Safe and Sound S04E04

S04E05

• Name: Safe and Sound
• Air Date: September 22nd, 2008
• Season: 4
• Number: 05

Episode Outline

I have a confession to make. Last night, for the third time in my 28 years, I saw New Kids on the Block in concert. On the one hand, there's my embarrassment. I mean, next year I'm going to be 30. What in the hell was I doing trying to relive my early teenage years? On the other hand, none of that matters because it was totally f**cking AWESOME. My favorite part was Jordan Knight, with the unbuttoned white shirt, and his gorgeous abs, and the wind machine. As my friend Melodie breathlessly declared: "God bless the man that made the wind machine".

But I digress... Last time on Prison Break, the previous episodes happened. We open where we left off: Sara is walking back to HQ and is being followed by Wyatt. Can someone please explain to me why Sara can't buy a normal purse? One with pockets and compartments instead of those soft, cloth, shapeless purses that she seems to favor. That would drive me crazy. I would never be able to find my keys in her purse. She notices that Bruce's credit card is missing. She also notices that she's being followed (Wyatt cleverly ducks behind a car to hide).

Back at HQ, Michael asks Self to get the FBI tech guys to help them identify the people he filmed on his cell phone. Self immediately recognizes that one of them works in his building. How awkward. I can only imagine that conversation around the water cooler on Monday morning. That guy is the head of the Treasury in LA. Michael hands Self the Black Hole device and suggests he make up something to get close to Treasury Guy (aka, the next Scylla cardholder), but Self protests. Because lying about government stuff can net you five years in prison. Shit! Did someone warn George Bush?!

I suspect that Self is going to end up on the run like everyone else on this show before the season is through.

Mahone's sitting in a diner, meeting with his ex-wife, Pam. She's very short with him and identifies Wyatt from some photos as their son's killer. Damnit, Mahone! You're breaking my heart again! This is, like, the seventh episode that you've done that. She tries to comfort him, while also encouraging him to find and kill Wyatt. She hands him something in an envelope.

Sara starts running as Wyatt continues to chase her. Fortunately, with some quick thinking, and some weaving through traffic, she manages to evade him.

At his shiny new job at GATE, T-Bag notices that spilling tea on the bird book reveals some secret code. With some more dabbing, he reveals a ladder written in ink.

Back at HQ Sucre and Linc are arguing. Sucre wants to track down T-Bag, but Linc wants them to lay low. Michael orders Bellick and Sucre to search the buildings where they last saw T-Bag.

Self barges into Treasury Guy's office, spinning some tall tale. Back at HQ, Roland and Michael are watching the signal from the Black Hole. We quickly discover that the Scylla card is in Treasury Guy's safe. He quickly dismisses Self, but not before revealing that he's headed oversees soon.

Self and Michael quickly realize where the card is located. Michael asks Self to bring him the blueprints. Self protests. Self, seriously, did you even see Season 1? Michael crafted an elaborate plan to break out of prison based solely on the blueprints. Come on, man! Keep up!

Sara arrives back at HQ and tells the boys that she was followed. She identifies Wyatt from a picture that Mahone is holding. He announces that Wyatt killed his son.

Mahone's asking Sara for help to find Wyatt. She tells Mahone that Bruce's credit card is missing.

Michael, Self and Lincoln are pouring over the blueprints, trying to come up with a way to get inside the federal building. Michael comes up with a plan in about 26 seconds (a new record!) and Self draws the insignia that was on the safe.

Wyatt's visiting with Gretchen. Gretchen's not doing so good (yeay!), yet she still manages to insult Sara and her escaping skills. Wyatt puts a bucket of something rotten in front of Gretchen and she starts gagging. When he leaves, she continues to jimmy the screw free.

Michael announces that only the Treasury Guy's fingerprint will open the safe. Linc, who apparently robbed safes in a former life, suggests many options, all of which Michael shoots down. Self is being a Negative Nancy, insisting there is no way the boys can get into the office. Considering it's his ass on the line too, you think he'd be more helpful. Michael's wearing a little grin that says "dude, I'm the smartest thing in a 50-mile radius and I'm going to find a way into that safe".

Roland is helping Mahone track down information about Bruce's credit card and Wyatt's whereabouts. Along with Sara, they're trying to figure out where Wyatt is staying.

Back at GATE, T-Bag is asking for more tea when he sees Bellick and Sucre at reception. They're spinning some story that T-Bag just inherited a bunch of money and they're looking to give it to him, but the receptionist, Trishanne, denies knowing him.

Michael's playing with an etch-a-sketch and working on a science project. Self gets a call and promises to keep Treasury Guy's adjoining officemate out of his office. Michael calls Sucre and Bellick and asks them to meet him.

Self drives the boys into the parking garage of the federal building, where Linc walks out in a suit. Oh yeah, baby! Where's a damn wind machine when you need one?!

Linc, Bellick, Sucre and Michael are in the elevator, fiddling with the controls, heading up to the 10th floor.

Back at GATE, Trishanne is again displaying her inappropriate office cleavage. She blackmails T-Bag: in exchange for keeping quiet about his whereabouts, she wants more than the $10,000 Sucre offered. She eventually settles for 3% of his commission.

Self takes out Treasury Guy's next door officemate for lunch. Before they leave, he squirts something on the carpet outside the office. In the storage room, an employee encounters Bellick and Sucre fiddling with the vents. Up in the vents, Lincoln sees that Michael's nose is bleeding. Finally! Maybe we'll finally learn what's going on.

Back at HQ, Roland's handing Mahone a list of possible hotels that Wyatt may be staying.

At the federal building, Sucre and Bellick, posing as janitors, find the mess that Self left behind. They go into the guy's office, while Michael and Linc come down from the vent. They start to break into Treasury Guy's safe from the other side of the wall.

Outside the office, Sucre and Bellick are covering up the sound of Linc and Michael's actions by cleaning up the mess Self made with a vacuum.

Inside the office, Linc is asking Michael how long he's had the nosebleeds. Linc mentions that it was a big deal when Michael was 13, but Michael insists that Linc not tell Sara. He says he's just "acclimating to the warmer climate" and brushes Linc off. Damnit, writers, just tell me what's wrong with Michael! Tell me what's wrong so I can love him back to health.

Back at HQ, Roland and Sara are staring at the pictures of the cardholders. Sara realizes that Lisa (last week's cardholder) recently headed to Laos, while Treasury Guy is also heading to Asia.

Mahone arrives at the bar Sara hung out at last week. He pretends to be an investigator and shows the bartender lady a picture of Wyatt. She gives him a short description of Wyatt's car.

At a motel, Wyatt is bribing the desk clerk for information? Something.

Back at the federal building, the secretary is trying to get Sucre and Bellick to stop the noise. Sucre retrieves a stack of letters inside the office for her and the boys resume their work.

Pad Man arrives at an office, asking for someone named Griffin. The assistant offers to get him.

Michel hears that someone has entered Treasury Guy's office. Oh yes, it's Pad Man. Ok, Treasury Guy is named Griffin.

Michael and Linc are scrambling for a new plan: a way to get into the safe quietly.

Mahone, meanwhile, pulls up to a motel. We see that Pam gave him a gun the last time she saw him. Mahone approaches the same desk clerk Wyatt was speaking to before. The desk clerk identifies Wyatt from a photo, but says he checked out. Mahone asks for a key to the room. When Mahone leaves the office, the desk clerk calls Wyatt. Before the desk clerk can deliver the news, Mahone points a gun at him. The desk clerk hands over the note with Wyatt's phone number.

The Treasury Guy greets Pad Man in his office. We learn that Treasury Guy is also headed to Laos, while the boys finally break into the safe with minimal noise. Michael pulls out the Scylla card and they call Roland. Sara is watching a news report on her PDA, which says that Laos is suffering from inflation and food riots. Plus, 200 people are dead. Michael is taking a picture of both sides of Scylla, while listening to Pad Man and Treasury Guy's conversation. Pad Man is telling Treasury Guy that there's some funny business going on.

Pad Man insists that Treasury Guy take out Scylla from his safe. There's some tense moments while Treasury Guy is slowly opening his safe and the boys are still copying the information. Pad Man insists that all of the cardholders keep their cards on them. The boys quickly pack up and leave just as Self returns from lunch.

Back at HQ, Sara is telling Michael what she learned about Laos. She thinks the cardholders are trying to tear Laos down and Michal thinks they're going to do so to turn a profit by rebuilding it. She tells him about the bar, but insists she can handle this.

Back at GATE, Trishanne escorts Mr. Xing's killer into T-Bag's office. He takes out a gun and tells T-Bag he was supposed to deliver "the item" two days ago. Mr. Xing's killer demands to know where Scylla is, but T-Bag tries to stall. When the killer threatens his life, T-Bag agrees to deliver. And this is how T-Bag starts working with Michael again, I'm sure. Trishanne looks at the phone number Bellick left her.

Back in Gretchen's cell, she quickly strangles the guard who enters. No, I'm sorry, she stabbed him in the head with the nail. Ew. Gross. She then frees herself with his keys and escapes.

Self is talking to Michael. They have identified the names and addresses of two of the remaining card holders, except for the general, aka Pad Man. Sara tells Michael that when she was being held captive, she heard Gretchen taking orders from Pad Man. She thinks he's in charge of The Company.

Wyatt is telling Pad Man about Gretchen's escape when one of his assistants announces that Self has been searching for images about Pad Man.

Unfortunately, my father is in town and stopped by my grandparent's house, thereby preventing my grandfather from watching the show yet. My dad screws up everything. If he didn't hand me money this morning, I'd be super pissed at him. But he did, so I'll forgive him. Cousin Joe also missed the show since he just arrived home. Sheesh, no one in my family is as dedicated to this show as I am. I definitely need to get a new family.

See you all here next week. Same bat time, same bat channel.