Hersh gets put in general population: the perfect opportunity to strike the three suspects (one was already spirited away when his identity was ascertained) while they're getting their exercise. But these prison grounds are all about reunions with old friends. Here's Bear the dog's original owner, the Nazi punk from "Contigency." He'll have to wait his turn, however, because who other than Elias is waiting around to have a chat with Reese? They talk in a "dead zone" for the jail's cameras (I guess Donnelly's too busy to look out the window and see "John Warren" chatting with one of the biggest mobsters in the Northeast).
Elias wants to help Reese (who saved his life, remember). Reese asks him to get a picture of Hersh in order to find out who he's working for.
One of the three remaining Men in Suit (Charles McAvoy, but who cares?) offers to give up Reese, until Finch gets word to him he's going to leave his wife and kids in the poorhouse. McAvoy's 11th hour turnaround hits the skids when Hersh kills the second of the suspects, leading Donnelly to lean on Reese harder than ever.
Paris 2009 again, Kara goads Reese into doing the nasty. On camera, no less. Repeat after me: surely this will end well.
The interrogation takes a weird turn; Finch trying to backfill as Reese offers half-truths about his past (he accurately recounts his feelings on 9-11, just gives the wrong woman's name and a false location). "Warren" declined to reenlist when the World Trade Center came down, unlike Reese, who muses about alternate futures. It's a surprisingly powerful moment.
Donnelly has one last card up his sleeve: throw Reese/Warren to the wolves in the yard and see if he can defend himself. Of course Hersh is still there, but Reese doesn't put up a fight and Elias calls off the beating before Hersh can get his shiv on.
Gee, this Donnelly is a psycho.
Carter, tired of goofing around, has Holt (the first suspect) brought back in. In ridiculously short order, she's provoked him into attacking her and getting Warren off the hook. Reese walks (but not before Finch, grenade launcher in hand, demonstrates the ridiculous lengths he was willing to go to in order to spring him). He and Carter share a tender moment ... until Donnelly shows up. Shit, I knew things were wrapping up too soon.
One last flashback: 2010, Ordos: where Stanton and Reese were both ordered to kill each other by Snow. Now what's the significance of that, I wonder?
Fusco gets his goodbye kiss from Karolína -- damn, I really wanted to see *that* episode -- and Finch surprisingly gets a new NotW. Oh shit, it's Donnelly. Oh shit! The car he was driving with Reese and Carter in the back just got hit by a dump truck! OH SHIT, IT'S KARA STANTON. She kills Donnelly and tranqs Reese.
Well, now I guess we know what those flashbacks meant.
Next week: Is American Idol back on? Because PoI won't be back until the ... 31st? Son of a bitch.
