Talk:Prison Break season 3

Saved Information from Call Waiting (Prison Break)
Preserved here for possible future inclusion in season 3 article. "Call Waiting" is the 47th episode of the American television series, Prison Break. The episode, which premiered on October 1, 2007 in the United States on the Fox Network, is the third episode of the show's third season.

Summary
Sucre comes to Lincoln, looking for money. He refuses to help Lincoln look for Sara and LJ. Meanwhile, Michael finds that Lechero isn't interested in any kind of truce with him. Lincoln visits Michael and shows him today's photo of Sara and LJ. On the paper they're holding up Sara's pointing to the words "Santa Rita", which is also a small town near Sona.

Linc tells Susan that Michael won't help with Whistler until he talks to Sara to make sure she's ok. Susan refuses, and Michael learns there's only one phone in Sona – and Lechero has it.

Mahone meets with his public defender and finds that he has a trial date – next year. And even if Michael testifies he set Mahone up, it won't wash – one inmate taking the fall for another is common. Realizing how trapped he is, Mahone begs for his medication. The attorney simply thinks he's a drug addict and abandons him. Mahone turns to the other addicts in the prison for a fix of something, anything. Before he can shoot up, Whistler, realizing Michael isn't entirely on his side, forges an uneasy alliance with Mahone.

Meanwhile, Whistler has an emotional reunion with Sofia at the visitor's cage. She says the book was taken by Scofield's brother. Putting the pieces together, he says it's okay that Lincoln has the book. She really doesn't know what's important about the book, and Whistler won't tell, to her frustration. As she signs out, she sees Lincoln's address, logged when he visited Michael.

Lechero finds that business on the outside seems slower than usual – his take is getting smaller – and his men are losing faith in him. But his cousin says everything's normal so Lechero assumes the problem lies within the prison.

Sucre tries to sell the gun he bought the other day, but the gun shop clerk is only willing to give him 1/3 of what he paid. He sells the gun, buys some tequila and gets himself drunk.

Michael blackmails T-Bag into helping him get Lechero's cell phone by threatening to reveal that T-Bag was a pedophile and rapist. T-Bag surreptitiously unplugs the charger, so Lechero has to leave it charging at an unexpected time. T-Bag sneaks the phone to Michael while Lechero is out, telling him he has less than 30 minutes to use it – or they're both dead. Linc strong-arms Susan into putting Sara on the phone right away. Sara, speaking in code, lets him know that "Santa Rita" means "Saint Rita", the patron saint of lost causes. She's not in Santa Rita but she can see St. Rita from wherever she is. Michael, with T-Bag's distraction, just barely manages to get the phone back into the charger before Lechero returns, but not firmly enough. The charger light isn't on. Lechero knows something's up, hits redial and gets Linc. Linc cleverly doesn't speak but just hangs up so Lechero has the number researched.

Sofia catches up with Linc and finds he's helping break Whistler out of prison because he is being blackmailed into it, with his son, L.J. acting as leverage. She's stunned; she thought Whistler was trying to get out legally with Michael's help as his attorney (not knowing that he's also a fellow inmate), and that he's only a fisherman. Lincoln takes a cab to a monument of St. Rita, which is in the red light district. He finds where Sara and LJ are being held and charges in, but their guards spirit them away in a van.

Whistler tells Michael that he's in prison because he was running a charter boat. One day, he got a call demanding to know exactly where he took a naturalist of some sort who took water samples and measurements. He said he couldn't remember but then government types started snooping around. And then a bar fight led to his incarceration in Sona. The people who are trying to get him out demand that as soon as they do, he show them where he took that guy. The book is his trip log and the only way he can retrace his steps.

Sammy suspects T-Bag of disloyalty to Lechero, and tells T-Bag to watch his back. T-Bag responds by starting to poison Lechero's mind against his men.

Bellick gets himself some shoes, thanks to Pistachio, the prison's barber. As he picks a comfy pair from Pistachio's stash, he spies Michael meeting with Mahone. Mahone forces Michael to admit he needs Whistler alive and break him out of Sona. After the meeting, Michael begins to hatch a plan for the escape.

Susan calls Linc with a warning against him ever trying another rescue attempt. To emphasize that she tells him about something left for him by the trash in the garage. Lincoln shivers as he opens a blood soaked box, the contents of which remain unrevealed to viewers as the episode ends.

International broadcasts
Via Global's simulcast, the episode was broadcast on October 1, 2007 in Canada. It aired in Ireland on October 4, 2007, Great Britain on October 8, 2007, Australia on October 10, 2007 and Armenia on January 12, 2008.

Reception
The episode attracted 7.2 million viewers overall with 3% household rating and 8% household share in the 18 to 49 years old demographics.

Saved information from Orientacion (prison break)
"Orientación" is the 45th episode of the American television series, Prison Break and the first episode of the series' third season. It premiered on September 17, 2007 in the United States on the Fox Network. "Orientación" is Spanish for "Orientation." On iTunes, the episode is known as "Visitation". Regarding the casting of this episode, Amaury Nolasco (who plays Fernando Sucre), does not appear in this episode. It is the last episode written by the show creator, Paul Scheuring.

Summary
As Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner) enter Sona's courtyard and witness a brutal fight between two prisoners which results in a prisoner's death, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) tries to convince a clerk at the American Consulate to drop the charges against his brother and release him. The clerk explains to Lincoln, and the audience, about Sona: after violent riots a year previous, the prison guards pulled out of Sona and left the prisoners to their own devices. Since then, the prisoners have organized their own internal forms of leadership, economy and workforce and run the prison themselves. However, evidence uncovered by the Panamanian police is backing up Lincoln's claim that the killing of Bill Kim (Reggie Lee) was self-defense, and the clerk suggests he will be able to arrange a transfer for Michael to a safer facility until his trial.

Within Sona, Michael is confronted by Mahone, who wants the pair to ally in order to survive within the prison, but Michael refuses because he can't get past the fact that Mahone shot and killed his father (Anthony Denison). Later, Michael and Mahone are among the new prisoners who are brought before Lechero (Robert Wisdom), a prisoner who effectively governs the entirety of Sona and its residents. Lechero tells the new prisoners about their main rule: if one man has an issue with another, they are to fight to the death in an organized event. During the meeting, Lechero makes known that he is aware of Michael's history and is wary of the new prisoner. Soon after this, Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell (Robert Knepper) enters the prison and immediately tries to integrate himself into Lechero's inner circle.

Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) discovers that he is at the very bottom of the social strata within Sona, forced to clean the bathroom and perform other such tasks. While alone in the prison's basement, he is contacted by another prisoner living in the sewers, and agrees to pass on a message in exchange for some scraps of rat meat.

A prisoner accuses Michael of stealing his stash of drugs - a set-up by Lechero - and challenges him to a fight, which Michael is forced to accept or else face Lechero's lackeys. In the frenzy before the fight, Bellick slips written messages into both Michael and his opponent's pockets. Mahone advises Michael to fight dirty, and Michael does once the fight commences, but even when his opponent is practically beaten he refuses to kill the man. The prisoner is slipped a shank and tries to stab Michael in the back but Mahone intervenes by attacking and killing the prisoner. Since weapons were against the rules of combat in the event, Lechero is forced to let Michael and Mahone off. When the dead body is dumped outside the prison, a woman searches his pockets and finds the written message.

Meanwhile, Lincoln searches Panama City for Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) and is momentarily worried when the Chief of Police brings him to the morgue to identify a body, but it is revealed that it is not Sara's. Later, he is contacted by LJ (Marshall Allman), and goes to meet his son at a restaurant in Panama City. He is instead met by a representative of the Company (portrayed by Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). At the end of the episode Lincoln visits Michael at the prison and tells him what the Company had said: they had kidnapped both LJ and Sara, and unless Michael can break out of Sona with another prisoner in tow - James Whistler (Chris Vance), the man in the sewers - their loved ones will be killed.

International broadcasts
Via Global's simulcast, the episode was broadcast on September 17, 2007 in Canada. It aired in Ireland on September 20, 2007, Great Britain on September 24, 2007, Australia on September 26, 2007, Armenia on January 1, 2008, Spain on April 10, 2008, Italy on June 27, 2008 and Greece on February 16, 2009.

Reception
On the episode's original airdate, Prison Break attracted 7.41 million viewers in its usual Monday 8:00 pm timeslot, which was the lowest audience the show has ever had for a season premiere.

Saved information from Fire/Water episode page
"Fire/Water" is the 46th episode of the American television series Prison Break. It premiered on September 24, 2007 in the United States on the Fox Network.

Summary
In Sona, Michael Scofield begins his search for Whistler by talking to Bellick about the note slipped into his pocket during the fight (in previous episode). Michael goes into the sewers and makes contact with Whistler, supposedly a fisherman who was jailed for killing the Mayor of Panama City's son in a bar fight and is hiding from the other prisoners because of a bounty on his head. At the same time, a scuffle between one of Lechero's cronies and another prisoner results in the spill of Sona's entire water supply.

Lincoln meets with "Susan B. Anthony", the woman from the bar in the previous episode, and is tasked with reporting in every day on the progress of the escape. According to Susan, due to the political spotlight on Whistler, the Company cannot simply bribe someone or raid the prison to free him, resulting in their recruiting of the brothers. Later, Lincoln visits Michael and gets Whistler's note.

In Panama City, Fernando Sucre buys a gun and ammunition and goes to Sona to see Bellick, threatening to shoot the ex-CO unless he reveals Maricruz's location. Bellick confesses that he never kidnapped Maricruz, but instead simply drove her off the property and faked the kidnapping. Sucre leaves to return to Chicago and runs into Lincoln, who advises him to walk away from his family in order to "keep them innocent". At a bus station, a run-in with police convinces Sucre to call Maricruz in Chicago and tell her that he won't be returning, since his involvement in her life has only lead to trouble. They exchange tearful goodbyes and love messages before Sucre hangs up and walks away, leaving the crucifix necklace on the phone.

Bellick, as an "untouchable", is unable to get food, water or clothing. When Michael evades his pleas for help Bellick begins to question why Michael was interested in the man in the sewers. Mahone is also curious about what Michael is up to, and learns from another inmate about Whistler and the bounty: in a deal worked out between Lechero and the Mayor, any inmate who kills Whistler will be granted a court date with a friendly judge, effectively giving them a pardon for their crime.

After seeing Michael return from a trip down into the sewers, Mahone journeys down there and finds Whistler. At the same time, Bellick gets T-Bag to set up a meeting with Lechero and is able to negotiate some food and clothing in exchange for his information on Whistler. Lechero's thugs go to the sewers to capture Whistler, but Mahone has already dug him out of his hiding place and, armed with an iron pipe, slowly makes his way back to the surface. Michael sees Bellick with clothes and food and realizes what has happened. At the same time, an outspoken prisoner is using the lack of water to stir up dissension against Lechero's rule of the prison.

Lincoln manages to figure out that Whistler's note is referencing a bank in Panama. At the bank he sees Sofia, Whistler's girlfriend, as she withdraws something from her boyfriend's safety deposit box. Once outside, Lincoln confronts Sofia and takes the withdrawn object from her - a guidebook on birds - and gives her a message to deliver to Whistler. The Company observes the meeting, and the next time Lincoln meets with Susan B. she demands the book from him. Once she leaves, it is revealed that Lincoln gave her a fake copy.

With his options short, Michael tries to make a deal with Lechero in order to get Whistler's bounty lifted, but Lechero doesn't even hear him out after T-Bag calls Michael a "back-stabbing snake". He takes matters into his own hands, obtaining alcohol and plastic bags to create a crude explosive which he takes into an engineering section of the prison and places in a pipe. The situation is reaching breaking point, with the thirsty prisoners on the verge of total rebellion against Lechero and Mahone ready to collect the bounty on Whistler, when Michael's explosive detonates and clears out the blockages in Sona's plumbing, allowing water flow through the pipes and giving the prisoners as much water as they need.

In return for Michael's assistance, Lechero allows Whistler to rejoin the prison population, thereby denying Mahone his day in court. Later, Lechero has the outspoken prisoner drowned in a bucket by his cronies. The episode ends with Whistler thanking Michael for his help, and asking about how they are to escape; in response, Michael says that he has no idea.

International broadcasts
Via Global's simulcast, the episode was broadcast on September 24, 2007 in Canada. It aired in Ireland on September 27, 2007, Great Britain on October 1, 2007, Australia on October 3, 2007 and Armenia on January 5, 2008.

Reception
On the episode's original airdate, Prison Break attracted 7.28 million viewers in its usual Monday 8:00 pm timeslot, one of the lowest audience numbers in the show's history.