The perfect Trap

" the perfect Trap " is the thirty-fifth episode of the television serial Prison Station-wagon . It is the thirteenth episode of this second season. It is the last episode diffused into 2006 in the United States.

Detailed summary

On the telephone, one hears the voice of Sara who does not cease calling Michael. But the two brothers cannot take down, they are put out of cheek by Mahone. This one their request to be turned over but Michael refuses by declaring to him that it must look them in the eyes if it wants to assassinate them. Lincoln shouts to him to let his/her brother leave, but Mahone shouts in its turn which he wants just to find his life. Before it had time to carry out its contract, the patrol of the borders of the the United States emerges abruptly. The police force requires of Mahone to release its weapon even when he announces to them that he is an agent of FBI. They take on board the two brothers.

All the television channels relay information: Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield were stopped. Kellerman in its car and the guards with Fox River hear the news. So with the FBI the agents are charmed, for the agent Kim, it is a catastrophe. Its superior makes it call.

ED Pavelka, the new head warden Fox River affirms in an interview that the tolerance which existed under the old direction is completed. He declares that Lincoln will be carried out as envisaged and that Michael will be probably condemned to the life imprisonment.

Before being returned to Fox To rivet, the two brothers are kept in a cell of the patrol of the borders with Las Cruces, with the New Mexico. With many occasions, Mahone and Michael measure glance. Mahone would like to escort them itself but this authorization is refused to him successively by the department of the corrections of the Illinois and patrols it borders. It becomes increasingly nervous because the Kim agent ceases pointing out only Michael to him and Lincoln knows too many things and do not have to in no case to turn over in the prison. He asks him to carry out the two brothers immediately, in spite of the protests of Alexander which recalls him that they are in full police station. Always on the telephone, the Kim agent threatens it to be caught some with its family if he refuses to obey the orders. During this time, the two brothers are killed, Lincoln reconsiders with their father and the fact that in prison they will be able to never make burst the truth. Michael reassures it by recalling him that they are entitled to a call and that Sara will be able to save them. A police officer quickly comes to undeceive it. Lincoln also wonders, by fixing Mahone, if they will not be reduced in way.

Suddenly the ringing of the cellphone of Michael resounds. Of its cell, it can only remain to hopelessly fix the apparatus, it knows that it is Sara which tries to join it. Sara leaves him a message on the responder where it informs it that it did not start from Gila and that it does not go well from the whole. Worry, déboussolée, she begs it to contact it because he is the only person in whom she has confidence and that she has need to know if it is well. She acknowledges to him that she needs him. A little later in the course of the day, Sara sees finally information on a television and learns the arrest from the two brothers. It decides to change appearance into cutting the hair and throws its identity papers and the cellphone not to be made locate.

Michael and Lincoln are led towards a van, surrounded by an escort, to transport them in Fox River. Mahone which has not been able to be solved to kill them in front of the police force, it contemplates them impotent. At the same moment, Kellerman contacts the agent Kim and a market proposes to him: it helps them to eliminate the two brothers and it exchanges some is reinstated in the secret services. Its asset is to have a former associate among the guards which escort the two prisoners. The superior of the Kim agent silently dictates to him to accept this market but to eliminate the Kellerman agent then become too awkward. During the crossing in the car, Kim recontacts Mahone and informs to him that Kellerman will set up a ambush at the exit of Albuquerque, always with the New Mexico. It orders to him to cause a shooting and to benefit from it to also kill Kellerman.

Inside the van, Lincoln asks his/her brother if he does not regret to be come to help it. Michael affirms to him that he does not regret the facts in themselves but their unfolding. It ensures to him that it knows that Lincoln would have made the same thing for him. Lincoln seems more dubious, it cannot be prevented from feeling responsible for misfortunes of his/her brother. In a flashback, it remembers that because of him, they often changed family of reception. But Michael reassures it. Then both note that Lincoln was not correctly padlocked. Their van arrives shortly after in a tunnel, but the exit is stopped by a truck and its trailer. All the guards move away from the van to release the way. The keys remained on the seat with range of Lincoln. He proposes in Michael to flee by one of the open doors on the sides. But under the scrutinizing eye of Mahone with far, Michael is wary and suspects a trap to assassinate them. He prefers outward journey in prison to try to contact Sara. But Lincoln answers him coldly that she perhaps already died and that they must try their chance. Michael ends up bending, they release their chains and spring towards a door under the shootings of the guards. Mahone is put at their continuation while remaining in telephone contact with Kellerman based on the roof like gunner. Inside the basement, the two brothers try to escape their prosecutors while seeking an exit. Michael makes promise in Lincoln to seek Sara if some-thing arrived to him. At the end of a corridor, they are joined by the Kellerman agent then by the Mahone agent. They see their end then arriving but dramatic turn of events, the Kellerman agent draws in full chest on Mahone. It did not accept the ingratitude of Caroline Reynolds and proposes to the two brothers to be their new ally. They flee then together.

During this time, Sucre is pursued in the airs by the planes of the patrol of the borders. He asks the pilot if they are still in the United States, that answers him that they are from now on with the Mexico but that since September 11th, 2001, of the runaways can be continued beyond the borders. Both take a parachute and jump of the plane. After its landing, Sucre realizes that the pilot did not survive his fall, it thus carries on his road with foot.

In Pratt with the Kansas, in a bar of veterans, T-Bag also learns that the two brothers were done caught. While looking around him, he notices that a man has a hook in the place of his hand. Interested, he asks a sergeant who played billiards where he could make arrange his hand. This one indicates to him the name of the Administration of the Veterans but that should be made the tail and that one to him will nevertheless send the invoice. T-Bag is then praised to have money, which the veteran does not like who refuses to give him more explanations. T-Bag then fixes its hand out of plastic and says to him that it knows by where to start. The following day, provided with its new hand, T-Bag observes people leave a building. It locates a woman with the banal pace and courts it at the restaurant where she lunches. Very easily, he manages to allure it and promises to him to join it the evening at the end of its work. In end of the afternoon, it is charmed to see it and agrees to render the service to him that he asks him. He invents a history of heritage to recover a precise address. After him to have given what he wanted, she suddenly sees behind him her photograph hung on the wall, she includes/understands whereas he is one of the " eight of Fox River" . After obligebeing obliged to kill her, it goes to Ness City, in the Kansas. It sounds with the door and a woman comes to open to him. It is about Susan Hollander, its old love which had denounced it. Petrified horror, it cannot prevent it entering and from closing again the door behind him.

Continued for the murder of Roy Geary, Bellick clamp in vain its innocence. The message of threat which it left on the responder of Geary after this one fled with the five million dollars, has a deplorable effect on its business: it risks the capital punishment. The judge regarding it as a dangerous individual, the release on bail is refused to him. Its lawyer pushes it to accept a market: 25 years if he recognizes his culpability. Influenced and terrified, Bellick accepts on the condition of being imprisoned close to his/her mother, in Fox River. Bottom, it explains to the prison warder Louis Patterson, which it wishes to be in a protected district, in isolated cell. It informs to him that it expressly asked Fox River because it knew the guards, that it knew that it would be well treated and that it could ask to carry out works of general interest within one year and half. This one undeceives it and announces to him that the new director believes in the discipline and that he does not delegate anything any more. Bellick then discovers with horror, that not to make favoritism, it is imprisoned among all the other ordinary prisoners. It divides even its cell with Avocado, the rapist of Tweener.

Additional details

Chronology

the action is held the evening of June 3rd and in the day of June 4th according to the post-it stuck on the wall in the office of Mahone in the episode Panama (2x20) . Moreover, the presenter of the tv news Fox News indicates that the escape goes back to less than 10 days.

Culture

At the time of a phone conversation with the agent Mahone, the Kim agent compares Kellerman with Lee Harvey Oswald, the gunner marionette behind the conspiracy. By receiving the order to assassinate Kellerman, Mahone supposes whereas it must be Jack Ruby (the assassin of Oswald). Ironically the lunatic Kim agent by affirming that Ruby was alone whereas Mahone has to him the support of the government of the United States.

One of the police officers carries a plastic bracelet yellow, Livestrong, created and distributed by Lance Armstrong, in the scene where Lincoln and Michael escape from the van.

Others

Haywire, L.J and C-Note does not appear in this episode.

the scene where the camera makes a broad plan on Bellick in its cell, mixed among all the other prisoners is a reminiscence of a plan of Michael with Fox River.

keeps It which supervises Michael and Lincoln, " the former associate of Kellerman" , is the same guard which took along L.J to Kingman in Arizona.

It is the first time that Michael Scofield and Paul Kellerman are together in the same scene, except a short appearance of Kellerman in a car watching for the transfer of Michael in another prison.

Audiences and critical reception

This episode carried out the best audience since the beginning of the second season with the the United States with 9,6 million televiewers.

As a whole, it obtains positive appreciations of the majority of criticisms. Thus the chronicler of the The Palm Beach Post concluded its article by ( The conclusion of the last episode of Prison Station-wagon was incontestably attracting. Donot can wait until January 22nd. ).

In the same way, the critic of the The San Diego Union-Platform begins its chronicle with ( Nothing makes beat the heart as much as a final episode of Prison Station-wagon ) and to the episode A+ gives.

As a Cliffhanger was awaited in this episode, being the last with being diffused in 2006, the critic of the TV Guides estimated that the perfect trap had exceeded its waitings.

The journalist of the Arizona Daily Star expresses his enthusiasm for the next episode in January 2007 by finishing his chronicle by ( Only 56 days ago. Only 1344 hours. Only 80640 seconds. 4 838400 seconds… Note on your calendars. " Break" prison; returns on January 22nd. ). It also compared the cliffhanger of this episode with that of Desperate Housewives while declaring ( I said yesterday that the cliffangher of Desperate Housewives was one of best, but Prison Station-wagon put the bar higher. ).

Counterparts

Lincoln Burrows : (Before leaving the van) ( Be ready for you? )

Michael Scofield : ( Not. And you? )

Lincoln Burrows : (with a small smile) ( Not )

Kellerman : ( The president Reynolds ruined your lives. She ruined mine. You want to make plunge this bitch? You have just found your mole. But one must go there NOW! )

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