Commercials. The people who are marketing the next X-Men movie should really just stick to the moneymaker and run seven-odd minutes of nothing but Hugh Jackman in his leather pants. (From the depths of the couch, the husband is marinating in jealousy, simpering, "I love Wolverine. Oh, Wolverine, when we get married, will I be Missus Sobell Wolverine, or would you consider hyphenating?")
When we get back, T-Bag's hyperventilating, "We're screwed -- we're screwed!" C-Note joyously seizes the opportunity to take charge and begins ushering everyone to go back. That's when Michael pops in and says, "We'll stick to the plan." C-Note loses his cool, shouting, "Do your ears work, fool? Do you hear that?" Michael tells them it's the fire alarm in the psych ward and -- more significantly -- he's the one who set it off.
Cut to all the Whack Shack habitants being escorted outside, all of them doing the Thorazine Shuffle.
Meanwhile, on the outside...we see a plane land at Goose Park Airstrip, ten miles from Fox River. We know the locale because it's helpfully captioned for us. The beefy guy from last episode (Maggio) gets off the plane. A moment behind him, the pilot gets off and nervously says, "We're in the sticks. You know how many people must have heard a jet like this land?" Maggio's not too worried. He's got a police scanner, so he can keep tabs on the local chatter.
Back in the prison, an orderly barks that this was a false alarm and that everyone can just head back inside now. All the inmates begin lurching back inside. We see the manhole cover pop up, and then we get a shot of Team Escarpara all hustling toward the pack: the shot's around a corner and sort of pixellated; it's also accompanied by the kind of loud breathing you normally hear when you're snorkeling, you hear this Darth Vader-y "whoosh-pash-whoosh-pash," and you realize you are the loudest submerged breather ever.
The inmates are all filing inside the Whack Shack, and Sklar the orderly is about to lock the door when Michael bellows, "Hold on!" Doing his best Bellick imitation, Michael yanks a thumb back and says, "Got some stragglers." The rest of Team Escarpara do their best to appear criminally insane. Although it's a look that comes naturally to Abruzzi, but T-Bag's looking pretty cracked too. The orderly calls Tweener out since, of course, his jumpsuit's not exactly white. Sklar says, "Wait a second -- that's not Whack Shack issue. Everybody stop!" Michael channels Bellick to bark, "Stay where you are!" He ushers Sklar away from the group, and Sklar says, "That's John Abruzzi right there." Michael speaks normally when he says, "Ah, that's bad news. Listen, you know that sedative you were talking about? You got some now?" Sklar does -- and how, what with Michael neatly taking the syringe from his hand and dosing the orderly. He orders the team straight down the hall.









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