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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date—29 August 2005
Michael Scofield is imprisoned in Fox River State Penitentiary. He finds his brother, Lincoln Burrows, who is a death row prisoner, and tells him that he is going to break them both out of the prison.

Season 1, Episode 2: Allen

Original Air Date—29 August 2005
Trouble is inevitable in the prison, with a race riot imminent. Michael has problems retrieving a screw from the bleachers. Veronica receives a security tape that shows Lincoln shooting Terrence Steadman.

Season 1, Episode 3: Cell Test

Original Air Date—5 September 2005
Two steps forward and one step back. Michael gets Abruzzi on his side and proves Sucre's trustworthiness, but then loses a valuable piece of his plan.

Season 1, Episode 4: Cute Poison

Original Air Date—12 September 2005
Michael gets more of the tools and people he needs, but someone very high up has taken notice and started wondering what he's up to.

Season 1, Episode 5: English, Fitz or Percy

Original Air Date—19 September 2005
Michael gains a necessary piece of information to effect his escape, but can he keep the Warden from kicking him out?

Season 1, Episode 6: Riots, Drills and the Devil: Part 1

Original Air Date—26 September 2005
Michael's idea to get more drilling time by provoking a lock-down backfires horribly.

Season 1, Episode 7: Riots, Drills and the Devil: Part 2

Original Air Date—3 October 2005
Michael saves Dr. Tancredi from the rioting prisoners, but Lincoln and Veronica are in need of their own rescue.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Old Head

Original Air Date—24 October 2005
Veronica and LJ must go into hiding, while Michael unwittingly provides Westmoreland's motivation to aid the escape.

Season 1, Episode 9: Tweener

Original Air Date—31 October 2005
With Abruzzi becoming more desperate to regain authority within the prison, it seems that Fibonacci's number is up.

Season 1, Episode 10: Sleight of Hand

Original Air Date—7 November 2005
Michael hands over an address to Falzone, allowing work to resume on the tunnel. Meanwhile, the VP enlists the help of a dangerous specialist.

Season 1, Episode 11: And Then There Were 7

Original Air Date—14 November 2005
Michael gets a visit from his wife, while Veronica and Nick get a visit from Quinn.

Season 1, Episode 12: Odd Man Out

Original Air Date—21 November 2005
C-Note overhears Michael and Lincoln discussing that there are too many fugitives for available time and they share the information with the group telling that one shall be left behind. T-Bag feels threatened and calls his cousin James Bagwell, disclosing the escape plan and asking James to call the Warden Pope in case T-Bag does not contact him later. Abruzzi asks his outside man to kidnap James, but things go wrong and the mobster kills James and his five years old son Jimmy. Abruzzi feels guilty for the death of the child and feels the need of God's forgiveness, but T-Bag betrays Abruzzi like Judas. Meanwhile Veronica and LJ bring Nick to the hospital and while in surgery, LJ escapes to see the funeral of his mother. Daniel Hale sees the teenager in the cemetery but he does not arrest him; later he tells his wife that they should move to West and gives an anonymous call to Veronica scheduling a meeting in the Highland Cafe. Maricruz tells Sucre that she is pregnant but she will marry Hector. Captain Bellick presses David to rat Michael telling everything he says. Michael tests the escape plan and informs the group that they are ready to go that night, but Lincoln was sent to solitary confinement protecting his brother.

Season 1, Episode 13: End of the Tunnel

Original Air Date—28 November 2005
The escape is about to go through when the team hits a stainless steel snag, while Veronica is just a moment too late to get all the information she needs to prove Lincoln's innocence.

Season 1, Episode 14: The Rat

Original Air Date—20 March 2006
With the pipe to the infirmary replaced and Lincoln's life hanging in the balance, Michael must rethink his plan to escape and save his brother's life. A fellow inmate may hold the key to preventing Lincoln's execution.

Season 1, Episode 15: By the Skin and the Teeth

Original Air Date—27 March 2006
Michael's plan to escape has failed. While Lincoln is strapped to the electric chair, he sees an oddly familiar face in the crowd. Is there one last hope to save Lincoln's life, or has his journey reached an end?

Season 1, Episode 16: Brother's Keeper

Original Air Date—3 April 2006
Flashbacks provide exposition on how the inmates arrived at Fox River Penitentiary from The Company's framing of Lincoln to the creation of Michael's plan to save his brother's life.

Season 1, Episode 17: J-Cat

Original Air Date—10 April 2006
Having burned his shoulder, Michael's tattoo that showed the path through psych ward is now incomplete. With another inmate intimidated into snitching about the escape plans, Michael Scofield must use his wits to find a new way out of Fox River.

Season 1, Episode 18: Bluff

Original Air Date—17 April 2006
Improvising a new plan, Michael seeks out an acquaintance who may hold the key to his escape plan. In gen pop, the other members of the P.I. crew learn that the guards are auctioning Michael's cell to the highest bidder. Lincoln and Sucre devise a scheme to get Michael returned to gen pop. Veronica informs Lincoln that L.J will be tried for his mother's murder, and Lincoln desires to see his son.

Season 1, Episode 19: The Key

Original Air Date—24 April 2006
After the crash, Kellerman tries to suffocate Lincoln, but he is saved in the last moment by a stranger. Sucre leaves the solitary confinement and Michael tells to his partners that he has completed the map, but he needs the key of the infirmary. Abruzzi is back to Fox River, apparently converted in a religious man. Warden Pope sends Captain Bellick to find Lincoln before notifying the authorities. Nick tries to convince Veronica that they are losing time checking the calls of Quinn's cell phone. Michael kisses Sara and asks her to wait for him. Tweener is in trouble with Avocado and he castrates the abuser. Lincoln sees that the stranger is actually his father, and he explains that he worked for the powerful Company, and Lincoln is a victim of a big plot against him. He had leaked information of EcoField and they used Lincoln to force him to show off. Michaels asks for help to Nika. Veronica finds many calls from Montana. The Vice-President tells her brother that he is alive just because of her, and he replies that he does not understand how they have not killed her yet. Abruzzi meets T-Bag and asks him to forget everything, and they seal truce. Nika seeks out Sara and tells her life and how Michael helped her, but she actually steals Sara's key. A guy sees the Mustang in a junkyard where Aldo and Lincoln are hidden, but Kellerman bugs the conversation and goes to the spot. However, the police arrive and Captain Bellick arrests Lincoln, saving him from Kellerman. Sara seeks her key and recalls her meeting with Nika Volek; she calls maintenance service to replace the lock. Nick works for Abruzzi. Michael invites David and he betrays the plan to Captain Bellick. Lincoln is back to Fox River under 24 hours surveillance.

Season 1, Episode 20: Tonight

Original Air Date—1 May 2006
Westmoreland uses Bellick to plug a hole in the escape plan, which forces Michael to move up the breakout timetable. A fearful Tweener pledges his loyalty to Michael and in return may get out of jail for free; Michael feels that he has no choice but to involve Sara in the plan and must betray his father figure; and Veronica finds her life in jeopardy from her closest ally, who has a surprising connection to a Fox River inmate.

Season 1, Episode 21: Go

Original Air Date—8 May 2006
Dr. Sarah questions if she should leave a light on and the door open for Michael, who must betray the Pope in order to carry out his escape plan. Veronica finds evidence that points her to Montana, but realizes that her closest ally may actually be her greatest enemy. Michael, Lincoln and the other inmates make a break for it, but after the alarm is sounded, find out who will make it over the wall, who will be left behind and who will leave the prison in a body bag.

Season 1, Episode 22: Flight

Original Air Date—15 May 2006
As the escape continues, lives are lost and Pope and Bellick do everything in their power to capture the convicts.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Manhunt

Original Air Date—21 August 2006
It is the morning after their escape from Fox River, and the inmates narrowly avoid being caught by Bellick as they jump onto a freight train. FBI Special Agent Alex Mahone has been assigned to their case and calls a press conference urging the public to turn in the "Fox River 8." Michael, Lincoln, Abruzzi, C-Note, and Sucre encounter a hunter and his daughter. He holds them at gunpoint until Abruzzi grabs the daughter and forces the hunter to give them his SUV and let them go. The escapees head for a location where Michael has things stored. Agent Mahone tracks Michael's credit card to a storage facility in Oswego, but quickly figures out that one of Michael's tattoos holds the real location. Michael's tattoo "Ripe Chance Woods" is a clue pointing to a cemetery where Michael has items buried in the grave of "E. Chance Woods." Just two steps behind, Agent Mahone arrives at the scene just as the inmates have gathered what they need. In the meantime, T-Bag discovers a veterinary clinic and forces the Vet to re-attach his severed hand. Dr. Sarah Tancredi recovers from her overdose. Inside her purse, she finds an origami swan left for her by Michael with a message, "There's a plan to make all of this right", and a code. The code is a series of numbers which reads 3221243324 for the first line, 4221312231 for the second, and 23133121 for the third. Veronica locates Terrance Steadman in Montana, and finds that the doors are locked from the outside, holding him hostage (albeit willingly). Veronica calls 911, and then talks to Lincoln and tells him what she has learned. Employees of The Company arrive and kill Veronica for having unraveled their plot and for having found Steadman. Lincoln hears Veronica's final words as she dies, and is consumed with grief. Mahone studies Michael's tattoos, and feels that they are the key to finding the escapees.

Season 2, Episode 2: Otis

Original Air Date—28 August 2006
The F.B.I agent Mahone decides to use L.J to get to Michael and Lincoln by cutting a deal with him and making him trick the two fugitives into revealing their location. Michael and Lincoln decide there's only one thing they can do, rescue L.J in a daring raid at the county jail. Only one problem though, Mahone is personally guarding L.J and won't let him out of his sight.

Season 2, Episode 3: Scan

Original Air Date—4 September 2006
With hospitals and clinics under surveillance, Michael brings Lincoln to Nika's home to heal his wounded leg. Then he returns to the place where he parked his Accord and finds that the car has been towed. Meanwhile agent Mahone retrieves Michael's backpack with his passport from a vagrant that broke the rear window of Michael's car to steal the backpack. Michael goes to Brewster Towing yard to recover his car. Meanwhile Sucre finds that Maricruz will marry Hector in a couple of days and he heads to New York in a stolen car. Sara is arrested and her father visits her, pays her bail and orders her to tell a fake version about the incident in Fox River since he will be the next Vice-President of North America. Later she goes to rehabilitation where Kellerman is pretending to be an addicted patient. C-Note schedules a meeting with his wife, but his conversation is bugged by agent Mahone. Bellick and Geary meet each other by chance and later they team-up to get the US$ 400,000.00 reward for capturing Michael and Lincoln. They go to Fox River and Bellick interrogates Manche Sanchez, who discloses the plan of the fugitives. Michael and Lincoln forge a car accident to escape from Mahone, but they do not see that Bellick and Geary are in their tail.

Season 2, Episode 4: First Down

Original Air Date—11 September 2006
Michael, Linc, and Nika are captured by Bellick and Geary, who intend to retrieve Westmoreland's money in Utah. Tweener continues his drive with Debra Jean. Abruzzi is reunited with his wife and children and is set to flee the country with them, but decides to take care of Fibonacci first. T-Bag has a close call with the police at a Nebraska gas station, and then poses as a Marine who lost his hand in Iraq. Mahone waits for confirmation of the deaths of Michael and Linc in the car explosion, and meanwhile gets a lead on one of the other fugitives. Kellerman (posing as a recovering addict named Lance) befriends Sara.

Season 2, Episode 5: Map 1213

Original Air Date—18 September 2006
Michael and Linc arrive in Tooele, but the map they need to locate the double-K ranch is missing. They run into T-Bag and Tweener, who have also come to Tooele for Westmoreland's money. Meanwhile, C-Note makes his way by train toward Tooele. Sucre reaches Las Vegas and attempts to halt the wedding of Maricruz and Hector. Sara invites Kellerman to her apartment, believing he is harmless. At the FBI office in Chicago, Mahone reviews files recovered from Michael's hard drive, and begins to piece things together.

Season 2, Episode 6: Subdivision

Original Air Date—25 September 2006
Mahone arrives in Salt Lake City, trying to locate exactly where in Utah the escapees are. Michael and Linc hatch a plan with T-Bag and Tweener that will enable them to dig in the right place. C-Note and Sucre meet on the highway and head toward Tooele. Kellerman, in Washington, D.C., briefs Kim. Governor Tancredi phones Sara with a warning.

Season 2, Episode 7: Buried

Original Air Date—2 October 2006
Michael's plan has hit a snag when the home owner's daughter, a cop, arrives. Mahone argues with Lyle Sands about how to proceed, but ultimately hopes that Tweener, in FBI custody, will reveal the location of the other escapees. Sara is now suspicious of Kellerman, so he tries something different to find Lincoln Burrows. In an Arizona detention facility, L.J. finds out he's to be released the next day; Linc drives to get him. Haywire, in Wisconsin, steals supplies from a camping shop.

Season 2, Episode 8: Dead Fall

Original Air Date—23 October 2006
In his efforts to try to get hold of all of the money Sucre runs into some unexpected difficulties. And Captain Bellick and his partner have not given up on finding their old inmates.

Season 2, Episode 9: Unearthed

Original Air Date—30 October 2006
Michael tries to retrieve an item from Blanding Botanical Garden in Utah, but Mahone's people got to it first. Mahone believes that someone on his team is leaking information to the press; meanwhile Michael does some research on Mahone at an Internet café, then makes a trip to Durango, Colorado, to see a woman there. Linc and L.J. are on the road in Arizona. C-Note is in Chicago, and Agent Lang tries to use his wife to capture him. Bellick and Geary phone C.O. Patterson, at Fox River, to get information on where they should look for T-Bag. Sara is at a motel in Elgin, Illinois, trying to crack Michael's code. T-Bag arrives in Tribune, Kansas, for (as he puts it) "romance". Kellerman is on the trail of Sara.

Season 2, Episode 10: Rendezvous

Original Air Date—6 November 2006
Captain Bellick tortures T-Bag for the money during which T-Bag swallows the key and Bellick uses dirty tricks to get the key out.Bellick and Mac leave T-Bag on the boundary of the police.Sarah and Michael Scofield meet,but they are constantly chased by Alexander Mahone.Michael gets close to Mahone's helplessness.Meanwhile Lincoln Burrows and LJ are rescued by Lincon's dad but they are still not shielded from the dirty political games. Sucre tries to contact Maricruz but that plan fails because of the state police doing rounds.

Season 2, Episode 11: Bolshoi Booze

Original Air Date—13 November 2006
In Maljamar, New Mexico, Michael takes what he needs from a sporting-goods store, then has a crisis of conscience. In Tribune, Kansas, T-Bag narrowly escapes the police but has to leave his hand behind. In Trinidad, Colorado, the three Burrowses discuss politics, but face an unexpected threat. In Gila, New Mexico, Kellerman ties up Sara and resolves to get what he needs from her. Mahone meets Kim for the first time. Bellick receives treatment for the blow to his forehead, and interacts with a local police detective.

Season 2, Episode 12: Disconnect

Original Air Date—20 November 2006
Picking up from where we left off, Sucre, Michael, Linc, and Aldo are together, with Mahone on their trail. Sara is face-down in the bathtub as Kellerman prepares to dispose of her body. C-Note is in Harvey, North Dakota with Kacee and Dede, who needs her medication. In Tribune, Kansas, Detective Slattery questions Bellick.

Season 2, Episode 13: The Killing Box

Original Air Date—27 November 2006
In Kansas T-Bag assaults and presumably kills a veteran and steals his prosthetic hand. He singles out an employee of the post office named Denise and romances her. In order to locate his ex-girlfriend (Susan Hollander) who turned him into the authorities, T-Bag lies and convinces the post officer worker to give him Susan's address. Just as she provides him with the information, Denise spots his wanted poster on the post office wall, and T-Bag kills her. In Kansas, Susan opens her door and finds T-Bag standing there. Faced with a potential death penalty sentence, Bellick takes a plea deal and agrees to serve time for Geary's murder, if he can do it at Fox River. After his transfer, the former C.O. discovers the new warden has taken a harsh approach to the treatment of the inmates, and Bellick will not be afforded any special treatment. Sent to gen-pop , Bellick meets his new cell mate, Avocado. Sara desperately attempts to contact Michael, but sees his capture reported on the national news. Aware that she's on her own, Sara changes her appearance by cutting and dying her hair, and throws out her real identification. Sucre's plane is shot down by the US military, but he parachutes to safety in the desert. The pilot of the plane, however, dies when his chute fails so no one knows Sucre is still alive as he heads to find Maricruz. At gun point, Agent Mahone prepares to kill Michael and Lincoln, but the border patrol arrives and interrupts his plan. The brothers are taken to a holding facility, and Agent Kim orders Mahone to kill them. Agent Kellerman pleads for his job back, and Kim receives hand written instructions from a mysterious person hidden in the shadows. Kellerman initiates a plan to ambush Michael and Lincoln in Albuquerque as they are transferred back to Fox River. Agent Kim tells Mahone about the plan and orders him to assassinate Kellerman when the convoy is stopped. Just as planned, the convoy is stopped in a tunnel by a jack-knifed semi. Michael and Lincoln realize it's a trap but the two decide to make a break for it anyway. The brothers run through small access tunnels, and are chased by Mahone. Trapped between Mahone and Kellerman, Michael and Lincoln can travel no further. In a surprising move, Kellerman shoots Mahone, and offers the brothers an opportunity to uncover the truth and expose President Reynold's and The Company's conspiracy.

Season 2, Episode 14: John Doe

Original Air Date—22 January 2007
Linc and Michael have decided to take the keys and escape, figuring at least they'll go down fighting. FBI Special Agent Alexander Mahone chased them while staying in contact with Secret Service Special Agent Paul Kellerman who suddenly shot Mahone and gave the brothers a ride because he wants revenge on the White House; Linc wants his instead, but is offered the location of Terence Steadman. T-bag visits his wife, who tells him the children think he's their Uncle Teddy on an oil rig, but he moves in; when his wife gets the gun, he attacks her and son Zach him, so he turns the home into a private prison. In prison, former boss Bellick, who naively had made a deal in order to do his time in Illinois, shivers in general population among the prisoners he abused and their mates, he has none as the new warden sees him as an example of his new, clean ship; he soon realizes there's no pleasing them, and tries hitting hard; a loyal guard warns him the night shift is on his enemies side as he treated them badly. Benjamin Miles 'C-Note' Franklin tries to save his Kacee who is in custody, advising her to put all the blame on him; after hearing how scared his girl is, he asks one of his friends for help to run while she's on bail but the judge refuses bail. Mahone awakes in hospital, and reports to Kim on Kellerman's betrayal and the brothers' escape, which is hitting the TV news, but refuses to play anymore, even if that means jail; when his wife Pam phones their son is hurt he rushes out for Colorado, but is stopped to hear it's a warning to force him back in line; however he is trough doing Kim's bidding and shoots his man. Kim calls Steadman's bodyguards: he must be evacuated to a safe house as Kellerman knows his residence, but he is already there with the brothers- Kims orders to kill everyone, but only the FBI men are shot; Kellerman explains Steadman is made unrecognizable, including plastic surgery, so their only option is to get him to Washington, where FBI agents who know can still make the truth stick. Michael decides instead to turn himself in while informing the press, despite Kellermans gun aimed at him, but Steadman prefers to commit suicide, and his corps is worthless for the brothers.

Season 2, Episode 15: The Message

Original Air Date—29 January 2007

Season 2, Episode 16: Chicago

Original Air Date—5 February 2007

Season 2, Episode 17: Bad Blood

Original Air Date—19 February 2007
Michael Schofield and Sara Tancredi fail to get the tape from the Corona de Oro cigar club in Chicago, where security was at the ready, and turn to former warden Henry Pope, a club member, but he wants to call the police, so Michael draws his gun and hands it over to prove his veracity; Sarah convinces him to go in with her late fathers humidor key- he finds a computer memory stick. In Mexico, Fernando Sucre has car trouble and gets a ride- from an Ixtapa airport security employee, who sees his wanted-poster just after they parted at the airport, so he must run with his bride. T-bag and his forced-along family find his own house vandalized and looted except for the family bible, which arouses in him youth memories of his perverted father, and assures Suzy he wants their love and is happy to be infertile, her bloodline should take the Bagwells's place; when she refuses he locks them up, considers ax-murdering but just leaves them behind. FBI Special Agent Alexander Mahone has tracked down Benjamin Miles 'C-Note' Franklin and his daughter, but lets them escape in a bus rather then shoot the kid; C-Note brings her to a doctor, worried about the kidney disease PKD, but won't allow inserting a catheter, rather turns himself in to Mahone, who is with his own boy in Colorado, and makes a deal to get him Schofield. Pope is out of the club, but is greeted at the entrance by Secret Service Special Agent William 'Bill' Kim, whom only Paul Kellerman, watching from a roof with Linc, knows at sight; Michael drives over Kim and gets away with Pope, Sarah and Linc, locking Kellerman out. When Michael tells the others he's prepared to honor his promise to Pope -which the others didn't know about- to turn himself in for his help, Henry hands him the stick and lets them go.

Season 2, Episode 18: Wash

Original Air Date—26 February 2007
Captain Brad Bellick walks in the FBI office demanding Mahone pays him. Michael and his companions are impressed with the recordings on the stick, but it only helps if Kellerman's contacts in Washington use it right, notably high Justice official Cooper Green, who accepts to meet and cooperates, but is tailed by Kim's men. Linc calls his boy L.J., who refuses to give up his relatively normal life till further notice. Sarah meets Bruce Bennett. Bellick tries to bribe Sucre's incarcerated cousin into betraying his Mexican whereabouts. T-Bag finds therapist Dr. Stammel who looks like him, and murders him to steal his identity. Mahone is ordered to dispose of C-note for good once Kim believes he has Schofield; he promises to keep taking care of C-note's family, but only if he uses the content of a package he'll send to his cell- a noose. Sarah is too late calling Linc the real Cooper Green is in his office, but Michael tricks the fake one who pretended to be asthmatic just in time and knocks him down. Paul Kellerman visits his sister Kristine. Fernando Sucre is in heaven in bed with Maricruz Delgado when their baby kicks. The real Cooper Green could help with the tape, but then finds the memory stick has the copy date, not the recording date without which it is not admissible as proof, only to blackmail the president into signing a pardon.

Season 2, Episode 19: Sweet Caroline

Original Air Date—5 March 2007
C-note has jumped with the noose around his neck, but is saved by jailers; he has Malone told he'll still do it. At a Chicago hotel, president Caroline Reynolds is expected for a speech. Michael sends the real Cooper Green away and agrees a meeting point with Linc and Sarah. Malone enters Sarah's room and only pretends to fail looking under the bed to trap her, she pretends the brothers left her. In Mexico T-bag finds Bellick is waiting at the luggage conveyor and must get his from the service side, but the laborer he knocks down falls onto it, so he must run. Lincoln surprises his old mate Derrick Sweeney and calls a favor: three tickets on a freighter for Panama. Kellerman is in position to shoot the fiendish president, but when she's in his sight Michael gets arrested just after shaking her hand, and is interrogated by Kim who demands to be left alone with him, to ask where Linc is, then tries literally to beat it out of him; the president barges in and sends Kim out just when he was about to shoot Michael; he tells her the tape is a delicate conversation she had with her brother after his 'death', and he still has copies at twenty locations. Fernando sees on TV T-bag is in Mexico and was videotaped trying to steal, so he deduces the $5,000,000 must be around and tells Maricruz he'll be right back; at his return only Bellick is there, armed and cuffs Sucre, in order to collect the reward, so Fernando offers to share the $5,000,000 by finding T-bag. Sarah guesses right Malone is on an addictive drug. Caroline calls Linc, who plays the tape which proves her brother was alive on the isle of Terrence and hated conspiring with her Linc's faked conviction; Michael tells her about his suicide and dares her to make a decision: let him walk and sign a pardon for both brothers the very day, on live TV; Kim fails to stop him being released and walking out. When the phone rings, Sarah surprises Malone and escapes- actually he arranged this and has her followed. Kim talks to a grim man in power; Reynolds announces on TV she has a malignant cancer and resigns immediately.

Season 2, Episode 20: Panama

Original Air Date—19 March 2007
Now Caroline Reynolds has stepped down as president, she can no longer sign a pardon, so the brothers must immediately disappear, forever. At the pier, Sarah realizes she's being tailed and pretends on the phone already to be on board, so they sail without her while she is arrested; Lincoln stops Michael from returning for her. A week later, an FBI big-whig offers C-note a lesser sentence for testimony against Mahone, even freedom and witness protection for his family- bingo. Fernando grabs Bellick's gun while looking for T-bag, but he shows a crucifix to prove he has Maricruz. The scumbag enjoys his fortune with a street whore playing his Susan-Q. The brothers arrive at Cristobal, Panama; meanwhile Malone's team figures out Schofield's tattoos refer to Michael's mother Christina, presumably dead, and he presumes his computer contained much info on Panama for a reason. The man in power grills Kim on a small boat, and decides to change the strategy. Mahone sees trough FBI-colleague Wheeler. C-note is reunited with his family and released. The brothers have a fight, torn by guilt for too many innocent people suffering trough their well-meant deeds, then board a yacht, named- Christina. Mahone tells Kim he's not happy with the results as he remains separated from his family, but is told he now needs help to escape, and therefore must go to Mexico- to help T-bag... [last bit not summarized].

Season 2, Episode 21: Fin del camino

Original Air Date—26 March 2007
Linc finds Michael is gone from their Christina Rose yacht after receiving Sucre's message (also intercepted by Mahone, who thinks to have found his way out) scary scumbag T-bag is in Panama City's Fin del Camino hotel with the money. A fire-cracker he pays a local boy to plant shows Michael Mahone's two plants on the plaza, but Bellick pulls his gun at him, accompanied by Fernando who denies sending the message- Schofield smells a trap and states their goals: money for Bellick, Maricruz for Sucre, T-bag for him, then reminds Fernando in private Maricruz is his legitimate priority, not revenge. Sarah Tancredi's trial proceeds, and the judge allows showing Michael's tape clearing her; her lawyer advises to take a twelve year plea, in effect nine years in hard security. When T-bag leaves Mahone's two men tail him, followed by the escapee trio, then Mahone, who is suddenly attacked by Lincoln who calls him the murderer of his dad. The trio surprises and disarms Mahone's duo which carries no FBI-identification, and next T-bag, but hears police sirens outside. After lining up his medals and putting on his uniform, Paul Kellerman shoots himself in the head, but his pistol jams; his sister insists it's a sign to make a new start in life; he goes testify on Sarah's behalf. Instead of money, Fernando finds a girl shot, T-bag makes a run past Bellick while police forces entry; Michael and Sucre follow over the fire escape, a car slightly running over him causes T-bag to be caught again; he deals with Michael to trade his escape -without the money- for information but Schofield decides to dump him at the embassy; the monster finds a screw driver, stabs Fernando and thus causes a car crash, allowing him to run with his precious backpack; Sucre insists Michael runs after him in a palm wood, till he makes a stand with a knife; a broken bottle allows a fight, in no time Michael has the knife on T-bag's throat, who taunts him but still gets stabbed- in the arm, so the police can easily take him in. . .

Season 2, Episode 22: Sona

Original Air Date—2 April 2007
Only back at the yacht, Michael notices Lincoln is gone and calls him- Alex Mahone tells him Linc is no cold-blooded killer, so he was overpowered and hand-cuffed, and the ransom is the yacht and the fortune he assumes to be in it, to be agreed in five minutes, now Mahone is even more wanted then the brothers. Kellerman's self-incriminating testimony and documents he brings get all charges against Sarah and Lincoln dropped, him arrested. Mahone calls Kim to fly over immediately. Alex calls his wife, to make her bring the kids for a holiday in her native Colombia, at Cartegena. Despite 30% blood-loss Fernado leaves hospital to report missing Bellick, who is already in jail and gets T-bag's company. Vendor Chaco gets Michael introduced to a local yacht owner to whom he suggests collecting the $100,000 reward on his head, then makes a better offer. Mahone called the police intending to frame the brothers for his intended murder on 'an Asian', but Michael refuses to hand over the money and Kim turns up early, with armed back-up; Mahone runs but is arrested. Kellerman knows the situation he is involved in, and expects to be assasined (unless we are towards a plot surprise,) so his transport to prison is arranged to get car trouble and a masked man shoots him. Chaco delivers to the brothers, who got away with the money and intended to run and never look back, a crummy boat with a priceless surprise: Sarah and the great news for Linc, with good hope for Michael. Just then Kim turns up, refuses the money, aims at Linc- and is shot by Sarah; the police arrives, chasing and trapping the trio- Michael takes the gun and pretends to take Sarah hostage, then lets himself be arrested and locked up in Sona. Malone calls his wife to forget he ever existed- from jail. T-bag expected to be released as agreed reward for baiting the brothers, but the man he hoped to bring him the good news says getting caught broke the deal.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Orientación

Original Air Date—17 September 2007
Michael is once again imprisoned, but now in SONA (Panama), together with T-Bag, Mahone and Bellick. The prison is solely rules by inmates, whose local prison-lord Lechero feels threatened by Scofield's 'fame'. Lincoln tries legal means to get Michael transferred, and gets a call from a relative. Both receive the same message, through different canals, presumably from Bill Kim's organization.

Season 3, Episode 2: Fire/Water

Original Air Date—24 September 2007
After Michael gets bad news from Linc, he sets out to find a prisoner named James Whistler, who holds the key to his freedom. That's easier said than done: James Whistler is hiding in Sona because there's a price on his head, and Lechero is not about to help Michael find him. In addition, both Mahone and Bellick want to get to Whistler too. Meanwhile, T-Bag won't allow a little humiliation stop him from insinuating himself into Lechero's good graces.

Season 3, Episode 3: Call Waiting

Original Air Date—1 October 2007
Lincoln tries to save LJ and Sara. But he can't. Meanwhile, Michael has a phone conversation with Sara. And Lincoln gets a call from Susan B. saying that she put something in the garage for him.

Season 3, Episode 4: Good Fences

Original Air Date—8 October 2007
Aftermath of Sara's death, Lincoln decides not to tell about it to Michael. Susan B. told Lincoln that if he does something wrong again, she's going to send pieces from LJ to him. Meanwhile, Sucre got a job in Sona. And Sofia starts to help Linc.

Season 3, Episode 5: Interference

Original Air Date—22 October 2007
A test with a rat proves the tower snipers are very good, so Michael figures breaking out with Whistler within 24 hours has to be at 3 PM, during a distracting soccer game. Sucre accepts $5,000 from a limousine man to smuggle a package into Sona. Linc is to arrange transport outside, but gets turned away roughly by an army patrol at two miles with Marisol in her car, then tells her Sara has already been killed, he keeps it from Michael as L.J. is his ultimate priority. New prisoner Andrew Tyge is robbed to his boxers at arrival, and warned off by Alexander Mahone after snooping around Michael and Whistler, who plan an electric signal disturbance device to distract the guard tower. Before they can make a move, a reflection from Michael's televisor is spotted: the troops move in and find it in his cell, he admits it's his; when the commander is about to shoot him, Whistler says it's his for birdwatching, and proves it showing the ornithology book Linc couldn't hold on to. Tyge identifies Whistler, who denies, as Macfaddyen, Nice 1997...

Season 3, Episode 6: Photo Finish

Original Air Date—5 November 2007
Tyge tells Michael he and 'Macfaddyen' where co-employees in a Nice hotel, Mahone worries he keeps observing Whistler. Having to re-plan hastily, Michael tells Linc to drug the second guard's coffee wherever he goes for lunch, and demands pictures of L.J. and Sara before he escapes. Malone refuses a term reduction to 8 years for testimony against Michael and Linc: now he faces life. Tyge is stabbed dead, Lechero questions Menudo 'McGrady' and has Whistler dragged away for confession. Michael believes Mahone and Beller's denials; T-bag offers Michael to use a ring he stole from Sami, his rival for Lechero's confidence, to frame him for Tyge's stabbing, but Michael finds the murder knife under Malone's bed and goes denounce Alex to Lechero, only he just walks out after accepting a 4 years deal with US Justice, Lechero administers justice his way... Linc and Marisol succeed in the drugging, but Susan finds out the brothers had a different timing planned, gets no recent pictures, Linc confesses Sara's death, Michael makes a drastic decision...

Season 3, Episode 7: Vamonos

Original Air Date—5 November 2007
Alexander Mahone is assured all he has to do is tell the truth, enjoying full immunity. Michael tells Whistler their row is part of a diversion, the escape is now or never, before the guard's coffee drug wears off. Just when the critical sun reflexion blinds the other tower guard, they must wait and hide till Sammy has passed, but get trough the cut bars. Lechero sees them climb down and back in -time ran out- but refuses to allow them to cancel their duel to the death in the courtyard, meant as a diversion fake announcement. Marisol draws a gun at Linc to prevent him turning over James Whistler to killers, he retorts that's condemning innocent L.J. to death. Guards wake the passed-out guard, see the climbing rope and move in, the colonel shoots a random prisoner 'for not telling' and exposes his deal with Lechero, questioning if he's the right man for the job. Hearing the Sona siren, Linc flees by car and lies he has the 'escapees' in the trunk when called by Susan, but an inside contact phones her: the roll-count was complete. Sucre stops her van by crashing into it, but even when Linc holds her at gun-point her accomplice won't trade L.J., he releases her and gets a short extension to find out what happened. Failing a hearing, Malone now believes Justice official Richard Sullins is setting him up to confess. Michael is dragged before Lechero, but not to be punished, he's ordered to take the fallen boss along when he and Whistler escape! Susan asks instructions from Whistler, he tells her -as Gretchen- to give the brothers four more days.

Season 3, Episode 8: Bang and Burn

Original Air Date—12 November 2007
Linc tell Michael they get 4 more days. Susan/ Gretchen is told by her big Company boss to end the case today; she tells James to take everybody out at 5PM but kill Schofield while a whole team prepares a Company operation. Sofia answers Whistler's phone from his landlord, there gets his papers; Susan turns up and tells her to leave. Lechero sends door key codes by T-bag, then joins Michael and Whistler (who brought a knife to kill Michael but dumps it) into a tunnel site, only fit to go up. Linc and Sucre rent a wood cabin. Michael begs McGrady to make his birthday-visiting old pa phone Linc "don't come home for dinner". Susan orders everyone who contacts Linc killed, while Sofia tells him James is a fake name and a dangerous man; the Company men fail, Linc shoots one who held Sofia at gun-point. Mahone testifies but sounds loony. The brothers realize the Company doesn't need them anymore, they'll come in for Whistler. Indeed, a helicopter come pick up Whistler by rope-ladder, Michael manages to grab his body but falls off and is lined-up with the other prisoners and singled out as trouble-maker, to be removed from Sona... After his poor performance, Malone is also sent back.

Season 3, Episode 9: Boxed In

Original Air Date—14 January 2008
After the helicopter failed to break out Whistler, Sona's new commander, Panamanian general Zavala, decides to make Michael talk by the murderous sun-exposed isolation hot-box, promises to help in exchange for the truth, verifies the L.J-situation and is told it's about Whistler, who already realized the tunnel is a no-go without engineer Schofield but denies blatantly to Zavala- and is torture-threatened till he admits collaborating with Michael, who convinces him next to tell Gretchen Morgen's name. Linc was meanwhile shown L.J., alive, as motivation. Malone is back in Sona, desperate without his drug. T-bag and other scum are mainly concerned with Lechero's expected succession and another bare-knuckle fight, won by Brad Bellick. Gretchen recruits Sucre as double spy, or triple for Linc; then Zavala arrest and tortures her, only Whistler's admission makes her admit L.J.'s kidnapping and lead them there, but manages to kill the general and escape. Michael and Whistler are returned to general population, Malone and Bagwel join the tunnel escape party. Sucré's mystery smuggle-employer now calls on Sammy to open the package- a gun.

Season 3, Episode 10: Dirt Nap

Original Air Date—21 January 2008
Sammy waves the gun and promises the scum mass a case of rum for Michael's head. T-bag convinces Brad Beller to challenge and eliminate Lechero's rivaling ex-lieutenant Sammy, using the acetone-trick he saw him cheat with in his first bare-knuckle fight, promising a place in the escape, but his acetone stash is empty. Linc and Sofia buy a bomb. Sammy abandons his winning fight against Beller when told scum has found Michael, who hides with Malone behind the combination door; Michael has to let Sammy in to save Whistler, but cleverly tricks him into burying himself in a tunnel collapse, alas thus compromising that escape route. Gretchen tells Sucré she is on to him and traced the check she paid him with which he transferred to her Chicago address, so now he's blackmailed by Gretchen for Maricruz's life. Sofia believes Whistler the Gary Miller fake identity is his plan for the two of them to live in France, Linc tells Michael who isn't surprised and has a new escape plan.

Season 3, Episode 11: Under & Out

Original Air Date—4 February 2008
The brothers agree Michael will dig the tunnel at triple speed, in 24 hours, and Lincoln arrange a tower guard-diversion. Then it rains: the tunnel will be exposed and even collapse irreparably: they must complete it that very night. McGrady insists to go with Michael, who insists even prison is better for him and his loved ones then a life on the run. Malone isn't tempted by Bellock's plan to deliver the others for trial back in the US, they try a concoction Michael invented to cover the tunnel tracks after the escape. By phone he instructs Sona laborer 'Jorge' Sucre to spy on the electric wiring. Sucre tells suspicious Susan/Gretchen just the truth, she makes Linc hold the phone for Whistler to hear her burning Sophia as threat the coordinates must be finished that evening; Whistler tells Michael he now has the coordinates and will hand them over, refusing to buy time by offering fakes first, but when Susan turns up arrogantly at the visiting gate, Whistler tears the coordinates in two, half now, the other only after proof Sofia, L.J. and both brothers are safe. Now Michael offers McGrady a phone call and an escape spot; after ordering Linc to interrupt the power Michael tells the escapees they only have 30 seconds before the generator kicks in, the scum decides then Michael and Whistler are last to run. Ficticous 'Jorge Rivera' is arrested for real, being wanted by Panamanian justice.

Season 3, Episode 12: Hell or High Water

Original Air Date—11 February 2008
Michael counted on the scum going first: they three get caught, Lechero is shot. Handcuffed, Sucre can't even answer his phone for Linc, who gets desperate. Coward Bellock accepts on the spot to show general Mestas's men the tunnel, Michael waits till they're already past one door to crawl out of the tunnel with his party which gets trough the fence into the jungle, pursued closely. Whistler hurts his ankle but they reach Linc on the beach and dig up diving gear; Whistler panics: he lost the bird-book with the coordinates but Captain Soco's men are too close to wait another minute to swim to the nearest buoy; Sucre can't bring a boat from custody, waiting for administrative processing, the soldiers find their buried footwear, the coastguard the refugees? No, Luis "McGrady"'s father guessed Sucre's vital part and steered the speedboat. The scum are beaten but T-bag accidentally finds and keeps the bird-book. Susan and her men catch up by sports-cars after the brothers and Whistler docked and boarded a van leaving Luis to his dad, Michael realizes it's the stopwatch she gave Whistler, Linc stops at a cabin and cleverly gets them out by the back in a regular car. Sucre was released as irrelevant while T-bag is clobbered, but facing balls-electrocution he points at Sucre 'He knows, I don't!'. Linc sets up an exchange, but while they wait for L.J., Whistler sees Linc pulling his gun at Malone, who announced leaving, and makes a run for it himself, he and Malone get away...

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Season 3, Episode 13: The Art of the Deal

Original Air Date—18 February 2008
The brothers chase Whistler by car, then on foot, and catch him just after he called Susan. Michael changes the exchange site to the very public Plaza de Francia, no- after seeing LJ, he says that was a test, final instructions will follow: the museum of antiquities, with metal detectors; when Sofia learns there are no coordinates, she deserts Whistler; Michael avoids Susan's exit guards by triggering the burglary alarm, her men still open fire and hit Sofia. Sucre doesn't talk despite bad beatings and digging 'his own grave'. T-bag saves Lechero from other scum while Sona is in total chaos, then demands $50,000 to bribe the new commanding colonel, a scam before smothering him and distributing the money among the cheering prisoners in the name of equality. McGrady is lucky not to be found by a police road-block in his dad's car, the family holds a fiesta. Malone ran alone, and meets up with- Whistler and Susan. Michael follows Sofia's message via LJ to get files on Jason Fields in her apartment....

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Scylla

Original Air Date—1 September 2008

Season 4, Episode 2: Breaking and Entering

Original Air Date—1 September 2008

Season 4, Episode 3: Shut Down

Original Air Date—8 September 2008

Season 4, Episode 4: Eagles and Angels

Original Air Date—15 September 2008

Season 4, Episode 5: Safe and Sound

Original Air Date—22 September 2008

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Season 4, Episode 6: Blow Out

Original Air Date—29 September 2008

Season 4, Episode 7: Five the Hard Way

Original Air Date—6 October 2008

Season 4, Episode 8: The Price

Original Air Date—20 October 2008

Next US airings:
Mon. Oct. 209:00 PMFox

Season 4, Episode 9: Greatness Achieved

Original Air Date—27 October 2008

Season 4, Episode 10: The Legend

Original Air Date—3 November 2008

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