" the Duel " is it thirty-and-unième episode of the television serial Prison Station-wagon , it is the ninth episode of the second season.

Detailed summary

In a motel of Elgin, Illinois, Sara Tancredi deduces that the appointment takes place with the Sundown hotel. It calls the information and discovers that there exist only three Sundown hotels with the the United States: in Pierre, South Dakota, Sutton, Virginia, and Gila with the New Mexico. It buys a plane ticket for Albuquerque, New Mexico by using the identity and the credit card of the assassinated woman of which it had taken the wallet. That allows the agents Paul Kellerman and Alexander Mahone to locate where it must meet Michael Scofield.

Michael enters the Botanical garden of Blanding, borrows the uniform of an employee and moves towards the exposure " Apache Serves Ghost ". Two agents supervise Michael, but it locates them and succeeds in fleeing of accuracy. Later in a restaurant, it looks at the Mahone agent on television whereas journalists question it on the death of one of the " Eight Fox To rivet ": David “Tweener” Apolskis. When they question Mahone on the contained informations on the hard drive of Michael. Mahone answers them: ( No the comment ). It quotes Sun Tzu then and affirms that it knows the next destination of the fugitive ones. After that, Michael goes in a cyber coffee to Moab, Utah and collects all information relating to Alexander Mahone, his wife WFP, and Shales Oscar. Then, it will buy a costume in a store.

In Durango, Colorado, Michael returns visit to WFP Mahone while being made pass for the agent Wayne Merrick. After having questioned it, by claiming that it is about an investigation relating to a renewal of certificate of safety, he includes/understands what arrived at Oscar Shales and discovers the phone number of the Mahone agent. He calls it by using the cellphone of WFP and teaches him that he knows all about Oscar Shales. He asks him to drop the continuation and he exchanges some agrees anything to reveal with the media. But Mahone which had just included/understood the place and the date of the appointment, refuses and declares to him that they will be found earlier than he thinks it.

C-Note meets its former associates shadies and recalls them that they all are to him indebted not to have denounced them when it was stopped for possession of stolen goods. They accept to help it and C-Note exposes its plan to recover his wife and her daughter. At the same time, the Lang agent stops at Kacee Franklin and threatens it to stop it as to put his/her daughter in a hearth if she refuses to cooperate with FBI to stop her husband. Kacee accepts with back-plate and known as in Lang that the " Rainbow Room" is a horse-gear in an amusement park. Lang requires of him to wait this place while the FBI will supervise it. One of the accomplices of C-Note stops close to Kacee and says to him to run towards a black jeep in fifteen seconds. She hesitates but finally starts to run. They escape the Lang agent when another associate of C-Note blocks the vehicles of the FBI with his truck. They stop it and he pretends of only speaking Spanish. C-note awaits his/her daughter outside the elementary school then enters the class to recover it itself. As it seizes it, it says to him that they from go away to Disneyland. C-note, his wife and her daughter find themselves in a lane. His wife asks him: ( What does one make now? )

T-Bag, vêtu of a new costume, enters the coach station of Platform, Kansas, locks up the money of Westmoreland in a rack and buys a bouquet of sunflowers to a florist. When the lady in loads remarks that He does not sound like He is from Kansas, T-Bag fold up that He is from the Yellowhammer State. He arrives at the house of Susan Hollander but a sign " to sell " is posed in front of and it seems unoccupied. While it reminds the loss of its love, T-Bag is surprised by the arrival of Brad Bellick and Roy Geary which awaited it. They strike it with the sign and attach it. With its alarm clock, they make fun of him and teach him that they read the letters which he had addressed to Susan when he was in prison. Then they threaten it to withdraw the seams of its grafted hand if he refuses to reveal the site of the money of Westmoreland.

Lincoln called to LJ that the loads against him were given up and that it can leave to begin a new life. But L.J refuses to leave his/her father. With St David, Arizona, L.J buys their dinner but forgets his currency. When the waitress follows it to her car, she recognizes Lincoln and probably calls the police force. They have a short argument in the car until Lincoln excuses. They end up giving up their car by safety. Then, they arrive at the station of Wilcox, Arizona where they quickly are recognized and apprehended after a race-continuation.

Additional details

Chronology

• This episode is held during the day of June 2nd.

Culture

• When Michael looks at the phone numbers on the portable of WFP Mahone, a list of names ravels before that of Alexander Mahone: Adia Weight, Adrianna Kopitar, Agatha Ovechkin, Aidan Kotalik, Vasquez Ale, Amy Crosby, and Andrea Staios. Except for Vasquez, all other family names are those famous hockey players. They are Doug Weight, Anze Kopitar, Alexander Ovechkin, Ales Kotalik, Sidney Crosby, and Steve Staios. Moreover, " Wayne Merrick " , the pseudonym which Michael uses to question WFP Mahone, is also the name of a famous player of Hockey.

• When T-Bag awakes, Geary asks to him whether: ( Did visions of 12 year old children dance in your head? ). It transforms with its way a quotation extracted from an American poem for children of Clement Clarke Moore, ( The night before Christmas ): ( The children were well blottis with the heat in their beds, While visions of sugar refineries danced in their heads ).

• In an interview that Michael views on Internet, Mahone declares: ( Sun Tzu said that if you know your enemy, do not fear the result of one hundred battles. ). It refers to the Art of the war of Sun Tzu, " Article III - Proposals of the victory and défaite". Sun Tzu was a general Chinese fifth century BC the quotation continues as follows: If you know yourself but you do not know the enemy, you will gain a battle on two. If you do not know yourself yourself nor the enemy, as many battles, as many defeats. . Michael will into practice put this theory while getting information more about the Mahone agent and by updating the secrecies that he dissimulates.

• One of the articles of the Net devoted to the " Eight Fox To rivet " be entitled. This word game is untranslatable in French, it takes again the number of the escaped prisoners () and the original title of the film the Great Escape , with Steve McQueen. The film tells the escape from soldiers Alliés of a German prison camp during the Second world war.

Others

• Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) does not appear in this episode.

Audiences and critical reception

To the United States, this episode was followed by 8,96 million televiewers. It arrives in second position after the play " Deal gold No Deal " diffused on NBC.

Counterparts

T-Bag : ( Bradley, I did not expect that one adult who still lives with his mom includes/understands the intrigues of the love. )

Michael Scofield : ( I give you a chance. Drop. Let disappear to me with my family. And exchanges some, I will maintain your small secrecy. What do you think about it? )

Agent Mahone : ( That it is a dead man who is speaking to me. )

Michael Scofield : ( I know that you do not want that occurs like that. But sometimes, one cannot always… all control. It is the case, now. Take care of you. )

Agent Mahone : ( So long, Michael. Oh, and… Michael? Perhaps earlier than you do not think. )

Note and references

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