S03 E03 Call Waiting Promo

Airs: October 1, 2007

Episode 3x03:Call Waiting

Episode 3.03: Call Waiting
Airs: October 1, 2007

New Characters:

* Stash, a transexual in Sona. He’s not intimidated by Bellick in the least.

* Augusto. Lechoro’s cousin.

Press Release:

• Determined to speak with Sara, Michael enlists T-Bag’s help to get to the only phone in Sona. Lincoln attempts a daring rescue; Whistler comes clean to Michael, just as Mahone is tempted to fall back on a dirty habit; and Bellick makes an enemy while attempting to get back on his feet on the “Call Waiting” episode of Prison Break.

Plot Spoilers:

• Sara and L.J. will be reunited by the third episode, if not sooner. However, it won’t be a happy reunion due to the thug taking care of them.

• Michael and Sara talk to one another on the phone. They have to use a code to talk to one another.

• Bellick visits Stash in order to get his missing shoe (Bellick has been walking around Sona with only a shoe). Bellick’s threats won’t last long as Stash will soon be joined by one of his “clients.” Bellick changes his attitude and wants to trade something in exchange for the shoe.

• Mahone will not enjoy his stay at Sona and one of the reasons is the lack of meds. You can expect his tremors to come back to haunt him. He also gets a visit from the public defender assigned to his case, Paul Darinda. The latter tells his client that they have a trial date. Thing is, it is in a year! Darinda is not really interested in what Mahone has to say, which includes that Michael can testify that he set Mahone up. Darinda says that judges won’t fall for the “one inmate will take the blame for another” trick. He tries to convince Darinda to get meds for him as he can’t get those in Sona.

• We will meet Lechero’s cousin, Augusto.

• Someone slides an envelope containing a photo of Sara and L.J. under the door of Linc’s hotel room. It might contain clues to their whereabouts.

• Lechero begins to lose confidence in his ability to shape events

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Interview Robert Wisdom

Exclusive Interview: 'Prison Break' Star Robert Wisdom

September 24, 2007

On last week's season 3 premiere of Prison Break, viewers were treated to several new facesm including Robert Wisdom who plays the menacing Sona kingpin Lechero. The Panamanian prison is ruled by the inmates, and Lechero is the de facto leader, the man who tries to keep a group of the worst felons in line.

BuddyTV got the chance to speak with Robert Wisdom at this weekend FOX press junket in Los Angeles, and unlike his character on the show, he could not be any nicer. As an added bonus, members of the press who woke up early enough for breakfast were treated to seeing Wisdom talking on the phone while, right next to him, a TV showed the Prison Break season premiere. Side-by-side, it's stunning how different the man is from the character.

Robert Wisdom discussed how he was cast on Prison Break this year, and his feeling that we would get the role because he had a strong understanding of the character.

-Lechero is based on or inspired by a number of historically ruthless dictators, such as the Shah or Iran, Idi Amin and Benito Mussolini. In other words, Lechero is not someone to be taken lightly.

-Having previously played a death row inmate on Boomtown and a member of the Baltimore police department on HBO's The Wire, Wisdom talked about the different ways in which he approaches characters on either side of the law, and how he always tries to find the center.

-Wisdom respects the other actors on Prison Break, and is impressed how seriously they all take their jobs. Also, though he didn't watch it originally, when he was hired he got the first two seasons on DVD and sped through them and got hooked right away by the cat and mouse aspect of the first season and the expanded conspiracy of the second.

-In his free time, he is very passionate about music and plays several instruments.

-Wisdom confirmed that, in the fifth and final season of HBO's The Wire, premiering in January 2008, is character, Bunny Colvin will return, and Wisdom assured fans that this season will be “extraordinary.”

Chris Vance

Chris Vance is an Australian actor who was born on December 1971 in London, England, and was raised in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. He appears as one of the members of the cast in the Fox network's Emmy Award-nominated series Prison Break. Prior to his role on Prison Break, he was most well-known for playing the role of Sean Everleigh in the hospital drama series All Saints. Vance has worked as both an actor and a member of the art department for a number of television productions. Among the shows he has performed in are The Secret Life of Us, Stingers, and Blue Heelers.

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Danay Garcia

Danay Garcia appears as one of the members of the cast in the Fox network's Emmy Award-nominated series Prison Break. She is a native of Havana, Cuba, and says that she enjoyed performing at a young age. She also practiced and danced ballet for more than 10 years. Garcia has stated that while she enjoys the attention of the public and the art of entertaining people, she realized for herself that ballet was a limited career, and she wished to expand into other forms of entertainment. She then began trying out for theater and looking for job opportunities as an actress. Among the productions she has had roles in are Danika, CSI: Miami, and From Mexico with Love.

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Sofia Lugo

Sofia Lugo is portrayed by Danay Garcia in the Fox network's drama series Prison Break. She is introduced during the third season of the show. She is the girlfriend of James Whistler, who is incarcerated in Sona penitentiary along with Michael Scofield, who was put there in order to break Whistler out. She joins forces outside the prison with Scofield's brother Lincoln Burrows in order to find a way for their loved ones to escape Sona, as well as to learn the truth about Whistler and why he was imprisoned.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Jodi Lyn O’Keefe is a model and actress who was born on October 10, 1978 in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey. O’Keefe was raised in a family of mixed Austrian, Czech, Polish, Irish, and Swedish descent. She is the youngest of three sisters, and describes herself as being a dork when she was younger, especially with her bowl haircut back then. O’Keefe appears as one of the members of the cast in the Fox network’s Emmy Award-nominated series Prison Break. Prior to her role on Prison Break, she was most well-known for playing the role of Cassidy Bridges, the teenage daughter of the titular protagonist in Nash Bridges played by Don Johnson.

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Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony is portrayed by Jodi Lyn O’Keefe in the Fox network’s drama series Prison Break. She is introduced during the third season of the show. Susan is said to be an agent and operative working for the Company, and is apparently named or codenamed after the 19th century civil rights leader who fought for women’s suffrage in America.

Robert Wisdom

Robert Wisdom was born on September 14, 1953 in the national capital of Washington, D.C. He appears as one of the members of the cast in the Fox network's Emmy Award-nominated series Prison Break. Wisdom is the son of Jamaican parents, and is the middle child with an older and a younger sibling. He studied at St. Alban's School, before going on to graduate later from Columbia University in New York. Wisdom has worked on numerous television and film productions. Among the shows he has acted in are The Nine, Close to Home, and The Wire.

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Lechero

Lechero is portrayed by Robert Wisdom in the Fox network's drama series Prison Break. He is introduced during the third season of the show. Lechero is a drug lord and kingpin who rules over the lawless Sona penitentiary with an iron fist, imposing rules and discipline among the often unruly inmates, and helping enforce some semblance of order in the absence of any real guards and administrative staff.

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Airs: September 24, 2007

New Characters:

* Colonel Escamilla- 40 years old, the man in charge of running Sona.

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Michael races to find a hidden Whistler before Mahone; searching for clues outside the prison, Lincoln runs into an old friend and makes a new one; T-Bag slithers his way into Lechero’s graces as the prisoners threaten a revolt due to the lack of agua (water).

Plot Spoilers

* Lechero warns Colonel Escamilla that the prison ran out of water. Escamilla doesn’t seem to see the urgency of the situation and says he’ll get a water truck the day after tomorrow. But Lechero knows what a prison, especially Sona, without water can be like and tells him he needs it now. But Lechero cannot do a thing as he and none of the other prisoners can take hostages and make demands as there are no guards at Sona. What will happen inside when the men have to live two days without water?

* After the second episode you start to feel a little bad for [Bellick]. He’s had to resort limping around the prison in nothing but his skivvies, plus we sadly find that not even his dear old mom knows he’s been locked away in that hellhole. Someone who’s had a hand in the past two seasons of the show makes an appearance as a new inmate in the second episode, looking very much like a Salacious Crumb. The conclusion of the second episode really sets up the premise for the rest of the season.

Episode 3.02 - Promo Pictures

Episode 3.02: Fire/Water
Airs: September 24, 2007
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Sofia lugo (james Whistler girlfriend) and Lincoln Burrows

FBI Special Agent Alexander Mahone

Michael Scofield

Susan B. Anthony

James Whistler

Fernando Sucre

Wentworth Miller on his Celebrity Crush & Personal Life

You’ve said you’re more of a loner than a social butterfly. Has that changed since you’ve become so well known?

Yeah. It’s a luxury I can’t afford. I would never describe myself as a people person but I spend my days on a set putting together a show that involves hundreds of other people or off promoting that show and meeting hundreds of other people. I saw an old interview with Jack Nicholson where he said that the average celebrity meets more people in one year than the average person meets in their entire life and that feels true to me. I don’t know if it’s true scientifically or it would be possible to prove percentage wise but it just feels like the truth and consequently, when I have a weekend off or a night to myself, it’s a choice between hanging out on my couch watching a video or going down to the local bar and inevitably being cornered by someone and grilled about the tattoo for two hours, I’ll choose the former. I think it’s important to have a little bit of balance. I think people, myself included, or myself especially, need time to gather your thoughts to process what is happening to you, especially since my life has changed in many ways so dramatically over the last year and a half. It’s a lot to process.

What are the other negatives and positives of being in a hit show?

I’d say the most significant positive is not only is it a great show, I have a place to go to every morning, a steady paycheck, which as an actor is a rarity and a luxury, but it’s opened so many doors for me. The feature film world in the US its all about, “Do they know you overseas?” because it does matter how well a movie does domestically but the foreign markets count for a great deal and the fact that Prison Break is this international hit, and my name now means something in Korea, and South Africa, and Australia, only helps me as far as getting in the door on certain feature film projects that I couldn’t, or didn’t, have access to before, which is great. Of course, the down side is that you’re working on a TV show that’s 22 episodes a year, it takes eight days to film an entire episode, all of those days are between 14 and 17 hours long, so when I have my two months off in which I can go do a movie, I’m too tired. And that’s fine because Prison Break is kind of my priority, it’s my baby, and that’s where my attention goes first and foremost. As far as the negatives, there’s a certain strange identity theft that seems to be more and more prevalent. It’s only natural in the business of fantasy, so people have fantasies about you, and some of them are based on some kind of truth, some of them are not, but it doesn’t matter whether they have any kind of accuracy, they’re online, or in magazines, people can print anything about you, say anything about you that they want, and there’s really nothing you can do it about except, I suppose, go to court if you have enough time and money. And mostly it amuses me. There’s a billboard in Korea, apparently, where they’re using my image to advertise tests for prostate cancer for a Korean hospital, and they’ve just picked a random photo from some shoot for GQ I did a couple of years ago and without my permission are using me to push their particular cause, which is kind of funny actually but then my agent gets phone calls from people wanting to know which myspace page is mine, and the truth is I’ve never been on myspace but there are maybe a dozen Wentworth Miller myspace pages, and people answering fan mail as me, blogging as me, and it’s a little disturbing. I don’t care that they’re doing it. I do care that someone who might actually like the show and want to communicate with me in some way, shape or form turns to one of these other outlets and starts communicating with someone who’s not me. I’m very protective of the fans and their experience of the show and people on the show and I certainly wouldn’t want some innocent 10-year-old to fall into the wrong hands communicating with someone they think is Wentworth Miller and they’re not.

What’s the most hurtful thing that’s been written about you?

On a website someone wrote, “I just found out that Wentworth Miller’s a Brit. I guess that explains his crap American accent.” I was a baby when I moved [to the US]! This is my accent. This is how I talk. But they found out that I was a dual citizen, because I was born there so I’m a dual citizen with the UK, and I guess assumed that the way I talk on the show is some kind of put-on American accent but it’s not obviously.

Did that make you paranoid about how you talk?

No. You have to laugh at these things. It’s tempting, and I think natural, to give credit or to assign value, weight to these random opinions you read online. I’ve made the mistake of reading someone’s review of the show and assumed that they knew something about acting, that they knew something about TV, but the fact is they might not, they could just be a disgruntled 16-year-old in Kansas who’s just sounding off about Prison Break but you’ve assigned them the same kind of weight and value as a reporter in Entertainment Weekly and that, of course, is a mistake because you’re opening yourself up to harsh words from ignorant sources.

You’ve admitted that you’ve made up answers in interviews.

Only once or twice. It was about things that didn’t particularly matter like, “Who’s my favourite designer” or “What cologne do I prefer” and it just makes me laugh that it’s assumed because I’m an actor on a TV show that I have opinions about these things and that my opinions are worth listening to.

What do you think about the cult of celebrity and the fact that we look up to celebrities for their opinions on important issues?

It concerns me. I think it’s a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone’s an entertainer they’re automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren’t there to teach your children the lessons that you haven’t bothered to teach them at home yourself. They’re just doing their own version of entertaining. They’re not by definition role models, and then we act all disappointed and scandalised when they do something disappointing or scandalising. There are people who are out there using their celebrity status for good works and that’s commendable but mostly the obsession with celebrity is dangerous because I think most magazines and entertainment news shows sell this idea that somewhere out there is a better, more interesting, more glamorous, more beautiful life than yours, which makes you dissatisfied with what you have and you believe that life exists and the truth is that it doesn’t or, if it does, the people involved aren’t really having the great time you think they’re having and that can be dangerous because I think life is about learning to be content with what you’ve got, making the most out of what you’ve been lucky enough to get rather than spending your days envying, and inevitably, I think, hating the people who you think have something they don’t.

Was that a lesson you had to learn, when your career went quiet after you made The Human Stain? Was it hard for you to come to terms with the fact that there wasn’t this ideal life out there for you?

Well that was never why I was in it to begin with. I didn’t come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people. I came to Hollywood eventually because I wanted to act, I wanted to entertain, to tell inspiring stories that touched people’s lives in some way so not working after The Human Stain was frustrating on a professional level but I never once thought, “Gee, I really wish I could afford to do A, B and C and be one of those glamorous people.” That never for a second appealed to me and I think that if it had I wouldn’t have stuck it out because those people who come to Hollywood and are only interested in the superficial things, who are interested in only the lifestyle, if they don’t get it, if they don’t achieve some kind of success really soon, they have to go home because there’s nothing there for them to grab onto. But as far as I was concerned, I love acting and that’s something I couldn’t walk away from. That’s why I was staying and that’s what got me through the lean years, the hard times, knowing that if nothing else I had to see this through.

You’ve said you’re a perfectionist. Do you think that’s a help or a hindrance?

It’s both. It’s a double-edged sword. It means that you’re hard on yourself—of course you expect the best—and when you don’t deliver the best in your opinion you can beat yourself up a little bit. I have very high expectations of myself. I’m a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I’m eventually better than everyone else then so be it. But I don’t go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It’s also, I think, the key to my success. There were a number of lessons I learned as a student, about discipline, follow through, you know, something as simple as proofreading a paper that you wrote, making sure that you’ve got a period where a period should be instead of a coma or a semi-colon. That kind of attention to detail. Caring about the work, down to the smallest moment, is also what shows up as far as doing good work, telling a story, like we do in Prison Break. Finding those little moments, those little beats, that the writers didn’t anticipate, that you find, that tell your audience something new and unexpected about the character that you’re playing. There’s a lot of crossover, I think, between your approach to life in general and art, if you’re lucky enough to be involved in art.

If you say you’re really hard on yourself, how do you feel you’re doing?

Well, I turn that kind of attention, that need to do whatever I’m doing the best that I can do it, I turn that attention to today. I don’t worry about tomorrow. I don’t worry about a week from now. I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow’s going to bring. Prison Break might be the first of many successes. It might be the pinnacle of my career and everything afterward will just be anti-climactic. You’ll never know and there’s no sense worrying about things that you can’t predict or control. The only thing you can do is focus your attention on what you have, what’s in your lap right now, and try to make the best of it.

You have an English literature degree from Princeton University. Do you have any aspirations to be a writer?

I do, actually, I do. I think no actor can not feel as though they would like a little bit more control within the creative process because no matter how good you are, you perform a scene the way you want to perform it and then someone else edits it, puts it together, slices it up and puts it together the way they see fit, so at the end of the day your performance is not really your own because so many people have kind of tinkered with it on it’s way to airing on TV. So the idea of writing the words that come out of my mouth or being the one in the editing room putting together my performance, definitely appeals to me.

Have you written anything or have any plans?

I have. I’ve written a treatment, which is an outline, for a movie. It’s kind of love story with a Hitchcock twist. A bit of a thriller, and when I go back to Los Angeles, on my weekends off from the show, I meet with writers and producers and try to get people excited about it, try to get a team of people together who are going to help me get this movie made. Of course there’s a great role for me! I’m at that stage of my career right now where it’s not just about auditioning for the projects that are out there. It’s about generating your own projects and that’s really something that excites me.

Does it have a title?

Yes. It’s called Stoker, which is a nod to Bram Stoker who wrote Dracula. It’s got a lot of elements of the Dracula mythology in its story.

Will you play the Dracula character?

It’s not a vampire story. It’s not about vampires at least with the teeth and the desire to suck your blood but it is a thriller and it is about an individual who preys on the innocent.

And it’s romantic?

It’s a love story. Because I think my interpretation of the Dracula story is that it’s a romance. I think it’s very sad. I think one way to look at it is it’s about a monster who’s kind of shuffling through the centuries looking for someone to love him—fangs and all—like everyone’s looking for someone to love them fangs and all, and when he finds his bride to be, when he chooses his Mrs Dracula, I think there’s a part of us as the audience that wants them to get together but inevitably the big blonde beefy hero steps in and puts a stake through his heart and denies him the love he wants and I think that’s kind of sad.

What’s your idea of a perfect date?

You know, it’s funny I once said something about going ice skating because one of the best dates I had in high school was when I took this girl who I’d been in love with for two years, who I didn’t think even knew my name actually, ice skating so that, for me, has become a signifier of something particularly romantic. And I ran into a couple of people who read that quote, friends of mine, and they teased me, because they assumed I meant some starry night and a frozen pond in the countryside and you and your honey doing figure eights, scarves fluttering behind you and that’s not what I meant at all. I meant schlepping down to the local rink and putting on those cheap skates that give your feet blisters and kind of shuffling once around the rink and falling on your ass and then calling it a day and retiring to the cafeteria for two cups of really crappy hot chocolate. That’s kind of my idea of a romantic night out! I guess that’s kind of twisted but hey, different strokes for different folks.

Are you seeing someone at the moment?
No. Nothing serious.

If you could request a song while you were skating around the rink what would it be?

Well, it would have to be, since the whole thing is a flashback to my high school days, something kind of appropriate to that decade. What were we listening to back then? I think there was a lot of Beastie boys in there so yeah maybe Beastie Boys.

Have you ever had celebrity crushes?

I have. I have. Law & Order had a tremendous impact on me, because Sam Waterston is a role model, I think, someone who’s just serving up award worthy work, episode after episode for years, year after year, and it kind of reminded me that there is great work being done in TV as well as film. At the same time, of course, he had Angie Harmon playing his Assistant D.A. [District Attorney] and she’s one of my ideals as far as women go: beautiful but more than that, smart. She’s like this beautiful, aggressive, barracuda, relentlessly going after her prey. It was pretty hot.

Does she know that?

I’ve never met her and even if I did I wouldn’t know what to say. I certainly wouldn’t say she was a beautiful barracuda, I don’t think that really sounds like a compliment even though I meant it as one.

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James Whistler

James Whistler is a fictional character from the American television series Prison Break. He is played by Chris Vance. The character was introduced to the series as a regular in the premiere episode of the third season of the series.

Little is known thus far about Whistler. He is a prisoner at Sona Federal Penitentiary in Panama. He is first seen in the episode Orientación hiding within a crawlspace below the room of Lechero, the de facto leader of the prison.

When he first saw Brad Bellick, he offered him food in return for a favor: When a fight broke out inmates (one of whom was Michael Scofield) Bellick was to place a note on each of the two inmates. He was apparently attempting to send a message to Sofia Lugo (Whistler girlfriend), a woman he'd been involved with on the outside, ensuring his note would get out when either inmate was killed and the body was removed. Sofia found the note, which read :

"VERSAILLES 1989 V MADRID". It's meaning is not yet known.

The Company seems to have an interest in Whistler for some reason and was apparently the reason Michael's incarceration in Sona was arranged in the first place. One of their operatives, Elliott Pike, approached Michael and offered their support if he breaks Whistler out. When he refused, another operative, Susan B. Anthony, approached Michael's brother Lincoln Burrows and informed them that Lincoln's son L.J. Burrows and Michael girlfriend Sara Tancredi were being held hostage by the Company and would be killed if Michael didn't break Whistler out within a week.

EPISODE 3x01: Orientacíon

EPISODE 301: Orientacíon
Airdate: 09/17/2007

A woman known as Susan B. Anthony does her make-up before a vanity, and uses the make-up to cover deep scratches on her face.

Michael stands among a screaming crowd in the yard of Sona. Two men size each other up in a circle of prisoners.

Lincoln begs a clerk at the American Embassy to get Michael out of Sona. The clerk tells Lincoln that “the worst of the worst” are inside Sona. The prisoners rioted so badly, that the guards pulled out and left the prisoners to fend for themselves. The man looks Lincoln in they eyes, “Whatever goes in…never comes out. Unless it’s dead.”

Michael watches in horror as the two men fight until one man finally snaps the other man’s neck.

The next morning, Lincoln stands in the office of the American Consul. The Consul is on the phone trying to get Michael out of Sona. The Consul tells Lincoln that Michael’s case looks like Michael will walk away an innocent man and he’ll be transferred to another facility in forty-eight hours.

Michael sees Bellick, stripped of his clothes and beaten, walking across the yard. Bellick asks some inmates for water and they point him to a mud puddle. They shove Bellick down, and kick the muddy water in his face. When the inmates leave, a scrawny prisoner named Sapo, also only nearly naked, helps Bellick to his feet.

Mahone sits alone, his hands shaking. He reaches into his jacket to remove his pen. After unscrewing the top, he finds he’s out of pills. Michael walks in and Mahone springs up to meet him. Mahone demands that Michael helps him when his court date comes. Michael refuses to help and wants to know why The Company wanted him in a Panamanian prison. Mahone doesn’t know anything, he was just following orders. Mahone pleads with Michael to work together. Michael tells Mahone he won’t help him, because every time he looks at Mahone, he sees the man that killed his father.

A woman stands outside the Sona, screaming and demanding that the prisoners send out the dead. Lincoln enters a guard shack. The guards call for Michael to come to visitation, which is a chain link cage extending out from Sona. The brothers meet again and try to make light of the situation. Lincoln tells Michael to hold on another day, and that he does not know where Sarah is. Lincoln walks away, promising to see Michael tomorrow.

Back in Sona, a young inmate named McGrady runs up to Michael asking about basketball. McGrady runs off when a group of thugs approaches Michael and tell him it is time for orientation. The leader, Sammy, flashes a knife and Michael follows.

Michael, Mahone and several other inmates are led into Lechero’s den. Lechero is the man who controls Sona. Lechero recognizes Michael and Mahone from the news. Michael says he won’t make waves. Lechero tells them that if there is conflict, the men must settle it in the yard in a fight to the death. Another inmate at the end of the line loses control of his bladder. Lechero strikes the man and beats him. Michael barks out, “I think he gets the message!” Lechero tries to intimidate Michael, but it doesn’t work. Lechero angrily dismisses the inmates.

Lincoln talks to a Constable inside a police station. He hands the Constable a photo of Sarah, asking the man to call Lincoln if anyone matching her description shows up.

Bellick sees Sapo wearing shoes. They belong to the dead man who lost the fight the night before. Sammy shouts at Bellick and Sapo that they need to start earning their rent. He hands them some plastic parkas and leads them to the prison toilet. Sapo and Bellick protest the job, but Sammy doesn’t care. He tells them to clean it and burn it in the sewers when they’re done.

Lechero looks down at Michael from the second tier. He makes eye contact with another inmate and nods towards Michael. The inmate nods back. Another one of Lechero’s men tells Lechero another American arrived and, “He’s got this hand…”

Michael looks across the yard as T-Bag enters and makes eye contact. From above, Mahone looks down and sees T-Bag. Over the loud speakers, the guards call for Michael to go to visitation.

Michael meets a man who introduces himself as Elliott Pike. Pike tells Michael, “I got a lot of big guns behind me, Mr. Scofield. People you might want to have in your corner should you ever decide, say, to break out of here.” Michael knows who Pike is working for and walks away uninterested in the offer.

Michael stands in his cell and looks around. Another inmate storms in, demanding his “stash.” He grabs Michael around the neck, but is pulled off by Lechero. Lechero orders Michael and his bed be checked for the other man’s drugs. They find a bag under Michael’s bed, clearly a set up. The inmate tells Michael they’re not through.

The Constable phones Lincoln. They found a woman matching Sarah’s description. She’s at the morgue.

Bellick and Sapo stop and beg a cook for some pieces of chicken. The man smugly hands Sapo and clean bone. Sapo begins to panic about starving to death. Bellick asks him to hang in there and walks away. Sapo pulls some wire from a cell window, and climbs up.

T-Bag finds Michael and asks him why the government would want him in Sona. Before Michael answers, the inmates cry out, “RUNNER!” They flood to the windows to see Sapo shuffling across the no-man’s land. The guards in the towers tell him to stop, but he keeps moving. Bellick screams out as machine gun fire cuts Sapo down.

Michael tries to deal with what he’s just seen and heads to his cell. On his bed is Lechero’s chicken foot. He has been challenged to a fight.

Lincoln walks with the Constable and looks at the body. The Constable pulls back the sheet, and Lincoln pauses. “It’s not her.”

Sammy leads Michael to Lechero, who enjoys seeing Michael holding the chicken foot. Michael tries to argue his case, but Lechero reminds Michael that the fight is Sona’s way of keeping justice. Michael tries to get Lechero to admit that he set up the fight. Lechero doesn’t blink.

Deep below the prison, in the sewers, someone is listening to Lechero’s conversation.

Bellick wades through the sewer with a bucket of bathroom sludge. The person who was listening to Lechero whistles to Bellick. He asks Bellick to do him a favor and promises to feed Bellick. The man hands meat through a small crack. Bellick pops the piece in his mouth and chews, and then asks where the man found chicken. After a pause, the raspy voice replies, “That’s not chicken.” Bellick doesn’t care and takes more. In exchange, the man hands Bellick two pieces of paper.

Lincoln answers his phone, it’s LJ. LJ says he’s in Panama and got Lincoln’s cell phone number from the Consulate. LJ tells Lincoln to meet him and Sarah in a restaurant.

The inmates gather and cheer in the yard. It’s time for the fight. T-Bag watches Lechero closely. Another inmate bumps into Lechero and spills soda on his shoes. T-Bag seizes his moment. He approaches Lechero and offers to clean the soda off Lechero’s shoes. Lechero appreciates T-Bag’s subservient manner.

Mahone stands outside Michael’s cell and tells Michael to attack the man’s knee cap. Mahone tells Michael to survive because he is Mahone’s, “get out jail free card.”

Bellick pushes through the crowd and bumps into Michael, slipping one of the pieces of paper into Michael’s back pocket. Bellick crosses the yard and does the same to Michael’s foe.

Lechero barks that the only rule is “no weapons,” then calls for the men to fight.

Michael shouts that he won’t fight. When the inmate looks up to Lechero, Michael attacks the man’s knee. The man buckles under the kick, allowing Michael the advantage. The inmates cheer for Michael to finish the fight. When he tires to leave the circle, they shove him back in. The inmate stands and lands a few punches, but Michael quickly knocks him back down. Someone tosses a blade into the ring. Mahone sees this and steps forward. The fallen inmate grabs the blade and stands, and then lunges at Michael. Mahone blocks the man’s arm, and then snaps the man’s neck. Mahone quickly shouts out, “Rules are rules, remember!?” The crowd breaks up, Lechero walks away frustrated.

Lincoln enters the restaurant looking for LJ and Sarah. Susan B. Anthony sits behind him, flirts with him a little. As Lincoln walks away, she calls him by his name. “We have a lot to discuss.” Lincoln slowly sits. There is anger on his face. She tells him that he needs to talk to Michael.

A military vehicle collects the dead from inside Sona, and Sapo’s body in no-man’s land. A guard shoots the bodies to make sure they’re dead.

The screaming woman from Lincoln’s first visit looks over the bodies. When the coast is clear, she checks their pockets. She finds the second note that Bellick left. It reads:

Versailles
1989
V. Madrid

Michael waits in visitation and finds the other note. Lincoln walks to the fence and tells Michael “There are some people who want you to break someone out of here.” Michael shakes his head, he can’t do that again. Lincoln continues, “His name’s James Whistler.” Lincoln shows Michael video on a handheld device. It’s video of Sarah and LJ, holding current newspapers and begging for help. Lincoln tells Michael he has a week to find Whistler and break out of Sona. Otherwise, Sarah and LJ are dead.

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PUGNAc

PUGNAc is a drug, acting as an inhibitor of N-acetylglucosaminidase and so increasing insulin resistance.

PUGNAc was used by Michael Scofield in the television series Prison Break to keep his blood sugar level high, in order to appear both diabetic and to be resistant to insulin shots he was receiving but did not need.

SONA (Season 2 final)

"Sona" is the 44th episode of the American television series, Prison Break. The episode is the 22nd episode and the season finale of the series' second season. Written by series creator Paul T. Scheuring and directed by Kevin Hooks, the episode first aired on April 2, 2007. References to "Sona" were made in the preceding episodes, "Sweet Caroline" and "Panama". Regarding the casting of this episode, Rockmond Dunbar (who plays Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin), does not appear in this episode.

Summary

Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is in Panama aboard his yacht, the Christina Rose. A local boy (Chaco) attempts to sell weed and mushrooms, but Michael dismisses him. He is then contacted on satellite phone by Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner). Mahone promises his brother's life in exchange for the boat and Charles Westmoreland's money. Michael cautiously agrees, and begins sailing to the meeting point. On his way he calls Sara to leave her a goodbye message.

After talking to Michael, Mahone calls William Kim, telling him that he will have the brothers soon and he should come to Panama as soon as possible.

In Chicago, Illinois, former Secret Service agent Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) testifies at Sara Tancredi's trial. He explains that he framed Lincoln Burrows on the order of former US Vice President Caroline Reynolds. Based on this, the prosecution agrees to drop all charges, and charge Kellerman. Outside the courtroom, a journalist states that Lincoln Burrows has been exonerated from all charges. Sara decides to go to Panama to tell Michael and Lincoln.

William Kim meets the Pad Man in a limousine. The name "Sona" is brought up again and Pad Man's final message to Kim is "Just one is needed".

In the warehouse, Mahone calls his estranged wife Pam and attempts to reconcile the relationship. At the same time Lincoln starts to unscrew the pipe holding one of his handcuffs.

In a Panama City Hospital, Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) is thinking about Maricruz Delgado. He leaves the hospital against medical advice and calls the US Embassy, looking for Brad Bellick (Wade Williams). Bellick is in a jail cell screaming for a lawyer. He meets T-Bag and the two squabble viciously. Bellick is taken from his cell and led away in handcuffs.

Outside, Sucre spots Bellick being taken away. He screams at Bellick, asking where Maricruz is hidden. Bellick tells him he'll help if he can get him out of jail. Sucre collapses on the pavement as Bellick is driven away. His fate is unknown.

Chaco takes Michael to see a local drug dealer and his entourage, aboard a docked boat. It is unknown what Michael wants.

Michael docks his boat by the warehouse that Mahone is in, hiding the money before he enters. As Michael enters Mahone calls the police and tells them "a well dressed Asian man has been murdered by two American men". The two squabble over the money as Agent Kim arrives. Mahone turns the gun on Kim, before Kim's bodyguards emerge. The ensuing gunfight allows Lincoln to finish unscrewing the pipe he's handcuffed to and escape. After shooting several of Kim's men, Mahone also escapes.

Back in Chicago, Kellerman is being transported to jail. On the way there is a problem with the engine of the van and they stop under a bridge. Masked men emerge and fire several shots into the back.

At the Gatun Lake Panama Canal crossing, Mahone is stopped by police. They claim that the boat has been flagged for illegal activity. The police board the boat and find a large amount of cocaine. Mahone is taken away.

Lincoln and Michael walk through a rough forest track and find Chaco. He takes them to a dock with a small boat. Sara emerges from the boat and tells Lincoln and Michael about the exoneration. She tells Michael that under the circumstances he will probably not do any time for his crimes. Sara heads inside to get a drink, moments later Kim emerges and tells the pair the police are on the way. Michael offers him the money, which he kicks into the water. He then states that he only needs one of them. He then goes to shoot as Sara emerges with a gun shooting him in the chest.

The police begin to arrive and the trio run. Lincoln is split up from Michael and Sara, and as they run through the forest, Lincoln finds himself hiding in an old ship yard.

Sara and Michael find an abandoned shack but the police quickly surround it. Michael attempts to calm Sara. He tells her they still have their date coming up, and that they will simply explain their story and the police will let them go. They hug, share a kiss and say "I love you" to eachother.

They leave the shack together, but Michael appears to take Sara hostage. He leaves Sara, throws the gun to the ground, and tells the police that he is responsible for the death. Sara screams that he did nothing, but they take Michael away into custody.

Lincoln searches for Sara at the police station. She's been released and as he walks out he sees the back of her head disappear into a crowd of people. Someone appears to be following her.

Back in Jail, T-Bag seems relieved when a man from "The Company" meets with him. T-Bag tells the man that since they have Scofield now, the deal they agreed upon stipulates that he should be free by now. The man replies that since he got caught he could do nothing for him, he then leaves.

At night, Michael and Mahone are taken from a Panamanian police transport, in shackles.

On Long Island, New York at the fictional Basil Island Research Facility, the Pad Man stands in a white, sterile area. He is informed that Scofield has been captured, and is warned that he will eventually break out, adding that "it's in his blood." The General replies "that's exactly what we want him to do".

Michael finds himself in the Panamanian prison "Penitenciaría Federal de Sona", or in English - Sona Federal Penitentiary. As he walks down the corridor, other inmates pursue Michael with their eyes. At the end of the passage, a battered Bellick lies on the floor. Bellick appears to have been raped as he lies unclothed next to a fellow prisoner, who is dressed in Bellick's clothing. Michael steps through another doorway back outside and into the rain, approaching a blinding light as the season closes.

Pad Man

The Padman played by Leon Russom, is a fictional character from the American television series, Prison Break. He oversees a military research facility in Long Island and holds the rank of General. Pad Man's true identity is not known, and he is instead identified by a characteristic; in his case, his tendency to issue his orders on notepads, rather than verbal communication, to avoid audio recording spying equipment. The character's name has yet to be mentioned on the show but is referred to as "Pad Man" in the episode credits and "Prison Break"'s official website.

According to some well informed Prison Break websites Pad Man will be back in Episode 5 of Season 3 as an "important character".

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Agent Kim

William "Bill" Kim is a fictional character from the American television series, Prison Break. He is played by Reggie Lee. The character was introduced to the series as a Secret Service agent assigned to President Caroline Reynolds; however, he appears to be a fairly high-ranking employee of "The Company". Kim was apparently the man in charge of eliminating any and all threats to the Company, such as the Fox River Eight and Aldo Burrows and his network of followers.

He acts as an intermediary agent between the President and Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein), which causes ill feelings between them. Shortly after the Fox River Eight escape, Kim becomes Kellerman's new supervisor. Kellerman is dismayed by this, as he has directly reported to Reynolds for 15 years. Kim explains that this is due to Reynolds's being increasingly busy with other matters, as well as to further insulate her from any potential allegations of wrongdoing.

Appearances

Kim was introduced in the second season's fifth episode, "Map 1213" as Kellerman's supervisor and has appeared in almost every episode thereafter.

Season 2

Kim is critical of Kellerman's decision to shadow Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) until she leads him to Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) and Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), as opposed to actively intervening in the manhunt. Kim later agrees to let Kellerman continue to shadow Dr. Tancredi, but reiterates that Kellerman will be reporting to him and not the President.

Kim later learns that Dr. Tancredi's father, Illinois Governor Frank Tancredi (John Heard), is wise to Kellerman, and possibly the conspiracy. He arranges for the murder of the elder Tancredi, and plots to kill Sara as well.

The character continually plots the deaths of various characters in order to silence them or force others to work for him. In "Bolshoi Booze", Kim orders an agent under him to eliminate Lincoln Burrows, L. J. Burrows (Marshall Allman) and Lincoln's father Aldo Burrows (Anthony Denison), who had reunited at Aldo's safehouse. To Kim's dismay, the agent fails. After this, Kim orders Kellerman to kill Sara, who has already been tortured by Kellerman in order to learn the location of her father's evidence. However, Sara escapes. Tired of Kellerman's failures, Kim has him cut off, disavowing any records relating him to President Reynolds.

In the episode "The Killing Box", Kellerman calls Kim with a plan to eliminate the recently recaptured Lincoln and Michael. Kim agrees but then instructs Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner) to kill Kellerman. Kim's own superior (referred to as the "Pad Man" in the episode credits), who communicates only through terse hand-written notes, is also introduced in this episode. In the following episode, "John Doe", Kim learns of Kellerman's betrayal and orders that Terrance Steadman be moved to secondary site, only to find out from the Secret Service that Kellerman had already arrived and had grabbed Steadman. He orders them to kill everybody, including Steadman, but Kellerman takes out the agents first.

His character further breaks down in "The Message" when a videotape made by Michael and Lincoln started broadcasting, implicating "The Company" and President Reynolds and all of their crimes. Wanting to outsmart Kellerman, Kim uses a female agent and voice alteration equipment to call Kellerman posing as President Reynolds in the next episode, "Chicago". However, Kellerman eventually sees through Kim's trick. In the meantime, Kim sends Mahone after Charles "Haywire" Patoshik and to eliminate him.

After learning Sara's sudden appearance at a private cigar club, where her father was a member, Kim attempts and fails to recover a USB drive which contains evidence that could damage "The Company" and the President. In the following episode, "Wash", Kim orders a man to pose as Cooper Green, who was already under surveillance. He again tries to retrieve the USB drive but fails when Michael figures out that the man is an impostor. Since the captured fugitive, Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin, was no longer of use, Kim tells Mahone to kill him.

After Michael got himself arrested by the Secret Service in an attempt to blackmail the President, Kim proceeds to torture Michael for information on his brother's location. However, Reynolds intervenes and, to Kim's shock, says she will give a full pardon to Lincoln and Michael. Just before the press conference, Kim reminds her that The Company can expose Reynolds' secrets (namely, the incestuous affair she carried on with her brother Terrence Steadman) just as easily as Michael, and Reynolds announces instead that a malignant form of cancer will cause her to resign the presidency.

After finding out Michael and Lincoln were in Panama, Kim then proceeded to attempt to use the captured Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell to try and capture the brothers. However, this plot fails when Michael corners the two Company agents supervising Bagwell.

In the season finale, despite Kellerman's testimony exonerating Lincoln and Sara and exposing the conspiracy, Kim is instructed by Pad Man to kill Lincoln and take Michael to Sona. However, he fails in his mission and was shot by Sara Tancredi just in time before he could kill Lincoln.

Frank Tancredi

Frank Tancredi (March 7, 1945 - July 1, 2005), played by John Heard, is a fictional character from the American television series, Prison Break. He is a main recurring character that made selected appearances throughout the series.

Born on March 7, 1945,Tancredi was introduced to the series as the governor of the state of Illinois and the father of Dr. Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies). His strict policies on crime earned him the nickname "Frontier Justice Frank". He disapproved of his daughter's decision to work at Fox River State Penitentiary. The character plays a major role in both the escape plot of the first season and the conspiracy plot of the second season due to his involvement in the death sentence of the protagonist, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell).

Appearances

The character, Frank Tancredi, made his first appearance in the series in the episode, "Riots, Drills and the Devil". After the character was killed off in episode, "Buried", he appeared again in the episode, "Bolshoi Booze" via a flashback sequence.

Season 1

He travelled to Fox River when his daughter's life was threatened during a prison riot. After the crisis had passed, Tancredi seemed more interested in reminding her how unsafe work in a prison could be than expressing relief at her safety. This incident further strained their relationship.

When Sara asked him to review Lincoln Burrows' case on the scheduled day of his execution, he ultimately decided not to grant clemency, apparently at the request of the Vice President. Tancredi later revealed to his daughter that he did not review the information she gave him from Lincoln Burrows' attorneys. His reason for his refusal to grant clemency was linked to Vice President Caroline Reynolds (Patricia Wettig). Tancredi has since been suggested by several press sources as a potential Vice Presidential candidate when Vice President Reynolds ran for the Presidency.

Soon after, Reynolds was sworn in as the President after the sudden death of President Mills.

Season 2

After paying for his daughter's bail for release, Tancredi reveals her that he would soon be sworn in as the next Vice President of the United States. Later, Tancredi is encouraged by a political strategist to distance himself from his daughter, which he refuses to do. He visits her at her apartment, and she apologizes for the problems she has caused for him, but also reasserts her belief that Lincoln Burrows is innocent. This prompts Tancredi to take a second look at the Burrows case, and he is shocked to learn of the deaths of Nick Savrinn (Frank Grillo) and Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney). The political strategist suggests he let it go.

In a later episode, while discussing his forthcoming Senate confirmation hearing with the strategist, Tancredi sees Agent Kellerman (Paul Adelstein), who he recognizes from Sara's apartment. This encounter convinces him that Sara may be right about the conspiracy after all, and calls Sara to warn her that her new "friend" is not to be trusted. Soon after, President Reynolds abruptly withdraws the nomination, despite sufficient support in the Senate for his confirmation. Sara found her father dead shortly afterward in the governor's residence. Although Agent Kim's men made it look like he had hanged himself, Sara refuses to believe that her father could have committed suicide. According to Agent Kim, he had become a liability to the Conspiracy by getting too close to Kellerman's secret, and thus could not be left alive. Tancredi died on June 1, 2005.

The reason for Kim's decision to kill Frank Tancredi was explained in later episodes, where it is revealed that the late governor had acquired an important telephone recording between Caroline Reynolds and Terrence Steadman that took place two weeks after Steadman's reported death. Tancredi hid the USB flash drive that contained the recorded conversation in his private humidor at a Chicago cigar club called "Corona del Oro". After his death, Sara found the key to his humidor and aided Michael and Lincoln in recovering potential evidence that could exonerate Lincoln.

The Company

The Company is a fictional covert organization featured in the American television drama/thriller series Prison Break. It is a secret group of multinationals known almost exclusively by those who work for them (with the exception of those opposing them). Its influence and power over individuals stretches to the White House, controlling every decision the country makes. Its main goal is to attain control over the country's economy.

The Company has influence over many agencies of the United States government, especially the Secret Service. With Caroline Reynolds (Patricia Wettig), the former Vice President of the United States in their grasp, The Company held control over the government's sway on the energy bill and subsequently, the country's economy. However, The Company considers every individual who works for them a pawn to achieve their goals.

Organization

Its desperate need to attain control of the country's economy eventuated in illegal dealings through Caroline Reynolds' brother's company, Scofield. When one of their employees leaked information about Scofield into the public, The Company went to incredible lengths to capture him. This man was Aldo Burrows (Anthony Denison). In order to bring him out into the open, The Company masterminded a conspiracy and used Caroline Reynolds' power as the Vice President to convict his son, Lincoln Burrows of Terrence Steadman's murder, thus framing an innocent Lincoln. The Company applied a surprisingly hands-off approach in regards to the conspiracy surrounding Steadman's death, preferring to stay out of it as much as possible and allowing Reynolds and her agents to handle things. Reynolds didn't even notify them at first of the threat posed by Veronica Donovan. Only when her own men failed to do the job did she bring them up to speed. Once they were brought in, however, The Company quickly began to take over the operation. Samantha Brinker, The Company's link to Reynolds, was soon present at all meetings regarding the conspiracy operation and as soon as Lincoln Burrows escaped from prison, The Company's nefarious operatives took charge completely. Caroline Reynolds was cut out of the loop and told to attend to other matters, as even her own men now reported to The Company directly.

The Company became increasingly worried about Caroline Reynolds chances at winning the presidential elections after her support started to plummet in the polls. After Reynolds lost President Richard Mills' confidence and the support for a key energy bill, "The Company" decided to cut her off and advised her to drop out of the race, or they would have to make her. They were greatly surprised when Reynolds had the President killed shortly thereafter (disguising it as a heart-attack) and was then sworn in as the next President of the United States.


The Company has taken a direct role in the hunt for the Fox River Eight, and has appointed William Kim to lead these efforts. Kim is in direct contact with FBI Special Agent Alexander Mahone, the leader of the manhunt. Kim also seems to have arranged for Mahone to lead the manhunt. Mahone is under blackmail from Kim and The Company and has secret orders to kill all the fugitives. Kim also functions as a way of cutting Reynolds off from everything regarding Lincoln Burrows as well as her lackey Paul Kellerman. In the eyes of The Company, Kellerman was a loose end who was unloyal and dangerous, allowed to exist only as long as he remained useful. Isolating him from Reynolds was the first step in his eventual elimination and the mysterious Pad Man, the apparent leader of The Company, would later order Kim to "retire" Kellerman. This plot would backfire horribly.

When Michael successfully blackmailed Reynolds into a Presidential pardon for him and his brother with a tape revealing her incestuous relationship with her brother, Kim told her just before the press conference that The Company could expose her secrets just as easily as Michael. As a result, the President instead announced she had a malignant form of cancer which would cause her to resign the Presidency and drop out of the race.

Operatives

• Samantha Brinker, portrayed by Michelle Forbes, is a highly ranked operative who acted as an intermediary between "The Company" and the then-Vice President, Caroline Reynolds. She seems to be a mid-level executive, above the hitmen like Quinn but below the real bosses, whom she is seen reporting to in the episode Go. She is not seen or mentioned in the second season and it is unknown what happened to her. * Jane Phillips, portrayed by Kristin Lehman, is a former operative who left "The Company" to join Aldo Burrows in the hope of bringing down "The Company".

• Aldo Burrows, portrayed by Anthony Denison, is the father of Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield, who are the protagonists of the series. He left "The Company" and has attempted to gather enough evidence since then to destroy "The Company". He was later killed by F.B.I. Special Agent Alexander Mahone, who was forced to work with "The Company".

• William Kim, portrayed by Reggie Lee, was a Secret Service agent who is working for a man known as the " Pad Man ". He was shot by Sara Tancredi in the second season's finale, before he could kill Lincoln Burrows. Kim was entrusted with protecting the Company's operations from being exposed; he directed the efforts to stamp out Aldo Burrows' organization as well as the hunt for the Fox River Eight.

• Quinn, portrayed by Michael Gaston, was an agent of "The Company", assigned to track down L. J. Burrows, Veronica Donovan and Nick Savrinn. He was later pushed into a well by L. J. and left to die by Paul Kellerman and Daniel Hale.

• Betty Crocker, portrayed by Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, an agent who will appear in Season 3.

Unnamed operatives

The following names are those used in the episode credits.

• "Agent Blondie", portrayed by Steven Chester Prince, is an agent who works for Agent Kim and was assigned to secure Terrence Steadman's location. He later killed Veronica Donovan and attempted to frame Sara Tancredi's suicide. After arranging the hit-and-run accident of Alexander Mahone's son, he was killed by Mahone.

• The " Pad Man ", portrayed by Leon Russom, appears to have a very high rank at "The Company" and is Agent William Kim's supervisor. He has spoken very little, preferring to hand terse notes to Kim. He finally spoke to Kim in the episode "Panama" aboard a remote rowboat. He only speaks where he can't be monitored. In the episode "Sona" he is addressed by another character as "General" and is seen wearing a white lab coat.

Nick Savrinn

Nick Savrinn, played by Frank Grillo, is a fictional character from the American television series, Prison Break. He was introduced in the fourth episode of the series as a lawyer working for Project Justice, an organization that frees wrongly convicted people.

Nick graduated from Duke University and Columbia Law School with a Juris Doctor and turned down offers from many large firms in New York City to work for Project Justice. During his time there, he freed thirteen clients, five of whom had the death penalty. Although Project Justice refused to help Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney) with Lincoln Burrows' (Dominic Purcell) case, Nick offered to do pro bono work because he believed Lincoln was innocent.

Fox River State Penitentiary

Fox River State Penitentiary is a fictional level one maximum-security prison featured prominently in the first season (and briefly in the second season) of the television series, Prison Break. It is a state correctional facility located in Joliet, Illinois. The real-life representation of the prison is Joliet Prison. The fictional prison is likely named after the real Fox River about 20 miles outside Joliet, Illinois.

Fox River State Penitentiary assumes many characteristics of its real-life counterpart, Joliet Prison. Its structure and layout are the same, with the exception of its three-tiered A-wing in contrast to the two tiers in Joliet Prison.

As shown in the episodes "Riots, Drills and the Devil (Part one and two)", the general prison population is divided into east and west cell blocks in A and B wings respectively. These two wings are completely segregated by the South wing, which holds the administration staff. In a subsequent episode, "The Old Head", it is revealed that the infirmary is located on the opposite end of the prison to the A wing. A storage room, which later became the correctional officers' break room, is located at the center of the prison, directly above the underground pipes.

Built in 1907, the prison has an extensive underground pipe system. In the episode "By the Skin and the Teeth", Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) explains to his cellmate, Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) that over the century the original lead pipes were replaced by copper pipes and then later, by industrial plastic pipes. The replacement pipes were laid over the older ones, making a complex network of pipes beneath the prison.

Rehabilitation program

During his eighteen years as the warden of Fox River State Penitentiary, Henry Pope (Stacy Keach) established the prison industries (PI) program to allow the prisoners to gain skills training like landscaping and various other industrial vocations. Armed with his beliefs in rehabilitation, Warden Pope also ran an award-winning educational program which helped the inmates gain high school equivalency diplomas and occasionally, bachelor degrees.[2]

Riots

The two notable riots which occurred during the incarceration of the Michael Scofield were the race riot in the episode "Allen" and the "lockdown" riot in the episodes "Riots, Drills and the Devil (Part one and two)".

Days before the race riot, the tension between white and black inmates rose as they both prepared discreetly for the inevitable fight. The white supremacists led by T-Bag (Robert Knepper), a member of the Alliance for Purity, gathered weapons including shanks and a screw which Michael had loosened from the bleachers that had been claimed by T-Bag. The fight broke out during a head count which resulted in many injuries and deaths. The riot was stopped when the guards eventually regained control and Warden Pope initated a lockdown for the following 48 hours.

Soon after, due to the schedule of escape plan, Michael was forced to shut off the air conditioner on the "hottest day in April"[3] in order to cause chaos among the other inmates and in so doing, forcing the guards to put the A-wing in lockdown. T-Bag continuously complained about the heat and eventually caused C.O. Geary (Matt DeCaro) to toss his drink in his face and initiated a lockdown. However, T-Bag and his followers refused to return to their cells, resulting in the guards retreating back behind the gates. They started pulling on the bars and later, gained access to the control room which allowed them to free the other prisoners, causing a full-scale riot. The riot was stopped after the Governor of Illinois, Frank Tancredi (John Heard) intervened and sent special units to regain control of the facility.

Escapes

A few years prior to Michael's arrest in flashback episode "Brother's Keeper", Fox River had undergone renovations and the company he worked for as a structural engineer had been delegated the task of re-fitting the prison, which allowed him access to all of the blueprints for the facility.

After Michael's brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) was framed for the murder of Terrence Steadman, brother of then-Vice President Caroline Reynolds (Patricia Wettig), he was convicted and placed on death row at Fox River. Michael eventually developed an elaborate plan to break his brother out of prison. He committed an armed robbery, then allowed himself to be arrested, pleading no contest to the charges but requesting incarceration at a facility close by - Fox River State Penitentiary. Prior to his arrest, Michael had extensive tattoo work done over his upper body which included the plans for the prison and various other codes (hidden in the artwork, so as not to arouse suspicion). Once inside, he enlisted the aid of several inmates who would prove useful to the escape.

Though the escape attempt suffered a number of setbacks and a number of other inmates forced their way into the escape plan, they eventually successfully escaped over the prison walls. Michael, Lincoln, and the six other escapees would come to be known as "The Fox River Eight" in the second season. They consisted of the following inmates:

Additionally, two other inmates, Charles Westmoreland (Muse Watson) and Manche Sanchez (Joseph Nunez) were involved in the escape plan, though Sanchez was captured, and Westmoreland died of injuries sustained earlier.

The Fox River Eight escape was the first successful escape in the history of Fox River State Penitentiary.

The escape of eight felons led to the dismissal of Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) and the resignation of Warden Henry Pope. Dr. Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) was arrested and faced possible charges in aiding the escape, though she was later bailed out by her father, Governor Frank Tancredi.

Pope was succeeded as Warden of Fox River soon after by Ed Pavelka, a much more hard-line individual who vowed not to make the same perceived mistakes as his predecessor.