Episode 32
The accident looks horrible. A Truck has hit the transportation –van . The drivers of both cars are obviously dead.
When Michael opens his eyes , he needs to wipe some blood , which is running down his face from a wound on his forehead away. It takes a moment before he is fully awaked. He tries to get up, but the chain holds him back. He tries to break free, but there is no chance. Michael looks around. The Sanders and the other guard are not in the van anymore. He can smell gasoline in the air. Than he hears Sanders voice:
" Yes Sir. It was an accident. A truck hits the van and at the moment we are still alone here. "
Michael tries to go a bit closer , to hear the other person.
He is shaking his head .
"This must be a phone call he is thinking."
"Scofield seems to be alive, but gasoline is all over here. All I need to do is burn it and he is finished. He is chained on the seat."
Michael feel the blood rushing trough his veins.
"This bastard will kill him this damn easy and no one will know. This couldn't be the end . " he is thinking.
Michael doesn't feel the pain he has in this moment , he only wants to go out of this car.
"OK Sir. Done!" he hear Sanders saying .
Sanders opens the backdoor of the van. When he got the OK from Downey he can't resist to smile into Michael's face before turn his light out .
"Scofield, I'm sorry but I guess this is it for you! Some last words for your loved ones?"
he says with an evil grin in his face, when he takes the matches out of his pocket.
* * *
John comes out of the bathroom. His shoulder still hurts as hell but tomorrow. Michaels trial will start and it will take a while to go to Dallas.
In the living room he can hear Carolyn and Lisa talk.
"Don't make the same mistake I made Lisa. Maybe glory and power are great for a while, but at the end you standing alone. " Carolyn says to Lisa.
"Why you are interested in Michaels case Carolyn? Really regretting you're part in this whole mess?" Lisa is asking, still not sure if Carolyn really wants to help her brothers.
Carolyn can see the doubts.
"I want help them and in some way myself and I need you to be with me. Until now I thought all members of the Company are enemies. I planed to let Henry be Michaels spokesperson and if this doesn't works, we could have appeal against the judgement because he knows Michael and make him a free man this way. Now it is much better Lisa. You and me we can go there and tell the truth. Let the world know what really happens. Than Michael can concentred on his own well being, maybe for the first time after years "
Lisa nods.
"And I'll make sure the ladies come safe to this place!" John says leaning on the doorframe.
Both look at him.
"Where is Paul, by the way?" he asks further.
* * *
Paul is close to The Generals old flat. He drives into a parking space near by and steps out of the car. The whole time he was on the way to LA one question bother his head.
"What if?" …. "What if I just take Scylla and use it by my own?"
And all of this thoughts are interrupted by pictures of Lisa and Carolyn.
Than he awakes from his daydream, when a car stops in front of the building the Generals flat is in. He can see Downey step out of it.
"Oh my god!" Paul is thinking.
He is close enough to hear him talk on the phone.
"If you have the chance to let it look like an accident kill Scofield!" Downey says and hang up.
Paul stands like made of stone for a moment.
* * *
Michaels face shows nothing but pure hate and the question "Why?"
Sanders hesitate for a moment, but than he burn the match and throw it into the lake of gasoline that is on the ground under the van.
He wink at Michael and turns around when a fist hit's his face.
"Michael? Is it really you?" a very familiar voice asking and two big black hands searching for Michaels in the upcoming smoke.
"Bear? What are you doing here? You need to take the keys from him. I'm chained in here!" Michael says.
The first flames burning under the van and biting smoke makes it hard to breath for Michael.
Bear turns around and searching for the keys, but he can't find them.
Seeing that the flames going higher and higher he let the keys being keys and steps into the van.
With a loud scream he grabs the chain and rip it out from the bottom. Michael is again close to losing his consciousness, because of the pain from his head and the loss of blood he has suffer from the wound. He can't stand on his own legs, but Bear lifts him up like a feather and carries him out.
Seconds later the van explode.
"How did you find me Bear? I can't say how grateful I am!" Michael says with a raspy quiet voice.
Bear flashes back to his room in the storage only 20 meters away.
He was hiding in his room while some other workers loading exactly the truck that now almost killed Michael.
When they had finished the boss send them home and before going by his own he tells Bear to closing all the doors and prepare the stuff for the next truck, which will come in the evening.
Bear did and after a short talk with the driver, he just wanted to close the last entrance, when he sees the crash. At first he hesitated to go there, not to get caught, but there could someone be injured or worst in danger for his life, so he starts running to the place and when he see an hear Sanders he knows what to do.
"It is a long story Michael. I'll tell you on my hidden place." Bear answers and wants to carry Michael away, because he can hear the sirens coming closer.
"No Bear. I'll stay here you know I need to make it to this trial, but you can do me a favour." Michael stops him and whispers something into Bears ear.
"Are you sure Michael?"
Michael nods .
"You need to go buddy!" he says, seeing the first police car coming around the corner.
Bear looks in direction to it and back to Michael.
"Done friend!" he says and disappears from the place, but without being seen by Michael he waits hidden in a corner until the police arrives and he hears them saying in the radio
"We need some ambulances here and send the fire-fighters."
* * *
When Linc turns around he looks into the face of Falcon's guy before his fist knocks him out.
He awakes with a big headache and can taste the blood on his lips. As far he can tell he is alone here. For a moment he needs to close his eyes again to remember what happens. This guy hits him down, but where is he and why he does?
Linc sit up and look around. Than he can see the guy coming back. He must have looked for the exit and hasn't find it yet.
"Now you nee my help, right?" he is thinking and it is exactly what the guy wants.
He hold a knife in his hands and comes fast closer.
"Looks like it was a good idea not to kill you Burrows." He says when he is close to Linc.
"What do you want from me? You can't be serious with thinking I'll show you the way out of here if you pointing a knife on me." Linc says very calm.
His eyes showing that he is willing to fight and that it doesn't matters to him how big the man is.
The man is very close now. The knife almost touching Linc when he jump up and go in position to fight.
It is somehow spooky how the two fight without making noise, very well knowing the guards will caught them, when they do.
Linc is still handicapped from the hit before, so it is a very unequal fight and Linc suffers a lot of hits.
* * *
In Panama Alex searching for Sofia's sister. It isn't easy because when their mom dies some years ago they both going their own ways only calling time by time and when Sofia met Whistler she losing the contact nearly completely and it is some kind of dangerous for Alex to be here in Panama. His first way was to Sona.
For some minutes he was walking trough the nearly destroyed prison. Some of the cells are still there and also the guards tower. Alex feels somehow weird when he see Lechero's room. The walls are black from soot. He goes down to the tunnel and much to his surprise there are still some of the utensils they used to break out.
He flashes back and some of the escape scene are shown.
Later Alex is shown back in his hotel. He sit there using a notebook . On the table beside it lays the self made knife T-Bag and Lechero used back in time to got the first places in line.
* * *
Sucre and Jane are welcome guests in his cousins house. While Jane is in the bedroom with the cousins wife, taking care for little Sofia the men sitting on the veranda, drinking a beer and talking a bit about old times and laugh about the crazy stuff they made in the past .
Some scenes of old times are shown….
After a while Louis becomes serious .
"You really need to stop this cous… , I mean Sucre you have a wife and a child …!"
"Two in some month to be honest!" Sucre interrupts him with a warm smile in his face and for a moment his thoughts wandering to Maricruz and little Lila. His daughter will be so happy having a sibling. He sighs a bit.
"Congrats buddy, but what the hell you are doing here than with another woman and a Baby? Really you need to grow up. "
Sucre shaking his head a bit about himself .
"You know Louis, sometimes I don't understand myself."
In his mind he sees Michael when he steps into this cell in Fox River. The whole trouble starts at this point and it would be easy to hate him for this, but he can't . He feels some kind of brotherly love for the Brothers and deep in his heart he is proud being a part of this friendship.
* * *
Sanders awakes from his knock out . Slowly he opens his eyes. He lays into an ambulance. The door from the car is open, so he can see how someone is in treatment in an other ambulance. All they do looks some kind of hectic and after a while he can hear them say.
"More blood, we loose him."
And after a while
"Time of death….!"
* * *
Linc goes down from another hard punch. This time it looks like he has it up with this fight. He grabs and old tube from the bottom and lift it up to hit it on Linc , but suddenly he can't move and before Linc can see why he goes down.
In the less light in there he can see the silhouette of a very big man.
"Looks like I'm the firefighter for my most loved brothers today. "
Bear says while helping Linc on his feet.
"Bear? " Linc says can't believe he really is it.
"How?"
Bear makes a sign on him not to talk.
"Michael sent me, he wants me to make sure you go out of here and this is exactly what we do now. Come on. I'll tell you when we are out of here."
Linc's face looks very questioning, but he follows .
* * *
Paul follows Downey into the house. Obviously he don't know which flat is the right one, course he tests the key on all doors. This is Paul's chance to pass him and reach the flat first. Inside he opens the safe fast and take Scylla out.
For seconds it seems to have a weight of tons. It is unbelievable how much this little thing in his hand would be worth if he sell it on the right person. Maybe he could make an arrangement with Downey. Maybe he…
"No! Paul come on, not all money in the world can make you happier as the woman you love!" he hears the voice of his sister Kristina in his head.
Fast he hides the safe again and moves in direction to the door, when he hears someone put the key in the lock.
* * *
In Panama Alex fin the first trace to Sofia's sister. She married someone from a small village 60 miles away from Panama city and must be gone with her husband to his parents house there, a man in a bar Ines worked for a while.
Now he is on his way to this place. The whole time when he drives along this small way trough the jungle he has various flashbacks to their escape from Sona.
When he finally arrives, Ines is gone. Her former neighbour tells Alex that her husband died and she leaving the village with her daughter to look for work somewhere.
Somehow it looks like Agent Alexander Mahon is back, when he starts to make some researches in the house she lives in the past. Looking for each little sign. That might help to find her, before social services gets their hands on Lincs daughter. As a father by his own, he knows it would kill him if he loses his child.
* * *
Careful Bear hides the secret exit from prison Michael brought him out and he remembers on the old house he was waiting for darkness on his escape. Linc is much in pain from the fight with this guy so he is grateful that Bear helps him.
In the house they sit down and without needs to asking Bear starts to telling him what happens with Michael.
Linc jumps on his feet, forget about the pain.
"Is he OK. I mean I can't let something happens to Michael. I need to go there."
"You need to stay here Linc and you need to be patiently. He wants me to make sure you are safe and I'll make sure of this. He said we can call his lawyer to find out."
Bear says with a very quiet, serious voice , what let Linc calm down a bit.
"Steve! He will know, you're right. I need a phone!" Linc answers after a moment of silence and moves in direction to the door.
Just in this moment the sirens in the prison start sounding.
* * *
In the house Steve works on the file. He will be with Michael from now in court house for some last instructions.
Sara sits beside of him.
"Do you think we have enough evidences to get Michael out of there?" she asks Steve.
His concerned face shows clearly that he isn't sure, but he says the opposite.
" Sure, it is only a question what Michael wants to bring on the table, before we go one with proofing he is innocent. I'll make the strategy clear with him later. Anything you wants me to tell him?"
"Can I write a letter for him and you take it with you?" Sara asks and when Steve nods she moves to her room, sit down on the small table in it and starts writing .
The origami rose , which Michael has given back to her while visitation lays beside the sheet of paper.
Sara starts writing . The letter is very long , when she ends . Sara takes a deep breath and look at it. She shakes her had a bit about herself .
Than she takes a new sheet and what she writes now says it all with 3 words .
For ever yours!
Is written there now, nothing more.
* * *
Michael wake up in the hospital. Much to his surprise he isn't tied up.
He can see that he got an blood transfusion. Obviously he must have lost a lot of blood in the accident. The wound on his forehead hurts him much.
No one is in the room and no guard is in front of the door, as far as he can see trough the open door. Down the ails he can see Sanders talking with some police man.
On a chair close his bed lays a guards uniform.
He wants to speak, there is an oxygen mask fixed on his face, which he can't get of.
A nurse came in and recognizing he is awaked , she says:
"You need to wearing this for a while Mr. Garner….!"
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