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Prison Break Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2007 - 2008
Episode 1
Orientación
Mon, Sep 17, 200743 mins
Michael is once again imprisoned, but now in SONA (Panama), together with T-Bag, Mahone and Bellick. The prison is solely ruled by inmates, whose local prison-lord Lechero feels threatened by Scofield's 'fame'. Lincoln tries legal means to get Michael transferred, and gets a call from a relative. Both receive the same message, through different channels, from The Company.
Episode 2
Fire/Water
Mon, Sep 24, 200744 mins
After Michael gets bad news from Lincoln, he sets out to find a prisoner named James Whistler, who holds the key to his freedom. That's easier said than done: James Whistler is hiding in Sona because there's a price on his head, and Lechero is not about to help Michael find him. In addition, both Mahone and Bellick want to get to Whistler too. Meanwhile, T-Bag won't allow a little humiliation stop him from insinuating himself into Lechero's good graces.
Episode 3
Call Waiting
Mon, Oct 1, 200743 mins
Lincoln is too worried about Michael and getting pictures of Sara and LJ to pay attention to desperately destitute Sucre. Michael gets no gratitude from the Sona crime king, Lechero. It may be up to Lincoln to get Whistler out, another ingrate who complains about the bird book Lincoln smartly held on to. Public defender Raul calls Mahone 'lucky' with a trial date in 12 months, and refuses to get him, the drug Veratril. Threatening to reveal T-Bag's sex-offences record suffices to make him help Michael get hold of Lechero's cellphone, so Michael can finally phone Sara, who confirms his worries about her and L.J. .
Episode 4
Good Fences
Mon, Oct 8, 200744 mins
Lincoln finds the content of the dreadful box left by Susan but he does not tell Michael during his daily visit. Michael asks Lincoln to contact the gravedigger. He meets with Susan, who tells him that they are just soldiers, from different armies. Michael distracts the paranoid Mahone, who is having hallucinations, asking him to get a black pen to forge some documents, and borrows the crucifix from McGrady. When there is a failure in the power supply to Sona, Lechero asks Michael to fix it. Lechero calls the Colonel and he and Michael go to work in the no man's land between the prison and the fence. Meanwhile Sofia visits Whistler and she presses him to disclose the break-out plan. She then seeks out Lincoln and tells him that she wants to help him. Lincoln tells Sofia and Sucre what happened to Sara and schedules a meeting with Sona's gravedigger, who asks for US$15,000.00. Bellick tries to approach to Michael and then he betrays him telling Lechero that Michael is plotting to escape from Sona. T-Bag kills Lechero's drug dealer, Nieves and he is invited by Lechero to work for him distributing drugs in Sona. T-Bag gives heroin to Mahone.
Episode 5
Interference
Mon, Oct 22, 200744 mins
A test with a rat proves the tower snipers are very good, so Michael figures the only option to breaking Whistler out within 24 hours has to be at 3 PM, during the distraction of soccer game. Sucre accepts $5,000 from Lechero's cousin, Augusto, to smuggle a package into Sona. Linc is to arrange transport outside, but he and Sofia get turned away roughly by an army patrol two miles away. He tells her Sara has already been killed. He keeps it from Michael, as LJ is his ultimate priority. New prisoner Andrew Tyge is robbed to his boxers on arrival, and recognizes Whistler (who denies it), mentioning the Ambassador, Nice in 1997. He is warned off by Mahone who has noticed Tyge snooping around Michael and Whistler. They plan an electric signal disturbance device to distract the guard tower. Before they can make a move, a reflection from the binoculars is spotted: the troops move in and find it in his cell. Michael admits it's his. When the commander is about to shoot him, Whistler claims it's his for bird-watching, and proves it showing the ornithology book (the one Linc couldn't hold on to).
Episode 6
Photo Finish
Mon, Nov 5, 200745 mins
Tyge tells Michael that he and Whistler were co-employees at the Ambassador, a hotel in Nice, France. Mahone worries about Tyge's constant, keen observance of Whistler. Having to re-plan hastily, Michael tells Linc to find out the location of the nearby cafe and drug the guard's coffee, and also demands pictures of LJ and Sara before he escapes. Tyge is stabbed to death. Lechero questions McGrady and has Whistler dragged away for a confession. Michael believes Mahone and Bellick's denials. T-Bag offers Michael a ring he stole from Sammy (his rival for Lechero's confidence), to use to frame Sammy for Tyge's stabbing. Michael finds the murder knife under Mahone's bed and goes to Lechero to denounce Mahone, only to find he has just walked out of the prison. Agents Richard Sullins and Felicia Lang arrive at Sona to present Mahone with a plea bargain from the US Justice: a term reduction to 8 years for testimony against the government conspiracy and Lincoln. He could be out in 4 years, but Mahone refuses, now he faces life imprisonment. Lechero administers justice for Tyge his own way. Linc and Sofia succeed in drugging Captain Hurtado, but Susan finds out the brothers had a different timing planned and threatens LJ's life. With no recent pictures available, Linc confesses Sara's death, causing Michael to make a drastic decision.
Episode 7
Vamonos
Mon, Nov 5, 200744 mins
Mahone is assured all he has to do is tell the truth, enjoying full immunity. Michael tells Whistler their row is part of a diversion, the escape is now or never, before the drug in the guard's coffee wears off. Just when the critical sun reflection blinds the other tower guard, they must wait and hide till Sammy has passed, but get through the cut bars. They climb down, but the glare disappears so they must climb back up as there is not enough time to escape. They get back in time and out to the courtyard, but Lechero refuses to allow them to cancel their duel to the death in the courtyard, which had been intended as a fake diversion. Sofia draws a gun on Lincoln to prevent him from turning Whistler over to killers. He retorts that's condemning an innocent L.J. to death. Guards wake the passed-out Captain Hurtado, see the climbing rope and storm into the prison. The Colonel shoots Papo, one of Lechero's crew, 'for not telling' and exposes his deal with Lechero, questioning if he's the right man for the job. Hearing the Sona siren, Linc flees by car and when Susan calls, he lies, telling her he has the 'escapees' in the trunk, but Pike, another company operative phones her: the roll-count was complete. Sucre stops her van by crashing into it, but even when Linc holds her at gun-point her accomplice won't trade L.J. He releases her and gets a short extension to find out what happened. Failing a hearing, Malone now believes Justice official Richard Sullins is setting him up to confess. Michael is dragged before Lechero, but not to be punished, he's ordered to take the fallen boss along when he and Whistler escape. Susan asks instructions from Whistler, he tells her - as Gretchen - to give the brothers four more days.
Episode 8
Bang and Burn
Mon, Nov 12, 200744 mins
Lincoln tells Michael that they have four more days to rescue Whistler, but Michael is upset with his brother that he used him. Gretchen has a meeting with General and they decide to use power to release Whistler in an operation called "Bang and Burn". Later she asks Whistler to kill Michael. In Sona, the guards reinforce the bars in the windows, and Michael tells Lechero that this way it will be difficult to break-out. Sammy requests more men to Lechero to keep Sona under control. Sofia receives a call from Whistler's mysterious landlord telling that he has some "insurance papers" from her boyfriend, however, the Company intercepts the conversation. When Sofia receives the documents, she finds a passport of Whistler in the name of Gary Miller. But Gretchen arrives and takes the documents. Mahone tells Agent Lang how he killed Shales and then high from the pills, asks her to get some drugs for him otherwise he will not be able to speak in the hearing. T-Bag gives a message from Lechero with the blueprint of his cell with a hidden door and an access code. Whistler is ready to stab Michael when Lechero arrives and he hides the knife. Michael asks McGrady to request his father to call Lincoln and give him a message: "Don't come home for dinner." Mahone fails in the hearing and is sent back to Sona. Lincoln, Sucre and Sofia are attacked by the Company's agents and the brothers realize that something is happening, i.e., the Company does not need them anymore. When the "Bang and Burn" Operation begins, Michael catches Whistler and Gretchen fails in her intent. General Zavala has Michael hauled in for questioning over the attempted breakout.
Episode 9
Boxed In
Mon, Jan 14, 200844 mins
After the helicopter fails to break out Whistler, Sona's new commander, General Zavala, decides to make Michael talk by putting him into a sun-exposed isolation hot-box. He promises to help in exchange for the truth, verifies the L.J. situation and is told it's about Whistler. Whistler, realizing the tunnel is a no-go without engineer Scofield, denies knowledge blatantly to Zavala and is threatened with torture, until he admits to collaborating with Michael, who convinces him to give up Susan/Gretchen's name. Meanwhile Lincoln, is given a short meet up with L.J. as motivation. Mahone is back in Sona, desperate without his drug. T-Bag and his allies are mainly concerned with Lechero's expected succession and another bare-knuckle fight, won by Bellick. Gretchen recruits Sucre as a double spy (or triple for Linc); then General Zavala arrests and tortures her. Only Whistler's admission makes her admit L.J.'s kidnapping and leads them there, but she manages to kill the General and escape. Michael and Whistler are returned to general population, Mahone and T-Bag join the tunnel escape party. Lechero's cousin Augusto, now calls on Sammy to open the package - a gun.
Episode 10
Dirt Nap
Mon, Jan 21, 200845 mins
Sammy reminds Lechero that Papo is dead and presses Lechero to kill Michael. Lechero replies that he also wants Michael dead, but he does not want an uprising in Sona. Mahone receives a picture of his son through the mail. Lechero, Michael, Mahone, Whistler and T-Bag inspect the hole in the tunnel and Michael requests a saw and hammer to support the tunnel. Sammy takes the over the reign of Sona with the pistol delivered by Augusto and other three gangsters and promises a box of bottles of rum for the inmate that kills Michael. T-Bag convinces Bellick to give the chicken foot to Sammy, promising him a spot on the escape team. When Bellick discovers that there is no more acetone, he unsuccessfully tries to call-off the fight. Meanwhile Lincoln and Sofia visits Osberto and buy a bomb. Sucre plants the bomb under the seat of Gretchen's car but she unravels that, saying she found Maricruz tracking the US$ 25,000.00 check she gave to him. Sammy leaves the fighting with Bellick to chase Michael, who is locked behind the door in the tunnel with Mahone. Sammy beats Whistler, who was left behind, trying to get the combination of the door. Michael removes a wedge from the hole and the tunnel collapses over Sammy, burying him, while Lechero and Mahone kill the three other gangsters. Sofia finds a wallet hidden in Whistler's bag.
Episode 11
Under & Out
Mon, Feb 4, 200842 mins
Michael concludes that they are behind schedule and they have twenty-four hours to dig a tunnel. However, when it begins to rain, he tells the gang that they must change the plans and break-out during the night since the tunnel will collapse. McGrady asks Michael to go with him, but he is in doubt whether he should escape with criminals like Lechero, T-Bag, Bellick and the mysterious Whistler. Michael believes he is paying for his sins in Sona. Later he confesses that he is tired of causes and consequences and invites McGrady to join the break-out team. Gretchen delivers the bomb planted in her car to Sucre. Sofia is kidnapped by Gretchen's men and she tortures her to get the coordinates from Whistler. Bellick tries to plot a betrayal with Mahone, but he refuses. Michael calls the customer service of the emergency generator's manufacturer and discovers that they have just thirty seconds lag to reach the fence in the darkness. T-Bag overhears the conversation between Michael and Whistler when he tells that surviving is not giving-up. Sucre sabotages the jeeps, but he is detained since there are issues in the records of his fake identity, Jorge Rivera. Whistler gives only half coordinates for the safety of Sofia, L.J., Michael and Lincoln. Lincoln hijacks a bus and crashes it against Sona's transformer initiating the blackout. Lechero, T-Bag and Bellick betray the rest of fugitives telling that they will be the first to leave.
Episode 12
Hell or High Water
Mon, Feb 11, 200842 mins
When Lechero, T-Bag and Bellick run to the fence, they are captured by the guards. However, this was Michael's real plan - to wait for the exact moment to leave the hideout with Whistler, Mahone and McGrady. When Bellick shows the guards tunnel, the quartet discreetly breaks-out Sona, meeting up with Lincoln on the beach. Panicked, Whistler notes that he lost the book with the coordinates. They use breathing apparatuses and swim underwater to a buoy, waiting for Sucre, who will not arrive. Cuffed to a file drawer in Sona, Sucre isn't going anywhere. But McGrady's father finds the boat moored in the marina and rescues the escapees. After thanking Michael for saving his life, McGrady leaves with his father. Lincoln and the fugitives are chased by Gretchen's men. However finding a GPS in Whistler's watch, they lure the gangsters in a shootout later. When Sucre is released in Sona, T-Bag sees him and discloses his identity to the guards. Meanwhile, Mahone says goodbye and Whistler escapes from Michael and Lincoln, leaving them with nothing for a negotiation with Gretchen.
Episode 13
The Art of the Deal
Mon, Feb 18, 200843 mins
Michael and Lincoln chase Whistler (who calls Gretchen) in the warehouse. However the brothers capture him and Michael schedules the exchange meeting in the public space Plaza de Francia. Gretchen invites him to join The Company, and he changes the spot to the lobby of the Museum of Antiques. Meanwhile, McGrady's truck is stopped for inspection in a police barrier and the policemen sees that the cargo is fertilizer; however, McGrady is hidden in a hideout in the cabin. Then his father drives to Acandi, Colombia, where he is welcomed by his family and friends with a party. T-Bag apparently protects Lechero and lures him telling that they may buy their freedom for US$ 50,000.00. When Lechero calls his prostitute to bring the money, he finds that this is actually T-Bag's plan to escape and the traitor kills him. Sucre is beaten and forced to dig his grave; he does not give any information about Michael, is buried alive and then brought to Sona, where he sees T-Bag. When Gretchen arrives at the museum, she finds that there is metal detector on the entrance. She leaves the armed agents at the exits to kill Michael and Lincoln. They trade LJ per Whistler, and Sofia asks Whistler for the coordinates; they discover that there is no coordinates. Sofia leaves Whistler while Michael breaks a window and the security alarm sounds, and they walk together to the exit. There is a shootout, Sofia is wounded and LJ stays with her. Michael has the chance to kill Gretchen, but he hesitates and she escapes. T-Bag gets part of Lechero's money, makes a speech to the inmates telling that they are all equal and distributes the money. LJ gives Sara's origami to Michael and tells him that Sofia has something that belongs to Whistler in her apartment; he goes there with Lincoln, finds a file of Jason Lief and he splits and say goodbye to Lincoln telling that he must chase Gretchen. Meanwhile, Whistler meets Mahone in a bar and together with Gretchen, they leave the place as a team.
