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.
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