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Season 1 Episode 11

Webb Porter

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Rebecca, Doc and Hauser search for an unknown '63 who's returned more violent than before.

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  • One of the best yet, in terms of the recurring sotrylien.

    10
    By amazing_race, Apr 11, 2012
    In terms of the case, this was a very interesting episode, although definitely not the best. I found it quite entertaining, and the scenes from Alcatraz were particularly interesting. Lucy's music therapy treatment was quite interesting.



    But really, this episode was great because of the recurring storyline with Lucy. I thought it was extremely interesting to follow. They needed to get Porter alive to save her.



    Don't want to spoil what happens, but I absolutely love the way this episode eneded, and it makes me impatient for the next episode! Will be entertaining for sure! Keep it up, Alcatraz!!!moreless

  • Webb Porter plays the violin...

    3.0
    By anbis82, Mar 30, 2012
    Spoiler Alert: this night's 63 was called Webb Porter. Not that it's important, they just changed the setup a little and our favorite investigators didn't know the name of the troublemaker from the start... otherwise... just the same old story...



    The episode centered around Lucy to shed some light on what she was doing back in the sixties (though they didn't now that I think about it...). There was some kind of musical genius who was destroyed by his cold mother who had tried to kill him as a child. Then he started murdering women. Drowned them, like his mother tried. I think that's Alcatraz's idea of how murderers are created. I also think Webb Porter couldn't actually read music which was a problem in the present to get a job as violinist and to get some motherly love and acceptance. Remember, that's how Alcatraz portrays his murderers and their motives. However, he had found a secret weapon. His bow made the "sweetest" sound (to quote one character from the episode) because Porter used the hair of the women he killed to string it himself. He probably killed one after another to find the one with the most suitable hair or something like that. That's just ridiculous, but whatever. You've got to put at least a few ridicolulous ideas into an Alcatraz' episode I guess...



    In the past, Lucy was the one who decided Porter needed to listen to and make music as part of his therapy and arranged for him to take a seat in Alcatraz' ochestra. Porter picked up a violin as his choice of musical torture device and immediately started playing scratching noises to actual music. There is something I will never get. Why don't they use actual musicians to play musicians? I can't believe there are no actors who can actually play the violin. Well, at least he pretended ok to play the violin. However, what kind of musician would carve his name into his violin? That's the clue (and you probably have to scribble your name all over the evidence for Rebecca and Soto to find it) they found. Remember, this episode did something new because they didn't know the name of the returned '63 from the beginning...

    Back in Alcatraz, Webb Porter was able to get a cell in General Population after getting a violin (before that he was seperated). The fellow inmates didn't like him at first, but his violin play calmed them down. Could have worked for me as well, but the music was the most annoying music I've ever had the pleasure listening to. However, Lucy was proud, the assistant warden not convinced as always and the doc called Lucy the warden's new favorite pet. Whatever that means...



    Back in the present, Rebecca, Soto and Hauser tried to find Porter. As it had turned out, he was the one who had the right blood type to save Lucy. Well, at some point they found a bow with red hair, realized that the hair came from a new victim, found the victim, found Porter, Porter tried to jump to his death, they caught him... You know, as always, pretty boring stuff. Hauser then brought him to Lucy so he could save her. Oh, I forgot an important part of this episode because they decided to show Soto following Hauser in episode 11. Because Hauser never answers any questions. He is the personified Alcatraz. Following their investigation, they found out that Hauser had taken Lucy out of the hospital and that Lucy was one of the '63 as well.



    Back in his present Alcatraz cell, Porter played the same annoying song, and his fellow, recaptured inmates listened enchanted. There really must be something wrong with their blood. And then Lucy woke up...



    I think it's amazing this show can get even more boring from week to week. There was nothing mysterious at all about it, just annoying music. The '63 of the week was creepy as it gets. However, I can hardly complain, this show has proven for the time it's been on air that it just doesn't do interesting.moreless

  • Its all about music

    6.5
    By nelio21, Mar 21, 2012
    On this episode the '63 is Webb Porter, who in the flashbacks(1960) we learn that his mother tryed to drown him, then he murders her. While at the prison Dr. Sengupta helps him on his condition by playing music (turntable) then lets him play the cielo. In the present he is killing girls and use their hair as strings.

    The best part of the show was the ending, Dr. Diego Soto and Rebecca find out, through some old video, that Dr. Sengupta is from the past and that Hauser is hiding her on the same place as the prisioners, so next episode should be better.moreless

  • Been better episodes but still good

    7.0
    By ffemt2016, Mar 20, 2012
    I like how this episode started out this week. They had murders happening but no clues to say who was doing it. Then they found a finger nail at a crime scene that had some "tainted" blood under it. After letting Hauser know what was found, Rebecca found out that a '63 was responsible. Then a cat-and-mouse hunt ensued over who it could be. By "coincidence" a violin was found at Alcatraz with the name of who the killer was. After catching him, Webb turns out to be the blood type Lucy needed. You kind of figure out he is the one during the episode when he tells Lucy, one day he might be able to pay her back for helping him. Not my best review, but just hit on the high points of the episode. The rest of the episode didn't have much to offer, in my opinion.moreless
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Cast & Crew: STARS

Sarah Jones (II)

Sarah Jones (II)

Detective Rebecca Madsen
Jorge Garcia

Jorge Garcia

Dr. Diego Soto
Sam Neill

Sam Neill

Emerson Hauser
Parminder Nagra

Parminder Nagra

Lucy Banerjee
Jonny Coyne

Jonny Coyne

Warden Edwin James
Jason Butler Harner

Jason Butler Harner

Associate Warden E.B. Tiller
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Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

Rami Malek

Rami Malek

Webb Porter

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Greyston Holt

Greyston Holt

Young Emerson Hauser

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Jeananne Goossen

Jeananne Goossen

Nikki

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Leon Rippy

Leon Rippy

Dr. Milton Beauregard

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Jeffrey Pierce

Jeffrey Pierce

Jack Sylvane

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Joe Egender

Joe Egender

Ernest Cobb

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