Prison... Broken - 
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As always, there were several different story lines woven throughout the show, making my job somewhat difficult. So bear with me... Warden Pope, the world's nicest maximum security prison warden, figured into this episode almost as much as Michael. He first appeared arguing with the Secret Service punks about Michael's transfer. You see, the Warden really needs his Popsicle stick Taj Mahal completed and Michael is the only one capable of doing so. The warden didn't suffer 3 months of brain freezes and green tongues for nothing - there was no way he was going to let Michael leave his prison. So the Secret Service guys (I'd abbreviate them "SS guys," but even bigger asshats already used that abbreviation in the past) revealed their trump card: Blackmail. The government men had some photos and documents from 1989 in Toledo, which caused Warden Pope to turn sheet-white. We know that Mrs. Pope knows about Toledo, but apparently not the whole story - the one with the dead kid. Let's hope there was no sex involved. Although that would shut up the Oz crowd who continue to complain about Prison Break.
Out in the yard, with the prisoners at recess (again), Michael, Abruzzi, and Sucre were able to create circumstances to gain some alone time in a warehouse. Amazingly, death row inmate Lincoln was also able to break a shovel at the same time and join the boys. Not only was he holding an obviously deadly weapon, he was free to roam into the warehouse as well. The NHL doesn't even allow on-ice players to hold broken lumber for more than a second. I expected Lincoln to get at least 2 minutes in the penalty box. He didn't, and the four would-be escapees discussed the current situation in private. Abruzzi and Sucre were getting antsy but Michael held them all together with the cryptic question, "English, Fitz, or Percy - which one to take out?!" Just then, Michael removed his shirt to reveal not his giant tattoo, but a Frank Gorshin (RIP) Riddler unitard. ZOW! BLAM! POW!
That last bit didn't actually happen, but Michael was greeted with a real zow-blam-pow moment when he returned to his cell. Warden Pope was keeping it real, sitting on the can in there with a hangdog look on his face. The blackmail had worked and Pope held in his hands the transfer papers for Michael to be shipped off to Statesville Prison the next morning. Faced with such a ruinous situation, Michael reached for that last hope of all hardened criminals: sympathetic compassion. "But Warden," Michael whined, "Lincoln Burroughs is my brother and I love him and I want to be near him for his final three weeks of life and don't I have just the prettiest blue eyes...� He almost got him with that last bit, but Pope was adamant - the transfer request was out of his hands and he couldn't do anything about it. Speaking of his blue eyes, in a flashback sequence with Michael and Lincoln as youngsters, the kid they cast as a five year old had dark brown eyes. Didn't they know that half their audience is horny women who find Wentworth Miller attractive - especially his piercing stare? I'm being silly, I know, but the casting director really blew it with this kid.
Outside the prison, the brothers' lawyer Veronica was meeting with Nick, the idealistic Project Justice do-gooder. They were reviewing the tape of Lincoln murdering the Vice President's brother and the evidence was pretty cut and dry. There was Lincoln, walking across the parking garage with a gun, shooting the gun, and then rifling through the glove compartment. If Nick weren’t just trying to get into Veronica's pants, he'd have given up right there. But, as we all know, men will pretty much do anything to score so he continued to pretend to care. He saw what he viewed as some inconsistencies on the tape like how the walking angles and gunshot recoil were "off." Fortunately, Nick knew "a guy" who could do some forensic video analysis. Sounds like a job for "(a) Comic Book Guy."
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