The dogs are placed into a truck without incident. But Sucre points out several K-9 units approaching their location. C-Note tells Michael they need to move, but Michael says they have to wait until all the guards are ahead of them. Keeping their heads low and deep in the brush the eight cons hide feet from the sally port. Squad cars and SUVs speed away into the night. We’re playing for keeps now, gentlemen.” Pope tells them if the cons are on foot they’ll be about a mile away and if they secured a vehicle, they could be ten miles away. Our job is to ensure the safety of the general population, which means that if we need to bring those men down in order to maintain that safety, then we’ll do it. And that choice was to become a threat to society again. He’s barking orders over a bullhorn, “Those men made a choice when they went over that wall. flips Bellick his shotgun.īellick walks out of the sally port to a crowd of guards surrounding Warden Pope. But Bellick cuts him off and yells, “Did I stutter? Get me my shotgun!” Bellick fumes and the C.O. tries to tell him that Pope is already giving orders. He immediately asks for his shotgun and a C.O. C.O.s Patterson and Mack run down the tier, “Warden, they just found Bellick.” He walks back out onto the tier and looks over the inmates. The toilet is removed and the hole into the wall is exposed.
Pope pushes through the second tier and into Michael’s cell. His eyes drift down to Westmoreland sitting lifeless in the same place Michael left him.Ī-Wing is filled with the sounds of celebrating inmates who know Michael and the P.I. Pope walks into Sara’s office to see the window gone and the bars removed. Pope storms into the infirmary and asks how many inmates escaped. That Vanilla Ice Kid, Bagwell, C-Note, Abruzzi and that bug-eyed J-Cat.” JJ presses him for more and Manche solemnly says, “Westmoreland.” Manche gives up the names, “Scofield, Burrows, Sucre. JJ yells into his walkie-talkie, “We got a 1098! Inmates over the wall!” JJ wraps his arm around Manche’s thick neck and demands to know who else was involved. The guards have Manche face down and he’s begging for his life. Cooper.The prison alarm screams and the flood lights fill the yard. Among the inmates they encounter are Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco), Michael's lovelorn cellmate cunning psychopath Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell (Robert Knepper) Benjamin "C-Note" Franklin (Rockmond Dunbar), an Army vet who was unjustly dishonorably discharged and whose family thinks he's in Iraq pickpocket David "Tweener" Apolskis (Lane Garrison) mob boss John Abruzzi (Peter Stormare) Charles "Haywire" Patoshik (Silas Weir Mitchell) and Charles Westmoreland (Muse Watson), an aging lifer who may or may not be the legendary airline hijacker D.B. The brothers' ally on the outside is lawyer Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney), Linc's former girlfriend. Also treating Michael warmly is prison doctor Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), a recovering drug addict and the daughter of the Illinois governor (John Heard). Once inside, Michael is harassed by guard captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) and befriended by Warden Henry Pope (Stacy Keach), who treats him almost like a son. He also has layout plans tattooed on his body-all the better to plot and dig a tunnel.
Michael, a Chicago structural engineer, knows Fox River's layout intimately. Linc, a troubled ex-con, was framed for Steadman's murder by a shadowy syndicate known as the Company, which controls many powerful figures in business and government.
To do it, Michael robs a bank with the intention of getting caught so he can be sent to Fox River penitentiary in Illinois, where Linc awaits execution for killing Terrence Steadman, the brother of Vice President Caroline Reynolds (Patricia Wettig). This taut thriller, a paean to brotherly love, follows hunky Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), who faces execution for a murder he didn't commit, and his brainy brother, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), who tries to save Linc as Season 1 opens\ by springing him from prison.