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Prison Break
Episode 4.21/22: Rate of Exchange/Killing Your Number
Airs: May 15, 2009
Recap
Thanks to David G. for his recap:
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you and I have all been waiting for. The two hour series finale for Prison Break. I hope they settle everything nicely.
Last week, Christina proved she was a terrible mother by shooting Lincoln in the stomach. Needless to say, Michael was not very happy. So he called her up, and told her he’d give her Scylla as long as Lincoln was taken care of.
The General was busy telling Sara how much has changed just because she left the infirmary door open in season 1. How does he know about that? When the General asked T-Bag to escort Sara out, T-Bag shuffled up to her and asked her to grab his pocket. Nice, two season 1 references in the first five minutes. In Chicago, we see Sucre being followed by someone unseen. Perhaps C-Note?
When Christina arrived to meet Michael, she mentioned to her henchman to kill him after she gets Scylla. Because a man reported Michael earlier, the cops began to show up, and before he could blow his mom to smithereens, her henchman went after him, taking Christina’s place in death.
In a diner, we see that it is in fact C-Note! I was hoping we’d see him again ever since he left late season 2. When he started asking about where Michael and Lincoln were, Sucre automatically thought C-Note was working for the feds. Though C-Note told Sucre to calm down, they were on the same side.
At the hospital, Self was being interrogated by a few agents. He gave in when they put pressure on one of his broken bones. Michael then got called by first the General, then his mother. On one side if he gave Scylla to the General, his brother dies. On the other hand, if he handed it to Christina, the mother of his child dies. After Christina called him, Michael spoke to Lincoln who spilled the news that he’s going to be a daddy.
Alex then asked Michael what they were going to do about the safety of his wife. Unfortunately Michael had no answer. He suggested he do whatever necessary to save his wife. So he does. He called Christina to tell her he can get Scylla if she can offer his family protection.
Meanwhile T-Bag was busy harassing Sara while Michael and the General spoke. In twenty minutes, they agreed to meet and make the exchange. Scylla for Sara. Mahone gave Michael the case and he was on his way. Though in reality, Mahone was bringing the actual Scylla to Christina…or was he?
Back in Chicago, C-Note was walking with Sucre to meet up with who he’s working with. He told Sucre he’d recognize him. They are calling him “Paul” no…could it be Kellerman?
At the meeting sight, The General’s henchman found the Scylla case empty. The General told them they had to get back to headquarters. Meanwhile, it looks like Michael was going to climb a building with some rope. Apparently the front door was locked.
At the hospital, an impersonating doctor injected Self’s bag with something. Meanwhile Michael was busy still climbing the building. Just about as T-Bag was going to rape Sara, Michael stepped in, from his building climbing activities, and knocked T-Bag out.
All the while, Mahone was meeting up with Christina. He opened his case, where there was in fact, Scylla. Before handing over Scylla, he needed proof that his wife was safe. After a short conversation explaining that he can’t get everything he wants first, he handed over Scylla. Don’t lose hope yet, Michael showed Sara that he actually has Scylla. Mahone had the outer shell. It was Michael’s plan all along. They then embraced after he told her he knew about the pregnancy. We then learned that the “Scylla” Mahone had was really a bomb cleverly created by Michael.
On the road, Michael and Sara were talking about how their lives would be in the future. Of course it is a lovely life filled with butterflies and smiles. Mahone called Michael, the bomb didn’t go off. When Christina pulled him out to explain himself, he activated the bomb, getting him and Lincoln out of there.
When the General was about to kill Bagwell,T-Bag answered Sara’s cell phone when it rang. It was Sucre saying he can help. Again, the General cut T-Bag some slack, believing they could help locate Michael. When they met, C-Note took out the Company trained assassin keeping an eye on the two. They then took T-Bag hostage to find out where the General was.
Michael decided the one option they had left was to destroy Scylla. Michael then got a call from….Kellerman! Again I was right. Looks like all those ploys from Kellerman fan’s panned out, just like Sara’s death was faked. No one ever dies in this show. Kellerman was saved by the people working with Michael and Lincoln’s father.
At the hospital, Don was not dead, though he could not speak. He could only write, which also was not doing the agents that much help. At the same hospital, Mahone and Sara were there, currently trying to steal some medicine for Lincoln. Unfortunately Mahone was apprehended, while Sara got away with the drugs.
Sucre and C-Note were still torturing T-Bag. Currently by hanging him upside down, forcing blood to rush to his brain. Pretty soon, T-Bag would give the General’s location. So Michael went to see the General with Lincoln. The General took that time to explain that Sofia is in fact still alive, and he threatened her life. The man really wants Scylla. He told them that they are dead no matter what, but if he got Scylla in the next half hour, he’d let Sofia go. Just then C-Note and Sucre busted in shooting. They forced the General to let Sofia go. They then took the General hostage and left the premises. Though Sucre was caught.
While Michael, Lincoln, Sucre and C-Note were resting, Christina came in guns blazing. When she was about to leave, thinking no one was there, Michael stood aiming his gun directly in her direction. She tried to mind trick him into believing he can’t shoot her. When he tried to prove her wrong, his gun was out of bullets. Christina took this chance to shoot her son, but Sara intervened, and gunned down Michael’s mother.
When trying to get to Kellerman, a couple agents stopped Michael and took him with them. We then found out they were working for Kellerman. When they tried to run Scylla, there was a piece missing, because Michael wasn’t 100% ready to trust Kellerman yet. After all, Kellerman had been acting dead for several years. But after Kellerman spoke to Michael, he took out the missing piece, and connected it to Scylla, because he was tired of running. The missing piece worked. Kellerman told Michael everything would be over shortly.
At Headquarters, The General found a way to Houdini himself out of his handcuffs. He was about to bail, when the police barged in and placed him under arrest. At Kellerman’s place, Everyone was given contracts, which they signed, giving them all the freedom they deserve. Mahone was told his wife was safe, as well as Sofia and LJ. T-Bag of course said he deserved an exoneration. Kellerman left it up to them. Lincoln was the one to tell him he’s going back to prison.
While walking on the beach, Michael and Sara continued their conversation of their heavenly future together, that’s when Michael got another nose bleed… I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
Four years later, Mahone was dating his old partner in the force. Lincoln was with Sofia in their new shop. Sucre hugged his daughter. Don self was still in the hospital, brain dead. C-Note was living happily in his suburban lifestyle. Kellerman was a congressman, met by his old partner’s widow, she wasn’t all that happy with his success. The General met Lincoln’s original fate, the electric chair. T-Bag was in prison, with his new posse in Fox River. Sara was talking with her Son, whose name was also Michael. She told him it was time to see his father, that’s when they met up with Mahone, Sucre and Lincoln…to Michael’s grave. Where Lincoln left an origami crane.
im doing some research and i found out michael rob the bank on on march 9 2005..and he died nov 4 2005..i dont get it..how come sucre had daughter so quicklly..this aint seem right…everthing sucks
Brilliant. Although like someone else said, some of the saddest moments weren’t just about Michael.
Self. I really thought he was a good guy, or at least trying to be. I was so glad when they explained his real motives. But then to see him looking so sad, with the same fate as his wife.
And T-Bag. I spent three seasons hating him, but then his charactrisation in this season, where he wants to be normal and have a normal job. They made sure we were happy to see him go down by making him revert to his old ways in the finale, but when he’s in prison and hears the quote from that Gate book .. it all came flooding back, and he looks so sad.
Kellerman, who did some terrible things at first, but who testified against the company to exonerate Lincoln, knowing full well that he was sacrificing his own life at the time .. and then it turns out he didn’t die, and he further repays his debt by providing an escape for everyone. But not everyone forgives him, as Danny Hale’s widow proves.
And then the end. Everyone going to the same place, and it turns out to be a grave. I speculated about who it could be, possibly a memorial to all their fallen friends who gave their lives to help them get this far … but then I realised that someone was missing from the group ..
TEEEAAAARS!!!!!! I Haven’t even seen the episodes yet and I’m crying anyway!! WHY WHY WHY! They could had fixed it!!! I really need to watch it soon .. :(
hey tom i think when he says uncle they r referin to lj
i loved the last episode so heartbreakin but amazing and totally worth it. i hope the fial brweak will be as good as the series finale
At the end Their is standing on Michaels tombstone: Husband, Father, Brother, Uncle, Friend
Husband = from Sara
Father = from Michael J
Brother = from Lincoln
Uncle = Sucre?
Friend = Mahone?
Is it means that Sucre is Michaels J uncle now? or maybe Mahone?
great show , i love it for ever
will be season 5 ?
hey guys,i have something so stupid to ask…
in episode 21 [around 41 minutes] when Sarah and Michael were talking,Sarah said “How big an explosion are we talking about?” i wonder what the word “explosion” in this situation means????
i juz cry see michael grave…this is the mos sad ending in tv show…i cry like a baby :( why they kill him of…i feel awful sad right now..it juz like they take my life away..but still this is the great show well minus michael death.
hey guys i am feeling bad . i thought i wasn’T gonna come this site when pb. finished but i love this site and you i am here from begin of the season 4 and thanks for the all informations.
unnecessary move to kill mike.i thought he died in a fight or sumthin.everything apart from that is great
And let’s hope all others around the world will enjoy the final as much as we did.
Them last 2 episodes were briliant.
Personally, I think it was Wonderfully done, and credit to everyone.
Although, I knew micheal was in the grave, after we saw his nose bleed, and then sara “Lets go see your daddy”, but the kid went straight to lincoln.
(And the date is wrong on the gravestone.
Self, never really liked him. Even after his “reasons”. They all had one, and self’s was just a little more…. simple. he got so far with that little reason? Ah well.
Kellerman was awesome.
I loved the scenes where he was in.
Especially that last one, where he got spat on by Danny Hale’s widow. (Danny Hale was his assasin partner). That was just, wonderful. You can see his future in the “non-existant” show.
And the ending, was VERY nice. I loved it.
This is a deffinate buy on Blu-Ray from me.
you no guys i love this show iv been watching it since i was 14 and now im 17 there is nothing like it i was so happy to see kellerman back also good to see T bag back in FoxRiver but it is sad that Michael is dead :(
Even though I’m still crying like a baby who lost her favourite toy (it’s kind of true actually)…I’m very pleased with the series ending…it just felt right you know?…life doesn’t have happy endings and just seeing Sara so peaceful gave a little hope (how patetic..it’s just fiction huh?)…
And by way…I will never hear “Lay it down slow” again without spilling a big amount of tears…=’(…f***, I’m just crying all over again!!!
Love PB forever!!!^^
PD: will some new found superhero of mine (you will be if you acomplish this goal) be able to upload the final break to internet…I’m from Chile and I’m not sure if I’m gonna be able to wait…
Tumors can grow back. Just like cancer can come back. What a ride. I’m going to have a mammoth-sized hole in my heart without this show. I would have loved to see one last season in China or some really foreign prison in europe but oh well.
I loved vintage T-Bag tonight. The writers thought about changing him and he had the struggle eariler in the season, but I’m glad he didn’t in the end. Some people just don’t change, and the reason why T-Bag is my favorite television character of all-time is that he will always be the same in my book.
I loved his scenes with Sara.
I too think it is a stretch since they were all exnorated but oh well. If they have to make something up so I can watch more hours of prison break, so be it. It won’t be the first time I look past something (Kellerman having the power to exonorate people even though he didn’t work for the real government, or c-note just magically turning up now) for the pure entertainment value. It’s like some of the things that happen in Die Hard. You know it could probably never happen in real life, but its just so damn entertaining that you look past it.
I really hope more people get clued in to have much of a great show this is, it deserved lost-esque ratings, especially for its first two seasons.
I will probably give Mental a chance since Whistler and particuarly Haywire are in it, and there’s nothing on during the summer anyway.
Can’t wait till June 2nd. Might go buy it the day it comes out.
Still pissed the final break isn’t included. I think the writers/FOX are going to be in for a rude awakening when they realize people aren’t going to pay the same price for 88 mins as for 22 episodes. I won’t be the final break dvd until it comes down to $15-20, which I will bid for on e-bay. $25-30 is way too much for not even two hours of material, as much as I love Prison Break, as I know it will come down in price eventually.
Still can’t understand why Fox can’t show those on tv, it’s repeat season now anyway.
Goodbye Prison Break. I felt like I lost a best friend tonight. The ending was different, but with a show like PB it’s really difficult to have a perfect ending, but I felt like this came very close. Loved T-Bag’s ending. Wish I knew what Kratz said when he was getting the chair. Glad Christina died. Self’s fate was sad but deserved.
I didn’t care for Mahone hooking up with Lang although I saw it coming. I always pulled for him and Pam though, and I just think he didn’t want to burden her or it would have been too hard to being a family without Cameron there cause they’d always be reminded of what happened. She did get remarried but whatever.
I loved Kellerman’s ending. I liked how Allison spit on him, he deserved it. Although I loved the return of Kellerman and C-note, c-note’s return felt natural (although I hated how they brought him back), natural as in it felt like he never felt, the actor acted the same way he did in seasons 1 and 2, whereas with Kellerman you could tell he was on a different show because it wasn’t the old Kellerman with the mannerisms to a perfect T. But any kellerman is better than no kellerman I guess.
Hi, I’ve not seen the episodes yet
so I have a question: Did Marshall Allman (L-J) appear in the final episode?
it was a nice ending…even i feel sorry with michael faith, maybe they tried to told us that life isn’t always going like we want to be…
i will miss this show and this discussion too..
btw, can i buy the dvd at amazon or else?? i’m not from u.s… thanks before… :)
:(
Michael….
:’(
Vey touching finale….
anyone else think its strange how sara the good doctor who was the voice of reason for michael so long could easily kill two people.. especially one being michael’s mom, when she herself stopped michael so many times from doing the same to others…what gives? doesn’t seem smart writing. i loved the finale otherwise…should have had gretchen or someone else do it…
Yeah, because Michaels grave read November 2005. Which meant he would have died BEFORE his son was born. So obviously the tumor didnt get to him. And the general “jist” Im getting is that Sara is imprisoned for killing Christina, they try and break her out, and Michael “sacrifices” himself to save her.
Now, IF this is all true, I am thoroughly pissed off with the writers. Had they left the finale alone, I’d be fine. But c’mon now? For one, Sara was exonerated, so because she killed Christina in the time frame she was exonerated from, its safe to assume her actions were just and should be wiped clean. And now Im hearing Sara gets arrested for that, Padman puts out a reward WITHIN the prison system for her death, Michael tries to break her out and sacrifices himself to do so? And they want to cram all this within 2 hours? Im sorry but if all this is true then that to me is just the writers stretching to kill Michael just to be bold, not because it was “fitting.” It was hard enough to look past the fact the doctors performed quote a “successful surgery” and now all of a sudden hes getting nosebleeds again. Now we have to believe he gives himself up in between because “hes gonna die anyway.” To me thats just the writers purposely killing Michael for the sake of being daring, not fitting.