Prison Break - Martin BALQUET

I chose to look at the series « Prison Break » because the fifth and last season goes out in April, 2017. I looked at this series when I was in the middle school(A bit of nostalgia ), she passed on M6 but I could never look at the episodes entirely because my parents told me to go to sleep (what was normal in view of my age). I think that it is the convenient moment to look at the first 4 seasons before the release of the fifth.

At the beginning of the episode, we get acquainted with Michael Scofield, glittering engineer in civil engineering, suffering from confusion emotional person, with an exceptional IQ. He commits a hold-up in a Bank to be imprisoned in the same prison as his brother Lincoln Burrows, the person sentenced to death for the murder of the brother of the vice-president of the United States of America. Michael is convinced of Lincoln's innocence, and possesses the plans of the prison tattooed on the body, renovation work of which had partially been entrusted to him previously. He finalized a plan of escape rooms of which he adjusts little by little. Scofield is been thought of as diabetic to have a daily access to the infirmary which would be the most fragile place in terms of security. He meets Sara Tancredi, prison doctor and daughter of the governor of the State there. An ex-fiancée of Lincoln, Lisa Rix, is given custody of their son L.J, who is stopped(arrested) in possession of drug. The lawyer of Michael and ex-fiancée of Lincoln, Veronica Donovan, suspects what her client prepares.

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In this third episode, Veronica, the lawyer who tries to find the truth in the affair of "Burrows", manages to convince the young woman to give evidence, but secret services are going to put in her the hand above. In prison, Michael tests successfully Sucre, his fellow inmate, to know if he can trust him, but Sucre refuses to participate in the escape and is transferred in another cell. Scofield has a new fellow inmate: Haywire, he suffers from psychiatric problems, what prevents him from sleeping. So, the progress of the plan is blocked because Scofield can’t dig. Abruzzi cut to him two toes to make him speak about Fibonacci, unsuccessfully; he decides to cooperate and to help him in his plan in exchange for the information which Scofield will have to deliver him in time. Sucre, on his side, has doubts on the stability of the feelings of his partner Maricruz who does not answer her mobile and who is often with another man.

I noticed that throughout this third episode, there is a paradox between this sure of himself character who has a plan of escape complete and the results which he obtains. All the elements of his plan escape him. However, at least a part of the plan is back to normal again: the relation with Abruzzi is now positive, what is going to allow him to have a plane when it is going to escape to run away.

I had a question for the next episodes, do I have to say prison or jail?
Thank you in advance for your answer, enjoy !

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In this episode, Veronica decides to become the lawyer of Lincoln Burrows and looks of the help to restore the truth. The agents of secret services want to get rid of her and discover that Scofield is in the same prison as his brother. They suspect him to prepare something against them. In prison, the plan of Scofield is blocked by the attitude of his new fellow inmate, having psychiatric problems. Scofield feigned an aggression from him so that he is transferred. Simultaneously to the main intrigue, Sucre, the former fellow inmate of Michael, learns that Maricruz, his partner, goes out with Hector. He decides then not to wait these 16 remaining months of detention and to return in Michael's cell to escape by his side. We discover during this fourth episode that one of Michael's tattoos is an anagram of a chemical formula « cute poison » which he is going to prepare in secret to pour her into sewers for his plan of escape.
Contrary to the previous episode, there are many positive points for Michael in this episode, several things seem to be back to normal again as the return of Sucre in his cell and the first stage of his escape with the distribution of " cute poison " in sewers to go out of his cell.

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During this fifth episode, the agents of Secret services, Kellerman and Drags, maneuver to make transfer Scofield so that he cannot escape with Lincoln. A first blackmail against the director fails, they try again and kink the director. With this certain transfer, the plan of Scofield falls through. Veronica managed to join with a lawyer grieving specialist of death, and together they discover that the video cassette is forged. In prison, Scofield ended the hole in his cell and can come and go in the hidden recesses of the prison; he uses it to identify which street is not borrowed by the police to reach the prison, among three roads which lead (English, Percy and Fitz) there. During the counting of the prisoners, he runs away from his cell by this hole to activate an alert, thanks to it, he was able to notice that Street Fitz was not borrowed by the police. At the end of the episode, the sponsor of the plot against Lincoln Burrows, whose face we don’t see yet, asks the agents Kellerman and Drags not to waste time anymore by making kill Lincoln in prison.

I look forward to seeing the next episode because I have the impression that we get closer to the escape but I am afraid for Lincoln who runs a great danger.

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In this sixth episode, given that Scofield and Sucre are ceaselessly disturbed by the tours of counting of the guards, the digging of the tunnel falls behind. Both prisoners feel that the situation escapes them and Burrows is always under the threat of an assasinat. Scofield sabotages the system of ventilation to create a general alert, and thus delete the tours of calls in every cell. Veronica and his partner discover that one of the elements of the case of accusation (the source of the anonymous call) is falsified and that the track must have gone back up to Washington. In the block, the situation degenerates into a riot which spreads in all the wing of the building where a guard is taken hostage. At the same time, the sicks rebel in the infirmary, putting doctor Tancredi in great danger. In the fight, T-Bag and the guard whom he took hostage enter the cell of Scofield and Sucre and discover the hole in the wall. T-Bag thus decides to be a member of the escape and wants to kill the guard to avoid that he speaks. Perceiving on the monitor screen Sara Tancredi in dangerous posture, Scofield leaves saving her by rising on the roof of the prison.

This episode leaves us with an endless suspense because we don’t know if Sara is going to take out there knowing that the door is soon going to give in.

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During this seventh episode, Michaël and Sucre take advantage of the riot to drill a thick wall, somewhere under the prison. Sucre works him with a drill gone up on a drummer to eggs. The riot rages. The governor lands to the prison, knowing his daughter in danger. Scofield, Sucre and Abruzzi do everything to keep the guard alive, but Michael can’t stay, because he wants to save Sara. He sneaks up in space - toilets over false ceilings up to the infirmary where she was strongly threatened. He manages to take out her of the infirmary where she was threatened, but they are not saved for all that because they have to join an exit. Meanwhile, the man who was committed to kill Burrows brings down him in a trap. Burrows manages to take out there by killing this man. Sucre and Abruzzi succeed in drilling the wall, Sara is saved, but the guard held by the band makes murdered by T-Bag in spite of the bans on others.

By leaving to save Sara, Michael takes the risk of losing everything, because his plan takes place in perfection, leaving Sucre and Abruzzi with problems which exceed them. This behavior is unusual on behalf of Michael, I hope that the episodes which will follow will give explanations on this matter, why made director this choice by changing the behavior of the central figure which usually, follows carefully his plan. I also noticed that with Sara's rescue by Michael, both characters get closer, there is a real progress in their relation.

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We discover in this episode that the room of storage by where they had to cross as escaping was converted in premises of the guards, and the purpose of the episode is to enter it to drill an access to the buried pipes. The director of the prison and the captain struggle to find who killed Bob, the guard taken hostage and killed during the riot. Several episodes previously, leader of the conspirators had given the order to kill Veronica. She is still threatened in the previous episode, this time they really take action. Having threatened Burrows, they also send the cleaners at his son L.J ., the agents of secret services are going to kill the stepfather as well as the mother of L.J, he is going to manage to run away. We perceive towards the end of the episode that he had time to take a photo, with his mobile phone, of one of the cleaners possesion of a weapon.

It’s at the end this eighth episode on which the director decides to reveal us the identity of the leader of the plot, it’s about the vice-president of the United States.

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At the beginning of the episode, we learn that the partners of Abruzzi outside don’t trust him any more and indicated another prisoner to be a leader of the gang. They removed him his funds, what prevents him from paying Bellick to keep his privileges. He has to find his ways, otherwise he loses the management of the prison works, and they can’t drill any more the room. Veronica and Nick hid in an isolated hut of everything, Kellerman and Hale, the agents of secret services, consider them dead. LJ has secret services on his heels: they pursue him thanks to the mobile phone, and discover to the passage that Veronica and Nick are still alive, and where they hide. In the previous episode, Kellerman and Hale lied to the vice-president by telling her that LJ had been arrested, but they get ready to put the hand on him as well as Veronica and Nick.

We learn finally how Scofield can allow to set up plans so complex, and to realize them: he is subject to a psychiatric disorder which, associated with a strong IQ, gives him the outstanding capacity to master a quantity astronomical of information in record time. Another psychiatric disorder bound to the death of his two parents made a pathological rescuer: he can’t refrain from going to help and to save somebody in danger, in defiance of his own person. I asked myself the question at the end of the episode 7 saying that he had an unusual behavior, this pathology explains everything, he had taken the risk of releasing his plan of escape during the riot to save Sara because he couldn’t refrain from it.

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During this episode, Kellerman and Hale having let escape LJ, Veronica and Nick, the vice-president sends them Quinn, another cleaner who gives them a first lesson. Abruzzi lost the direction of his gang and the prison work (T.P) and he convinces Scofield that the only solution is to give Fibonacci, so that he finds the support of Falzone; Fibonacci is not however an ex-mafioso, but an innocent father, and Scofield has difficulty in resolving to sacrifice him. Another prisoner, C-note, gets ready to discover the plan of escape. Veronica investigates for her part the financial side of the affair around Steadman; she connects in Internet since the hut, but she is spotted by Quinn.

Beautiful match on behalf of foxes, madness continues!

Good week !

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In this eleventh episode, the wife of Scofield visits him, to the general surprise. She brings him in secret a credit card, which is in fact a concealed magnetic card. Scofield sneaks up to the lockers of personal effects, where he gets back what he had with him during the arrest, of which of the electronic equipment. But his watch is missing and he needs it for his plan. He commits a prisoner, nicknamed the Acrobat, to resume her to the guard who stole her, in exchange for his possible integration to the team of prison work. Westmoreland, suddenly needing to escape to see his dying daughter, admit to Scofield that he is D.B. Cooper, proves him and asks to be a member of the escape in exchange for a part of his saving. With this newcomer, the number of prisoners decided to escape passes for seven (Scofield, Burrows, Sucre, Abruzzi, T-Bag, C-Note and Westmoreland). Quinn, a secret agent of the Cartel, found the hut and takes control of the situation. He hurts seriously Nick and lashes Veronica and L.J.. He wants to know what they discovered during their investigation. Sara is jealous by discovering that Michael is married and distances herself from him by announcing him that their relation will be purely professional from now on. Bellick investigates as for him into the woman of Scofield. The escape is then planned in four days.

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In the previous episode, Scofield came to the conclusion there that they were too numerous but the other members of the escape learnt him. The tension rises then: each wonders who is going to be ruled out. T-Bag and C-Note is the most likely; T-Bag confides the secret of the escape to his cousin Jimmy, who is not in prison, with instruction to tell everything to the director of prison if something arrives at him. Abruzzi takes the affair in hand by eliminating the cousin and by finalizing the elimination of T-Bag. Nevertheless, the sense of guilt which lives in Abruzzi urges him to save the life of T-Bag. This one takes advantage of it to hurt him seriously. The team has again a compatible dimension with the plan of escape. Véronica, LJ and Savrinn escapes Quinn and abandon him at the bottom of the well near the hut. Quinn is not helped by Kellerman and Hale who abandon him having made sure that he does not have resource anymore. LJ and Veronica take Savrinn hurt at the hospital. From there, LJ leaves attending the funeral of her mother under the discreet surveillance of Hale. Moved by the sorrow of the teenager, Hale leash leave and call Veronica to the hospital by telling her that he has information which could help her to acquit Lincoln Burrows. Scofield succeeds in solving his last problem of tunnel; they can escape this evening. But by trying to prevent a guard from seeing the hole dug in the room of break, Burrows is taken in isolation.

I look forward to seeing the next episode because Scofield has just revealed at the end some episode when they escaped during evening except that he will never leave without Lincoln. All the elements are gathered so that C-Note and Sucre try to escape for two, hoping that they don’t make a success.

See you tomorrow !

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At the beginning of the episode, we see that the murder attempt on T-Bag failed and it is Abruzzi who is in a critical state. He is evacuated in emergency medical helicopter. At the same time, to have struck a guard to protect the tunnel, Burrows is sent to the isolation. Others decide to escape all the same in the big despair of Scofield. Finally, he finds a way to maintain the plan: C-Note takes care with finding accomplices for the evacuation, Scofield sends a pastille to Burrows whom he will swallow at the convenient moment to be sent to the infirmary, on the road of the escape where the others are going to take him. Hale turns his jacket and decides to tell everything to Veronica before running away. Veronica, on the basis of this promise goes towards the media and towards the court to denounce the plot. In the evening, she goes to the meeting with Hale to get back the proofs, whereas the escape begins. Afterward, Kellerman arrives instead of meeting of Hale and Veronica and kills Hale by discovering that the latter was revealing quite the truth. Finally, the escape turns out badly, the pipe damaged by Scofield (by means of its chemical formula at the beginning of its plan) was changed. The team can't reach the infirmary to find Burrows and so escape.

Great weekend !