
"Or by accident I'll somehow, possibly, dream up another prison escape that's new and fresh, but I would bet against it." and some of the actors", he "couldn't tell you another story about this group of people".
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Series creator Paul Scheuring left the project, and said that despite "desire. This marks the first episode where John Abruzzi didn't appear.However, after the initial excitement for the reboot – sorry, 'reiteration' – faded, things started heading into trouble almost immediately.The episode obtained an average of 10.3 million viewers and a rating of 4.3 in the 18-49 demographics. Upon its return, the series was allocated to an earlier time slot than before the mid-season hiatus as a lead-in program for the more popular television series, 24, which now occupies Prison Break's previous time slot at 9:00 pm EST.The Rat refers both to the rat that malfunctioned the electric chair and Tweener 'ratting' to Bellick about Michael's attempt to delay the execution.The episode closes with Lincoln facing the chair. Tears roll down Michael's eyes as his brother is led into the death chamber. At the warden's order, Bellick uncuffs Michael, who takes his turn to hug the brother he is about to lose. In a heartbreaking moment, Veronica tells Lincoln that she has loved him since the moment she first saw him. Surprisingly, Bellick shows some compassion and allows Veronica over the yellow line to hug Lincoln before he is taken into the chamber. As the governor hangs up, the Vice President appears behind him and tells him that his decision will not go unnoticed. After a tense minute, as Michael, Lincoln, Veronica and Sara exchange glances, the warden reveals that the execution will go ahead. Knowing that she couldn't convince her father any further, Sara tells him to review the information she just gave him and pretend that it didn't come from her.Īs the Warden and several guards walk with Lincoln to his execution, the governor calls. The governor promptly tells her that the inmates are trying to use her and that being strict on crime is what he was elected for. She then takes with her the information they gave her to ask her father, the Governor, to review Lincoln's case. Tancredi goes to speak with Veronica and Nick. Meanwhile, Nick and Veronica appeal to the judge for Lincoln's exoneration but is denied. Lincoln's final moment before he was scheduled to be executed They play a game of gin as Lincoln eats the blueberry pancakes he had requested as his final meal. Lincoln does not want to talk about the appeal and he tells Michael that the execution is going to happen. Michael gets final visitation with his brother. Later, the system works perfectly as Michael watches in horror as the lights flickers. The tech said they will have to make a report, but Bellick bullies him into just changing the fuse and forgetting the technical problem. Upon further check, they find a rat has short-circuited the chair. Bellick says they are even.īellick orders another check on the electric chair, and it fails. Tweener doesn't have it, but when Bellick charges him $100 for the hamburgers and other food, Tweener reveals the conversation between Michael and Westmoreland regarding the procedure of the chair. Tweener is dipping his french fries into a milkshake, just like Bellick. He goes into the tunnels, and with food as bait, captures a rat. Michael takes that as salvation rather than torture. It turns out that if there is a system failure of the electric chair, the inmate gets a three week reprieve when the system is being repaired.


Westmoreland also expresses sorrow that his brother will have a few weeks of torture - the waiting for death is worse than death. Sucre and Westmoreland console Michael by telling him not to worry about them and that Lincoln would know about Michael trying to help him. He goes back in, but finds Westmoreland in the room, crouched down tying his shoelaces. He suddenly realizes that they were a member short. After insulting them, Bellick then instructs the guard to take them back to their cells. The others say they can't clean out the mold overnight. Westmoreland, being older, doesn't make the trip in time.

After he leaves, the team sneaks back out to the guard's break room.Ĭaptain Bellick, about to go off shift, checks in on them. As the broken half of the pole drops to the floor, a guard hears the noise. After a futile attempt to break the newly replaced pipe, the pole that they were using to break the pipe snaps into two instead. The escape team realizes that Michael's plan has failed. The episode directly follows where the previous episode ends with the protagonist Michael Scofield's failed escape attempt and the impending execution of his brother, Lincoln Burrows. " The Rat" is the fourteenth episode of the first season of Prison Break and the fourteenth episode overall.
