what it is.

8/10

MOH

Only got around to watching it last night, but ... terrible.

"Don't forget to use your fake id when you go to the hospital"

Why should any of them care about Bellick? Why are we supposed to care about him? He was a brutal thug on a power trip for two seasons, then a whiney wiener in Sona and this season so far, and now they're all mourning him? Linc throwing his badge in was just daft.

And Sucre standing on the mine - he's told he has 20 seconds to get off it, just stands there for ages while we get "tense" shots of everyone's expressions, then just steps off to one side and stands there looking at it? I'd be diving straight off it as far as I could.

Just how far is their warehouse base from the Gate corporation? We see Michael standing beside Mahone trying to call Linc as Gretchen is about to disarm the mine, next thing Mahone is sprinting through the Gate HQ into the tunnel telling them to stop. Either he's superman, or their warehouse is about a minute's run from the company HQ.

T-bag should hate Bellick more than most, yet we get his teary eulogy, and that blather about what his father used to say - what the heck accent was that supposed to be?
And he recognises Self's voice from about 3 words?

Is everyone at Gate blind? The offices all have glass walls, but no-one seems to mind a constant stream of people running through T-bag's office, or a workman coming out of his back room, grabbing a potential client, and hauling her away with him?

I had thought it was getting better recently, but this was abysmally lazy stuff. Even my gf, who's been defending it all along, was actually yawning near the end with all the Bellick eulogising.