Prison Break Season One

Pilot
Michael Scofield, a structural engineer, attempts to rob a bank in order to get incarcerated at Fox River State Penitentiary, where his brother Lincoln Burrows, accused of murdering the Vice President's brother, is scheduled to be executed. At Fox River, Michael approaches a number of inmates, all of whom play an important role in his plan to free his brother from the inside. Meanwhile, agents Kellerman and Hale are determined to make sure the execution goes through as planned. Lincoln's son LJ gets into trouble.
Allen
Trouble is inevitable in the prison, with a race riot imminent. Michael has problems retrieving a screw from the bleachers. Veronica receives a security tape that shows Lincoln shooting Terrence Steadman. Michael seeks help of his fellow prison inhabitants to execute his escape plans.
Cell Test
Two steps forward and one step back. Michael gets Abruzzi on his side and proves Sucre's trustworthiness, but then loses a valuable piece of his plan. When Michael reveals his escape plan to Sucre, Sucre chooses to be no part of it, and requests a cell transfer. Michael gets a new cellmate called Haywire.
Cute Poison
Michael gets more of the tools and people he needs, but someone very high up has taken notice and started wondering what he's up to. Veronica keeps uncovering new information regarding Lincoln's case and decides she wants to work on the case full-time. When no one wants to help her on the case, Nick Savrinn (an attorney) offers his assistance and the two of them visit Lincoln.
English, Fitz or Percy
Michael gains a necessary piece of information to effect his escape, but can he keep the Warden from kicking him out? Kellerman and Hale blackmail Warden Pope. Michael finds out he might get out earlier than anticipated. Veronica becomes uncertain of her allies.
Riots, Drills and the Devil: Part 1
Michael's idea to get more drilling time by provoking a lock-down backfires horribly. Michael creates a lockdown by sabotaging the air conditioning in order to execute his breakout plan properly, and unintentionally causes a riot that gets Sara into huge trouble. Meanwhile, an ex-con is blackmailed into seeing to that Lincoln is killed.
Riots, Drills and the Devil: Part 2
Michael saves Dr. Tancredi from the rioting prisoners, but Lincoln and Veronica are in need of their own rescue. While the riot intensifies, Abruzzi and Sucre join forces. Michael must decide whether or not to save the life of Dr. Tancredi.
The Old Head
Veronica and LJ must go into hiding, while Michael unwittingly provides Westmoreland's motivation to aid the escape. Michael finds out a storeroom fundamental to his escape plans has been converted into a break room. Veronica and Nick are being threatened, where Nick has a place where they can go which is off the radar of the secret service.
Tweener
With Abruzzi becoming more desperate to regain authority within the prison, it seems that Fibonacci's number is up. Abruzzi's demotion in the prison hierachy puts the entire escape plan at risk. Michael finds himself in the uneviable position of trying to protect T-Bag's new "fish" and facing the threat of T-Bag exposing the plan to the guards. The inmates dig themselves into a hole.
Sleight of Hand
Michael hands over an address to Falzone, allowing work to resume on the tunnel. Meanwhile, the VP enlists the help of a dangerous specialist. Abruzzi struggles to get his crew back to PI. He tries to convince Michael to reveal Fibonacci's whereabouts to Falzone. Agents Kellerman and Hale receive some professional help for their search, as the vice president isn't satisfied about their progress so far. An inmate becomes suspicious of the escapees' work at the break room. Steadman's money trail leads Veronica and Nick to a surprising discovery.
And Then There Were 7
Michael gets a visit from his wife, while Veronica and Nick get a visit from Quinn. Michael gets a visit from his wife, much to everyone's surprise. She brings him what appears to be a credit card, but is in fact something entirely different. Bellick does some research after seeing Michael's wife, whom he thinks looks oddly familiar. Michael learns that his watch has been stolen by a guard, and he must enlist the help of an inmate in order to get it back. In the woods, Veronica, LJ and Nick are threatened by Quinn, who is determined to find out who else knows about the conspiracy.
Odd Man Out
Westmoreland wants in after getting bad news from his family, while Quinn learns who his friends really aren't. After learning all the escapees can't make it over the prison wall, the group decides to get rid of T-Bag. T-Bag has a plan of his own that doesn't involve him staying inside. His "insurance", however, is too obvious for Abruzzi, who takes action to undermine it. Sucre gets some good news from Maricruz. Abruzzi's operation goes wrong, and he turns to God for help. He pulls himself together as he takes on T-Bag.

End of the Tunnel
The escape is about to go through when the team hits a stainless steel snag, while Veronica is just a moment too late to get all the information she needs to prove Lincoln's innocence. A bleeding Abruzzi is transported to a hospital. With Lincoln's execution scheduled for the following day, Veronica comes out of hiding to contact him and gains an ally. Kellerman makes the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the conspiracy. Michael looks for a way to get Lincoln out of solitary confinement in time for the escape that evening. The PI crew gets a prolonged stay in the break room they're renovating as they prepare to attempt their escape.
The Rat
With the pipe to the infirmary replaced and Lincoln's life hanging in the balance, Michael must rethink his plan to escape and save his brother's life. A fellow inmate may hold the key to preventing Lincoln's execution. Michael and the other prisoners attempt to return to their cells without being detected. A C.O. becomes suspicious about a broken pipe. At the same time, Veronica and Nick request a judge to postpone Lincoln's execution. Sara requests her dad, the governor, to review Lincoln's case. Michael tries to put a stay in the execution by fiddling with the chair's wirings.
By the Skin and the Teeth
Michael's plan to escape has failed. While Lincoln is strapped to the electric chair, he sees an oddly familiar face in the crowd. Is there one last hope to save Lincoln's life, or has his journey reached an end? As Lincoln is about to be executed, he briefly sees his father in the viewing room. A phone call from judge Kessler delays the execution. After reviewing the newly surfaced evidence, the judge orders the exhumation of Steadman's body. Michael creates a new, more dangerous, break-out plan, involving going through the prison yard. An accident puts Michael's new plan in danger.
Brother's Keeper
Flashbacks provide exposition on how the inmates arrived at Fox River Penitentiary from The Company's framing of Lincoln to the creation of Michael's plan to save his brother's life. Flashbacks shed light on the past actions that led to the incarceration of Lincoln, Sucre, T-Bag and C-Note. Basis of Michael's ingenious break-out plan are revealed. Dr. Tancredi recalls how she ended up in Fox River State Penitentiary.
J-Cat
Because of the difficulties involving the now incomplete tattoo, Michael must find a way to remember what passages were on the burnt part of his skin. As if troubles weren't already the first priority to rid the crew of, Tweener is assigned by Bellick to snitch on them, though they try to exclude him from the plans as much as possible. Another additional problem is formed when Michael is questioned by Pope, because of the guard uniform fabric found in his burn at the time of treatment, which Pope believes might be evidence of abuse by the guards. Michael refuses to tell him where it was from, landing him in solitary confinement, where he finds out he can communicate with Lincoln a few doors down. There, he began to lose hope, but rips up part of his shirt in order to lay out the blueprints that had been on his burnt skin. Meanwhile, LJ was planning the murder of Agent Kellerman, having being left at home alone, with the possession of a gun. He had found the location of the house through the Internet, and immediately toted the handgun and rode a taxi to the location. Finding the house empty, he enters through the back door, breaking the glass as an elderly lady on the second floor balcony of the building beside it looks on, and she calls the police. LJ scopes around, looking at letters and an insane amount of Buffalo jerky, when Kellerman arrives back home. As Kellerman casually checks his mail, LJ yells at him at gunpoint, eventually wounding him around his neck, threatening to kill him as Kellerman babbled on about how LJ was "not a murderer." The police arrive and make him drop the gun, and he is sent to jail, with Kellerman making up a story about being a random target of LJ's madness. Back at Fox River, the inmates find out from one of the guards that the carpet in the break room is going to be replaced by professionals. If this were to happen, the "professionals" would discover the escape hole. Even worse, another guard comes in and orders the PI to do yard work, making it impossible for them to fill in the hole. Michael promises that he will sneak into the room at night and do it but when his is sent to solitary the other inmates urge Sucre to do it (as he is the only one with access to the outside via the toilet). Sucre sneaks out at night and succeeds, but is caught when he attempts to run across the prison yard; he is sent to solitary confinement as well. Right about this time, Michael becomes unresponsive when called on by his brother and Sucre, so a guard is sent to check it out and discovers Michael in a trance, hand bleeding. Doctors are called in, and it is Sara who treats him. He is lead out of the confinements by her and put into the psych ward because of suspected trauma due to the cell that had affected him mentally. Michael is reunited with his temporary cell mate, Haywire, whom he had thought would help him remember the missing tattoo designs. Unfortunately, the first words to escape from Haywire's mouth is, "Who are you?" corrected by Guiaca.
Bluff
Transferred to psych ward for his catatonic behavior in solitary, Michael seeks out Haywire to make him sketch part of the map which was burned off Michael's back. Haywire, who has been taking his meds, does not remember Michael. Forcing him to vomit up the pills, Michael shows Haywire the tattoo he was previously fascinated with. Veronica tells Lincoln that L.J. is being charged with murdering his mother and stepfather. Linc asks Veronica to help him see his son, but she thinks it's not likely to happen. With his head cleared of the medications, Haywire recalls Michael and his tattoos as well as the fact that Michael tricked him. Haywire sketches the tattoo but won't give the map to Michael until he explains the "path." Michael shows him the "path" on the map, and Haywire turns over his sketch. That evening Haywire follows Michael's "path"--only to find himself deceived again when he is caught by the guards. Bellick and Geary decide to auction Michael and Sucre's cell to the highest bidder since both of them have been removed from "gen pop." C-Note enters the auction, promising $500, which he needs to collect from his buddies. When he tries to get his money, C-Note is beaten and told he is a traitor for hanging with the Caucasian inmates. T-Bag tells C-Note they must enter a poker game known as the "kitchen game" and cheat to get the money for the cell. They team up and get the money from the game. When C-Note speaks to Geary about the transaction, Geary ups the ante demanding more money. C-Note asks Westmoreland for his pocket watch, which he reluctantly gives up. Handing over the money and watch to Geary, C-Note is betrayed as the cell was already sold for $700. Dr. Sara Tancredi visits Michael in psych ward. They both know he doesn't belong there, but if Michael doesn't tell Warden Pope who burned him then he'll go back to solitary. Manche, Sucre and Lincoln devise a plan for Manche to put the burned uniform in Geary's locker and then Michael will tell Pope that Geary was the responsible party. So Michael accuses Geary, who is fired after Pope finds the burned uniform, the cash and the watch. Michael is released from psych ward, returns to his cell, and give Westmoreland his watch back. In Chicago, a man approaches Nick and tells him that he must abide by their deal and report on the Burrows case and Veronica's whereabouts. Kellerman meets with the Vice President and they agree that Linc needs to be eliminated. The court grants Lincoln the right to visit L.J. He travels via van with armed guards when a towing truck purposefully hits the van tossing the occupants around in the van.

The Key
While in transit to see LJ, a truck crashes into the van carrying Lincoln and it sends him rolling from the vehicle. Agent Kellerman arrives at the scene and tries to smother Lincoln, but his father, Aldo Burroughs, rescues him just in time. Aldo removes Linc from the scene of the accident and informs him that everything that has happened to Lincoln is Aldo's fault and The Company is the reason he left his family. Years ago, Aldo was employed by The Company but he left their employ so he could rise the ranks. After he left, Aldo leaked information about Terrance Steadman's dirty dealings. The Company framed Lincoln as an attempt to draw out Aldo. Because of all of the heartache caused by his father's actions, Lincoln finds it difficult to forgive him. Agent Kellerman quickly locates Aldo and Lincoln in the junkyard, just as Captain Bellick arrives. Lincoln voluntarily gives himself up to Bellick and is returned to Fox River and placed under twenty-four hour surveillance. John Abruzzi returns to Fox River following his hospital stay after he was sliced open by T-Bag. He claims to have become religious while recovering and offers a truce to T-Bag. As T-Bag is about to cut Abruzzi again, C-Note stops him and tells him that Abruzzi is their ticket out of Fox River. Abruzzi contacts Nick and reminds him of their deal. To complete his escape plan, Michael needs a copy of the key to the infirmary. Michael asks Tweener for another favor: a bump and swipe to grab Sara's keys. Tweener says that in return he wants Michael to kill Avocado, his cell mate who has been brutally raping him. Michael refuses Tweener's request. Tweener begs Bellick to find him a new cell, but the Captain ignores him. Later on back in their cell, Tweener takes a razor blade and cuts Avocado's genitalia. Michael tries to steal the keys from Dr. Sara Tancredi by distracting her with a kiss. When he cannot do it, he calls his mail-order bride who meets with Sara and snatches her keys. Sara figures out the plot and has all the locks re-keyed. Nick and Veronica have the cell phone LJ stole from Quinn. They notice a number of calls originating from Blackfoot, Montana. Michael asks Tweener if he can trust him. Tweener again turns to Bellick for future protection from Avocado. Bellick demands to know what Michael is up to, and Tweener blurts out that, "Scofield and his whole P.I. crew...they're escaping." Bellick tears up the guard's break room and find the hole in the floor.
Tonight
Westmoreland uses Bellick to plug a hole in the escape plan, which forces Michael to move up the breakout timetable. A fearful Tweener pledges his loyalty to Michael and in return may get out of jail for free; Michael feels that he has no choice but to involve Sara in the plan and must betray his father figure; and Veronica finds her life in jeopardy from her closest ally, who has a surprising connection to a Fox River inmate.
Go
Dr. Sarah questions if she should leave a light on and the door open for Michael, who must betray the Pope in order to carry out his escape plan. Veronica finds evidence that points her to Montana, but realizes that her closest ally may actually be her greatest enemy. Michael, Lincoln and the other inmates make a break for it, but after the alarm is sounded, find out who will make it over the wall, who will be left behind and who will leave the prison in a body bag.
Flight
As the escape continues, lives are lost and Pope and Bellick do everything in their power to capture the convicts. As the escape is in progress, Warden Pope and Captain Bellick begin a search to detain the escapees. Michael and co. have to reach the aircraft fast as the police is hot on their heels. Veronica discovers a major piece of evidence that could prove Lincoln's innocence. The Vice President is worried about losing her authority.