This episode marks the first time the series' protagonist, Michael Scofield, and agent Paul Kellerman, have appeared in a scene together, aside from a brief glimpse in a car in "English, Fitz or Percy".
Sucre believes that the military can't follow them past the border, but the pilot tells him that all changed after 9/11 and that their only hope of survival is to escape the plane with parachutes.
In Joliet, Illinois, the new Fox River warden Ed Pavelka is talking to the media, pledging not to make the same mistakes as his predecessor Henry Pope.
Newly fitted with the veteran's prosthetic hand, T-Bag stalks a United States Postal Service worker named Denise at a nearby bus stop.
Upon meeting her at work, T-Bag persuades her to give him the address of his ex-girlfriend Susan Hollander (K. K. Dodds), who turned him in to America's Most Wanted years ago.
Susan Hollander opens the door to her new Ness City, Kansas home, not expecting to see escaped serial killer Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell at her doorstep, just where he promised her he would be during their previous meeting in Fox River State Penitentiary.
The prosecutor played a recording of the threatening phone call to the murdered Roy Geary for the courtroom to hear as the judge denies bail for Bellick.
Later, in a holding facility, Bellick's public defender Greg Nagel (Bruce DuBose) tells him that there's a good chance he will get the death penalty unless he agrees to plead guilty and receive a 25-year sentence.
Bellick later arrives, talking to Correctional Officer Louis Patterson (Phillip Edward Van Lear), asking him to put him in Ad Seg and to later enroll him in a work release program.
His new cellmate is Avocado (Daniel Allar), who, Bellick, in his CO capacity, earlier used to punish Fox River inmate David "Tweener" Apolskis.
Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) continues to try to contact Michael with no success, not knowing the fate of the brothers until she sees the news report of their recapture at an electronics store.
The Pad Man, a mysterious operative superior to agent Kim, writes instructions to him, telling him to switch the phone to speaker mode and to ask Kellerman what kind of plan he has in mind.
The brothers manage to escape their transport van, as Lincoln's shackles are left unlocked, and a guard (Kelly O'Neil Jackson), Kellerman's alleged contact in the Illinois DOC, suspiciously leaves his keys behind.
Although suspicious that the set up is too easy, Michael eventually lets Lincoln convince him to make a break for it, and the brothers escape through a metal door, and through a series of small tunnels, until they are caught between Kellerman and Mahone.
This episode attained the largest audience so far for the second season in the United States with 9.6 million viewers, a 10% share of the 18–49 demographic.
[4] The plot twist towards the end of the episode with Kellerman deciding to help Michael and Lincoln in the interest of self-preservation also prompted some reactions from the critics.
"[3] Similarly, the critic from The San Diego Union-Tribune commenced his review with "Nothing gets the heart beating like a finale episode of Prison Break."