2.15 "The Message - Il messaggio"
Data di trasmissione USA: 29/01/2007
Data di trasmissione ITA: 02/11/2007
Scritto da: Zack Estrin, Karyn Usher
Diretto da: Bobby Roth
Show Star: William Fichtner (Special Agent Alexander Mahone), Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield), Amaury Nolasco (Fernando Sucre), Wade Williams (Captain Brad Bellick), Sarah Wayne Callies (Dr. Sara Tancredi), Paul Adelstein (Special Agent Paul Kellerman), Dominic Purcell (Lincoln Burrows)

Notiziario della Fox: Lincoln appare in un messaggio-video. Sei ore prima. Al motel Cutback dove sono Michael, Linc e Kellerman arriva la polizia del Montana che attraverso i megafoni li invita a uscire dalla stanza. Michael suggerisce a Kellerman di mostrare il distintivo del Bureau e portarli fuori come suoi arrestati. Segue poi una colluttazione al termine della quale i tre riescono a prendere un auto e a portare con loro come ostaggio un cameraman di un stazione tv arrivata sul posto. Mahone torna sul posto di lavoro e si informa sugli ultimi aggiornamenti. Bellick, pestato a sangue nel corso della notte, è nell'infermeria del Fox River e chiede a Katie di intercedere per lui. Michael, Linc e Kellerman si fermano presso un capannone e decidono sul da farsi. Sucre, giunto in Messico, tenta di arrivare con una corriera a Ixtapa dove ha dato appuntamento a Maricruz. Arrivato però a Calomatillo viene invitato a scendere perché senza biglietto. Un uomo anziano conosciuto sulla corriera lo invita a cena e gli offre un posto per dormire durante la notte in attesa del prossimo bus. Continuano le peripezie di Haywire intenzionato a costruire un'improbabile zattera con la quale arrivare in Olanda. Viene fermato da due ragazzi che gli chiedono di comprargli della birra. Haywire accetta e nota che la ragazza ha sui polsi dei segni di maltrattamenti. Il cameraman viene rilasciato e giunto sul posto di lavoro mostra il messaggio-video registrato da Michael e Linc. Il video, in cui denunciano la Compagnia come collusa col governo degli Stati Uniti e responsabile dell'intera faccenda, viene immediatamente mandato in onda in televisione e trasmesso via internet provocando una grande irritazione in Mr Kim che si muove affinché la notizia venga al più presto insabbiata. L'FBI interroga il cameraman e si convince che i tre siano diretti a Denver dove poche ore più tardi il Presidente Reynolds terrà una conferenza mentre Mr Kim parla nuovamente con il suo misterioso interlocutore. Sucre, dopo aver trovato ospitalità, decide di rubare l'automobile dell'anziano signore e di recarsi a Ixtapa. Lungo la strada viene però fermato da una pattuglia della polizia che lo riporta indietro. L'anziano però mente dicendo di avergli prestato la macchina e gli offre anche i soldi per la benzina. Mahone inizia a esaminare il nastro e comincia a dubitare del reale messaggio offerto dal video, intuendo un ulteriore significato nascosto: i tre vogliano raggiungere Sara Tancredi. La soluzione a Mahone gliela offre Bellick che in cambio di un trasferimento in un reparto più sicuro del Fox River lo informa che alcune parole utilizzate da Michael corrispondono a alcuni capitoli del libro utilizzato dai partecipanti degli anonimi alcolisti. Haywire segue la ragazza e vedendo che sta per essere picchiata dal padre interviene in suo favore colpendo ripetutamente l'uomo. Anche Sara che ha visto il nastro intuisce il significato dei termini utilizzati da Michael e non potendo raggiungerlo immediatamente a Akron, in Ohio, si mette in contatto con lui telefonando all'accettazione del San Thomas Hospital dove era fissato l'appuntamento. Kellerman riceve una telefonata da parte della Reynolds che lo invita a desistere dai suoi propositi di vendetta e di tornare a lavorare per lei.

Note & Curiosità
Sebbene entrambi accreditati, Rockmond Dunbar e Robert Knepper non compaiono nell'episodio.
Kellerman: Tell them you're the Green Lantern. Il "Green Lantern" è un supereroe creato dalla DC Comics.

Quotes
Lincoln: What if the reason this guy's helping us, is to get whatever information Sara has?

Lincoln: They've buried it. Dumped it off the front page and buried it.
Kellerman: It's what they do.
Michael: They can spin it all they want. It's out there now. Give it time. The tape is going to work.

Lincoln (nel messaggio-video): My name is Lincoln Burrows, and I'm innocent. I escaped from Fox River Penitentiary because I was sentenced to death for a crime I did not commit. I did not murder Terrance Steadman. He commited suicide last night in the Cutback Motel thirty miles outside of his home in Blackfoot, Montana.
Michael: He killed himself out of fear. Fear of the people who have been hiding him for the past three years. The same people who want my brother dead. They don't want you to know who they are, but know this: They've stolen billions of dollars and murdered dozens of people, and yet they plaster our faces on the news and tell you to be afraid.
Lincoln: They are a group of multi-nationals, corporate interests. Together they are known as 'The Company'.
Michael: They are working with the highest levels of government including the President of the United States. All told they've stolen billions of dollars and murdered dozens of innocent people... and they offer it with impunity. Under the cover of the Secret Service, the very people meant to protect and serve.

Haywire: I need more wood. Wood floats.

News Anchor: Its' breaking news out of Cutback, Montana. Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield, two of the prisoners who broke out of Fox River State Penitentiary in Illinois have continued to elude the authorities, leaving a trail of crime in thier wake, and today they left behind something else.
Lincoln: My name is Lincoln Burrows and I'm innocent.

President Reynolds: Hello, Paul.
Kellerman: Madame President. It's been a while.
President Reynolds : I know. I'm calling to apologize.
Kellerman: Ok.
President Reynolds : I'm so sorry. It all just got away from me, and I ended up hurting the one person who's always been at my side. I want you to come home, Paul. We can fix this together. But not with those brothers running around the country tearing down the very office you helped me build.
Kellerman: Caroline…
President Reynolds: I want to make it up to you. Please bring them in, Paul, and everything can go back to the way it was. I have to go now. I'll see you soon.

Michael (rispondendo al telefono): This is Mr. Crane.
Sara: It sounded better than "origami".
Michael: Even if you got the message, I wasn't sure you'd respond.
Sara: I couldn't get to you in time. This is the only thing I could think of.
Michael: I swore I'd leave you alone. But I had to contact you.
Sara: Because I have something?
Michael: How'd you know?
Sara: Michael, back in Gila, I was coming back to you. Somebody… grabbed me, and they, um…they told me that my father had given me something.
Michael: Did someone hurt you?
Sara: Uh, I got away. Uh... Michael, I want for this to be over.
Michael: That makes two of us.
Sara: Do you think that's possible?
Michael: With your help, yes. It's just a question of looking at whatever it is your father gave you.
Sara: It's just…it's just a key.
Michael: Well, we'll figure it out. Together.
Sara: I like the sound of that.
Michael: Me too.

Lincoln: It's getting late.
Michael: I know.
Lincoln: She's not here.
Michael: I know that too. There is a chance she didn't get the message.
Lincoln: Or maybe she's just sick of all this. I mean, the girl bailed on you back in Gila. What makes you think she's gonna come runnin' back now?
Michael: The same thing that's been keeping us going for the last three months: faith.

Mahone: This isn't about Terrance Steadman and it's not about their innocence.
Lang: What do you mean?
Mahone: They're not going after the president. They're going after the doctor.

Agent: We think it's Morse code.
Mahone: Of what?
Agent: Right now, we got a phrase, "The water is warm". Any idea what that might mean?
Flashback con Michael, Lincoln e Kellerman che parlano.
Lincoln: What the hell does that mean?
Michael: Nothing. It'll take the feds a while to figure that out.

Kellerman: If you say it that way it plays too earnest.
Lincoln: Course it will, it's the truth.
Kellerman: Ok, but the truth sends them home to their wife and kids. Lies will keep them busy.
Lincoln: I'm not telling a lie to the whole country. It's our one chance to say it how.
Kellerman: Say whatever the hell you want. Tell them you're the Green Lantern. But I know how they break down these tapes. I've done it. Every detail matters. Bin Laden crosses his legs right over left, tells us something completely different than left over right.
Michael: It's not the same message.
Kellerman: To them, it is. If you want this plan to work, whatever you say with your mouths, you need to be saying something different with your bodies and your eyes.

Mahone: Do you have a problem with the way that I do things?
Wheeler: … yeah. I'm not the only one.
Mahone: Is that right?
Wheeler: Internal affairs has asked me to run all your moves through them from here on out.
Mahone: Then get a pen, and make sure you get this word for word: the president's day does not change. The only lead we have is that we know where these men are headed. So we're gonna keep quiet about this. And let'em come. Now get out of my office.
Lang: They're two of the most recognizable faces in America. How do they think they're gonna get anywhere near the president?
Mahone: Because it's not just the two of them anymore.

Michael: Getting to her is the easy part. It's what we do after that's the problem.

Bellick (a Katie): Just listen, please. One more night. Just let me stay here one more night. I know you can do that…and when you go home, just leave that door open for me…

Girl: What's the wood for?
Haywire: I'm buildin' a raft. I need more wood if I'm gonna make it to Holland.

Kim (vedendo il video di Lincoln e Michael): Damage control, immediately. Before this hits page one.
Agent: It's already airing, sir…
Kim (urlando): Start a wildfire in Florida! Find a… a storage unit full of Arabs! I do NOT care! As long as it's not about Lincoln Burrows!

Lincoln: We should get rid of Kellerman, too. We don't need him.
Michael: Actually, we do. We still have assets. It's just a question of how we use them.

Kellerman: I'll make you a deal: you don't move a muscle, I won't blow your head off.

Lincoln: So what's your plan, leave the body, walk out the front door?
Michael: Yes. That's exactly what we're gonna do.

Kellerman: Next time you decide to hold a press conference, do it from a room with a back door.

Mahone: They're going after the president.

Lincoln: What about him?
Kellerman: What about him, he's useless.
Lincoln: A dead body, we got fingerprints everywhere.
Kellerman: Are you worried someone's going to pin a murder on you?