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Note: The light summary of this article provides only gentle teasers as to what happens in this episode, and is suitable for reading before viewing. The full summary serves as a more detailed recap of the episode.
Light Summary: The mystery man reveals himself to Lincoln as well as his connection to some bad company; when Michael realizes Sara holds the key to the escape plan, he takes their relationship to another level; Fox River turns into a mob scene when a familiar face returns; Tweener must choose sides; and Bellick may finally discover the "hole" truth.
Full Summary: In this week’s first, typically nail-biting episode, Lincoln is rescued by a face from the past; an old inmate returns to Fox River; Michael recruits some help from the outside; and Tweener gets wind of the escape plan.
After being allowed a rare glimpse of the walls outside Fox River, Lincoln’s trip to see his son has turned into a nightmare. Groggily regaining consciousness after his transportation is broadsided by a speeding truck, Lincoln’s bad day gets worse when Agent Kellerman appears and starts to smother him. Suddenly another man approaches, drops Kellerman and drags Lincoln away. The good Samaritan is Lincoln’s father, who knows everything about Kellerman, the Vice President and ‘the Company’, and is determined to rescue Lincoln from the conspiracy. When Lincoln asks why he and Michael were abandoned as children, his father explains that he left to take a position with a group of internationals known as the Company, who control everything from law to war.
“The day I left the Company, I took all that information with me,” explains Lincoln’s father.
“That’s why they’re doing this to you. All of it. To stop me.”
Meanwhile, back at Fox River, Pope is panicking at the news that Lincoln has gone missing. “Forty years in corrections, and this is how they’re going to remember me,” he fumes. Bellick assures him that Lincoln can be found before the press get wind of the scandal, and that there’s no need to report it just yet: “You’ve always been a by the book kind of guy, boss, but this time the book’s gonna get us all fired.” Pope has a two-word response: “Find him.”
Oblivious to the drama unfolding outside the prison walls, Michael is more concerned with
getting the new escape plan underway. While he is explaining to Sucre that the new route to the infirmary involves getting through a problematic locked door, a van pulls up and deposits an inmate that nobody was expecting to see again: John Abruzzi. Michael later fills Abruzzi in on the new plan, and wonders if the reportedly reformed mob boss is still interested. “The old sinner who was confined to these walls is dead,” breathes Abruzzi.
“The new soul deserves to be free.” Can this ‘new soul’ still get hold of a plane, Michael asks? “Noah had his ark, did he not?” replies Abruzzi... Later, Michael is working on the issue of the locked door. The only people with keys to this door, which leads into the doctor’s office, are medical staff – and not even Michael’s tentative connection
with Sara is going to get her to hand over the keys. With this in mind, he resorts to asking the notoriously light-fingered Tweener for help. The troubled young inmate agrees to steal the key – but only if Michael will arrange for Tweener’s overly friendly cellmate, Avocado, to be ‘taken out’. When Michael refuses to comply, he is forced to turn to someone on the outside... Nika (guest star Holly Valance).
Also this week, T-Bag considers finishing what he started and terminating Abruzzi for good; Tweener ill-advisedly resorts to violence to get Avocado out of his cell; Kellerman and Bellick race to find Lincoln; Nick is hiding something from Veronica; and Sara starts to suspect that Michael is up to something. Michael worries that Avocado will kill Tweener on his return from the infirmary, and takes him into his confidence about the escape. But Tweener promptly offers to tell Bellick what he knows in return for guaranteed protection from his cellmate. “Believe me, what I got is worth it,” he says. “So you gonna step up, or what?” Has Michael’s need to help people forever blown the chances of the would-be escapees?
The episode 'Tonight' follows straight after.
