In Prison Break season 3 episode 5, the escape plans started to take shape. While watching the guards, they got caught, which resulted in Scofield’s cell being taken away. Mahone, an ally for the time being, managed to come up with an alternative plan.
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Scofield confronts the guy from last episode who said he knew Whistler. He says he swears he worked with him at a hotel in France. Mahone’s concerned Whistler’s got a stalker.
Michael tells his brother the new plan. The guard with the cup of coffee needs to be taken care of by putting something in his coffee to make sure he’s unconscious. Lincoln continues to lie about Sara being okay, but Michael’s not buying it. He refuses to go anywhere if he doesn’t see pictures of LJ and Sara by 2:30 that afternoon, a couple hours from then (and also about half an hour before the planned escape).
Susan tells LJ a story about how she was a hostage and tried to run, which led her to be recaptured and abused. She tells him if he doesn’t try to be a hero, he’ll be fine.
Mahone gets a visit from an old friend, FBI agent Lang. She offers him a deal, a move out of the prison and an 8 year sentence. She tells him to take the deal, or he’ll be in prison for the rest of his life. He’s not interested.
The new prisoner’s now dead, in a dispute settled outside the ring, which upsets Lechero. There is no shortage of possible suspects, as this guy’s pissing off a lot of people. Because he’s an asshat, Sammy pulls McGrady aside. He says he saw one person go into the stairwell, then he heard an argument. That person? Whistler, of course.
Scofield blames Mahone, then later blames Bellick as well. Both insist they didn’t do it. Lechero has a chat with Whistler, who makes a convincing argument that it doesn’t need to be resolved right away. Lechero says they have all the time in the world, and that he can stay in the chair until they do figure things out.
Sucre identifies who he believes is the correct guard they want to take out. Lincoln tries to give him a coffee that’ll knock him out, but it doesn’t work. So Sofia steps in and asks for a ride from Link, and the guard readily offers to help her.
T-Bag comes up with a plan. He tells Scofield to drop Sammy’s ring in the blood to set him up.
While on the way to where Sofia says she’s going, the guard stops and propositions her. She pretends she’s one of Lechero’s girls, which makes him give up, but it’s enough distraction to give her the opportunity to switch coffee cups with him.
Lincoln lets Susan know there’s a complication drugging the guard. She gets suspicious because she was under the impression they were breaking out at 9 at night, rather than in the middle of the afternoon. So she threatens to kill LJ, which gets the truth out of him.
Contrary to T-Bag’s plan, Michael instead decides he wants to setup Mahone, who shortly thereafter receives another offer of 4 years of minimum security prison. While Michael’s blaming Mahone, he’s being escorted out of the prison, apparently having accepted the deal.
Lechero seems to want to kill Whistler, and Scofield calls him a joke for killing someone for no reason. Lechero does stab someone, the guy standing next to Whistler, who’s been smoking cigars Augusto used to pay to Lechero as tribute.
Because of the dead body, Sucre gets another chance to spray down the fence, hopefully reducing the odds of electrocution.
Susan gives Lincoln the picture he asked for. Too bad it’s the same newspaper Sara was holding last time. With that, Lincoln finally tells Michael Sara’s dead, but they still need to break out so LJ doesn’t die. Scofield blames Whistler (or so he says) and throws down the chicken foot.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Prison Break Season 3 episode 7 Vamonos, which airs next on Fox.