Nick Savrinn

Nick Savrinn , played by Frank Grillo, is a fictitious character of the television serial Prison Station-wagon.

Preamble

Introduced recurring character starting from the 4th episode of the first season, Alchemy, Nick Savrinn seemed then in each episode of this first season, except the episode flashback, the Wounds of the heart .

Biography of fiction

Having obtained a doctorate in right to Columbia Law School, Nick Savrinn declined the offers of large cabinets of New York to devote itself to Project Justice, an organization which tries to release from prison the people victims of miscarriage of justices. With his credit, one counts thirteen releases, of which five were condemned to died. Although the person in charge of Project Justice refused to come to assistance of Veronica Donovan on the case Lincoln Burrows, Nick proposes its assistance voluntarily because he believes in the innocence of Lincoln.

He explains to Veronica why his/her father wrongly has also imprisoned him during years and that this injustice deeply marked it. He examines in detail the parts of the file and him and Veronica end up discovering a proof of the innocence of Lincoln. The video of monitoring in fact was adulterated so that one can see Lincoln drawing with a revolver on Terrence Steadman. They try to obtain the master original to show the handling of the images but it is taught them that it was irremediably damaged. During their research, they note that Ecofield, company in the past directed by Terrence Steadman, has a bond with the Burrows business. Becoming increasingly awkward with the eyes of Trust, Nick and Veronica receive, in full heart of Washington, a telephone threat in a public cabin, in the episode, In the middle of hell 2/2 .

The explosion of the apartment of Veronica is followed from there where they succeed in leaving there alive. Tracked, they flee and take refuge in a hut having belonged to the father of Nick, with New Glarus (Wisconsin). L.J. Burrows joined them a little later after having succeeded in escaping the attempted murders from the agents Paul Kellerman and Daniel Hale. In the episode One of too, Nick, Veronica and L.J after a fashion manage to sow the agent Quinn, with the orders of the Trust. Wounded by a blow of revolver, Nick must be brought to the hospital. Having recovered its wounds, Nick, always accompanied by Veronica, again will ask to the judge the carryforward to the court of the date of execution of Lincoln. They lose this call but fortuitously, a man remained anonymous gives to the judge a new proof which decides the judge to cancel the execution temporarily.

This news reinforces their hope of being able one day to clear Lincoln, they obtain the authorization to in extremis exhume the body of Terrence Steadman in the episode . But that leads to a dead end because the teeth found on the corpse are identified like those pertaining to Terrence Steadman. In Depression, Nick, Veronica and L.J return to New Glarus to find the body of Quinn and to discover indices on him. They succeed in finding its cellphone, Nick thus leaves to seek a charger of telephone in a store. It meets there a man who points out their market to him. It is only in the episode the Key that it is learned that Nick plays a double game. In exchange of the release of his father, it passed a market with John Abruzzi. It must supervise Veronica until it receives the order of Abruzzi to deliver to him.

This order is given to him in the episode Without return . When it is invited to bring Veronica on a landing strip (that seen in the episode Fugitive the ), Nick is divided between the life of Veronica and that of his/her father. Finally in the following episode, the Great evening , Nick changes opinion, releases Veronica and entreats it to leave in Blackfoot, with the Montana to find Steadman.

The empty handeds, Nick goes to its apartment to meet his/her father, where it is pilot of his assassination by a henchman of Abruzzi. Nick refusing to acknowledge with the killer where Veronica is, it is coldly cut down. The image of its corpse in the last episode of the first season, Fugitive the , constitutes the last appearance of the character in the series. L.J learns officially its death in the second episode from the second season, Otis .

Personality

Nick Savrinn is one of the indirect victims of the Trust. Indeed, if Michael Scofield had not developed a plan of escape to save Lincoln Burrows, John Abruzzi would never have sought to force Nick to supervise Veronica Donovan.

Nick also has a common point with Michael Scofield, also is ready for him with very to save a member of its victim family of a miscarriage of justice, even if that goes against its personal ethics. Both do not do it cheerfulness of heart: Michael has much remorse when he thinks of Sara Tancredi at the beginning of the second season and Nick chooses to let leave Veronica. When he proposes his assistance to Veronica, he is undoubtedly sincere. Indeed, John Abruzzi learns the existence from Veronica Donovan only starting from the episode lost Cause .

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