So after their escape in episode 3 that failed (and subsequently surprised no one since it was only episode 3) things finally get moving a bit quicker as we find ourselves returning to the tense Prison Break experience which is what everyone loves about this series anyway.
If you haven't watched the show and want to I encourage you to turn back now because I am going to be giving away important information.
ISIL has conveniently broken through the government checkpoints on the outskirts of town, thus necessitating the departure of all the prison guards. Before departing they have locked Michael and his crew in solitary confinement and also locked the rest of the prisoners in the general population area while fleeing out of fear of ISIL. Apparently, everyone else in the prison feels as though they are going to be killed once ISIL reaches them. There is one exception to the presumed upcoming slaughter: A high-ranking ISIL member inside the prison named Ramal.
The other prisoners decide to capture Ramal and use him as a bargaining chip for when ISIL arrives and Michael seems to be indifferent to whether or not the rest of the prisoners get a hold of him but the only way out of the cells they currently occupy resides inside of Ramal's cell. Therefore Michael has to join forces with this man.
At the last minute (as is tradition in Prison Break,) Ramal is able to open Michael's cell with the tools that are stashed inside the cells for some reason but no one ever found them before and they are able to elude their would be captors. Michael returns to the general population area and eventually they climb over the wall to escape the prison.... which begs the question... if that was an option for all the prisoners once the guards were gone anyway, why didn't they just do that? It would have been too easy I guess because Lincoln arrives back at the prison with the main gate key and releases everyone just as he sees Michael and his crew jumping over the wall.
Back in the USA we are thankfully given a chance to see the best character in the show, Theodore Bagwell become a bigger part of the story. Theodore has been targeted in some capacity by an ex CIA operative named Poseidon, whose true identity no one seems to know. Theodore tries to pry this information out of a government official and was making good headway when some silenced assassin gunshots hit both of them. T-Bag manages to escape, but the government official (named Kellerman, but it doesn't matter anymore) gets killed by these rogue agents that we don't yet know the identity of. It is presumed they have something to do with Poseidon.
if it wasn't for this guy, i probably would have stopped watching the series a while ago, he is that good
There are some really good scenes in this one, the pacing was intense the entire way through the episode and it was genuinely entertaining for the full 50 minutes or so. I know that I was saying less-than-stellar things about it based on the earlier episodes, but if EP 4 is at all indicative of what future episodes are going to contain, I'm gonna stick with it for now.
