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With the pipe to the infirmary replaced and Lincoln's life hanging in the balance, Michael must rethink his plan to escape and save his brother's life. A fellow inmate may hold the key to preventing Lincoln's execution.

With the unexpected failure of Michael's plan, the five frustrated inmates return to the storage room. Michael begs Sara to talk with Veronica and Nick first to see the evidence and to ask for clemency from her father. Meanwhile Nick and Veronica appeal in court of Judge Kessler and request an exhumation of Steadman remains. Michael learns that if something goes wrong with the electric chair, the execution is delayed. He uses a rat to short-circuit the electric supply, but Tweener overhears the conversation and rats to Captain Bellick. Sara stays with Lincoln in his cell; later Michael and Veronica have a last meeting with him and he talks with his son LJ by phone. While Lincoln is walking to the electric chair, the governor calls to say that he has reviewed the process and denied the request of clemency.—anonymous

Michael's master escape plan has failed. Michael, Sucre, T-Bag, C-Note and Westmoreland are trapped in the room below the infirmary and Lincoln is waiting one level above them in the infirmary, but the pipe Michael corroded has been fixed. The five escapees cannot get to the infirmary to join Lincoln and continue with their escape from the prison. As Michael fails in breaking the new pipe, a piece of pipe hits the floor and a guard investigates the cause of the noise. The five hide as the C.O. checks out the room, and then flee back to the guard's break room after he leaves. They barely make their return as Bellick checks on their progress with the mold removal. After a tense moment, he sends them back to their cells. Westmoreland explains to Michael that if anything happened to the electric chair during testing , then Lincoln's execution would be delayed by three weeks. Michael ventures back into the walls behind his cell, capturing a rat and short-circuiting the fuses to the electric chair. Over a hamburger and fries, Bellick blackmails Tweener into giving him information--Tweener fesses up that he heard Westmoreland and Michael talking about how to delay Lincoln's death. When the maintenance man discovers the problem with the fuses, Bellick encourages him to look the other way--rather than filing the appropriate paper work that would delay the execution. Michael is surprised when he is given his final visitation with Lincoln-- the execution will not be delayed as planned. The brothers share a game of gin and blueberry pancakes as Lincoln tells Michael to accept the fact that the execution will happen. Outside the prison, Nick and Veronica attempt to delay the execution by appealing to the judge, but are denied. They discuss Lincoln's case with Dr. Tancredi who takes their information to her father, the Governor, and asks him to look at it. As the preparations for Lincoln's execution proceed, Governor Tancredi calls. He will not delay the execution, and has been promised by the Vice President that his actions will be rewarded. Lincoln is taken to the execution chamber, and Veronica tells him she loves him and always has loved him. Michael hugs his brother good-bye as Lincoln faces the execution chair.—Anonymous