Prison Break (TV Series) Quiet Riot (2008) User Reviews

Scylla Room and Sickness

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 26 November 2008]

Sucre drills the concrete wall and introduces a micro-camera with Mahone to see the Scylla behind a glass wall and protected by sensitive sound and heat detectors. Michael's surgery needs to be on that day, and Sara describes each necessary step to Michael. T-Bag takes pictures of Gretchen wearing sensual clothes. Krants and Lisa discuss the transportation of Scylla, but Gretchen sends her pictures and he leaves Lisa to meet Gretchen. However he does not bring his card and Gretchen fails in her intention, claiming for her life due to their daughter Emily. Mr. White invites T-Bag for one week cruise due to his brilliant speech to the Idaho group, but he refuses. Then he tells Gretchen that Trishanne is a federal agent and Gretchen calls Feng and tells him that she needs his help. Self tells Michael that Gretchen failed, but sent one additional page to him. Sara tells Michael that it is time to go to the hospital, but he refuses, asking how he could live if all die. Gretchen tells T-bag that she has a new buyer that offered US$ 200 million, and gives the address for the meeting on 1917 Piermont. Trishanne calls Self and they go to the address where they are surprised by Feng and his men. Michael goes with Lincoln, Sucre and Mahone, and Sara injects a drug for epileptic in Michael while Sucre prays for him. Lisa skips lunch in Eagles and Angels to meet Krantz and he summons the card holders for a meeting. Michael asks for absolute silence, and they build a bridge to reach Scylla, using nitrogen and an electromagnetic field to avoid the detectors, but the alarm sounds and Krantz sees Michael with Scylla.

In this episode, the careful operation to reach Scylla apparently blows in the end. Or is it a trick to attract the attention and reach the sixth card? Michael postpones his surgery and puts his health and life in danger. Self is absolutely naive working with the untruthful and dangerous Gretchen and T-Bag. My vote is eight.

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Pulling off the impossible

[Abdulxoxo · 8/10 · 20 June 2022]

"Quiet Riot" involves the team's plan of attack to get Scylla no matter the cost. Scylla is secured in a highly sophisticated customized vault that's virtually impenetrable as it's laden with motion sensors, heat sensores, concrete and glass walls. On paper, that seems almost impossible to enter but not for the brilliant mind of Michael Scofield. We as audience were fed as little information as possible about the plan and we are left to witness it as it happens. I like the whole breaking in sequences, with the way they are setting the equipment and how one wrong step can jeopardize the whole thing is intense. On top that, it is the unstable Michael who leads the way which adds more to the already tense atmosphere. The team finally gets close to Scylla but an alarm is triggered, Krantz finds out and takes a team to deal with the threat.

All while that is taking place, Bagwell and Gretchen have their own plan; to kill the team and when they come back and take Scylla for themselves. Will they succeed? Can't wait to find out.

A Humdinger!!!!!

[shiva-neo · 10/10 · 18 November 2008]

Wow!!! This was one of the best episodes of this series...

the kinda build up it had and the way in which it was executed....... everything... it's simply amazing... i just cant wait to watch the next episode...

first of all... there were some plot holes which were pretty apparent but those were made to be overseen by the excellent direction and execution by the actors involved...

after knowing the next episode titled as "selfless", you only hope that someone from the team gives their life selflessly...

Cant wait for the next episode!!!!!!

Break through two walls, one concrete and one glass and make it quiet. Excellent way to bring tention in the game

[guest_to_movieland · 6/10 · 3 September 2022]

This season of the show is extremely messy with too little good episodes in it. This one is one of the good ones, for sure. But still flawed, like really flawed. They managed to create a great tention in the scene with breaking though and keep it up during the whole episode, so it's actually possible not to notice bad decisions the writers made. But the more I was thinking about Quiet Riot, the more questions I had.

I guess it's better to make two parts of my review.

And first one is a good stuff aside from mentioned intense atmosphere which is probably the main good thing. First of all, I was glad to see the whole team coming up with the ideas on how to execute the impossible. Michael being the genius, trying to think about every single detail and making something extremely difficult to come to the reality, with show actually explaining it all to us, is something I really miss this season. Everyone worked as a real team where each member knew his part. And the parts, where things were going wrong, out of control, really made me feel for characters and be concerned. I was involved in the process as a vievew, and it hasn't happened a lot recently. The whole scene with getting Scylla was made well aside from one questionable decision I'll mention a bit later. Secondly, I liked it that we finally saw Gretchen playing her own games in order to be the winner of the situation. I'm glad they made her traitor of the Company as well as the traitor of everyone else. T-Bag even for a second thinking about the chance to leave it all behind and make some legal money was also a nice touch. Even more, all the characters from Michael's team felt right here and behaved the way where the vievew can understand their points of view, their reasons to do things.

Second part is everything that I didn't like. And that's a lot. Firstly, why was Gretchen so sure the General was about to bring his card with him? It's not like he wanted to have a chat about it with her. Why was he actually gonna do it in the first place? It just doesn't make sense and feels so forced. Also the General himself starts to feel less and less as a smart and frightening leader. I even start to wonder, how is it possible he managed to achieve so much and stay on top for so long? Secondly, why did Michael need to the one breaking though glass? I believe Alex, for instance, could've managed it. And it wouldve made much more sense since Michael is the one who could've collapsed any minute. His condition is too unstable to rely on it, and we've seen it even during the plan discussion. The tension they tried to make with his some sort of seizure just didn't work. It was far more dangerous to let him in than to let someone without that big experience in engineering, but also without the possibily to just die right there any minute do it. Third thing I want to mention is the whole thing with Michael's surgery. I know, they're all in great danger to be turned in, but wasn't it possible for them to at least try to convince that doctor to perform it later? I haven't seen anyone of them actually tried to explain the importance of what was going on. Maybe I missed it somewhere along the lines, but it still kinda bothers me. I also didn't expect Self and that his agent to be so naive. Going alone right into the trap. It's not like they had much of the support from other agents but both Gretchen and T-Bag are extremely dangerous. So yeah, them going into a trap was too obvious to everyone except for these two. Can't believe Self didn't even try to figure out who was calling him, especially after his agent revealed to him that she was suspicious to T-Bag. And another questionable decision is that another sensor that let turn in the camera. Let me get this straight. It was a nice twist and it was good that Michael didn't think about it. But it doesn't change the fact that the principle the sensor works is a bit off. Like why can't it always be turned on and have someone to keep an eye on it? And, to make sure it all is safe, just keep the alarm system that was when it all was activated. It would've been much more secure and would've made more sense. I mean, if he needed something he could've just turned it off any second.

Taking all my pros and cons into consideration, I still was pretty confused on how to rate the episode. Among all the first 11 episodes, this one was probably one of the best, at least when it comes to atmosphere. At the same time, if you start to think about what just happened, there are so many questions. I give it 6 because some of the the characters are still good, the story itself is finally came somewhere, I'm still wondering what Sara is about to do, stakes are getting at least a bit higher and yeah, this episode created an intrigue and made me want a little to see another episode.

Stupidity on an all-time low

[ttapola · 2/10 · 2 February 2010]

After watching this one, I felt an urge to write a review. After noticing the two existing reviews, I felt it my *duty* to write a review. With all respect to the two reviewers before me, they give the impression that they are easily impressed and willing to hand out a full 10/10 even to a flawed work. Let me state this (and you know if you've read some of my other reviews): a 10/10 *means* that the work *cannot* be improved upon (at the time of making when it comes to technological aspects of the production). Prison Break has never, ever delivered an episode that could not have been improved upon - some of the episodes when this was just a 13-episode miniseries (filling the gap left by "24") were 9/10s, but when they ditched the original plan and extended the series beyond its natural lifespan, the quality began to drop alarmingly.

All sense was lost by season 3, and on season 4, I've rated every episode 4/10 because of the following reasons: 1) It's all complete bull**** now, 2) It's hard to care about the characters when everything is based on bull****, and 3) the tension just isn't there anymore because by now you should have realized that the writers can come up with plot twists so idiotic, illogical and actually impossible that the next deus ex machina is always just waiting behind the corner (or in this case, a commercial break or the wait until the next episode).

This episode, however, gets a 2/10. The stupidity hits an all-time low: having no original ideas, the writers rip off the Langley sequence from De Palma's Mission Impossible, only adding thermometers to the security system. There's even a fumble by Sucre, just like Tom Cruise had in the movie, for crying out loud! The two most stupid things here are: 1) Michael carrying out the break-in while in unstable health condition. Any sensible human being would realize that his condition seriously raises the risk of failure, and when he has a seizure (or whatever) on the bridge, you want to shoot the writers. 2) The General's camera. Why the hell is it not *always* on? If there is a camera, any sensible user with access to it would always keep it on. It matters not whether Michael is aware of the alarm and the camera or not, since the decision to use the monitor rests on the general. Is the Big Bad of the Company really so stupid he doesn't monitor the room? The writers sure seem to think they can make us buy such a ludicrous idea.

The only thing preventing me from giving this a 1/10 is the fact that it *could* be worse. The production values could be lower, for instance, but as everyone who's seen, let's say, The Blair Witch Project, Clerks. or Paranormal Activity, knows that production values are just the icing on the cake. There have been way too many $100 to $250 million dollar movies that are complete bull**** because no-one bothered to write a proper script. Sadly, it seems that on the average, writers have not learned from their mistakes. But hey, who needs sense when you can make money without?