S04E07

• Name: Five the Hard Way
• Air Date: October 6th, 2008
• Season: 4
• Number: 07
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It's Vegas, baby! Let's not even bother with small talk. Let's just jump right into this thing.....

We open with T-Bag tied to a chair. Ah....this does bring back memories of Season 2. Gretchen demands information from T-Bag as she holds the bird book. He summarizes the story of how he came to have the book and tells her that he assumed Whistler's fake identities, which are on the path to Scylla. He doesn't know what Scylla he, but he understands that the book and the fake identities are the key. Gretchen gets all happy with a knife, T-Bag's arm, and his crotch, when T-Bag agrees to team up with her.

Back at HQ, Self is lamenting the fact that cardholder #5 (Scuderi) has hopped on a flight out of town. Mahone argues that it will be very difficult to get close to Scuderi in LA and suggests that they follow Scuderi to.....Vegas, baby!

Self takes Mahone outside. He's scared shitless that Wyatt found him so easily and wants tips from Mahone on how to protect his ass. Mahone admits that the only criminal that ever got the best of him was Michael and he did so by ceasing to run and taking the fight to him. Could it also be that he was smarter than you, Mahone?

Back at Pad Man's office, he wonders whether Michael and Lincoln are working with the government. Pad Man orders Wyatt to kill Self and make it look like an accident. Wyatt uses this opportunity to get a raise and tells Pad Man his fee just doubled. God, you really gotta love those opportunistic hit men.

Trishanne from GATE calls Brad, offering to turn in T-Bag. He tells the rest of the group that she wants $2,000. Seriously? Last time Brad approached her, he was offering $10,000 and she's going to settle for $2,000? Who taught this girl how to negotiate? Michael quickly tells Linc to take Sucre, Sara and Roland to Vegas (baby!) while he, Mahone and Bellick will stay in LA to deal with T-Bag. On a side note, Sucre seems to be getting mighty sick of Roland talking and is using every possible opportunity to tell him to shut up. Michael cracks a joke, asking Sara to bring him Carrot Top's autograph. What is up with Michael? He's not prison breaking anymore so he suddenly develops a sense of humor?

Mahone and Michael are in a parking garage, waiting for Bellick's call. He does call and says she wants more money. He invites Michael and Mahone to join them.

Unfortunately, they walk into a trap: T-Bag's holding a gun on all of them now. Bellick really should have thought this was a set up when Trishann only asked for $2,000. Michael turns his head to the side and nearly rolls his eyes, as if saying to himself "breaking T-Bag out of Fox River is like the date from hell that just won't end". T-Bag bounds Michael and Mahone's hands and they all go off in a van. But not before Mahone performs some acrobatics, jumps off a wall and runs away.

Michael's now bound to a chair in T-Bag's fabulous apartment. T-Bag's reminiscing about their first meeting at Fox River and manages to reference Michael's ass in the first two seconds of that story. God, this is a good story. Michael demands to know what he wants, but T-Bag just wants revenge. Before he starts getting all murdery, T-Bag asks Michael to decode the pages from the bird book. He slaps Michael around a bit then demands that Michael tell him about Scylla. T-Bag releases Michael's hands and when he walks away, Michael reminds us that he's got an ankle monitor with a GPS chip.

We cut between Wyatt and Self. Self is looking through some files and pulls out one labeled "The Comrie Group" while Wyatt loads up his truck with all the stuff he needs to kill Self. Self is cornered in the parking garage by Mahone, who takes the tracker from Self. Mahone's on a mission to rescue Michael and Bellick. Seriously, what happened to Vegas, baby?!

Ah, here it is! The gang arrives at a casino and Linc bitches that Vegas isn't his town. Seriously? But it's Vegas, baby! Do you think Linc tried to rip off a casino or something and now he's banned from Vegas?

Roland, unfortunately, is recognized by a security guard at the casino. Ah, maybe Roland tried to rip off a casino.

Back in LA, Michael's putting together pages from the bird book like a puzzle. He asks T-Bag about GATE, but T-Bag wonders if Michael is just stalling. T-Bag grabs Trishanne, puts a gun to her head and tests Michael: how far gone is he? Does he even care if people get hurt anymore? Michael, baby, your coldness is freaking me out. What happened to the martyr we all knew? Gretchen, meanwhile, is hiding in the apartment, and spies Bellick's ankle monitor.

Michael capitulates and tells T-Bag that the pages form a blueprint. Before he can reveal more, Gretchen calls T-Bag into the bedroom. She wants more information about the ankle monitors, but refuses to reveal herself to Michael.

Outside, Mahone is closing in on the boys' location.

Back in Vegas, Sara's all dressed up. Her dress has this weird ruffled neck. Linc and Sucre are all dolled up too (yummy!). Sara tells Linc she's worried about the radio silence from Michael. Sara demands more information from Linc. He tells her that Michael and their mother had "the same mind". Apparently, Christine Scofield used to get nosebleeds as a kid, but they stopped. They started up again when she was in her 30s and led to a brain aneurysm. Sara puts two and two together and realizes that Michael may meet the same fate as his mother, who died at 31 (Michael just turned 31 too).

Sucre, meanwhile, is spying on Scuderi at the tables.

Mahone enters T-Bag's apartment with a gun to find that no one is there. The ankle monitors were detached and left behind. Mahone also finds an origami swan Michael left behind. It's a page from the bird book with the word "GATE".

At GATE, Gretchen approaches a man named Andrew.

T-Bag has Bellick, Trishanne and Michael tied up at Trishanne's place. He sees that Michael has put together the blueprint. Michael reveals that Scylla is inside GATE. He asks T-Bag if they can go on a little outing to GATE and tells him what Scylla is (bad move, Michael!). Michael lies and says he wants Scylla for the money and T-Bag relishes in their similarities.

Wyatt, meanwhile, arrives at Self's house. He enters with a gun to find the place cleaned out. He calls Pad Man to deliver the bad news. Pad Man, however, has a visitor: Self.

Sucre hands Linc the Black Hole and he goes to join Scuderi at the tables. Roland sends Linc a message that the device failed to get the Scylla info.

Gretchen greets T-Bag at Trishanne's house. She brought T-Bag a present: his former nosy co-worker, Andy, who is bound and gagged in her trunk.

Sara quickly realizes that the Black Hole is picking up on the information from the slots, so it's overloading. Sucre announces that Scuderi's out chilling by the pool and Linc guesses that the Scylla card is in Scuderi's room.

Self is ushered into Pad Man's office. Self delivers a file full of information about Berlin, Nigeria and the Comrie Group. Pad Man quickly dismisses these documents and denies involvement. Self says that he sent this information to five lawyers across the country, to be opened in case of his death. Looks like Self just bought himself a little life insurance for the cost of five stamps.

WOW! Pad Man is incredibly short in this scene. Like, seriously, totally short.

Now Andy is now tied to a chair with the other hostages. Gretchen wants him to sign a resignation letter to GATE's CEO, Mr. White. Gretchen quickly strangles Andy while Trishanne screams.

T-Bag takes Michael to his office at GATE. Michael enters the closet.

Sara's chilling in a bikini and starts chatting up Scuderi at the pool bar. She says that she's on a scavenger hunt for her cousin's bachelorette party and wants to take a picture in Scuderi's room (calling him a "whale", which in Vegas is a big player). Those scavenger hunts are awesome. I'm not even going to tell you the crazy shit I had to do for one in Halifax. Scuderi declines.

The bartender quickly reveals that Scuderi actually prefers his women to be men....Latin men, that is.

Back in the room, Sucre is not happy with his new role of playing a love interest for Scuderi, but he agrees.

Back at GATE, Michel's trying to figure out what's up with the closet. He quickly realizes that the way in is through the floor. He pulls up the carpet while T-Bag stares at his ass. Michael breaks through the tile to reveal a trap door. And T-Bag is still staring at his ass.

Michael opens the trap door to reveal a ladder and a dark room.

Back in Vegas, Sucre is setting up shop next to Scuderi's lounge chair. He slowly pulls off his shirt to show his rippling back muscles to Scuderi, who takes the bait and starts chatting him up. Scuderi quickly propositions him, offering him $1,000 to come up to his suite. Sucre looks totally grossed out.

T-Bag and Michael enter the tunnel under the floor and Michael doesn't want to help T-Bag anymore. T-Bag starts threatening Michael, but Mahone has snuck up behind him and smacks him good. They lock T-Bag in a room and wait for Self.

Scuderi is chatting Sucre up in his suite. We see that the Black Hole is sucking up the Scylla information. Scuderi quickly reveals that he was in the military and lost part of his groin, so he can't do the nasty with his hot wife anymore. Instead, he wants Sucre to do her. Sucre now looks a bit intrigued.

Sucre arrives back at the room and hands Roland the Black Hole. The group is leaving the casino when Roland takes a bathroom break. Actually, he uses the Black Hole to find a slot that's going to pay out. Casino security sees him playing.

Sucre goes back into the casino to find Roland and sees him being approached by security. Unfortunately, security takes the Black Hole.

Outside, Linc is pissed. Fortunately, Roland downloaded the Scylla information to his laptop. Unfortunately, it's going to take him a long time to build another Black Hole.

T-Bag's seriously pissed about being kept in the cage, while Self is with Mahone and Michael upstairs. He says that he's going to keep T-Bag in custody until this matter is sorted out. Michael reveals that Scylla isn't hidden under the floor, but that the tunnel is merely the beginning to finding the device to decode the cards. Looking at the blueprint, Michael explains that they have to follow the tunnel to another building, which just so happens to house Pad Man's office.

The boys leave GATE, but Michael wants them to have access to the building. Gretchen calls the boys and says that she's interested in Scylla. In and envelope is more pages from the bird book, but not enough to have access to all of the information contained in the book. Gretchen demands to see T-Bag before releasing more pages. Michael takes the phone and demands to know who she is. When she introduces herself, he quickly gets this look on his face that says "so we meet again, bitch who tortured my girlfriend".

Written by: Clarissa
clarissa@prisonbreakmanhunt.com

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