2.09 "Unearthed / Dissotterrato"
Data di trasmissione USA: 30/10/2006
Data di trasmissione ITA: 12/10/2007
Scritto da: Nick Santora
Diretto da: Kevin Hooks
Show Star: Amaury Nolasco (Fernando Sucre), Dominic Purcell (Lincoln Burrows), Marshall Allman (LJ Burrows), Paul Adelstein (Special Agent Paul Kellerman), Robert Knepper (Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell), Rockmond Dunbar (Benjamin "C-Note" Miles Franklin), Sarah Wayne Callies (Dr. Sara Tancredi), Wade Williams (Captain Brad Bellick), Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield), William Fichtner (Special Agent Alexander Mahone)
Recurring Role: Cynthia Kaye McWilliams (Kacee Franklin)
Guest Star: Helena Klevorn (Dede Franklin), Mike Jones (Darius), Callie Thorne (Pamela Mahone), Matt DeCaro (Roy Geary), Jason Davis (Wheeler), Barbara Eve Harris (Lang)

Michael si reca presso un orto botanico con l'intenzione di fare un passo ulteriore nel suo piano ma è costretto a fuggire dopo aver notato la presenza di due agenti dell'FBI. Mentre è seduto presso una tavola calda, assiste ad un servizio televisivo sugli evasi del Fox River e viene a sapere della morte di Tweener e del recupero dell'hard-disk del suo computer. A questo punto decide di indagare su Alexander Mahone il quale, grazie anche agli indizi ricevuti da Kellerman, è sempre più vicino alla sua cattura. Sara intanto tenta di recuperare la frase mancante dei messaggi di Michael e, grazie ad un'intuizione, arriva alla soluzione e prenota immediatamente un volo per Gila, New Mexico. Lincoln e LJ continuano il loro viaggio ma vengono notati da una cameriera: sono quindi costretti a lasciare l'automobile e proseguire la loro fuga a piedi. T-Bag, dopo aver messo al sicuro i soldi, si reca a casa di Susan Hollander ma la donna dopo aver saputo della sua evasione è fuggita immediatamente mettendo in vendità la sua proprietà. Poco dopo arrivano sul posto Bellick e Geary i quali, controllando la sua corrispondenza al Fox River, hanno intuito l'intenzione dell'uomo di rivedere quella donna. Dopo averlo colpito, lo legano ad una sedia e cominciano a torturarlo per sapere dove sono i soldi di Westmoreland. C-Note cerca di ricongiungersi con la famiglia ma la moglie viene minacciata da un'agente dell'FBI. Alla fine riesce nel suo intento ma il loro futuro appare molto incerto. Michael, dopo aver fatto visita a Pam, l'ex-moglie di Mahone, riesce a ricostruire la storia relativa alla scomparsa di Oscar Shales e intuisce che l'agente lo ha sotterrato nel suo giardino. Lo chiama quindi al telefono e gli propone un accordo: l'omicidio di Shales rimarrà un segreto ma lui smetterà di cercare di catturare lui e Lincoln. Lincoln e LJ tentano infine di prendere un treno ma sono riconosciuti da un uomo. Per evitare di essere catturati da un agente della sicurezza, i due scappano ma LJ viene investito da un'automobile: i due sono quindi immediatamente arrestati.

Note & Curiosità
L'indirizzo di Alexander Mahone è:
5002 Bleecker Street
Oak Point, IL 60301
Il terzo messaggio di Michael a Sara dopo "Rendezvous" e "SunDownHot" è "elGilaNM63".
L'episodio è ambientato al 2 giugno 2007.
Quando Michael scorre la rubrica del cellulare di Pam Mahone i nomi che compaiono (Adia Weight, Adrianna Kopitar, Agatha Ovechkin, Aidan Kotalik, Ally Vasquez, Amy Crosb, Andrea Staios) sono tutti nomi che ricordano famosi giocatori di hockey con l'eccezione di Vasquez: Doug Weight, Anze Kopitar, Alexander Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby e Steve Staios. Inoltre, Wayne Merrick, lo pseudonimo di Michael è il nome di un altrettanto famoso giocatore di hockey.

Quotes
Lincoln (a L.J.): All the charges against you have been dropped. You're free and clear. You can start a new life.

Dede: Where are we going, Daddy?
C-Note: Disneyland.

Lincoln: I uh, I saw you checkin' out those girls back at the diner.
L.J.: What?
Lincoln: Come on. 'Fess up.
L.J. : Nah, I was just makin' sure that they weren't staring at us.
Lincoln: With what, their asses?

Lincoln: L.J….I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Bellick: How you feelin', little Teddy?

L.J.: Hey, I'm not an idiot! I was on the run too, you know.
Lincoln: Yeah, you were on the run. And you got caught.
L.J.: Yeah, well I'm sorry I'm not a pro at being a con like you, dad! Maybe I should have just left when you gave me the out, huh? It's not like you care.
Lincoln: Whoa. Take it easy. I'm sorry. Alright? I'm sorry man, I'm just… lets get out of here.

Geary: Did you get a nice nap? Visions of 12 year olds dancin' in your head?

C-Note: My wife is waitin' for me today, and I am not leavin' Chi town without my family, y'understand?

Mahone: Pam, I really can't talk right now.
Michael: Maybe I should call back.
Mahone: Who is this?
Michael: I think you already know.
Mahone: If you've done anything to Pam or my boy…
Michael: We both know your family's fine. Although Pam did seem a little upset about you leaving. But then, you had to, didn't you? Because you couldn't let her find out.
Mahone: Find out about what?
Michael: Oscar Shales. You remember? The one that got away. Except he didn't get too far, did he?
Mahone: Ahhh, you're slippin', Scofield.
Michael: Maybe. But let's hypothesize for a moment. Let's pretend I was the one who caught Shales. I don't think I could have just handed that psychopath over to the courts. Not after he'd eluded me for so long. Made me look bad.
Mahone: You've been out in the sun way too long, boy.
Michael: You feds make a nice living. But not so nice you go around tearing up expensive sod. Not unless you had to do a little digging. Unless you wanted to hide something. Or someone. That's what all the lye was for, wasn't it? See because there are two kinds of lye. In small amounts the first kind can be a gardener's best friend. In large bags the other kind decomposes bodies.
Mahone: Ah, you should write mystery novels.
Michael: I don't know about you, but if I'd buried someone in my own backyard, I'd think about it all the time. I'd think… I'd think maybe I should move that body. But then I'd remember that DNA leaches into soil. So even when the body was gone the proof of what I'd done would still be there. I can imagine how it feels. The pressure, the constant fear. It's more than a man can bear. I'm giving you a chance. Back off. Let me and my family disappear. And in return, I'll keep your little secret. How does that sound?
Mahone: Like a dead man talking.
Michael: I know it's not how you wanted this to play out. But sometimes things happen that are just…out of your control. This is one of those times. Take care of yourself.
Mahone: I'll see you soon, Michael. Oh, and Michael – it just may be sooner than you think.

Mahone: I know these men. Who they are, where they came from, where they want to go.

Michael: What about Oscar Shales?
Pam: Oscar Shales? Why is he important?
Michael: Well, he's, ah…he's the only fugitive to ever successfully elude your ex husband.
Pam: Alex was consumed with finding him. I mean, after what Shales did to all of his victims, who could blame him. It was all he worked on, all he did, for a year. But I don't think that it was the stress of chasing Shales that caused Alex to start behaving erratically.
Michael: Why is that?
Pam: Because Alex changed after the trail went cold. I remember it like it was yesterday. He just, walked into the kitchen, after 12 years of marriage, and said that he wanted me out of the house immediately. I'll never forget the date – it was June 15.
Michael: I think I have everything I need.

Pam: All I wanted was an explanation. Why things ended so suddenly. And all Alex could say was, sometimes things happen that are just out of your control.

Mahone: Lang! Today's the day Franklin told his wife he was gonna meet her at the rainbow room.
Lang: That's right.
Mahone: Wrong. Today's the day Franklin's going down. Are you ready?
Lang: Everything's arranged.

Lincoln: I'm a target, kid. As long as you're with me, so are you. Things'll get a whole lot worse before they get better. Understand?
L.J.: But after we meet up with uncle Mike and get to Panama…
Lincoln: Panama ain't a sure thing. Your uncle's plan is dangerous, I mean really dangerous.

Lang: Where you going?
Kacee: To take my kid to school.
Lang: I know about the rainbow room.
Kacee: I don't know what you're talkin' about.
Lang: Phone lines are tapped. We heard your entire telephone conversation with your husband. And since you and Dede aren't booked on any flights to New York, don't tell me the rainbow room is a restaurant in Manhattan. Now you can tell me where you're meeting your husband, or I can arrest you. Right in front of your daughter.
Kacee: You go to hell. I haven't done anything wrong.
Lang: You spoke with an escaped felon about meeting him today. You've already done enough to be charged with attempt to aid and abeit.
Kacee: Please. Ok, listen to me...
Lang: One phone call and child welfare is here. You'll go to County, and Dede will be in foster care.
Kacee: No!
Lang: Don't worry. I hear the, ah, families in the foster system are top notch.
Kacee: You are asking me to choose between my daughter and my husband!
Lang: Exactly.

Bellick: So this is where Theodore practiced ‘pervert knows best'. This is where he had his family supper. And that, I believe, is where you and Miss Hollander expressed your love. Tell me little Teddy, did you make her wear Doctor Dentons and hold a lunch box? Help you get all worked up.
T-Bag: Bradley I couldn't expect a grown man who still lives with his mamma to understand the machinations of love.

Mahone: Can take out an entire building! That box right there. This is why we can't have... leaks... coming from this office... God help the agent who goes behind my back and talks to the press.