S03E13: 'The Art Of The Deal'

The Prison Break third series finale failed to capitalise on the tension generated by the previous two episodes.

Disappointingly, the central exchange of Whistler with Gretchen's hostages failed to set the pulse racing and was very anti-climactic. As for the time spent dwelling on McGrady's character arc - what was the point? He was a fairly irrelevant part of the Sona furniture and Whistler's birdwatching book probably had more personality. So a huge feeling of 'so what?' was the natural response when he evaded police and thrown a surprise party. Why couldn't the writers have given Mahone something more interesting to do other than lounge around in a bar for most of the episode?

On the plus side, Robert Knepper delivered an utterly compelling performance as T-Bag. His deception of Lechero was deliciously cunning, as were his subsequent sly attempts to worm his way to the top of the Sona pecking order by paradoxically preaching equality. Dishing out a few bank notes didn't hurt his cause either. If only politicians did the same.

There's no doubt that someone in the Prison Break production team is a huge David Lynch fan. The rather poignant final montage of the characters was set to the moving sounds of Rebekah Del Rio's 'Llorando' - a Spanish version of Roy Orbison's 'Crying' that was memorably used to epiphany-creating effect in Lynch's masterpiece Mulholland Drive. If the show never returns to the air, at least it ended in brilliant style. Well, in the last couple of minutes at least.