S03E03: 'Call Waiting'

The pace of the show picks up with the third episode of the new season, following last week's lacklustre offering.

The threat to Sara Tancredi and LJ at the hands of The Company is really felt, although the attempts to hide the fact that Sarah Wayne Callies hasn't reprised her role as Schofield's love interest are laughable. How can we expect the increasingly bland Lincoln Burrows to break her free when they'd have to film Sara without showing her face? Recasting the role with a new actress would have been the right choice, as hardly anyone would batter an eyelid given the highly contrived world of Prison Break.

Still, the uneasy alliance between Schofield and T-Bag made for good viewing, while the vastly underused Mahone is finally being lured out of the shadows in a bid to offset his cold turkey issues.

An intriguing cliffhanger sets up the next episode nicely and suggests that someone at The Company might be a fan of the film Seven. If Sara's head is in the box, just don't expect to see anything apart from a mass of ginger hair. Not too dissimilar from her recent appearances then.