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8/10
Four Enemies Together and Childhood Recollections
claudio_carvalho24 December 2008
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Lincoln calls Sara from Miami asking for news about Michael and tells that he is trying to retrieve the Scylla for The Company with Gretchen, T-Bag and Self. They find a lead in the Grafton Club, and Lincoln goes to the place where he abducts the blonde Tia Hayden trying to find the representative of the owner of Scylla. Meanwhile Michael awakes locked in a house in the woods under the surveillance of bodyguards of The Company. The psychiatrist Dr. Roger Knowlton tells him that his mother is alive, working for The Company in the Madagascar Rainforest and he wants to prepare Michael to join The Company and use his skills in global scale working with his mother. Tia lures Lincoln and escapes from him, but he keeps her wallet and finds her address. General Krantz receives Sara that tells that she wants to stay with Michael, but he says no to her. T-Bag and Self go to Tia's house and Self plots against the leadership of Lincoln. They bring pictures and a HDthey found in the house, and when Self argues with Lincoln, Mahone arrives and balances the situation. Gretchen believes that it is an inside job in The Company. Michael sees pictures of his childhood and recalls his family reunion while Dr. Knowlton evaluates him for General Krantz and is pressed to use a quick and nasty process to force Michael to join The Company. Lincoln and Mahone go to the marina to investigate the representative of the owner of Scylla. Sara receives a mysterious message in her phone for a meeting and is abducted near a public phone by Lisa's mean, and Lisa tells her that Michael is 60 miles northeastern downtown. Gretchen finds Scott, the representative of the owner of Scylla, while researching a database, but she lures the rest of the group and meets with Scott that promises ten million dollars for her. T-Bag overhears the conversation of Sara and Lincoln and calls General Krantz that orders Dr. Knowlton to drug Michael for transportation. However Michael reverts the situation and escapes running through the woods. Sara runs over the car of The Company's men and rescues Michael. When the group meets Scott, there is a shootout and Gretchen is hit and left behind. In the end, the surprising owner of Scylla finally appears.

In "The Sunshine State" we see four enemies working together and the childhood recollections of Michael. Lincoln accepts to work with Gretchen, T-Bag and Self and fortunately for him Mahone joins the team. Michael feels depressed with the information that his mother is alive and Sara saves him. The discovery that his mother is alive is quite inconsistent since why should The Company frame the son of one of the most important employees? But the greatest surprise is the identity of the owner of Scylla in the end of the episode. My vote is eight.

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Note: On 05 July 2009 I saw this episode again.
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6/10
Tiresome
Abdulxoxo20 June 2022
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"The sunshine states" is one of my least favorite episode this show has offerred. It features Burrows' team going to Miami to where Scott has been tracked to. The team obtains surveillance footage which Gretchen investigates and finds Scott, but she doesn't inform the team and arranges a meeting with Scott on her own. The lots of backstabbing is getting boring and tiresome. Fast forward, Gretchen takes the team to a location where they are ambushed by Scott's men. She then switches sides again. She is shot by Scott's men but the team decided to spare her life. In the other part, Michael is being held in a mansion at countryside. A psychiatrist is trying to convince Michael to work for the company. And we learned that Michael's mother is not only well and alive but is also working for the company. Well, I don't know if we even need another family theatrics as their father showing up in S2 was kinda sappy and melodramatic. But I hope this goes somewhere exhilarating. And also Michael's escape was laughable at best, and what, Sara just happen to arrive at the exact moment where Michael is hold at gun point and smashes the bad guy's car? Really? Haven't we had enough of these last-minute saves? Overall, not a pulsating episode.
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2/10
Just when you thought it could not get any worse...
ttapola26 March 2010
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I decided to see this show to the end because I refuse to let its monumental stupidity break me like most of the people I know who used to watch the show but gave up. Now Michael and Lincoln's mother is suddenly alive (her having been dead from the start of the series was a lie, you see) and has a plan for Scylla. Why am I not surprised? This makes just about as much sense as anything else since season 2. Clandestine warfare inside the company? Please. It's about as clandestine as 9/11. Since the actual purpose of Scylla isn't all that exciting (WHY?), the writers really are throwing everything at the wall, hoping that something would stick. Everything keeps changing for no plausible reason and results in more pointless running in circles.

Actually, there was potential for interesting character exploration in Gretchen, but, not recognizing a chance when they accidentally create one, the writers stupidly (seemly) kill her off. Since she isn't even allowed a death scene nor a capture scene, I can only prophecize that she will be seen again, as a "surprise twist". Probably another one which will not make sense. She deserved better. Also, since Amaury Nolasco is credited in the opening titles as a series regular, we'll probably see him too later on. The writers just didn't have any use for his character after this dumb A-Team rip-off (more like F-team) began.

At this point, the series is so bad, it does not even get me infuriated like earlier, when it seemed that the pieces might actually make some sense when put together. But since the writers have been making pieces up for the past three years, no way in hell will this make any sense when watched from beginning of season 1 to the end. Which is really a shame because had this remained the 13-episode miniseries as originally planned, it would have been *gold*. The first third of season 1 is *really* good. This final season is a disgrace to the name and intent of the series original plan. What prison? What break? And if someone tries to argue that the "prison break" is used as a metaphor at this point, they are seriously deluded. This will end in the same kind of senseless embarrassment as "The X Files" (and that was gold too for maybe the first three seasons). My vote is 2/10.
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2/10
Why can't seasons be rated?
bdjchz11 August 2021
Do the writers think we are idiots with a short attention span?

Horrified at how the second half of s4 has carried out. Cut to this. Cut to that. Que the intense sound track. 'Something must be wrong'...

It's obvious that those who owned the rights were twisting a wet sock full of money for every dime.

How on earth the writers made predictability so predictable is beyond me. Really disappointed at both the studio for obviously rushing writers, and the writers themselves.
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3/10
Not terribly good
ignisgeodacius4 October 2021
If the writers goal was to be unpredictable then mission accomplished. If their goal was to make any sense whatsoever they failed miserably.

Another gripe I have is that somehow during and after brain surgery somehow Michael magically gained some form of esp and now knows what is on Scylla!? Wtf is that all about!?

It seems pretty clear that the writers were without any solid framework to follow and the producers were just milking this thing for all it was worth.

Very disappointing indeed.
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