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stares at herself in the mirror for about three seconds and fixes her hair. She then proceeds to touch up her makeup. It is revealed that she has a few scratches on her left cheek.
Cut to:
(SONA. There is a lot of noise in the courtyard. It seems as if a fight is occuring and the prisoners are
surrounding the two inmates. Michael is observing all this with a terrified look on his face. He sees Alex who
looks lost as well. Sammy, one of the inmates (who is part of Lechero's gang), holds a wishbone by a thread
and drops it on the ground, which is a signal for the fight to begin between the two unknown inmates.)
Cut to:
(Lincoln and a lawyer coming down the stairs in some building)
Lincoln: You gotta do something. My brother is innocent. He's an american citizen.
Lawyer: Well, there's nothing I can do about that.
Lincoln: Of course you can. Back at the crime scene, you can...
Lawyer (interrupting Lincoln): Look, I'm a night clerk okay? If you really want someone who can do something,
you're going to have to wait for the consul. He gets in in the morning. I'm sorry.
Lincoln: That ain't gonna cut it. (Walks away).
Lawyer: Your brother...Where'd they have him incarcerated?
Lincoln: SONA. (Lawyer looks down.) What?
Lawyer: The worst of the worst are there...
Cut to:
(SONA. The fight is still going on. Michael has a frightened look on his face.)
Lawyer: (Voiceover) Men, no other prison will take. They rioted so badly, a year ago, the guards pulled out. Just
left them to themselves. Thousands of thieves, rapists, murderers,....The goverment just stays back. Keeps the
perimeter. To them, SONA is a one way street....
(Fight is still continuing. Sammy finally breaks the other inmates neck and leaves him on the ground of the
courtyard.)
Lawyer: (Voiceover) .....What goes in, never comes out... unless it's dead.
(Michael walks up the dead prisoner, while the other inmates disperse to their various cells. He looks frightened,
looks up and away.. and we slowly zoom away from Michael.)
OPENING CREDITS.
Cut to:
(Office of US Consul General.)
Another Lawyer: (On the phone) Someone didn't do his "...."(sorry couldn't catch that bit) on this guy and we
need him moved to a facility that is a little more .. moderate. Al right?... Thank-you. (To Lincoln) Alright.. the goo
d news is as of yesterday, you're a free man. You got nothing to worry about.
Lincoln: Just my brother.
Lawyer: Right. Well, that's a heck of a story..you two. That made the news even down here. And I uh.. understand
you have a son as well? LJ? Lincoln Junior? He must be ecstatic about your exoneration.
Lincoln: (With a confused look) Still trying to reach him.
Lawyer: Oh.. hey tell us where he is and we'll find....
Lincoln: Let me handle that, let's just focus on Michael.
Lawyer: Ok, well, good news is that much of what you're saying is checking out at the crime scene. The victim
did have a service revolver with US government numbers on it, and if a weapon was found then, that lends real
credence to self-defense as a motive.
Lincoln: Great. They, uhh, find anything else?
Lawyer: Like wha?
Lincoln: A bag..
Lawyer: What was in it?
Lincoln: A little money.
Lawyer: Sorry.
Lincoln: Course they didn't.
Lawyer: Whatever the case, regarding Michael, I have managed to make a little headway. I arranged for a
transfer for your brother to another facility.. effective tomorrow. It's a lot safer, It's a lot cleaner.
Lincoln: Great.
Lawyer: And if this is stacking up like I think it is, I'd be pretty confident that the charges would be dropped.
Lechero: (To michael) You can go. you and me. Right here. You're a brave man.... brave man. You're lucky I've
been meditating.. before I couldn't take my finger off the trigger but now, I have mind control. Complete control.
Mind, body and Soul. GET OUT!
(Sammy leads the prisoners out.)
Lechero: GET OUT! This was a complete waste of our time.
Nun: Who would've thought... a famous person in SONA.
Lechero: We people rally around for him.. worship for him are blinded by it. And as you can tell, there are many
weak-charactered people behind these walls. Yes, they will follow a man like this and they will put him on a
pedestal. He has a charisma... right mami?
Nun: He's not you.
Lechero: Ahh... you don't have to pamper me mami. He's good looking right?
Nun: Si. He's good looking.
Lechero: He's the best looking man in the prison right?
Nun: Not compare to you.
(Lechero grabs the nun.)
Nun: Who knows? Maybe?
(Lechero throws the nun down).
Lechero: (In spanish) Pack up, whore. You're gone. (She leaves and he walks to his window seeing Michael wak
across the yard.)
COMMERCIAL BREAK.
Cut to:
(SONA. Some prisoners are listening to spanish music on the radio. Some are playing cards. Some are smoking.
Some are doing weights. Some are cooking.
Michael is sitting in a corner, making his origami duck and having a dreamy look on his face. Flashback to his
times with Sara - Sara walking past Michael in Fox River, Sara and Michael kissing in the infirmary. Aww... I
love this scene.)
Cut To:
(Lincoln is talking with someone at the Panama District Constable's Office.)
Lincoln: Sara Tancredi. She's an american.. she's missing.
(And then we finally see the prosthetic hand of... T-BAG!! YAy!!!!! He comes into view. He surveys the prison.
Michael is walking on the other side and suddenly stops. He sees Tbag and looks astonished. Tbag sees him as
well. On top. Alex sees Tbag as well. Michael looks at Alex, tbag and then hears his name. He's got someone in
visitation. He looks confused. Lincoln said that they would meet the next day).
Cut to:
(Outside SONA. There is an unknown man on the other side of the fence waiting to see Michael)
Man: Ah, Mister Scofield. Elliot Pike.
Michael: What do you want?
Man: Well, to be frank, to represent you.
Michael: You're a lawyer?
Man: Of sorts.
Michael: Court already appointed me a lawyer.
Man: Then, perhaps I can be of assistance, in a different way.
Michael: Somehow, I doubt that.
Man: I got a lot of bug guns behind me Mr. Scofield. People you might like to have in your corner, should you
ever decide say, break out of here?
Michael: Who are you?
Man: We can assist you in every possible way, once you get past that wall. There's a reason a guy like you with
a skill-set like that, is put in here, you know?
Michael: This conversation is over. (He walks back into SONA)
Man: You oughta hear what I have to say Scofield. We're trying to do this the easy way.
Cut to:
(SONA. Some inmates are making a beat with cans and some sticks. Michael enters his cell, looks at his bed
and takes off his sweatshirt. He sees the drawings all over the walls. Suddenly, the prisoner who was nooding at
Lechero enters the cell and pushes Michael towards the wall.)
Inmate: Where'd you take my stash? how about it you little bitch?
Michael: I didn't do it.
Lincoln: Where?
Man: At the morgue. (Lincoln stops dead in his tracks).
Cut to:
(SONA. Bellick and his new friend are trying to get water).
Bellick's new friend: Por forvor Senor.
Random guy: (in spanish).........
Bellick: What's he saying?
Bellick's NF: That we can't eat.
Bellick: What are we supposed to eat?
Bellick's NF: (in spanish) Please. I haven't eaten in a week since I've been here. please.
(Random guy finishes his chicken and leaves the remain in the plate).
Cut to:
(Bellick and his friend in a part of Sona)
Bellick's NF: They expect us to follage.. like dogs. I will die.. I will literally die. (He starts crying.)
Bellick: Hang in there man.
(Bellick walks ahead but his friend spots a window and walks towards it. He climbs up towards it and removes
the grate.)
Cut to:
(Michael making another origami swan. Tbag approaches him.)
T-Bag: Playing by yourself. Same old Pretty. Just not good at making friends, are you?
Michael: We got nothing to say to each other.
T-Bag: On another note, on a big picture note, them big government types that shook me down so hard, why is
it they wanted you here? Was it Sona they was interested in? That's what I'm thinking. Want me to get you
down here, up in this very county. What do you think it is, huh? You think it's Sona? Who'd be interested in a
dump like this?
(Suddenly they hear someone shout: RUNNER! Everyone runs towards the windows. Looks like Bellicks friend
has made it out of the prison. He'srunning towards the fence. )
Michael: Yet the only one in this prison who has a problem with me, is you.
Lechero: I'd be glad to see you go down. Superstar.
Cut to:
(In the sewers... there is someone hiding there. Seems like he can hear everything that goes on in Lechero's room
He hears a noise and looks through a brick hole. He sees Bellick)
Prisoner: Go on.. keep going. Your grunts are around the corner. Move it.
(The man who is hiding in the sewer whistles. Bellick looks towards the noise. He goes toward the brick hole.
Man: Hey.. hey....think you can do me a favour?
Bellick: Bite me.
Man: I can feed you. Two weeks ago, I was in your shoes. Didn't get any food for days. And they left me to die,
just like they're going to let you die.
Bellick: Get back to the 'feed me' part.
(Man slides a piece of some food throught the brickhole. Bellick takes it and eats it.)
Bellick: Chicken. Where did you get chicken?
Man: That's not chicken. Want some more?
Bellick: Yea..
Man: Then you're going to have to run an errand for me.
Bellick: What kind of errand?
(Man passes two slips of paper to Bellick.)
Cut To:
(Lincoln's cell rings)
Lincoln: Ya.
LJ: Dad, it's me.
Lincoln: LJ? Where are you?
LJ: I'm in Panama.
Lincoln: What? How'd you get this number?
LJ: I ran into Sara. She got your number from the consulate. Dad...
Lincoln: LJ....I can't hear you.
LJ. Dad, do this. Meet us at the restaurant in the Garfield Price building. At the top.
Lincoln: Garfield what?
(Line gets disconnnected....Lincoln gets frustrated and looks out into the open from the roof of some random
building in Panama. )
Cut to:
(SONA. Prisoners are shifting the dead body of the prisoner from the courtyard to make room for the new fight.
Michael is in his cell, getting nervous. Tbag is drinking water outside and sees Lechero and his gang walking.)
Some random guy in lechero's gang: Noone wants the american.
(Another inmate passes by Lechero and spills water on his shoe.)
Lechero: Clean it up.
(Lechero looks at him and then laughs. Looks like Tbag is up to something. He follows lechero.)
Tbag: Surely, it's beneath a man of your status to be walking around like that all... sticky like.(Sammy grabs
him)
Lechero: (To sammy ) leave him. What do you propose?
Tbag (Kneels down): Ablution. (Lechero laughs). A humble sign of friendship from a stranger who's come into
your house. (tbag poins towards his knee and Lechero puts his foot on top of it. Tbag accidently drops more
water on Lechero's pants. Lechero gets a wave of annoyance on his face. Tbag apologizes.) Sorry about that.
Just half a man down here (shows his prosthetic hand).
Lechero: Whats your name?
Tbag: you can just call me "Friend".
Cut to:
(Michael is holding the wishbone, deeply thinking. Alex approaches him.)
Alex: Go for the knee-cap. You uh.. you hit it straight on and it will buckle and will take the guy out.
Michael: Fighting dirty? That's your secret?
Alex: I didn't think there was any such thing as clean in a place like this.
Michael: You know, I'm surprised Alex. It almost sounds like you care.
Alex: You're my "Get-out-of-jail-free-card". Just survive. Knee-cap. Really hard. (He leaves)
Cut to:
(The courtyard. The inmates are getting aroused and circling hte central fight area. Bellick emerges from the
sewers. He has the two slips of papers in his hand. Michael and the other inmate enter the fight arena. Just as he
enters, bellick puts the first slip of paper in Michael's pocket without him knowing. He puts the second slip in
the other inmates pocket.)
Lechero: (Calling out to the other prisoners before the fight) We have a disagreement between two dogs. A drug
addict and a thief. I condone neither. And I wash my hands on both of them. But they have an issue. And we
have rules. And without rules we are nothing but savages. Therefore, the proper respect for the rules. This fight
is engaged with only one rule; no weapons. Only man versus man, without augmentation or handicap. I'm done
talking!
Michael: I'm not going to fight.
(When the other inmate looks towards the Lechero, Michael goes for the knee-cap, heeding Alex's advice and
breaking it. Michael gives him a few punches and kicks. The other inmate falls down. Michael, thinking he's
done, tries to get out of the arena, but the prisoners circling him, push him back)
Lechero: I don't think you understand the rules, friend. Only one man comes out alive.
(Michael looks shocked.)
COMMERCIAL BREAK.
Cut to:
(Fight in SONA. The other inmate gets up and punches Michael. Michael punches back and the inmate falls
again. He turns around, and at that moment, someone throws a knife next to the other inmate. Michael is
unaware, but Alex sees this.)
Michael: (To the prisoners surrounding him.) It's over. Let me through. Let me go.
(The other inmate sees the knife, picks it up, heading towards Michael but is stopped by Alex, who breaks his
neck. Michael turns around and is surprised.)
Alex: No weapons. Rules are rules, remember? If we don't have them, we're savages.
(Lechero looks disappointed and heads back into his room. Michael and Alex leave the arena.)
Cut to:
(Garfield Price Building. Lincoln enters and it looks like a swanky restaurant.)
Manager: Oh excuse me. You have no jacket.
Lincoln: Cmon man, I'm just meeting someone here. Give me a break.
Manager: Well, this is a nice place. It requires jackets.
Lincoln: Well I don't have a jacket.
Manager: It requires jackets.
Lincoln: Fine. (He heads out and enters throught the back door of the kitchen. He sees a guy with a jacket.)
Excuse me. You speak english? How about american? (He takes out a few dollars from his pocket. He reenters
the restaurant with the jacket and shows the manager the jacket. The manager looks dismayed. Lincoln heads
towards the bar.) Can I borrow a water please?
Same woman who is in the opening scene of this episode: Please tell me you did not come all the way to Panama
for the water.
Lincoln: Family.
Woman: That's a nice jacket, Sergio. (She sees the tag on the jacket)
Lincoln: It's a long story. (Takes the glass of water from the bartender) Thankyou.
Woman: You're waiting for someone huh?
Lincoln: uh huh!
Woman: I should have known... good-looking ones are always taken.
Lincoln: What happened to your face?
Woman: Cat.
Lincoln: Cat? That's a big cat.
Woman: You push anything into a corner too far and the claws will come out.
Lincoln: Your timings are all wrong lady.
Woman: Oh c'mon. Hang out.
Lincoln: I'd like to.. but it ain't the right time. (Starts to leave)
Woman: Yes it is Lincoln..!!
(Lincoln stops.)
Woman: We have a lot to discuss. Specifically your brother. (She shows him a phone). I highly suggest you talk
to him.
Cut to:
(SONA. The guards are removing the dead bodies of the inmates from SONA. The same woman who was
screaming for her husband is there again. She starts screaming again.)
Woman: (In spanish) The dead men inside, bring them out. I want to bury him.
(Michael notices all this. The guards shoot the dead prisoners once more, to make sure that they are dead.
Michael looks away, and then back at them again. The woman goes inside and talks to the grave-digger.)
Grave digger: (In spanish) They will be buriend here. Unless family members step forward to make their own
arrangements. (He leaves with the rest of the guards).
(The woman goes through each of the dead men's pockets. It seems she isnt looking for a particular person.
SHe finally finds a note which the man in the sewers had written:
Versailles
1989
V. Madrid
She smiles....
Michael finds the other half which reads the same thing, in SONA. He is in visitation and sees Lincoln approach
him)
Michael: Hey.. How are we coming with the transfer?
Lincoln: (With a pained look on his face) There are some people that want you to break someone out of there.
Michael: Yea I know. Some guy already approached me. I said 'No thank-you'.
Lincoln: You gotta stay.
Michael: What are you talking about?
Lincoln: His name's James Whistler. (Shot of the guy in the sewers. Seems like he has a name after all)
Michael: No no no no..Linc. I can't do that again.
Lincoln: Michael.. Mike... (He shows Michael the phone which the woman had given him at the bar. He plays a
video clip)
LJ (in the video cliop): Dad. Dad, I'm so sorry. They got me and Sara (Michael looks pained as he hears Sara's
name). Please, do what they want. Dad, please. (Lincoln looks stressed and Michael looks completely shocked).
Lincoln: You got a week to find this whistler guy and get him out of there. (Michael still has a shocked look on
his face.) Otherwise, they uh, Sara and LJ, (still look of Michael's shocked face) they both die! (Michael looks
towards Linc and cannot believe any of this