Episode Summary
Riots, Drills and the Devil Part One[1.6]
Michael (Wentworth Miller) realises that to complete the digging job inside the walls, he needs to spend a good block of time in there. This is proving difficult as he has to keep coming back to his cell to make count. After explaining this to Sucre (Amaury Nolasco), Sucre admits that "there are only three certain things in life. Death, taxes and count." The only time count doesn't take place is during a lockdown. Michael uses his access to the inside of the walls to turn off the air conditioning. The prisoners suffer in the heat, leading T-Bag (Robert Knepper) to start a fight with a guard who initiates a lock-down while some of the prisoners are out of their cells. The prisoners riot and break into the prison cell control room, in which T-Bag opens all the cells and then finds a set of keys, giving him and the rioters access to the entire prison.
When the news of the riot reaches sick bay, the prisoners there also riot. After incapacitating the guard, they trap Dr. Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) in a room in the sick bay. Michael uses a tracing of a devil from his tattoo to provide the coordinates needed to collapse part of the wall that prevents the team from entering a pipe that will take them to the infirmary. He notices Dr. Tancredi's plight on CCTV and goes to rescue her through an air duct. Lincoln is ambushed by loose prisoners and his rookie guard gets taken hostage by T-Bag, the leader of the rioters. The guard is thrown against the sink in Michael and Sucre's cell, leading to the T-Bag's realisation of the team's plan, though Abruzzi quietens him. Sucre is sent to finish the breaking through the wall. The man who says he is guiding Lincoln to Michael was actually sent to kill him.