BlueJ said:
Can someone please give a brief summery of what happen on monday nights show. I missed it.
While strapped to the electric chair, Lincoln mouths to Michael to "turn around." Michael doesn't understand what he's saying and just looks confused. The camera pans to Lincoln's view and there's a 60ish-year-old man standing behind Michael. A hood is placed over Lincoln's head. Then, right as the guard is about to pull the switch, a phone rings. Cut to the visitation room.
At the visitation room, Michael and the lawyer babe look at each other and wonder what happened. Then the warden turns up with Lincoln, and says that a judge phoned in to stay the execution, saying there was some last-minute evidence. Lincoln, Michael and the lawyer babe cry and gasp. Lincoln asks Michael if he noticed that their father was in the room. Michael is shocked and explains that it's impossible; their dad ran out on them 30 years ago. Cut to the judge's chambers.
The judge is talking to Lincoln's lawyer and to the mean prosecutor guy who's in the Vice President's back pocket. The judge says that when he got to work he found an envelope in his office. In the envelope was the coroner's report of his autopsy of Terrence Steadman (the Vice-President's supposedly dead brother). The coroner's report says the victim's appendix was intact. There's also a doctor's note from Steadman's appendectomy at age 12. The lawyer babe realizes that if he had an appendectomy at age 12, and the murder victim had his appendix, then the murder victim couldn't have been Steadman. She asks the judge to release Lincoln immediately. The mean prosecutor guy claims that the information could be forged, that it came from an unidentified source, blah blah blah. The lawyer asks for a subpoena to dig up the hospital records from Steadman's appendectomy, but the judge says that the records are so old they'd be impossible to find, if they even existed. The lawyer asks to have Steadman's body exhumed. The mean prosecutor objects, but the judge allows it and grants Lincoln a two-week stay of execution. Cut to Michael's cell.
Michael and Sucre are talking about their escape plans. Michael is looking over his tattoos, trying to find another way out. He finds one, but tells Sucre "it's suicide." We eventually learn that they need to make their way through a maze of old pipes to a manhole in the middle of the exercise yard (in plain view of three guard towers), and then through the prison psychiatric ward (the "Whack Shack"). Needless to say, T-Bag and C-Note aren't happy about it, while Westmoreland maintains his "anything goes" attitude. Also during this time, Lincoln has dreams where he remembers going to a Cubs
clap: ) game with his dad back in The Day. The dad was a big fan of a relief pitcher named Prall. Well, one of the supposed journalists in the execution chamber used the name Prall. Lincoln concludes that it was indeed his father in the execution chamber.
Sucre scores a guard's uniform from his cousin in the laundry and Michael puts it on, then goes through the maze of pipes to make a trial run. He gets to the manhole and walks across the yard, and into the Whack Shack. The guard there doesn't recognize him, and since Michael's wearing a guard uniform, the Whack Shack guard lets him come inside. Michael makes up an excuse to walk through the Whack Shack and winds up looking around through the basement, where he finds a trapdoor of some kind. The Whack Shack guard sees him there and asks him what he's doing there. Michael talks his way out of it and starts making his way back to his cell. However, he almost gets caught by another guard, who's snuck back there to swig some Vodka. Michael leans up against a steam pipe and severly burns the uniform and his shoulder. Back at the cell, Sucre tears the uniform off of him, and his cousin takes the heat from the guard for the ruined uniform.
Steadman's body is exhumed, and the lawyer babe and her partner dude remark at how advanced the decomposition of the coffin is. Steadman wanted a bio-degradable coffin and no preservatives in his body; but the lawyer babe and her partner dude also realize that such advanced decomposition makes further research on the body very difficult. Cut to the warden's office.
Bellick accuses Sucre of assaulting Michael and threatens to throw him in the hold if he won't own up to it. Sucre pleads his innocence, and states that he believes that Michael probably had been burned before he returned to his cell. The warden believes Sucre's explanation. Cut to the infirmary. Michael is on painkillers and bandaged up. The doctor tells him that he's been burned severly and asks him what happened. Michael won't say, so she sends him back to his cell. With him gone, she inspects a bit of cloth that she pulled from his skin. She and an associate realize that the cloth came from a guard's uniform. Cut to the medical examiner's office.
The medical examiner remarks at how advanced the decomposition of the body, particularly the internal organs (including the appendix), is. He states that at this stage of decomposition the only way to identify the body is through dental records. Whaddyaknow, the dental records of the body and of Steadman are a perfect match. As they leave the office, dejected, the door opens and there's the Vice President. She says somthing like "I hope you're proud of what you're doing to my family" and wipes away a crocodile tear at the lawyer babe. Cut to the VP's office.
The VP is there with the Secret Service agent (the one who's still alive) and some woman we haven't seen before. The SS agent is standing and the woman is sitting. Anyway, the VP wants answers and wants them now, about how this information got to the judge in the first place, and why the lawyer babe is still alive. They review the tape from the courthouse and remark at how skillfully the guy with information that was taken to the judge avoided being conspicuous and yet hid his face from the camera all at the same time. However, they do manage to catch his reflection. The woman who was sitting says "I know that man!" As they leave, the VP stops the woman and scolds her, saying "the next time you address me, you'll show respect and stand." Cut to Michael's cell.
Michael takes off his bandages and sees that the part of his shoulder that had the map of the pipes has been burned away and grafted with new skin. Roll credits.
