Prison Break

My name is Michael Scofield...

...and I'm a fugitive.

Three weeks ago, I was in a Panamanian prison.

While I was there, I was approached by the Company.

The Company is a corrupt organization...

...involved in all levels of industry and government.

They gave me two options:

Break one of their men, James Whistler, out of that prison...

...or else they would kill the only woman I ever loved...

...Dr. Sara Tancredi.

I held up my end of the deal, and I broke Whistler out.

But the Company...

...they killed Sara anyway.

I don't know why the Company wanted James Whistler out of prison...

...but I've tracked him here to Los Angeles.

He's with another Company agent I know only as Gretchen.

The same agent who murdered Sara.

This ends today.

I came here seeking justice.

The justice I now know the system cannot provide.

So if you're reading this letter...

...you'll know I died avenging Sara's death.

You get the data card we drop it off in the racing form...

-...and we get out of there. -Who's the contact we're leaving it for?

The Company wants the card back. Period.

All you need to worry about is getting this rig out of there in a hurry.

Oh, I'll be getting it out of there, don't you worry about that.

You worry about getting your ass back in that seat in time.

You pull this off...

...you can come up to my room later and the word "no"...

-...won't be in my vocabulary. -Just make sure we get paid.

In and out.

Good to see you again. You too.

Didn't hear from you. Started to wonder if you were interested.

I am, very much so.

Well, I needed to approach this carefully. I'm sure you understand.

Who are you buying it for? A competitor?

-A foreign country? -Jason, you know I can't get into that.

We've been negotiating this for months. I've jumped through all your hoops.

I've agreed to meet you here.

Do you wanna sell the card to me or not?

Be right back.

That's a lot of secrets on a little piece of plastic.

Let me give you a little bit of advice.

And this is on the house.

Watch your step with that thing.

The Company will do anything to get it back.

Don't I know it.

-Yeah? What are you doing?

-We've gotta get out of here. -I need to hide the gun.

Take the gun with you.

Come on.

Where is she?

Michael.

-You don't understand. Call Gretchen.

Get her in here, now.

You have to trust me. I'm not your enemy, Michael.

James?

We need to leave.

You know, despite everything...

...if Sara could weigh in, she'd tell me not to kill you.

That's the kind of person she was.

That's the kind of person you took from me.

James, didn't you tell him?

-He walked in five sec-- -Shut up.

Gretchen, look at me.

-This is for Sara. -I never killed Sara.

I wouldn't expect someone like you to take this with dignity.

I swear to God, she's alive.

Don't insult me. And don't insult her.

She escaped. If you found out, we wouldn't have leverage.

-I fabricated the whole thing. -My brother saw it.

A head in a box from a cadaver.

-You ask Lincoln what he really saw. Listen to her.

-Don't lie to me. I'm not lying to you.

Lincoln bought it, you bought it. It worked.

Michael? -Then where is she?

I'll tell you when we get outside. Right now, we need to get out of here.

They found the bodies.

-Give me the gun. -She's lying.

Is she? If you pull that trigger, you'll never know.

-Kill him, James. -Shut up.

Where is she? Where's Sara?

Michael...

...if you don't give me that gun, I'm gonna shoot you in the head.

Let's go.

We got a double homicide at the Roosevelt Hotel.

Sara.

Do you know the difference between a perfectly executed operation...

...and a failed mission?

-Sir? -It's a small-unit leadership.

The Allies spent two and a half years planning the invasion of Normandy.

But on D-day, it came down to a handful of men on a strip of beach...

...to decide the fate of the world.

What I'm getting at, Gretchen, is even the best plan...

...is only as good as the moving parts on the ground executing it.

General, we got your card. What's the problem?

We have nothing. It's a duplicate.

Almost flawless...

-...but a duplicate. -That's impossible. I saw--

You know how important the retrieval of this card is to me, Gretchen.

You know that this is a security breach...

...that could have catastrophic ramifications for the Company.

The only thing I can think of...

...there was a blind spot when Whistler was hitting the target.

Maybe he made a duplicate, and he still has the original.

You hired him.

You kept him at the tip of the spear.

You insisted that we get him out of Sona.

We had to. He'd already made contact with the target.

At that point, it was him or no one, sir.

What's your stake in all this?

I had nothing to do with it. Whistler acted on his own, I swear to you.

General, I can fix this.

-You trained me. -Not well enough, apparently.

You know what to do.

Please. I have a bank account in Dubai.

Left over from a slush fund from Cobra II. It's yours.

No, please. Please.

Hello?

Hey, it's me.

Where are you, man?

Los Angeles.

-You okay, Michael? -No, I'm-- I'm safe.

Thank God. Thank God.

-How's L.J.? How's Sofia? -Yeah, they're, uh--

I'm staring at them right now. They're fine.

-Did you hear about Sona? -What about it?

Burned down three days back.

The inmates, they rioted. No sign of Bellick, T-Bag or Sucre.

-Sucre? -He got popped. I don't know how.

The papers listed the names of the inmates...

...and he was there when it went down.

I found Whistler and Gretchen.

And Gretchen said....

She said Sara's still alive.

What did you see, Linc?

What do you mean what did I see, Michael?

I need you to tell me exactly what you saw.

Michael, Sara's gone.

You said it was in a garage, right? So it was dark.

Yeah, it was dark.

But if you're asking me if I picked up the head...

...to check to see if it was Sara, no, Michael, I didn't.

And L.J. said...

...he only heard them kill Sara, right?

You just gotta come back. Please, come back. Let's just--

Let's just start a new life.

Tell Sofia I said hi. And tell L.J....

-Tell him his uncle loves him. -Michael, don't do this, please.

Out, out.

You could use some better ventilation back there, amigo.

-Wanna translate that? -Don't worry about it.

-Where's your mom? -She'll be here.

What do you mean? We're running out of time.

-I gotta be up there. -Don't worry.

My mom wouldn't let me down.

At least she hasn't yet.

Bradley, over here.

Mom, Mom. I told you. Don't worry, you'll make it there.

That's what we can all use to communicate.

Michael.

Don't worry, I'm alone.

-It's good to see you. -So where's your new best friend?

I don't know about that, but Whistler's not who you think he is.

We're working together against the Company.

-Yeah? -Yeah.

Well, what about Gretchen? Is she working with you?

He needed her to further his plan.

If the guy was Company, he'd have shot you dead back at that conference.

Do you have any information about Sara or not?

Let's go somewhere a little more private.

I want you to tell me right now.

I want you tell me right now, right here.

-We can get Gretchen on the phone. -Gretchen's dead.

She never showed up.

Come and talk to me, please.

Whistler and I were at that conference to get a data card.

It's like the Company's black book.

It lists all their agents, all their operations.

They refer to it as Scylla.

-Whistler's got it. -Alex, talk to me about Sara.

That's all I care about.

I understand that. I want nothing more...

...than to get home to my wife and my son.

But that's not gonna happen with the Company trying to kill us.

-You don't know anything about Sara. -Whistler does. He tells me he does.

And he wants to tell you.

-But he wants something in return. -What? What does he want from me?

To talk to you.

I'm sorry about the other night. If I had time, I would have explained better.

I'm sure. What are we doing here?

-Alex told you about Scylla? -Yes.

I have it. There's one last step involved in order to read the data.

And that step involves breaking into a secured structure.

-So now you need my help? Yeah.

The bird book I lost in Sona contained information...

...that would have helped facilitate the break-in...

...but it can still be accomplished...

...with your help.