Prison Break

‫LINCOLN: I didn't kill that man, ‫ Michael.

‫MICHAEL: ‫ The evidence says you did.

‫I was set up. ‫Swear to me.

‫I swear to you, Michael.

‫(over bullhorn): ‫Put down your weapon!

‫JUDGE: ‫ I find it incumbent that

‫you see the inside ‫of a prison cell, Mr. Scofield.

‫I'm looking for someone-- ‫guy named Lincoln Burrows.

‫Why you want to see Burrows ‫so bad anyhow?

‫'Cause he's my brother.

‫I'm getting you out of here. ‫That's impossible.

‫MICHAEL: Not if you designed ‫ the place, it isn't.

‫(C-Note laughs)

‫You one mixed-up cracker,

‫ you know that?

‫Are we in business?

‫ Now... it's all about timing.

‫T-BAG: Scofield. You ‫ just as pretty as advertised.

‫When do we get started?

‫I need your help. ‫You're asking me to break the law.

‫ I'm asking you ‫ to make a mistake.

‫ Forget to lock up.

‫(alarm wailing) ‫Come on.

‫LINCOLN: ‫ We did it, Mike.

‫MICHAEL: ‫ However this plays out...

‫ I have no regrets.

‫LINCOLN (echoing): ‫ Michael!

‫ Well, if you're watching this, ‫ that means you're safe.

‫ I wish I could be there ‫ with you,

‫ but as you know now, ‫ I wouldn't have had much time.

‫ I made my choice.

‫ I don't regret it.

‫ We're free now.

‫ We're free.

‫ Freedom has a price.

‫ I died seven years ago.

‫ Left behind a brother...

‫ a wife...

‫ a son.

‫ But the dead talk...

‫ if you listen.

‫ They're there with you...

‫ reaching out...

‫ trying to tell you something.

‫ Because not all deaths ‫ are the same.

‫ Some are real.

‫ Some are a story.

‫ Question is...

‫ do you believe the story?

‫ Was the man who died

‫ who you thought he was?

‫ The dead talk...

‫ if you listen.

‫Still tight as...

‫scales on a snake.

‫Must have friends in ‫high places, Bagwell.

‫How a cesspool like you gets his ‫walking papers I'll never know.

‫This cesspool ‫has been a model citizen.

‫ Model citizen.

‫(closes zipper)

‫$71.31.

‫Laptop.

‫Pack of gum, three pieces.

‫How about you keep that?

‫Whatever you bring in, ‫you bring out.

‫And one last piece ‫of correspondence.

‫Something really wrong with ‫the world when I'm receiving

‫dozens of letters a week ‫for guys like you.

‫Nothing compared to the e-mails.

‫What is it with you killers ‫that put the satin

‫on women's panties anyhow?

‫(exhales)

‫Lackaday!

‫(car engine roaring)

‫(tires squeal)

‫(car doors closing)

‫(panting)

‫(weapon cocking)

‫Burrows!

‫How about you step out ‫and pay us

‫the hundred grand ‫you owe us?

‫Take that as a no.

‫Lincoln Burrows... says no.

‫Big tough guy...

‫who made it out of ‫the neighborhood.

‫And look at you now-- ‫back to your roots,

‫the way ‫you've always been.

‫A small-time crook ‫who can't pay his debts.

‫We're gonna find you, you know,

‫and we're gonna ‫open you up.

‫(car door closes, engine starts)

‫(dog barking in distance)

‫T-BAG: ‫Lincolny-linc.

‫All huffin' and puffin'.

‫Don't you look at me ‫like I'm trash.

‫My house is in order. ‫I'm clear with the government,

‫the D.O.C. and my God.

‫Doesn't appear to be ‫the same with you.

‫Look at you, ‫all backslid.

‫You're supposed to be going ‫up in the world as you age,

‫or did you not ‫get the memo?

‫You don't get off my deck, ‫I'm gonna crack your skull.

‫I wouldn't do that.

‫Seems fate has deigned

‫despite our mutual contempt.

‫Have a look-see.

‫(sighs)

‫Where'd you get this?

‫Received it on release ‫earlier this week.

‫No return address.

‫If you're playing me, ‫I'll kill you.

‫Take a look ‫at that postmark on that.

‫I may be ‫a sophisti-cat,

‫but not ‫so sophisticated

‫as to forge something like that.

‫Besides...

‫what angle could I possibly have ‫in coming here

‫and telling you that ‫it looks like your brother

‫might just be alive?

‫It's impossible.

‫That's what I thought.

‫Why'd he send it to you?

‫Again, what I thought.

‫And then I gave the words ‫another look-see.

‫Maybe that's the answer.

‫"By your hand

‫"you shall know the ‫glories of your Progeny

‫"and our world will be

‫made right forevermore."

‫Hell if I know ‫what that means.

‫But just like that ‫envelope's addressed to me,

‫those words are addressed ‫to me. Got to be!

‫Get out.

‫I'm trying ‫to work with you here.

‫Is there any possible way ‫your brother could've survived?

‫My brother's dead.

‫Th-Then who sent ‫this? And why?

‫Get out.

‫At least let me take ‫my rightful correspondence.

‫(scoffs)

‫Oh, I made a copy, Burrows.

‫I knew you'd be the same ‫obstinate son of a beyotch

‫you always been, but I'd ‫hoped you'd seen the light.

‫But you are what you is ‫and you is what you are.

‫(scoffs)

‫Still, I'm telling you...

‫fate has got us joined ‫at the hip somehow.

‫(door closes)

‫(takes deep breath)

‫(exhales)

‫MAN: ‫ Where you in from?

‫LINCOLN: ‫ Chicago.

‫MAN: ‫ Love Chicago.

‫There you go. ‫Thanks, man.

‫(engine roaring)

‫(exhales)

‫(laughs softly) ‫I didn't think

‫I was ever gonna ‫see you again.

‫You didn't come ‫to the wedding.

‫I mean, I... ‫I figured I, I get it--

‫he hates me for marrying someone ‫other than his brother, but...

‫I haven't been ‫in a good place, Sara.

‫My brain, it's, it's, ‫it's been a mess.

‫That's why I didn't show up.

‫And I didn't want my nephew ‫to see me like that.

‫(sighs quietly)

‫But now it's impossible ‫to stay away.

‫SARA: Someone's got ‫a sick sense of humor.

‫I know you want it to be true.

‫Losing a brother--

‫the massive hole ‫that leaves in your life.

‫Like the same massive hole ‫losing a husband makes.

‫(sighs)

‫Maybe. ‫(door opens, closes)

‫Lincoln Burrows?

‫Jacob.

‫I haven't seen ‫you in what,

‫three, four years?

‫Yeah. ‫MIKE: Uncle Lincoln!

‫Hey-hey! Buddy!

‫Oh...

‫so good to see you.

‫Did you bring me ‫any sunken treasures?

‫"Sunken treasures"?

‫Oh. The dive shop.

‫Panama. ‫Yeah, I've been telling him stories

‫about being down there before ‫we came back to the States.

‫You've become kind of like

‫a mythological hero to him. ‫Let me get some beers.

‫I want to know what you been up to. ‫Sure, man. Yeah.

‫Okay. ‫Come here.

‫I want you to go wash up, okay?

‫And then you can catch up ‫with your uncle.

‫He hasn't just ‫mythologized you.

‫He mythologizes ‫Michael, too.

‫It's like someone thinking ‫he was born to a god,

‫a god he's never met...

‫and who isn't here.

‫And who never will be again.

‫I can be pragmatic.