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.
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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Wolfram - Aug 10, 2005 3:34:44 pm PDT #2523 of 10001
Visilurking
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.
Kristen - Aug 10, 2005 4:48:07 pm PDT #2529 of 10001
No, Wolfram, you're right.
Wolfram - Aug 10, 2005 5:06:46 pm PDT #2530 of 10001
Visilurking
That does make more sense. Otherwise, imprisoned brother could have broken himself out.
JoeCrow - Aug 10, 2005 5:53:19 pm PDT #2531 of 10001
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Also with the late Allyson congrats. Woo, and also hoo.
Astarte - Aug 10, 2005 6:28:11 pm PDT #2532 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Go, Allyson!!! I'm so excited for you.