Breaking and Entering S04E02

S04E02

• Name: Breaking and Entering
• Air Date: September 1st, 2008
• Season: 4
• Number: 02

Episode Outline

We open with Pad Man in an office. He receives a note that says "10,000" and gets a call. Wyatt is on the other end. Pad Man doesn't want to chat with Wyatt, he just wants the brothers and the others dead.

The team arrives in LA and Don wants them to wear GPS ankle bracelets. Lincoln protests that it clashes with his shirt and refuses. Don pulls the whole "I'm in charge" routine and they all put on the monitor.

Don brings the team to a warehouse where they meet Roland, the team hacker. Don instructs the team to find Scylla and Mahone says he knows where they can start.

Michael acts like a gentlemen by offering Sara the houseboat while Linc threatens to beat Mahone to a pulp when they're done making nice. Mahone reveals that Whitey (also known as "The Cardholder") was working with Whistler and that he got a look at Whitey's driver.

In the Mexican desert, T-Bag and his lone companion trying to make their way back to the US. We see that T-Bag is making his way to San Diego, which was written in Whistler's bird book.

Back at the team's HQ Sara is having flashbacks to Gretchen beating her while she was captured. It also looks like Gretchen killed another woman in front of Sara.

Inside warehouse the boys are picking on the new guy, Roland, who's an identity thief. Actually, according to Linc, he's a "douche". Mahone identifies Whitey's driver.

The boys are watching the house of Whitey's driver when he exits and gets into his car. They start to follow him and see him pull up to a house with private security. The boys spot motion sensors, alarm systems and armed guards. Linc tells Michael he better have one hell of a plan. Oh, please, Lincoln. Michael?s already got Plans A through G.

Back at HQ, the team is trying to devise a plan. Ok, so Michael doesn't have a plan. And it looks like he's not the only brains of the operation anymore. Thank God he's still the prettiest. Roland suggests they copy the card and we learn that Whitey is the CEO of some company (his name is Stuart Tuxhorn). Roland reveals that he invented a device that "steals" electronic information situated around it. If they can get close enough, his device will copy the information on Scylla.

Whitey's meeting up with Pad Man and he agrees to some plan that involves 10,000 people. I think these 10,000 people are going to die.

Sucre and Bellick are in a car, while Michael and Linc are in another. Michael calls HQ and we see Mahone, Sara and Roland were left behind. Sucre cuts in front of Whitey's car and causes an accident. Unfortunately, Roland's little device doesn't seem to be getting the data. On to Plan B...

Don meets up with some guy named Jasper. Jasper used to work for The Company. Don tells Jasper he's going after Scylla. Jaspers tries to dissuade him. Don asks Jasper for information about the Scylla decoder box.

T-Bag and his friend are still in the desert. Uh-oh, it looks like T-Bag's friend has decided to turn to cannibalism in order to stay alive. T-Bag manages to kill him while defending himself. And then T-Bag turns to cannibalism in order to survive.

Michael and Lincoln are keeping watch outside Whitey's house. Michael decides to use the housekeeper to get to the card.

Back at HQ, Michael finds Sara on the houseboat. She's reading the poem Lincoln was reading in the previous episode. Turns it it's a passage from The Odyssey. My Homer must be very rusty, since I didn't recognize the passage. It's from a chapter where Odysseus is told he has to fight a monster named Scylla. In order to pass the monster, Odysseus sacrificed six of his men. Wow, I hope that's not a metaphor for what Michael has to do. Sara also agrees to go ahead with the plan tomorrow involving the housekeeper.

Wyatt's in an apartment, sitting next to a bound girl, asking her if Claudia Mauricio is a good roommate. Claudia returns home to see Wyatt and her roommate. Turns out Claudia works for the Department of Corrections. It looks like he's trying to use Claudia to find Michael and Lincoln.

The next day Sara is at a bus stop, standing next to the housekeeper. She starts talking to the housekeeper and they start chatting about handbags. Ah, the universal female small talk topic. The housekeeper stupidly hangs over her bag when Sara asks to admire it.

T-Bag meets up with some bikers in the desert. They offer to take him to San Diego.

Michael and Linc are still staking out the house when the housekeeper arrives. Michael calls the house, pretending to be the alarm company. He asks the housekeeper to check the window alarms for each room in the house. Oh, clever boy. She's going to walk through the entire house with her bag (and the device Sara slipped inside it). Roland's picking up electronic information from the house, but not Scylla. The housekeeper walks into the den and we see that Roland's device is now picking up information from Scylla.

The housekeeper is back at the bus station when Mahone and Bellick do a purse snatch-and-grab. They discover the device isn't in the bag.

Wyatt has a sniper rifle outside a prison in Texas, clearly looking for Michael and Linc. He calls into the office to discover that Bruce posted the brothers' bail.

Back at HQ, the boys are trying to figure out where Roland's device is. They suspect the maid left it in the house, thinking it belonged to Whitey. An argument ensues, but Michael quickly breaks it up by announcing that they're going to break into the house. See? It's the opposite of breaking out. It's like a reversal of Seasons 1 and 3.

At the docks, Michael is asking Don for extra help. Michael grabs his head as if in pain, but insists that he is fine.

At HQ, the team is trying to come up with a plan to get inside the house. Michael is hung up on the quote from The Odyssey "all that avails is flight". He suspects running might be their only option. But Linc insists that Aldo believed The Company should be taken down.

Michael's alone in the warehouse, trying to come up with a plan. See? All he needs is a little time and space and he'll come up with something. The man's a genius, for crying out loud. And it looks like he did come up with a plan because we see the team arrive at Whitey's house.

Sucre and Linc scale the fence while Michael and Mahone wait close by. Linc jimmies open the door, the alarm goes off and the guards start searching the property.

Linc and Sucre bail while Mahone and Michael enter the house from the backyard. Whitey comes down the stairs, trying to see what's going on. We quickly learn that the alarm isn't coming from Whitey's house, but from the house across the street. Whitey disables his own alarm, obviously thinking it was his that was set off. When the alarm is disabled Michael and Mahone enter Whitey's house. Mahone's wearing this black shirt with a really weird collar. It makes him look strange. Like he's a 25 year old metrosexual or something.

Mahone hears a boy's voice and sees a picture of Whitey's young son. He flashes to his own son, Cameron. The boys make a quick getaway.

Wyatt is in Bruce's house. Wyatt asks where Michael and Lincoln are, but Bruce denies knowledge. Wyatt injects Bruce with a needle.

The bikers, meanwhile, drop T-Bag off in San Diego. During the trip he saw Whistler's death in the newspaper. T-Bag notices that the bird book was pointing him to a locker at a bus station. Inside a locker is an envelope from the "Gate Corporation", with a copy of Whistler's ID and a key. We then see that T-Bag is on a bus headed to LA.

Back at HQ, Michael delivers the device to Roland. Roland plugs the device into his computer and appears to be very upset with the information they downloaded from Scylla.

Michael meets Sara out by the water. She gets all mushy and tells him that only the thought of them together kept her alive. Awe. She asks if they can wipe the slate clean and tells Michael he shouldn't feel guilt over what happened to her. Michael cracks a joke and asks if he has to divorce his wife so they can be together.

Linc and Roland approach. Roland explains that they only have a portion of the data. Sara says that according to the quote from The Odyssey, the Scylla information should be with 6 men in total. Meaning they have to track down the other 5 men and their data cards.

And guess what? Gretchen's not dead. Damnit! My grandfather will be so pissed. She's being held captive by Wyatt's associates, who are trying to get information out of her.

Back at HQ Michael appears to be ill. And his nose starts bleeding. Linc enters the bathroom and Michael reassures him that they'll all be OK. Yeah, right.

Now for the calls. My grandfather says it was good. He thinks that T-Bag's in trouble, but he'll rebound. He's also a bit worried about Michael's health. And he IS upset that "the bitch" (aka Gretchen) is still alive. Cousin Joe isn't picking up his phone, but my father says "cool show" (needless to say, I didn't get my propensity for long-windedness from my father).

And we're off! I think the episode was a nice lead-in to the rest of the season. Was it the most brilliant or suspenseful episode of PB ever? Naw. But I'm damn glad we're back. See you all next week for episode 4x03.