Surprisingly, Bellick shows some compassion and allows Veronica over the yellow line to hug Lincoln before he is taken into the chamber. As the governor hangs up, the Vice President appears behind him and tells him that his decision will not go unnoticed. After a tense minute, as Michael, Lincoln, Veronica and Sara exchange glances, the warden reveals that the execution will go ahead. Knowing that she couldn't convince her father any further, Sara tells him to review the information she just gave him and pretend that it didn't come from her.Īs the Warden and several guards walk with Lincoln to his execution, the governor calls. The governor promptly tells her that the inmates are trying to use her and that being strict on crime is what he was elected for. She then takes with her the information they gave her to ask her father, the Governor, to review Lincoln's case. Tancredi goes to speak with Veronica and Nick. Meanwhile, Nick and Veronica appeal to the judge for Lincoln's exoneration but is denied. Lincoln's final moment before he was scheduled to be executed They play a game of gin as Lincoln eats the blueberry pancakes he had requested as his final meal. Lincoln does not want to talk about the appeal and he tells Michael that the execution is going to happen. Michael gets final visitation with his brother. Later, the system works perfectly as Michael watches in horror as the lights flickers. The tech said they will have to make a report, but Bellick bullies him into just changing the fuse and forgetting the technical problem. Upon further check, they find a rat has short-circuited the chair. Bellick says they are even.īellick orders another check on the electric chair, and it fails. Tweener doesn't have it, but when Bellick charges him $100 for the hamburgers and other food, Tweener reveals the conversation between Michael and Westmoreland regarding the procedure of the chair. Tweener is dipping his french fries into a milkshake, just like Bellick. He goes into the tunnels, and with food as bait, captures a rat. Michael takes that as salvation rather than torture. It turns out that if there is a system failure of the electric chair, the inmate gets a three week reprieve when the system is being repaired.
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Westmoreland also expresses sorrow that his brother will have a few weeks of torture - the waiting for death is worse than death. Sucre and Westmoreland console Michael by telling him not to worry about them and that Lincoln would know about Michael trying to help him. He goes back in, but finds Westmoreland in the room, crouched down tying his shoelaces. He suddenly realizes that they were a member short. After insulting them, Bellick then instructs the guard to take them back to their cells. The others say they can't clean out the mold overnight. Westmoreland, being older, doesn't make the trip in time. After he leaves, the team sneaks back out to the guard's break room.Ĭaptain Bellick, about to go off shift, checks in on them. As the broken half of the pole drops to the floor, a guard hears the noise.
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After a futile attempt to break the newly replaced pipe, the pole that they were using to break the pipe snaps into two instead.
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The escape team realizes that Michael's plan has failed. The episode directly follows where the previous episode ends with the protagonist Michael Scofield's failed escape attempt and the impending execution of his brother, Lincoln Burrows. He’s still a guy you love to hate but his place in the broader mystery leaves you with another burning set of questions you’ll want to tune in for." The Rat" is the fourteenth episode of the first season of Prison Break and the fourteenth episode overall. It feels like the Prison Break of old, and no sooner do you get that feeling than when you see T-Bag. Honestly, if you had told me this was shot after season four, I’d totally believe you. While the other characters don’t get quite as much, everyone feels right at home. I always loved Michael more in the original series, but the new season has a real shot of Lincoln becoming the fan favourite. The other Prison Break characters do show up around the edges, but this premiere is very much Lincoln’s story and it’s damn compelling.
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Some fans will point out that the series has already done Lincoln trying to break Michael out of prison in season three, but the key difference here is that it actually works because the story is focused on Lincoln. There’s a scene in this episode that may be some of Purcell’s finest acting work to date and it’s all done without any dialogue. It’s kind of shocking after seeing him as a borderline cartoon character on Legends Of Tomorrow to be back in such a dramatic role, but it works. To do this, Michael isn’t in the premiere as much as some fans might like, but it totally works because Dominic Purcell carries the whole episode.