"Rendezvous" features the meeting of the characters, Michael Scofield and Sara Tancredi, for the first time in the second season.
The episode opens in Tribune, Kansas as Brad Bellick (Wade Williams) and Roy Geary (Matt DeCaro) continue to torture T-Bag (Robert Knepper) for the location of the five million dollars.
After retrieving the key, Bellick leaves T-Bag tethered to a radiator and calls 911 to tell them there is an intruder in the house, then he and Geary head to the train station and obtain the backpack from the locker.
Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) is forced to continue on foot after his car broke down in Dinosaur, Nebraska.
He later leaves a message on Theresa's answering machine telling her he will be waiting for Maricruz at an airport in Mexico when her vacation is finished.
Mahone visits several hotels in Gila and finally finds the one Sara stayed at under the alias, Kelli Foster.
As Sara cleans and wraps his wound, (which he sustained from accidentally knocking into the sharp end of the propane gas valve while hiding from Mahone) Michael asks her to stay with him for one more day; his meeting with the coyote is tomorrow.
Just as Michael finds her note, Sara changes her mind but is confronted by Kellerman, who had been told by Agent Kim (Reggie Lee) to interrogate her.
At the Chicago headquarters of the F.B.I., the federal agents celebrate after the arrests of Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) and his son in Willcox, Arizona were confirmed.
In terms of viewership, the Country Music Association Awards on ABC was in first place in the 8:00pm timeslot but Fox's Prison Break obtained the largest amount of audience in the 18-34 demographics.
[4] On the other hand, the critic from the Arizona Daily Star stated that the episode "underwhelmed" him and that "all it did was create more cliffhangers".