Michael spreads glue over another piece of the Warden's Taj Mahal model. His eyes focused on the task at hand. Pope enters the room, "Hey, that's looking good!" Michael tells the Warden that the
plaster he is adding to the model is increasing the weight of the walls and he is going to have to add more supports. The Warden doesn't mind as long as the model is finished in time for his
anniversary.
Pope then tells Michael a story about a dark Taj Mahal built by the Shah across the way from the current Taj Mahal. Becky, Pope's assistant, interrupts and informs Pope that Dr. Sara Tancredi is there to see him. Pope asks one of the C.O.s to
escort Michael back to his cell. As Michael leaves, he meets eyes with Sara. An
awkward moment passes between them, but Pope doesn't notice.
Once Michael is gone, Pope and Sara walk into Pope's office. She tells Pope that she's
concerned about the serious burn on Michael's back. She initially believed that the burn was caused by another
inmate, but she later discovered other evidence. She presents a plastic bag containing a scrap of fabric that had been embedded in Michael's skin. She believes the fabric came from a guard's uniform. Pope clearly understands the
implication.
Back in his cell, Michael sits over a small pile of paper with a
poorly drawn sketch on it. He taps his pen in
frustration, and finally gives up, crumpling up the paper and throwing it away. Sucre sits on the bunk and asks Michael what he's doing. Michael replies, "Trying to remember the blueprints. What was lost to the burn. Without them, we'll never be able to navigate those pipes beneath psych ward." Michael tells Sucre he isn't having any luck, "It's like
trying to take a test you
studied for ten years ago."
The
inmates of A-Wing are scattered around the floor and on the tiers. Bellick marches in and bellows out a call to the P.I. crew. Sucre walks behind T-Bag as a new
inmate, Annie the Trannie, saunters out of his cell wearing his shirt tied in a knot around his stomach. Annie's pants are pulled low, revealing pink, women's
underwear. T-Bag says Annie has been, "tuggin' on too many pockets." Sucre asks if she tugged on his. Disgusted, T-Bag replies, "I may be 'social' in my own way, but that's a boundary-line even I won't cross."
C-Note walks out of A-Wing in front of Michael. C-Note asks when they're breaking out and Michael tells him he has one more "hiccup" to work out, "The road map is a little
incomplete at the moment."
In the guard room, Michael continues to try and recreate the map from memory. Sucre asks why he doesn't try to get under the psych ward again and Michael tells him, "'Cause one, I don't have the guard uniform anymore, which means I can't get across the yard, or past the orderly. And two, even if I did, it's a mess down there." Michael, growing
increasingly frustrated, tells Sucre to stop bothering him.
C.O. Patterson walks into the room, making his rounds. Patterson tells them that they're work is about done. Bellick is bringing in professionals to
install the carpet the next day. The
inmates quickly share looks, this is not good. Once Patterson leaves, T-Bag throws down his paint
roller, "We got a real problem on our hands, don't we? Them rug monkeys come in here, tear up that carpet... that hole's just gonna be smiling up at them." Michael tells them that they'll need to do a patch on the hole with plywood and fast
settingconcrete. The carpet guys will never notice anything. On the night of the breakout, they'll just smash through the
concrete patch with a sledgehammer.
A C.O. steers Tweener into Bellick's office. Waiting inside is the giant form of a particularly skanky con. The Con turns his fat, tall and disgusting gaze Tweener's way. Bellick threateningly says, "Hey Tweener, you met Avocado?" Avocado reaches out with his fleshy, hairy arm and touches Tweener's chin, "Look, she's just a baby." Tweener smacks Avocado's hand away, and Bellick sends Avocado off. Bellick tells Tweener to sit, then asks for an update on Scofield. Tweener, again, tells him that he hasn't heard anything. Not what Bellick was hoping to hear. Tweener says he's
trying to find out more, but Michael won't let him into the P.I. circle. Bellick pauses, an idea forming in his head.
The cons quickly mix together
concrete, getting ready to fill the hole. Westmoreland quickly comes in through the front door, "Fire on the line!" The
inmates quickly
shuffle around and cover the hole, each of them moving with the confidence that has now become their normal
routine. Bellick swings the door open, and commends the cons on their work. But there's a bravado to his body language, "You know, you girls have done such a good job, I thought you might like an extra pair of hands on the crew." He gives a quick whistle, and in walks Tweener. The cons exchange looks.
Tweener moves about the room. Everyone is
uncomfortable with him there. C-Note steps towards Tweener
saying, "My brush is all sticking together." Michael plays along with C-Note's remark. The others tell Tweener that according to rank, he gets the job of washing the brushes. They pile the gear up on Tweener and send him outside to the shed. Tweener acts like he's leaving, but once the guard room door is closed, he turns back and tries to listen in on what's being discussed. Westmoreland busts him for eavesdropping and makes sure Tweener finally makes his way outside.
Agent Brinker and Agent Kellerman move through a busy Secret Service field office. Brinker hands Kellerman a folder which contains a large surveillance image of the man Lincoln saw behind the glass at his
execution. Brinker tells Kellerman that it's the photo of a man who used to work for the Company and went rogue. Kellerman asks what the man has to do with the "situation." Brinker is forced to admit that the man is Lincoln's father. Kellerman stops for a moment and asks if the Company knew about the relation. Brinker tells him of course they knew. When Kellerman wants to know more, Brinker shuts him up, "How 'bout stopping with the questions. You're a glorified bodyguard, that's it. Your job's to be seen, not heard."
Michael kneels next to C-Note, who is mixing the quick dry
concrete, and asks how close they are to finishing the patch. C-Note says they're ready, just as Westmoreland enters, "Got another badge!" he warns. The cons cover the hole and hide the
concrete. C.O. Geary tells Michael that Warden Pope wants to see him and tells the rest of the cons to head back to A-Wing. C-Note argues that Patterson gave them until end of day, but Geary sends them out. Sucre whispers to Michael, "We're dead," the hole isn't patched and the carpet
installers are certainly going to find it. Michael says he'll get it done as Geary barks to speed them up.
Lincoln stares at the ceiling of his Ad Seg cell. Stolte gets his attention and tells Linc the Department of Corrections re-filed all the paperwork. The
execution is scheduled for Midnight a week from Friday. Linc asks to be let out into the yard. Stolte refuses. Linc just wants ten minutes, but Stolte's hands are tied. Unless Stolte hears different from the Pope, Linc has to stay in his cell.
Inside Nick Savrinn's apartment, Nick, Veronica and LJ are going over the medical records that have given Lincoln a stay of
execution. Nick is still
trying to wrap his mind around the situation and asks "Some guy just walks into the
courthouse, drops off medical records, gets Lincoln a stay of
execution, then disappears into the cold again." LJ is frustrated that their trail to the truth has gone cold, "So once again, we have nothing," he snaps. Veronica tells him that a two-week stay of
execution is a step in the right direction, but LJ is tired of waiting around. Frustrated, LJ asks Veronica, "Do you guys really ever think you'll get to the bottom of this? That they'll ever let you get to the bottom of it? These guys they don't exist. You go after them with the law, they just use it against you." Nick says that the law is the only way to bring them to justice, but LJ doesn't want to hear that. He wants revenge for the death of his mother. He wants to hurt these people like they hurt him. Veronica and Nick tell LJ to relax, they're going to just stay sharp and wait for the conspirators to slip up. And that
triggers an idea in Nick's mind, "Maybe they already slipped up. Up at the cabin, in the well." Veronica, reading Nick's mind, says, "Quinn..."
Nick, Veronica and LJ
trudge through the woods near the cabin and find the well, now covered after Kellerman left Quinn for dead. Nick slides the plywood off the top of the well. They look down to see the bloated, rotting
corpse of Quinn. They notice that Quinn's cell phone is still with the body. They need to get that cell phone. Nick and Veronica quickly turn around and look at LJ.
LJ, with a rope tied around his waist, is slowly lowered into the well by Nick. Once LJ reaches the bottom, he reaches out,
cautiously, and grabs the phone. "Okay! I got it!" Before Nick begins to pull him up, LJ looks behind him. Scratched into the well wall is the name, "KELLERMAN," directly above the name, "O. KRAVECKI." After LJ gets a good look at the names, he asks to be pulled up.
Escorted by C.O. Geary, Michael turns a corner near Pope's office. Waiting in the
hallway, is Warden Pope who asks for a minute alone with Michael. Pope tells Michael he wants him to be absolutely honest. Pope holds up the plastic bag with the scrap of fabric. "Dr. Tancredi found this embedded in your flesh when she was treating you. Apparently it came from a guard's uniform. Have you been assaulted by an officer?" Michael turns away, he knows he can't answer the Warden. The Warden begs Michael for an answer, but Michael keeps quiet. Pope gives Michael one more chance to confess and threatens him with placing him in
solitaryconfinement if he doesn't explain what happened. Michael's eyes are wild.
Two C.O.s drag Michael, struggling madly, down the Ad Seg
hallway with a third guard leading the way. Michael begs them, "Don't do this!" but it's too late. They throw Michael in a cell and close the door. Lincoln hears the
commotion and sees Michael being thrown into a nearby cell.
Lincoln dives to the floor of his cell. He whispers, "Michael," into the drain in the middle of the floor. Michael,
hearing his name, looks around his dark cell until he finds the drain. Lincoln asks what he's doing in Ad Seg. Michael replies, "We're in a lot of trouble now." He goes on to tell Lincoln that Pope's got proof that Michael wasn't where he was supposed to be. Michael is sure it's only a matter of time until Pope connects all the pieces. Michael is losing hope in his plan. Lincoln tells Michael that the point of
solitary it to break their will. This is no time to lose hope, Michael needs to stay strong. But Michael just stares coldly into the dark as he lays on the floor, muttering, "I put my blood into this."
C-Note, on a payphone in the prison yard, talks to his wife, Kacee. Trying to cover for the delay in the escape, he tells her that his division isn't mobilizing for a few more days. Kacee was worried and tells C-Note that she called the Army asking for more information. What they told her contradicts what C-Note is
saying. C-Note starts to panic, but then covers by telling Kacee there must be some confusion. He assures her that he's coming home soon. Kacee doesn't seem to be buying it. He tells her that it will only be a few more days and he'll call her when he knows the exact date he's coming home.
C-Note slams the phone
receiver down and walks back to P.I. duty. Sucre quickly walks over and gives C-Note the bad news, "Michael's in the SHU." C-Note is fed up, and Westmoreland tries to calm them all down. T-Bag interjects that with Michael in
solitary, there's no one to patch the hole in the floor of the guard room. Westmoreland offers the idea of someone else filling it, Sucre knows he's the only one that could do the job but doesn't want to. C-Note, T-Bag and Westmoreland keep pushing Sucre, and they don't take no for an answer. C-Note ends the conversation by
saying it has to happen tonight.
Michael sits in the dark of his
solitary cell, eyes glazed and staring up at the ceiling. His mind flashes through layers and layers of blue prints. He's
trying to put the tattoo back together in he head. Lincoln whispers to his brother again, and asks what he's doing. When Michael replies that he's thinking about what's beneath the psych ward, Lincoln tells him he needs to focus on getting out of
solitary. Suddenly a hole in Michael's sleeve catches his attention. He takes the sweatshirt off and stares at it. Then he begins wildly tearing the shirt apart, creating strips of cloth. Lincoln, obviously
concerned with what is going on in Michael's cell, keeps coaxing Michael to talk to him.
Sucre lays on the top bunk, his mind races as he thinks about what he has to do next. He quickly sits up and looks down over the floor of A-Wing. Something catches his attention. Annie the Tranny walks slowly through the crowds. Sucre looks down and smiles.
T-Bag replies to an unheard question from Sucre, "Uh-uh. Absolutely not." Sucre bargains with T-Bag, if Sucre is the one who is going to be running through the yard at night, in plain sight, then T-Bag is going to have to help out. T-Bag tosses himself on the lower bunk, pouting. Sucre tells him he needs to do what he's asking for the good of the team.
Annie the Tranny continues to skate around the floor. This time, T-Bag is close on her heels. He reaches out and snaps the back side of Annie's exposed panties. Annie turns to face T-Bag who forces her up against the cell doors, "I take it you are a party girl."
LJ washes his hands inside the cabin. His eyes fall on the old cabinet with the secret door. He approaches the cabinet and carefully opens the door, revealing a small collection of guns belonging to Nick's father. He closes the door just before Veronica walks in. She tells him they are leaving. Veronica heads out the door. LJ takes one more look at the cabinet.
Veronica walks outside and gets in the car with Nick who is
trying to get power to Quinn's cell phone. "We get this thing powered up, we
might have a gold mine of information on our hands." Nick tries the power adapter in his car, but it doesn't work. Veronica asks if they're going to leave Quinn, Nick answers coldly, "You mean the guy who shot me in the back? Yeah...we're just going to leave him here."
T-Bag walks down the second tier of A-Wing, towards Sucre and Michael's cell. Sucre meets him at the entrance. T-Bag leans in and hands him something, then threatens Sucre, "If you tell anyone about this..." Then quickly moves off.