02.18 Wash (26.02.2007)
28 Luty 2007
Former Agent Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) is examining a sniper rifle. A shady backyard dealer tells him that the serial numbers have been filed off, and that it is safe for firing at more than “tin cans”. Kellerman replies that he’ll be hunting for bigger game than that, while he suddenly brandishes a silenced pistol, killing the dealer and seizing the sniper rifle.
Holding a bullet, Kellerman intently listens to the radio, hearing a newscast about President Reynolds’ arrival.
Kristine Pace (Tina Holmes) is engaging in her activist work while her long lost brother Paul suddenly appears. She asks him why he did not appear for his father’s funeral to which he replies that their father was long gone before his body died, and that their mother was crazy. When she reminded him that he left at age 18 when she was still ten years old, Paul Kellerman replied that he thought about his sister every day, and that he is not the brother she remembers. He tells her that he changed, does not know good from bad, and that he may soon do something that many people will talk about for a long time. He implores her to remember him as the brother she had growing up, and leaves her with, “You’re my sister, Kristine, I love you.”
The rogue agent flashes his Secret Service badge at an agent working at the Caroline Reynolds rally. Kellerman quickly dispatches him with his gun, while informing him of a change of personnel in mid-sentence. Free to do whatever he wants, Kellerman sets up his sniper rifle, and hears via his earphone radio that President Reynolds will pass through in two minutes.
Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) and his beloved Maricruz Delgado (Camille Guaty) arrive at a farm ranch in Rio Juarez, Mexico. Sucre shows Maricruz the llama, while his aunt emerges from the house to greet them. Properly introduced, the aunt tells the young couple that her home is their home. Sucre takes the luggage inside after looking around one more time. Once the young couple are in bed, Sucre insists that he can feel the baby kicking. When he says the baby will eventually join the national soccer league, Maricruz replies there will be books in his hand, not a soccer ball. “Books about Soccer.” Sucre quickly replies.
In Birmingham, Alabama, T-Bag finds himself at the office of Dr. Stammel, a psychiatrist. T-Bag engages in an exposition of his personal pain, while Dr. Stammel makes a concerted effort to ease the fugitive’s pain, whom he knows as “Mr. Webster”. T-Bag finally admits that he did not go to Dr. Stammel’s office with the intention of speaking. When the psychiatrist questions his reason for coming, T-Bag explains to him that he saw the doctor’s ad at a bus stop, and noted how similar the two look to one another. Dr. Stammel admits there may be a similarity, but these are the last words he utters as T-Bag bludgeons the doctor to death.
At a Birmingham airport, T-Bag attempts to get a flight to Bangkok, Thailand. When he is informed that such a flight wont be available until tomorrow, he agrees to take the first flight out of the country. When the baggage handler attempts to take T-Bag’s bag full of Charles Westmoreland’s money, he becomes defensive and insists to keep it as carry-on luggage. The handler replies that it is too heavily and that it will be perfectly safe checked in. T-Bag watches with anxiety as the bag filled with five million dollars travelled through the conveyer belt.
At the Chicago FBI Field Office, Agent Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner) cheerfully announces that four of the Fox River Eight are either dead or captured, with the capture of C-Note (Rockmond Dunbar). He is further informed that Fernando Sucre was almost captured at the Ixtapa, Mexico airport. When Mahone asserts that C-Note will assist in the capture of the remaining fugitives, Agent Wheeler (Jason Davis) questions the legalities. In the meantime, Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) appears in the doorway, before Mahone can quickly usher him into his empty office.
Bellick puts his feet on Mahone’s desk, asking for the reward money for Charles Patoshik. Mahone kicks Bellick’s feet off his desk, telling him that money will come later, but imploring him first to go to Mexico, presumably to find and capture Fernando Sucre.
Manche Sanchez (Joseph Nunez) is at Fox River State Penitentiary, awaiting to be questioned again by Brad Bellick. He asserts to Bellick that he will not rat out the escapees again, that he offers premium laundry services in exchange for protection. Bellick insists he is not there to punish Manche, but instead to offer him a transfer to Kankakee Minimum Security Prison equipped with plasma screen televisions and billiard tables, in exchange for helping him find Sucre in Mexico.
On a commercial airliner bound for Mexico, Bellick is in coach, asking a stewardess for the inflight meal. She replies that it is a budget flight, and can only offer pretzels. Bellick accepts. On another part of the airplane, T-Bag is sitting in a higher class seat, asking a stewardess to refill his champagne glass.
Agent Mahone enters C-Note’s holding cell, seeing C-Note watching a notebook computer. He tells Mahone that he posted three messages on europeangoldfinch.net, but Michael Scofield has yet to reply. The two have a fierce shouting match, until Mahone finally threatens to remove C-Note’s visiting priveleges if he can not make good on his deal. C-Note insists that Michael will not be easy to catch unless he sees him on the outside and gains his trust.
Mahone returns after some time, only for C-Note to tell to tell him that he still has no replies to his messages. Mahone takes the opportunity to side with C-Note, telling him that he is a good father and that he would have done the same thing. He further says that he does not want to have to discontinue Dede’s healthcare and have Kacee arrested again, but he will if C-Note does not accept a package in his cell later on. As Mahone leaves, C-Note repeatedly asks, “what the hell is in the package, man?”
As C-Note sits in his cell, a man pushing a book cart gives books to inmates, but stops at C-Note’s cell to give him a package. C-Note opens it to find a Hangman’s knot inside.
C-Note later gets visit time with his wife Kacee. She tells him, “She’s gonna be ok, because of you.” C-Note apologizes for everything, but verbally recalls a time when Dede begged C-Note to allow her to watch a video, but he refused numerous times, to watch a game on television. Crying, C-Note begs his wife to apologize to Dede for this. Visiting time finished, the guard attempts to have Kacee leave, while a sobbing C-Note holds and kisses Kacee while imploring her to make the aforementioned promise.
Tying the noose to a pipe on the ceiling of his cell, C-Note places it around his neck, uttering “I love you”, while preparing to jump from his bed.
In a Chicago, Illinois hotel room, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), and Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) are huddled by a notebook computer, listening with intensity to an MP3 file of Caroline Reynolds talking to her brother Terrence Steadman. When it is suggested that the trio take this recording to someone in the government to exonerate Lincoln, he angrily replies in a shout, “The same government that set me up?” Lincoln remembers Jane Phillips, and declares that he will call her for suggestions.
In Pullman, Washington, LJ Burrows (Marshall Allman) answers a telephone. Lincoln speaks to LJ, telling him that he has found evidence that may exonerate him, and that they could get together soon afterward. LJ replies that he is finally in school again under a fake name and that he would prefer to stay in one place for a while. Lincoln replies that he understands, tells his son he loves him after he says same, and asks to speak with Jane.
Utilizing Jane’s suggestion, Michael attempts to contact “Cooper Green”. When he tells the receptionist that it concerns the “sons of Aldo Burrows”, the call is taken by a man claiming to be Cooper Green. Michael tells him to meet him at Ebert Park and to wear a red tie.
Sara Tancredi goes to a cemetary, paying her respects to the gave of her father Frank Tancredi. Her late father’s assist Bruce appears and insists that his lines were tapped and that he had nothing to do with the attempted killing of Sara. Sara continues to distrust him, and he replies that he wishes her good luck. Sara begins to trust Bruce and tells him that she needs to meet Cooper Green. Bruce replies that he knows Green and can arrange a meeting.
Sara and Bruce meet Green, who clearly looks different from the man that Lincoln has been in contact with. When Sara asks if he met with Michael, Green replies that he certainly has not. Sara realizes that Michael’s Green is fake.
Cooper Green stands by an elephant statue, waiting to meet the brothers. He picks up a ringing public phone, and speaks to Lincoln Burrows, who orders him to drop his suit jacket in the trash. Watching from his hotel room, Lincoln notes that two suited men are following Cooper Green, and calls Michael to tell him.
As Green runs with seeming difficulty to the next rendezvous point, another phone rings. Cooper seizes the phone from another man, and answers. He is instructed to go into the pond, presumably to drown the mics in case he is bugged.
Agent William Kim (Reggie Lee) is notified of the progress of Cooper. Kim calls Mahone and informs him that Michael Scofield may be at Ebert Park.
Cooper is then approached by a small child, offering him a cell phone. At first he does not accept it, but the child then tells him that he was paid $20 to give the phone to the first wet man that he saw. Cooper takes the phone, which rings immediately, and answers it, with Lincoln on the other end. Lincoln instructs him to enter the art museum across the street.
As Cooper enters a lobby, Lincoln tells him again by phone to go up the stairs, then to a basement, and to a white door.
Michael meets “Cooper Green”, but refuses to give him the USB Flash Drive containing the damning MP3 unless he knows specifically who will receive it. “Green” replies that Federal Judge “Jeff Scott Warren” appointed by the late President Richard Mills will take it, and insists that he must return to his car to retrieve his athsma inhaler. When Michael replies that his mother had athsma as well, he asks Green which medication he uses for athsma; Albuterol, cortizaid, or prednizone?”. Initially defensive, “Cooper” replies by saying cortizaid, which Michael says is the wrong answer.
Lincoln is informed by Sara that Michael is not meeting with the real Cooper Green; he sprints to Michael’s location, only to find that Michael has already knocked the false Cooper Green unconscious.
The False Cooper Green regains consciousness and meets with Mahone. Agent Kim calls Mahone and they discuss the strange situation of Michael being in Chicago, trying to make contact with the attorney general’s office.
Piecing his information together, Mahone finally asks Kim if Burrows is really innocent. Kim replies by making a sarcastic remark regarding Mahone’s intelligence before jadedly replying that “nobody is innocent.”
Agent Mahone retraces the false Green’s steps, realizing that the statue, the fountain, and the building had to be perfect places to view from a nearby hotel room window. Agent Mahone enters the hotel lobby, showing the receptionist photographs of the brothers. She replies that she has not seen them, but when Mahone shows her a photograph of Sara, she tells Mahone that Sara is staying at room 1006.
Lincoln, Michael, Sara, and the real Cooper Green review the mp3 recorded conversation. He says it is a telling conversation, but the file only has a modification date-stamp and not a creation date-stamp. Thus, it cannot be legally verified that the conversation took place after Steadman’s supposed death. Green states that he is an Officer of the court, so he can not directly suggest that the tape can only be used as a bargaining chip against President Caroline Reynolds herself.


