S02E13: 'The Killing Box'

Having left Sucre to make the flight into Panama, Michael and Lincoln have turned their attention to finding Sarah and the proof that they need to exonerate Lincoln. The ever-present Agent Mahone, however, has scuppered them once more. Thanks to Mahone’s intervention at the border, the brothers are now facing the very real prospect of seeing the inside of Fox River Penitentiary once again. However, those behind the conspiracy that initially framed Lincoln would much rather that the brothers were dead than in prison, and disgraced agent Kellerman informs them that he is just the man to make that happen. “You give me the go-ahead on this – those brothers get in the van and that’s the last thing they’ll ever do,” he promises. Are Michael and Lincoln going to come out of this alive?

Bellick, meanwhile, is also headed back to Fox River. Realising that the evidence against him for Geary’s murder is just too compelling, he has agreed to a deal which will see him serve 25 years – on the condition that he does so back at his old stomping ground. He’s not too worried though, reasoning that his old friends on the inside will make sure that his sentence isn’t too hard-going. However, he is soon informed otherwise when one of the guards tells him that things have changed under the new warden: “The COs don’t run the show anymore.” To make things worse, his frightening new cellmate recognises him and greets him with a sinister “Welcome home, Boss”. It’s going to be a very long 25 years...

In Kansas, T-Bag is still enjoying his freedom. After using traditionally violent means to procure himself a prosthetic hand, he moves on to his next target: a lonely woman in a diner. After charming her into bed, he tells her that he’ll pick her up from her work at the post office and take her to dinner. When he arrives, he asks for a favour: to look up the forwarding address of his ‘cousin’ – in reality, the woman whose testimony put him in Fox River. She agrees, but then seals her own fate when she spots a ‘Wanted’ poster featuring her new beau’s face. TBag swiftly takes care of this latest inconvenience – before setting out to pay an old friend a home visit.

Sara is at a loss as to what to do without Michael’s help. Sucre is forced to bail out of the escape plane and ends up stranded in the Mexican desert. And Lincoln and Michael run straight into a trap, before being plucked out of danger by the most unlikely rescuer of all.