At the conclusion of the second season of Prison Break, Lincoln Burrows was set free, but Michael Scofield found himself back behind bars in Panama. We know he’s gonna break out. It’s just a question of when and how. Some of you may have already watched the first 17 minutes of tonight’s episode online, but either way, there’s still a lot of ground to cover.
The show starts in the middle of a mass of unruly bodies. Lincoln is talking to a night clerk about his brother being innocent and informs him he’s being held in Sona. He informs Link that Sona is the worst of the worst, the guards left a year ago because of a riot, that the government doesn’t get involved, and what goes in doesn’t come out unless it’s dead. Back to the mass of bodies, we see a fight and an ensuing death, where the victim’s body is just left where it falls. The counsellor in the morning requests a move to a facility that’s more moderate.
Lincoln asks about the money, which unsurprisingly seems to have disappeared. He is advised that Michael will be free but still face charges in the US.
Bellick looks rather pitiful. He asks for a mess hall and some water and tells the wrong person to bite him. He’s told to drink the muddy water, which gets stomped in his face. He is befriended by a prisoner who doesn’t have very good news about what life is like there.
Alex Mahone is in there with them, and he’s feeling guilty but to make matters worse, also out of pills. He wants to work with Michael, but the thought of working with the man who killed his father doesn’t sit well with him.
Link visits Michael in Sona. His question after finding he’ll be transferred is about Sara Tancredi, but we know Sara’s not returning.
Michael is informed that it’s orientation time, which he’s not interested in but is informed he doesn’t have a choice. The man who arranges this orientation seems to be very much in charge of the place. He’s well aware of the prison break. When he approaches the guy standing next to Alex, the guy proceeds to pee his pants, receiving a reaction of having his ass kicked, to which Scofield responds, “I think he gets the message,” completely unafraid of the guy attempting to intimidate everyone.
And in walks T-Bag. The gang’s all here, and it’s unlikely any of them will be pleased to see this guy.
Michael receives an offer from an attorney “of sorts” of assistance to breakout once he gets past the wall. He promptly walks away. He’s then attacked by a guy who accuses him of stealing from him, and upon checking his area, it’s realized that he did, or at least that’s what someone wants everybody to think.
The prisoner who was Bellick’s friend, if there is such a thing in a place like this, finally gets fed up with the conditions of not being able to eat anything and jumps out the window and proceeds to run. He is shot and killed, a clear sign of how they treat people who attempt to escape. This is about the only involvement the government has in this place.
A woman matching Sara’s description has been found… at the morgue. Lincoln goes there and confirms it’s not her. I don’t think they’ll kill her off just yet. They’ll probably at least leave the window open.
Michael is told there’s a system in Sona and that he’d better adhere to it, a system where they must fight to resolve their disputes. He then tells the man who thinks he’s in charge that he knows he set him up because he’s the only one with a problem with him.
Link gets a call from his son LJ, who just so happens to be in Panama, too. He says he got his number from Sara.
Before the fight, Alex offers some advice: fight dirty and go for the kneecap. These two will be on the same team eventually, perhaps starting now. When the fight begins, Scofield yells he’s not going to fight, then follows it up by going for the kneecap, making quick work of his opponent. He attempts to turn around but is told that only one man leaves alive.
Michael knocks him down again and tries to walk away again. At this point, a knife is thrown in from the crowd. Mahone jumps into the fight because Michael was about to be stabbed from behind, and he obviously has no problem killing the guy, justifying his interference by saying that weapons are against the rules.
Outside the gate, a woman screams that she wants to bury the dead men. Earlier, Bellick was forced underground, where he met a man (James Whistler) who asked him to help him out in exchange for food. He handed him a cryptic message that was stuffed in one of the dead man’s pockets. As it turned out, the man looking for help is the one Scofield was approached about earlier, and he has to stay in prison to break him out (big surprise) because LJ and Sara have been kidnapped as leverage.
This was a great to start to what I expect to be another great season.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live blog of Prison Break Season 3 episode 2, which airs Monday at 8/7c on Fox.
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