2.15 "The Message." Michael, Linc, and Kellerman are, to put it delicately, shitting bees. They're in their motel room with the recently departed Terrance Steadman, who was supposed to be their way out of this but is now only one of the many, many reasons why Michael's little plan to alert the media is turning out to have been really dumb. The Highway Patrol calls for Michael and Linc to come out come out wherever they are. And hey, is that a Fox News™ van out there as well? Of course it is, complete with a carefully coiffed Fair And Balanced attractive female infotainment personality hovering around with her meek cameraman. Michael can't very well have the entire A-plot happen at a competing network, for heaven's sake. Kellerman suggests that next time Michael wants to hold a press conference he should do it in a room with a back door. Linc is all, hey, remember this dead guy? The one who no one will ever be able to prove is Terrence Steadman, lying next to most of his cranial contents in this motel room full of our fingerprints? Kellerman: "What, you afraid someone's going to pin a murder on you?" Ha. So they're just going to leave the body and the fingerprints in the room and stroll out the front door? Michael says damn straight they are.

Kellerman shoves his badge through a crack in the door, "FBI! Hold your fire!" He comes out dragging Michael and Linc behind him, saying he's taking them to Billings. The cops are getting less dumb every episode and want to see that badge again, but before they can, Kellerman gets his gun to some poor underpaid Fox cameraman's head. Camera guy is thinking that if he makes it out of this alive, he better come back to a bigger office and a really nice health plan.

Anyway, now it's another goddamn gunpoint standoff. There's lots of macho posturing and belligerent yelling and crosstalk, and it's getting really hard not to make Fox News jokes here. They wrestle their hostage in to an unmarked car and speed off. The camera guy's in the backseat with Kellerman's gun still shoved up against his head, all "So, you think I get overtime for this or what?" Michael's good old reliable steely-eyed glare has been morphing lately in to sort of an annoyed/pained/constipated steely-eyed glare, and let me tell you, it's been getting an awful lot of mileage these past couple episodes.

At the Chicago FBI field office, Agents Lang and Wheeler sheepishly fill Mahone in on the progress they made while he was convalescing and murdering secret government agents. This does not take very long. All they have for him is that Bellick was unbelievably speedily booked in to Fox River for murder, and that Mrs. C-Note was arrested at a pharmacy. Mahone very visibly does not give a rat's ass, but a call comes in that does seem to capture his interest.

Linc is just sort of driving around aimlessly. Nobody knows where they're going. But wait! Michael's steely-eyed glare is back, and it stares daggers at the car radio. He tells Linc to pull over at some giant abandoned warehouse. We have learned from this show that giant abandoned warehouses are placed at regular intervals along the highways of America's Heartland. Just like Dairy Queens! Linc wants to get rid of Kellerman and Camera Guy, but Michael's not done with them yet. Kellerman finds a tarp of some sort, which Michael says is exactly what they need. Camera Guy does not like the sound of that, and he hasn't even seen what Kellerman normally does with tarps.