Everything is not under control. Sara flinches as the inmates chip away at the glass around her office. One inmate slams an IV stand against the reinforced glass, taunting her as it slowly cracks.
Michael completes drilling the first hole and tries to hand the drill off to Sucre for the next shift. Sucre won’t take part. He believes that drilling holes in the face of the devil is bad luck. Michael reminds him that he believes in God and God will be his protector. Sucre reluctantly takes the egg beater and begins to drill.
T-Bag returns to gen pop, dragging the beaten and bloodied C.O. Bob behind him. T-Bag assures a cheering audience of inmates that “as soon as Bob and I are finished getting acquainted, everyone else will get their turn.” Bob breaks free and tries to crawl away, but T-Bag catches him easily. With his last ounce of strength, Bob kicks T-Bag. Bob’s futile attempt to fight only agitates T-Bag further. He sits on Bob’s stomach and beats him senseless.
Sucre questions how Michael knows where the drainage pipe is behind the wall. Michael tells him that he hid the coordinates for the projection in his tattoo using simple math. If he’s wrong, Sucre will drill into one of several gas pipes behind the wall, killing them instantly. Sucre turns around. “But you’re good at math, right?”
T-Bag tosses Bob into Michael’s cell. Bob falls to the ground. When he tries to regain his footing, T-Bag kicks him forward and Bob slams against the loose toilet fixture and pulls it down with him.
The noise of Bob hitting the toilet echoes through the inner chamber of the prison. Sucre and Michael share a look.
T-Bag slowly inspects the hole in the wall. “They’re breakin’ out,” he whispers. He turns to alert the rioting inmates, but before he can, Abruzzi grabs him and puts a finger to his mouth.
The inmates in Sick Bay are determined to break through the glass wall to Sara. She frantically searches the office for a weapon to defend herself with. Pop Pop manages to finally get his arm through the glass. As he struggles to reach the door lock, Sara sticks him with a syringe filled with a sedative which knocks Pop Pop to the floor. Another inmate immediately continues to pound the glass with a fire extinguisher. Sara grabs a hole-punch and smashes the glass of a nearby cabinet.
Pope orders the water shut off inside the prison. When Bellick tells Pope that he’ll call maintenance, Pope redirects the order. “Mack, you take care of it.”
As he climbs back through the hole to his cell, Michael pauses at an unexpected sight. Bob is restrained on Michael’s bunk, dazed and beaten, but conscious. Abruzzi and T-Bag stand nearby. “We have a problem,” Abruzzi announces. “Bob here has seen the hole and he needs to go away,” T-Bag chimes in. None of this is in Michael’s plan. He takes a moment to collect his thoughts, then announces, firstly, no one is going to kill Bob; he is their only leverage. This decision infuriates T-Bag. “See, Bob here knows about our secret, he knows about OUR escape. So it’s all of our concern now, isn’t it?”
In the stairwell where T-Bag left him, Lincoln lies face down in a pool of blood, unconscious. Westmoreland comes upon Lincoln and slowly rolls him over to check if he’s all right. Lincoln awakens and Westmoreland informs him of Bob’s fate, but Lincoln wants to know where Michael is. Westmoreland tells him that he hasn’t seen him since the riot started. Another inmate, Turk, overhears their conversation as he walks in. “You lookin’ for Scofield? Come on.” Lincoln, still disoriented, follows Turk down a flight of steps.
Abruzzi grabs T-Bag and shoves him against the railing on the tier outside of Michael’s cell. “You’re in as much trouble as he is,” Abruzzi warns. T-Bag tells Michael and Abruzzi that even if they try and kill him, he’ll scream about the hole. “So you see friends, either I’m through that hole with you, or I’m gonna sing like Johnny Cash.”
Determined to defend herself, Sara takes off her lab coat and wraps it around the biggest piece of glass she can find. She’s huddled in a corner, prepared for the worst.
Michael walks back down to the floor, and one inmate calls out that the prisoners in Sick Bay are about to get to Sara. Michael rushes to the monitor in time to see Sara crouching behind a metal desk clutching her homemade weapon. Michael rushes back to his cell.
“ Sucre, I need you to finish what we started,” Michael says as he climbs into the hole. He’s going into B-Wing through the walls to help Sara. “And no one touches the C.O.,” Michael warns as he vanishes inside.
Lincoln continues following Turk, who insists he knows a shortcut. As they enter a dark room, Turk’s green string bracelet is visible.
Michael climbs through the catwalks again and rushes up to the roof. He can see Sara beating on the sealed window of her medical office. Her eyes are frantic as the inmates are about to break through…
…to be continued.
Prison Break
Episode 107 - "Riots, Drills and The Devil" Part 2 of 2
Airdate: 10/03/2005
Tensions run high as chaos continues to erupt behind the walls of Fox River. Military choppers circle the yard as reinforcements on the ground secure the perimeter. On the roof, overlooking the activity, Michael crouches behind an exhaust vent to stay hidden from the helicopter. When it passes, he deftly removes the vent’s protective grating and crawls inside.
As National Guard soldiers coordinate behind them, Pope and Bellick walk to the command center. With the water shut off, Pope expects that unbearable heat within the prison will be enough to force the inmates to stand down. Bellick, however, chomps at the bit to march a group of armed guards in and take A-Wing back by force. But Pope is firm; they’ve got to follow procedure by the book. Pope and Bellick stop their conversation when a shout from the prison catches their attention.
The shouter is Gus, one of Abruzzi’s men. He informs Pope that the inmates “got some demands.” Yelling through a slotted window of the cellblock, Gus repeats the demands fed to him by Abruzzi. “We need the A/C! And we got a hostage! The new jack!” Bellick sends Mack off to find out which C.O. is trapped inside. Bellick quickly reports back to Pope that Bob is trapped inside. Gus continues, “And we got the girl doctor!” The gravity of the situation sinks in for Pope; the governor’s daughter is a hostage in his prison. Pope changes his tack; they must send someone in to retrieve Sara. Bellick evenly replies, “Can’t do that sir. It wouldn’t be by the book.”
Sara screams and pounds against the thick prison glass desperate for someone to hear her, but her voice is muffled by the thick security glass.
Turk continues to lead Lincoln through the back halls of the prison along his supposed “short cut.” When Turk disappears, Lincoln casts a confused look at his surroundings. He’s been led into the tight maze of pipes that make up the prison steam room. Suddenly, Turk ambushes Lincoln from above. He drops down from a steam tower and chokes Lincoln with razor wire. After a prolonged struggle, Lincoln wrestles free of Turk’s choke, and stumbles away dazed and bleeding.
Inmates continue to riot in the cell block. C.O. Bob remains cuffed to Michael’s bunk while Sucre prepares to head back into the prison bowels. Eyeing Bob, T-Bag removes Bob’s boots and belt. Sucre issues another warning to T-Bag about leaving Bob alive before he crawls back into the hole. Bob begs Sucre to stay, but he has to finish drilling. T-Bag, showing his new-found team spirit, holds the sheet across the bars to cover for Sucre. Once Sucre’s through, T-Bag orders Bob to set the toilet back upright.
Michael moves through the ducts above the ceiling, crawling along on his belly, and peering below him through the air vent system. The sounds from the infirmary grow louder.
On a flight destined to Washington, D.C., Nick and Veronica struggle with the mystery surrounding Terrence Steadman’s death. They speculate as to who in Washington would have wanted him dead. “You know, before Steadman was killed, EcoField introduced a prototype electric engine at a techno conference. Sixty dollar barrels of oil would be obsolete if this thing ever made it to the mainstream,” Veronica says. Oil producers, suppliers, even the government of an oil-based economy (such as the United States) would have wanted Steadman’s plans to be stopped.
Sara is crouched behind an examining table, her makeshift shiv in hand. Her eyes dart about to the dozen or so inmates who are trying to break in and get her. She springs up to the window again, screaming for help in vain.
Michael slides along in the ducts, closing in on Sara’s position. He reaches another grate that allows him to shimmy across a pipe on the ceiling.
T-Bag sits across from Bob, now tied to the metal frame of the bunk bed. He goes through Bob’s wallet and finds a prom photo of Bob’s daughter. Bob tells T-Bag to put it back, but T-Bag delights in tormenting Bob with the picture. “You know what they say about a prom dress?” He is interrupted by a furious Abruzzi who seethes with hatred for T-Bag as he orders him to leave Bob alone. Bob’s the only leverage they have and is not to be harmed. T-Bag acquiesces, reiterating his team-first mentality, but Abruzzi’s interest has drifted to the toilet. He peeks behind it, glimpsing his very first step to freedom.
Pop Pop awakens from the sedative Sara drugged him with earlier. He finds a phone book and shouts to the other inmates to smoke Sara out of the office.
Michael peeks under a ceiling tile to witness the inmates throwing a flaming phone book into Sara’s office. Sara must move closer to the door to extinguish the flames, and when she does Stroker grabs her hair. Sara screams as he pulls her towards him with a sadistic smile. Sara stabs Stroker’s hand with the shard of glass she’s been clutching. She runs towards the center of the room and is grabbed again by another hand, this one emerging from the ceiling. She looks up to see Michael, who pulls her up to the crawl space above the office. “It’s okay, I’m not going to hurt you,” he tells her.
A limousine surrounded by a convoy of squad cars and SUVs race into the prison yard. Pope and Bellick watch the approaching motorcade with apprehension; the Governor has arrived. His limo pulls up next to Pope’s command tent. Pope moves to greet him, instructing Bellick to keep his mouth shut. Governor Tancredi doesn’t want to hear anything from Pope; he only wants to see his daughter.
Safe for the moment in the B-Wing crawl space, Michael tells Sara the plan. “See these pipes? We’re going to stay on them. They go through the wall and over the hallway, and they’re going to get us out of here. All you have to do is follow me.” Sara, still scared, follows Michael.
The smoke from the flaming phone book clears enough for the inmates to see that Sara is no longer in the office. Stroker’s eyes drift to the ceiling; he knows there was only one way out of that room.
In Dulles airport, Nick and Veronica disembark and head to their meeting with Nick’s contact who traced the “eyewitness” call. Veronica interrupts him as they pass a television in the terminal. A news story runs about the Fox River riot.
LJ , glued to the television, watches the same news report back in Illinois. His mother, Lisa, takes a momentary interest in the story, and then sees that LJ’s step-father, Adrian, is getting annoyed. Lisa turns off the television, but LJ protests; he wants to watch in case his father is in trouble. “Look, your father’s already in trouble, there’s nothing we can do about it,” she says and LJ sits, stunned. Lisa doesn’t want to make a scene in front of Adrian; the situation with Lincoln makes him uncomfortable enough as it is. LJ talks back to his mother, then Adrian steps in to discipline LJ. The situation quickly intensifies and ends with Adrian shoving LJ to the floor. LJ storms to his room.
Turk has reset his sights on Lincoln. He hides in the catwalks with a three foot piece of pipe in his hands. He watches Lincoln stumble through the steam. Turk attempts another ambush, but Lincoln reacts quickly this time. “Why?” Lincoln demands. Turk swings the pipe at Lincoln, but loses his footing near the edge of the platform and falls twenty feet, landing on his back on the concrete floor below. Lincoln kneels over him, demanding to know who sent him. Turk sputters for his last breath, dying without telling Lincoln the name of his assassins.
Sucre continues drilling into the wall, praying in Spanish as he goes. The drill bit breaks through the wall and he smiles. “Who’s your friend?” Unexpectedly, Abruzzi’s profile appears on the wall. Sucre whirls around to discover that Abruzzi has found his way into the prison bowels. Sucre explains how he intends to bring down the wall. Abruzzi nods his head, but warns, “Sometimes you underestimate the wall. No matter how hard you try, it doesn’t give in.”
Michael and Sara crawl silently through the ceiling rafters. Michael moves with confidence, but Sara, shaky and exhausted from the strain of her ordeal, stops. “I need a minute, I’m sorry,” she says. Below, Pop Pop and the rest of the sick bay inmates wheel Stroker down the hall in an office chair. Stroker stands on the chair, poking the ceiling tiles with a mop handle as he goes.
Michael sees that the shock of events has Sara on a precarious edge. He tries to calm her down by distracting her with stories about Baja and Thailand. Though grateful for his efforts, Sara can’t stop herself from asking, “Why are you here?” Michael explains, “When everything went off in A-wing, the C.O.s left the station and I saw you on the monitor. One of the first assignments on P.I., we were up here to clean out toxic mold. Took days, so, I’m kinda familiar with the layout.” Sara, still dazed, accepts his explanation and follows him onward. Below them, the inmates are getting closer. Michael hears them and immediately becomes silent.
The other inmates hold Pop Pop high enough that he can look around above the ceiling. The back of his head pops up just in front of Michael and Sara. As Pop Pop turns around, Michael kicks him in the face, knocking him down onto his fellow inmates who land in a heap in the hallway as Sara and Michael run to safety.
Governor Tancredi has lost all patience with Pope and his handling of the riot. Pope defends himself, explaining that he’s trying to settle this riot through standard negotiating procedures to avoid taking lives. Tancredi’s only priority is his daughter, trapped in the anarchy. He announces, ”I don’t care if it takes a massacre to get her out of there. If you’re not gonna do it, I am.” He tells a National Guard Captain to ready his men to go in.
Michael and Sara arrive at a vent where they look out onto an anteroom that Pop Pop and Stroker have just passed. When the room is clear, Michael climbs down and helps Sara. She jumps down and Michael steadies her, grabbing her waist. Neither of them acknowledges the blurring of the doctor/patient relationship that’s occurring. But before they can leave, Stroker finds them. Stroker makes a move to grab Sara. Michael jumps on his back, wrapping his arms around Stroker’s neck. Stroker starts to pass out as Pop Pop charges in and grabs Michael. Sara kicks Pop Pop’s post-op knee and he falls to the ground, screaming in pain. Once Michael’s choke hold brings Stroker to the ground, Michael and Sara run for it.
