In Prison Break Season 3 episode 4, we found out what was in the box. It was Sara’s head. That puts an end to the mystery whether or not she’ll be returning. Sucre stopped by to help, and the process of breaking out of prison has begun. Michael got a new cell, but now the question is: why that cell? T-Bag and Mahone continued to stir up trouble. They’ll be along for the ride when everything goes down, if they’re not dead by then.
Scofield does a test from his cell. He drops a piece of tin foil on the ground near his cell at night. The guards spot it pretty easily.
Lincoln breaks the news to Michael that Susan has the bird book. When asked about photos of LJ and Sara, he pretends she wouldn’t let him keep them. His day’s not getting any better either, as Michael informs him he’ll need a vehicle in the middle of the day the next day, dashing his hopes for breaking out under the cover of darkness. Crazy yes, but they don’t have a choice.
Michael asks McGrady for a watch or two and binoculars. He lets him know where to get them, though this time he doesn’t want to know why.
He explains the plan to Whistler. He figured out that the daytime is better because there is no jeep patrol or perimeter guards, so they only have to get past two guards.
Sucre gets stopped by a couple guys who know he’s the new gravedigger. They want him to get something inside the prison in exchange for $5,000.
Since they’re shorthanded, now it’s time to get Mahone involved. Aside from the whole not being able to be trusted thing, he’d make a nice ally.
One of the guards has to turn away when there’s a glare, at the same time every day. Whistler tests this by throwing a ball into the yard. The guard doesn’t notice it. He kept looking the other way for at least 6 minutes. The other guard’s not budging but is a sports fanatic who did stop to adjust the TV when he had trouble with it, so they plan to disrupt his shows to distract him.
There’s a new prisoner in town, one who seems to know Whistler and is snooping around and finding out more than anyone else seems to be smart enough to find out. Mahone notices this and confronts him.
Sophia and Lincoln are driving along and get pulled over. They’re told all roads within 2 miles of Sona are off limits. Time for plan B.
Michael asks Whistler what’s so urgent about getting him out of there can’t wait until the day after tomorrow. He says he doesn’t know.
Sucre happily sneaks the package into the prison, narrowly escaping being busted. The intended recipient, one of Lechero’s men, grabs it.
Scofield comes up with a plan to attach a power source to a transmitter, which will interfere with anything electronic. The guard gets distracted and messes with his TV, but then he shoots. I didn’t think he was shooting in Scofield’s direction, but he apparently was. The colonel charges into the prison, a siren sounds, and all the prisoners must go into the yard. They believe they saw a rifle scope pointing at one of the guards and plan to search the prison until they find it. They search and find Scofield’s binoculars and start asking prisoners one by one whose cell it is. Scofield readily admits it’s his cell. A gun is pulled on him, and he’s asked why he was watching them.
He says he wasn’t watching him. Whistler interrupts and says it’s his. He says he was watching birds. He pulls out the bird book and shows it to them. Satisfied with that answer (except for the guard, who still seems suspicious), they turn around and also leave the binoculars behind. Unfortunately, they locked up the cell while they were there, meaning the loss of supplies and an exit point.
Sucre’s got himself trapped now. They expect him to keep sneaking stuff into the prison.
The new prisoner comes up to Whistler and calls him McFadden, saying he knew him from 1997. Whistler plays him off as being crazy, but it’s obvious he’s lying.
Mahone proves useful. He notices a guard who needs his coffee fix, and Mahone managed to grab a coffee cup from the courtyard, offering them a new plan.
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