'Alcatraz' - Cal Sweeney recap

This week's episode of Alcatraz focuses on bank robber Cal Sweeney. The opening of the episode shows a very well dressed man walking into a bank and heading down the safe deposit boxes with a middle aged teller. As Sweeney and the teller are starting to get hot and heavy, he pulls out a needle and puts her to sleep. As he is about to leave the bank with the contents of the safe deposit boxes, the bank manager enters the vault, surprising Sweeney, and Sweeney kills him with a shot to the head with what seemed eerily similar to what Anton Chigurh was killing people with in No Country for Old Men.

When Madsen gets a call about the homicide during the bank robbery and that only items from safe deposit boxes were taken, Doc, and his infinite knowledge of all things Alcatraz, knows that's the MO of Sweeney. Hauser meets them on scene, and they decide to track down the owners of the boxes that were robbed. Sweeney was doing the same thing though, and beat the detective to the punch.

Upon arriving at the last name on their list, Madsen and Doc enter the house to find the box's owner already dead, killed the same way as the bank manager.

This process is on rinse and repeat for another robbery and another dead body until the woman Sweeney is trying to incapacitate fights back, and sounds the alarm. Police show up immediately. Knowing what kind of crazy mess they'd be in if Sweeney gets caught by the police, Hauser distracts the captain and SWAT as Madsen finds a way into the bank to break Sweeney out.

Madsen dresses Sweeney up as a SWAT officer and they exit the bank together as the real SWAT busts in. As they drive away, Sweeney notices Doc and Hauser tailing them and pulls his gun on Madsen. She notices he doesn't have a seat belt on, and rams into a parked car, knocking him out. In a small bag Sweeney had on him from the bank was another one of the keys from the prison, almost identical to the one Hauser took off Slyvane in the pilot.

In Sweeney's 1960 storyline, he is shown doing his work in the laundry room, but his real job is running things in and out of the prison for profit. Deputy Warden Tiller wants a piece of the action, but Sweeney isn't having any of it. Sweeney's protégé, so to speak, advises him to make the deal, which Sweeney agrees with, but only if Tiller gives him back the tin box he took from the cell.

Sweeney agrees to a 50 percent share of his business with Tiller, but holds fast that he doesn't have the box. Sweeney attacks Tiller, and Tiller counters by stabbing Sweeney in the leg with a pen the warden had just given him for his birthday. Just before Sweeney gets taken to solitary, his protégé slides the box to Sweeney, admitting to setting him up so he could take over his business.

The warden leads the protégé down into what seems the bowels of the island to what seems like an impenetrable door. He pulls out two keys, the one's Slyvane and Sweeney acquired in the present day (now in Hauser's possession), and a third key hole opened up. Obviously, the audience doesn't see what's in there as the warden sends the man in as the episode ends.