Five the Hard Way (Prison Break episode)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Five the Hard Way
Series = Prison Break


Caption =
Season = 4
Episode = 7
Airdate = October 6, 2008
Writer = Christian Trokey
Director = Garry A. Brown
Season list = Infobox Prison Break season 4 episode list
Episode list = List of "Prison Break" episodes
Prev = Blow Out (Prison Break episode)
Next = The Price (Prison Break episode)

"Five the Hard Way" is the 64th episode of the American television series "Prison Break" and was broadcast on October 6 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network.http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings.aspx?id=20080918fox06]

Plot preview

The episode starts with T-Bag being tied up in a chair and when he comes too Gretchen is standing by the counter watching him. T-Bag looked up and tells her, "The last time I was tied to a chair like this - I had to pay for it." Gretchen cuts right too the point, SCYLLA, she asks T-Bag what he knows and if he refused too tell her she'd spill his hill billy guts all over the floor, she proceeds to cut his good arm several times before T-Bag asks how he could be of service to her.

At the warehouse, the team is sitting around the table and find out the next card holder is in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lincoln, Sucre, Roland and Sara proceed to Las Vegas alone, while Michael, Mahone and Bellick, stay behind.

In Vegas Lincoln tells everyone to hurry up Vegas is not his kind of town and everything goes off to set up in a small room. sara learns from Linc that Michael may me ill and may die soon. Sara tries too hit up the card holder by faking she was on a stagette party and her friends dared her to get a photo in a whale room, the card holder refuses and the bar tender tells her not to worry she isn't his type, he adds, "Just before you came, he asked me if I liked to party". Which leads to having Fernando refusing to go through with any actions at Lincoln, Roland and Sara try to make him.

Back in L.A. T-Bag's assistant calls Bellick and tells them she wants to help and wants money. Michael and Mahone get a phone call from Bellick saying she wants more money and she wants the mto come talk to her, it was a trap created by T-Bag and Gretchen, T-Bag has the girl tie up Bellick, Michael and Mahone. Michael and Bellick are in the van and Mahone makes a run for it getting away. He calls Don.

T-Bag forces Michael to help him by threatening the life of his co-worker with a gun to the head until Michael agrees, when no one is looking Michael hides a page of the bird book under the table. Gretchen notices from the other room Bellick has on an ankle monitor and tells T-Bag they have to get them off she stays out of view.

In Vegas Fernando is seen walking to the pool deck, removing his shirt he sits down with a beer beside the card holder, the card holder offers Fernando a better drink in his room and Fernando agrees, once inside of the room the card holder tells Fernando and story about him being in the army where he lost most of his upper thigh bone and his urge too reproduce. Fernando is confused and watches the man carefully. Before his wife appears in the room, the card holder offers Fernando one thousand dollars and Fernando's eyes get wide he says. "You want me to bang your wife?" The scene changes and it shows Lincoln pacing the room telling the others Fernando has one minute to return before he goes to get him just as Fernando walks into the room.

Mahone walks into this house with a gun, expecting to find Michael, Bellick and T-Bag, but finds no one and a table with ankle monitors. Mahone looks down noticing a paper crane, he picks it up and opens it, the word GATE on the side. Mahone gets the point.

At GATE T-Bag takes Michael to his old office and Michael opens the closet 8 x 12 and walks in, T-Bag following behind quickly watching him. Michael starts hitting the floor before hitting a metal door. He uses a screw driver to cut back the carpet and remove the floor tiles. Michael reveals a metal-like door and opens it showing a dark hole with a ladder. T-Bag responds by saying, "You and Me in a deep dark hole, just like old times pretty"

Leaving the casino, Roland says he'll catch up and is left alone. He begins to use the slot machines while holding the device hitting the jack pot twice. Fernando goes back to find him, seeing three men talking to Roland, telling him he was told he was no longer ever welcome back into a Vegas casino. Roland starts to panic and the man takes the device, asking what it is. Roland tells him it's a battery pack for a game system. The man tells him he will have to get a new one and proceeds to kick Roland out of the casino.

Michael and T-Bag are walking down the small under ground hall way when Michael stops and looks at T-Bag. He tells T-Bag he thinks he'll just leave him down here, and he is no longer helping him. T-Bag takes out his gun and starts to tell Michael he has no choice until another gun is placed to T-Bag's head. It's Mahone holding the gun, before they both throw T-Bag into a cell like object and leave him there yelling.

Roland tells Lincoln and Fernando that he can make another device trying to make the blow less on his part.

Walking from GATE, Mahone, Don and Michael hear a cell phone. Don answers and he talks to Gretchen before the phone is given to Michael and Michael is told if he doesn't go back and get T-Bag he wont get the rest of the pages needed to find SCYLLA.

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