Prison Break (Episode 7): Sudden Demise
10/02/06 08:12 PM
By ED BARK
Hmm, no wonder they kept calling him a "guest star." Dallas native Lane Garrison's live-wire David "Tweener" Apolski took a fatal hit on Monday night's Prison Break episode, joining mobster John Abruzzi (Peter Stormare) as the second escapee to go down for the count on the show's Season 2.
Come to think of it, Stormare was always billed as a guest star, too. Well, duh.
Tweener bit it at the hands of increasingly crazed FBI agent Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner), who executed him after the kid conned him into thinking he'd be a stool pigeon. Mahone waited until the stark end of Episode 7 ("Buried") to get his revenge. He then emptied his revolver into one of the series' more arresting characters.
In real life, Garrison had taken up residence at the trendy W Hotel during this season's filming in North Texas. It's hoped that the young, likable actor has banked enough money to live somewhere other than a van down by the river while looking for another part. If not, he's welcome to hole up in unclebarky.com's upstairs home office for a while. We've even got a flush toilet -- and a sofa bed.
Monday's Prison Break also saw the emergence of guest star Clarice Tinsley, the venerable Fox4 anchor. She had three separate appearances on a TV newscast, reading a series of "Fox River Fallout" reports. Tinsley just might have had more dialogue than Prison Break star Dominic Purcell, whose Lincoln Burrows continues to act as though he's in a Charlie Chaplin movie. Actually, Burrows had a few more lines than usual Monday night before driving off on his own in hopes of reuniting with his teenage son.
Also of note: The other runaway cons finally uncovered the $5 million in buried cash they'd been after. But just when everyone was all smiles, kill-joy fugitive Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) pulled a gun on 'em.
Meanwhile, Gov. Frank Tancredi (John Heard) was left hanging -- and dead -- after viewers learned that his vice presidential nomination had been withdrawn. Um, Heard was listed as a guest star, too.
Prison Break now will take a three-week break for baseball's playoffs and World Series before returning to Fox on Oct. 23rd. Let's see, are there any more on-the-lam guest stars still breathing? Yes, there's still one. Silas Weir Mitchell, who plays childish escapee Charles "Haywire" Patoshik, has never been listed as a regular cast member either.
Good luck with all that.