Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
PenDuffy - Aug 10, 2005 3:18:22 pm PDT #2519 of 10001
I need a new tagline.. submissions are accepted.
Lee - Aug 10, 2005 3:21:52 pm PDT #2520 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Allyson, I'm having dinner with G. tonight, so be prepared to get squeed at by him later.
Kristen - Aug 10, 2005 3:26:17 pm PDT #2521 of 10001
Actually, Largo I wouldn't be surprised at all if the judge had no idea of the prison retrofitting connection. And the two brothers do not share the same last name. The engineer is Michael Scofield. The death row brother is Lincoln Burrows.
bon bon - Aug 10, 2005 3:31:00 pm PDT #2522 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
It's the criminal justice system. It's hard as it is getting the arresting cops to show up. Believe me, NO ONE is checking to see if you worked for a place that designed the prison. It would be very hard to have all the engineering firms on tap, and that's given that knowing how a place was designed means it's easy to escape from it.
Wolfram - Aug 10, 2005 3:34:44 pm PDT #2523 of 10001
Visilurking
I'm with bon bon. I haven't seen the pilot, but if the premise is that a guy who designed a prison has a brother in that prison, it wouldn't be too hard to figure out what crime to commit and where to commit it to get sent to the same prison. And there's no way in hell the system would connect the dots, in fact, it's possible they wouldn't even put together that he had a brother in the same prison.
Amy - Aug 10, 2005 3:38:46 pm PDT #2524 of 10001
Because books.
Oh, wow, I loved Homefront.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 10, 2005 3:40:36 pm PDT #2525 of 10001
What is even happening?
Wolfram, between that post and your tag, "Part of the PROBLEM since 2002" I'm picturing a whole new career for you. You can advise people who want to break their family out of the joint on which crimes they should commit, and where.
PenDuffy, thanks for the link to www.tvshowsondvd.com.
DawnK - Aug 10, 2005 3:42:04 pm PDT #2526 of 10001
giraffe mode
Wolfram, from what I've seen in the commercials, the older brother (Dominic Purcell) designed the prison he's incarcerated in. His younger brother, convinced that the older brother is innocent, commits a crime, gets put in the same prison with the sole purpose of breaking his older brother out since his older brother helped design the prison. It's just convoluted enough to make my head hurt but if ita and Kristen are right about the shirtlessness, then I may have to handwave. Although, after they break out, it'll be The Fugitive but with more people on the run.
Kristen - Aug 10, 2005 4:23:27 pm PDT #2527 of 10001
Also, to be clear, the firm he worked for didn't build the prison. IIRC, they were hired to retrofit it with some stuff a few years before the opening of the series.
ETA: And actually I had to go look and it wasn't even his firm that was hired to do the work. It was another firm that was hired in 1999 and they couldn't do the job so they subcontracted, under the table, to another firm. Which is the brother's firm.
Wolfram - Aug 10, 2005 4:36:10 pm PDT #2528 of 10001
Visilurking
You can advise people who want to break their family out of the joint on which crimes they should commit, and where.
If I had a nickel for ever time I get asked to do this...
His younger brother, convinced that the older brother is innocent, commits a crime, gets put in the same prison with the sole purpose of breaking his older brother out since his older brother helped design the prison.
Wow, I had the whole thing backwards. I thought the younger brother's all designer guy.