After learning all the escapees can’t make it over the prison wall, the group decides to get rid of T-Bag. T-Bag has a plan of his own that doesn’t involve him staying inside. His “insurance”, however, is too obvious for Abruzzi, who takes action to undermine it. Sucre gets some news from Maricruz.
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Michael gets a visit from his wife, much to everyone’s surprise. She brings him what appears to be a credit card, but is in fact something entirely different. Bellick does some research after seeing Michael’s wife, whom he thinks looks familiar. Michael learns that his watch has been stolen by a guard, and he must [...]
Abruzzi struggles to get his crew back to PI. He tries to convince Michael to reveal Fibonacci’s whereabouts to Falzone. Agents Kellerman and Hale receive some professional help for their search, as the Vice President isn’t satisfied about their progress so far. An inmate becomes suspicious of the escapees’ work in the break room. Steadman’s [...]
Abruzzi’s demotion in the prison hierachy puts the entire escape plan at risk. Michael finds himself in the uneviable position of trying to protect T-Bag’s new “fish” and facing the threat of T-Bag exposing the plan to the guards. The inmates dig themselves into a hole.
Michael finds out a storeroom fundamental to his escape plans has been converted into a break room. Veronica and Nick are being threatened, so they go to Nick’s place which is off the radar of the Secret Service.
Outside the National Guard arrives as Bellick and the Pope have a little discussion. Bellick wants to storm the place, but Pope insists on following protocol. They’re interrupted by Abruzzi Thug who hollers from a window that they’re holding Rookie Guard hostage. Abruzzi tells Abruzzi Thug to lie and say they also have the Doc. [...]
Michael creates a lockdown by sabotaging the air conditioning in order to execute his breakout plan and unintentionally causes a riot that gets Sara into huge trouble. Meanwhile, an ex-con is blackmailed into seeing to that Lincoln is killed.
Then we catch up with the Pope having a meeting with sneaky Kellerman and nervous Hale. They want to know why Pope blocked their transfer request. The Pope blathers on about state and federal something, his responsibility and blah blah blah. So Kellerman turns to his trusty ally: blackmail. He’s much more successful in blackmailing [...]
Veronica uncovers new information regarding Lincoln’s case and decides she wants to work on the case full-time. When no one wants to help her, an attorney named Nick Savrinn offers his assistance and the two of them visit Lincoln. Michael’s new cellmate, Haywire, causes problems with the escape plans.
Things pick up where the last episode ended. Thug #1 is having a good laugh at Michael’s expense-or, rather, Michael’s toes’ expense. The torture is cut short by the arrival of a couple of guards who hustle Michael outta there. They leave the toes behind. At the infirmary Dr. Tancredi asks Bellick to investigate, but [...]