Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Whoever had "burn" in the office pool wins
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.26.2006
Back in Michael's cell, he standing with his back to a mirror, Sucre's holding up another mirror, and Michael's explaining that he's busy looking for another way out of the prison. Sucre asks if he knows all the plans, and Michael smirks that "memorizing [the prison layout] would be like memorizing a phone book." Sucre asks why they don't just lather, rinse, and repeat, and Michael replies, "Contingencies." Sucre repeats, "Contingencies? Are you saying you found another way?" Michael says, "Maybe?" Still playing exposition fairy, Sucre prods, "What do you mean, 'maybe'?" Michael explains, "There's always been another way, but it's suicide."
And with that supremely unhelpful quip, we transition over to Team Escarpara, working PI in the yard during some snow flurries. Sucre comments on how cold he is, and C-Note says, "You know what they say about weather in the Midwest. If you don't like it, wait an hour." Heh. I've heard that about Virginia too. And out here, I've heard people quip, "You don't like the weather in the Bay Area? Drive an hour." As the team works, Michael explains, "We're still going out through the infirmary, we're still going to do it through the guard room. It's what's in-between that's going to have to change." C-Note would like to know why because "all we got to do is get through that pipe and we're home free." Michael snots, "There's a reason they replaced it with a twelve-inch pipe, Darwin. People can't get through it. The only way we're getting into that infirmary is from beneath. We're going to have to find another way." Westmoreland catches on first, after a fortuitous glance at a building reading "FOX RIVER ASYLUM." "The psych ward!" he says. Michael tells him it's the only building that shares a sub-surface line with the infirmary. T-Bag asks, "You're telling me, to get to the infirmary, we gotta go through the Whack Shack?" I suppose, for him, that first word has different connotations. Westmoreland wants to make sure he's got all this: "And there's a sub-surface line that runs from the guards' room to the psych ward?" Michael sighs, "Sort of." C-Note's all, "Elaborate, please." Michael explains, "We can go in through that hole in the guards' room. About forty yards up Rt. 66, there's a grate, and that'll get us halfway there." C-Note asks about the rest of the way, and Michael says they'll have to do it above ground. C-Note says incredulously, "Oh, so just a bunch of cons taking a stroll in the middle of the night for all the guards to see." Michael's all, "Yep." Sucre says, "You're right -- it is suicide."