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I thought this would be handy for all those Prison Break Fans out there.

Prison Break is getting more morbid. Before we saw how Veronica got shot and chopped. How Michael Scoffield’s toe was cut off… and now, another morbid way of killing an important character in the story, Sara.

I got this episode recap TV.com giving a detailed recap of the latest episode.

Previously on Prison Break: there was a box.

So, of course, we start off with Linc having a flashback about opening the Box, but we don’t actually get to see what’s inside.

SONA. Michael’s still with the creepy staring at dead bodies. Whistler pops over and Michael points out that there’s no current in the fence. Whistler says everyone knows that, but there are men with big guns (dirty!) about. Michael continues staring and Whistler interrupts by asking about his precious bird book. Blah blah “I need it.” He makes a half-assed threat against Linc, which Michael shoots down pronto.

Linc arrives at the inner fence and Michael immediately knows something’s up. Linc brushes it off, so Michael barrels on, saying they need to get the gravedigger on board. He tosses out a crumpled note, he wrote down instructions for Big Brother. Linc’s busy with the self-pity, so he’s a tad distracted. After he leaves he breaks down and…we finally see what was in the friggin’ Box. Bravo to those of you who figured the show had pulled a Se7en. For those of you who don’t know what that means, you clearly need to get out more.

Linc meets with JLOK and she tears into him for forcing her to “do that.” Here’s a tip, Jodi: if chopping off heads makes you feel so bad, stop doing it! Just a thought. Linc brings her up to speed on the plan. She then asks for him to hand over the book. The Company did a handwriting analysis on the book he gave her, the writing was Linc’s. He hands over the book. Woah, does defeated look good on him. Kinda like the reverse of angry looking like a million bucks on Michael.

SONA. Sparky loses a bet with Michael and he has to hand over his cross necklace as payment. This time, however, he wants to know what Michael’s up to. No, no Sparky! Stupidity is always the best course of action, play to your strengths! Although, that didn’t work out so well for Newbie…

The lights go out.

Lawbreaker Losin’ It Mahone is too busy hallucinating to notice the lack of power. Michael stops by and says he’s changed his mind, Mahone is welcome to joing the Great Escape 2.0. He says he needs Mahone to find him a black felt tip pen. He also needs Mahone to get himself under control, since his drug withdrawal is starting to attract attention. Shall I mention that Bellick is spying during this conversation?

Bellick visits Mahone and tries to get info on Michael, saying Mahone can talk to him, “One lawman to another.” Mahone blows him off.

Inner fence. Sofia’s pissed about the Escape, but Whistler manages to calm her down. She demands he let her help so he tells her to find out what she can on the brothers.

Mahone brings Michael a pen, black but not felt tip. Anyone else think this is an hilarious ploy by Michael to keep Mahone out of his way? Anyway, Mahone hears the very deceased (but still loony) Haywire tell him, “He’s playing you.”

MBBM asks T-Bag about Michael’s engineering skills. T-Bag tries to warn him not to trust Michael, but all MBBM cares about is if Michael can fix the electricity. So he goes to Michael and asks for help. Michael points out that this situation is different from the water situation. The water was always inside the prison, whereas tthe electrical lines probably run underground, to the outside. The men with guns would make it pretty hard for him to stroll on out there and fix it. MBBM’s all, “Tough shit.”

After commercials, MBBM says he can make some calls. He asks what Michael wants in return. Michael points out a cell, saying it’s the first to get sunlight in the morning. As hot as it is, wouldn’t he want the last cell to get light? It’d probably be cooler.

Sucre’s making an ID. He plans on going to Colombia for coffee bean picking season. Linc asks him to stick around for a few hours, he needs a translator. Sucre says he doesn’t want to miss his bus or get into trouble. Linc’s frustrated and feeling guilty. A knock at the door interrupts Sucre’s excuses. It’s Sofia, she wants to help. Linc: “Your Spanish as good as your English?”

MBBM makes arrangements.

Mahone is still looking for a pen. I know it’s immature, but Heh. He watches Michael, accompanied by MBBM, exit the prison via the front gate. A perimeter (hee) guard is waiting. He attempts to be all bad-ass, threatening to shoot Michael in the head if he so much as looks at the fence while he’s working. Duly noted. Bellick ambles on over and offers to help dig. Michael tries to brush him off, but he’s annoyingly persistent. And by persistent I mean: he’s oh-so-very vocal about what Michael’s up to. How is this man still alive?

Linc and Sofia meet with the gravedigger.

Bellick’s still talking. He rambles on about what he’s overheard. Michael says he really doesn’t know anything. “I don’t need to know how to change a diaper to know when it stinks to high hell.” Heh. Michael hands him a shovel and just tells him to dig.

So the boys, including Whistler, get to digging. Whistler thinks Bellick can’t be trusted and Michael’s all, “Yeah, I figured that out thanks.” He says Bellick is not a part of the team, but Mahone is. Chris Vance’s reaction is pretty good, “You’re serious?! Aren’t you suppossed to be a genius?” Michael says all he has to do is make Mahone think he’s a part of this and without his meds he’ll soon self-destruct. Hah! I knew it. With all that digging, Michael finds the junction box and puts something in it, which Bellick notices.

Inside T-Bag watches with interest as the SONA pharmacist approaches Mahone who says he doesn’t have any money.

Bellick practically runs to tattle on Michael to MBBM. He babbles his story: I was a guard in Fox River (still miss it) and I ended up hog-tied (oh, the memories! Hee!) underneath the break room! He says he saw Michael bury something in the junction box.

Henchman grabs Michael and takes him to MBBM. The guys march outside where Michael is forced to open the junction box. He does so and pulls out some wires that he duct-taped together. He claims he packed them with dirt so the tape wouldn’t come loose. Whew! But you’re not off the hook yet! Michael says he now needs to turn the main power switch back on, saying he turned it off so he could safely work on the wires. MBBM decides to escort him. We’re treated to a flashback of Michael explaining his plan to Sparky: Michael put Sparky’s cross into a separate switch, which kept the circuit open, so even if the main power switch was on, the power would still be off. Got it? In order for the power to come back on, the cross has to be removed. Small problem: the switch containing the cross is on an entirely different wall than the main switch. Dilemma. So when Michael, under MBBM’s watchful eye, flips the main power switch back on, nothing happens. Michael feigns innocent, “It should be working.” Henchman socks Michael, knocking him down. He gets to his feet, using the other wall for support and is able to extract the cross from the switch. Voila! The power is restored. “Transformer delay, it’s an old prison.”

The One-Handed Wonder suffocates the pharmacist with a plastic bag. Then he injects the vic full of drugs.

Linc calls JLOK, requesting fifteen grand for the gravedigger. Sofia’s pissed (again) that Linc’s taking another girl to pay off the gravedigger. Linc finally snaps, hollering that They put Doc’s head in a box and They still have his son. Sucre’s shocked.

Henchman hauls T-Bag into the pharmacist’s cell. MBBM is apparently unhappy that his man was consuming the merchandise, he was only supposed to peddle it. T-Bag says he had no idea the pharmacist was on drugs and he (T-Bag) would never, ever do anything like that. MBBM: “There appears to be an opening on my crew.”

Michael returns Sparky’s cross. Mahone comes over and hands Michael a black felt tip pen. Michael thanks him and says he should just sit tight.

Whistler asks Michael about the outer fence. Michael tells him, “It’s in both of our interests to make that fence as deadly as possible.”

The gravedigger demands more money so JLOK shoots him. Ah, those are some negotiating skills.

Back inside Mahone watches Michael pack up his cell while the Ghost of Loony Tunes Past taunts him. T-Bag shows up and leaves behind some pharmaceuticals.

MBBM’s QTRS. Bellick’s brought in. MBBM: “The only thing I hate more than a rat is a rat with bad information.” Bellick blubbers as they hold him down, pull up his shirt and pour coffee all over his back. Do I need to mention that he bellows in agony?

Mahone’s trippin’.

Michael moves into his new cell and checks out the view. Mahone enters and says Michael forgot his very important pen in the other cell. Oopsie! He throws Michael up against the wall and threatens him with a shank. He may be psycho, but he’s on to Michael and Michael’s not going anywhere without him. Michael actually looks shaken.

Inner fence. Linc informs Michael that the gravedigger is out of the picture, but his supervisor was open to bribery. Yep, you guessed it: Sucre appears to remove a dead body.

Whistler receives a package, courtesy of JLOK (and no, it’s not Sofia’s head in a box). It’s his bird book, with a note attached: “You’re running out of time.”

Michael watches his former cellie work when Whistler comes in and asks about the Great Escape. Michael says that Sucre’s spraying the bodies with a chemical (it’s not gasoline) that kills the odor caused by decomposition. Lovely. Also lovely: when heated (like if it were to come in contact with a fence that has an electric current) it eats through steel!

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