At 2:59pm Hurtado drinks the drugged drink. At 3:00pm Bellick, contrite for once, sympathizes with Michael over Sara's death. Michael doesn't want to hear it. At 3:03pm, behind the curtain in Sammy and Papo's cell, Michael uses the sounds of the prisoners shouting for the fight to cover the sound of him smashing the concrete around the cell's window. Whistler's worried that Mahone's ratting them out: Where is he? He's actually on the way to rat out the Company; he'll get immunity. Then Sullins says there's a problem with the Panamanians; they'll have to put him up in a hotel for a while.

At 3:10pm the grate from the cell window is loose. At 3:12pm Hurtado passes out. Just as the glare comes, though, Sammy returns to his cell to get some cash. Although he notices the loose plaster, he quickly leaves. Michael uses the hammock "ladder" to climb out into No Man's Land, but clouds obscure the sun. There's no more glare, so the plan is foiled. Michael climbs back up, just barely avoiding being noticed. What can they do now? Lechero is starting to wonder where they are, and they have trouble untying the hammock and putting the grate back in. They stash the hammock behind the curtain, a corner of it still attached to the window.

Lechero finds Michael and Whistler, and forces the fight. The other prisoners will kill both of them if they don't go through with it. Whistler is the first to give in to the inevitability; after all it's either him or Michael him now. At 3:25pm Susan brings LJ to the exchange site. Sucre is watching, and reports via cell phone to Linc that LJ's okay. Susan's just got a driver and a bodyguard with her. Where's Michael? Linc gets the hidden scuba gear, but an apologetic Sofia pulls a gun on him to stop him from handing Whistler over. At 3:30pm Susan tells LJ that if there's no escape today, she won't need him as a bargaining chip... because they'll all be dead.

The drugged Hurtado is found and roused just as the hammock falls out the window. The guards see it. An apologetic Whistler gains advantage over Michael, and prepares to bash his skull in with a large stone. The alarm sounds. Linc and Sofia are near enough to hear it, and realize that Michael and Whistler didn't make it. Linc hides the scuba gear again; he and Sofia are once again on the same side. Linc calls Susan, and tells her that Michael and Whistler are with him. They arrange to meet. Mahone, now cleaned up and in a suit, thinks that Lang and Sullins are just trying to get him to confess to the murders. Lang says the deal's legit, and he also knows Mahone's a drug addict. He's starting to tremble again.

Colonel Escamilla and his soldiers storm the prison to find out who tried to escape; they'll get the death penalty. Papo gets shot because it was his cell. Escamilla, upset that Lechero couldn't keep his men in line, eviscerates Lechero in front of the other prisoners by revealing all the favors he's done for Lechero to keep him in power. T-Bag is hopeful he'll be Lechero's replacement. As Escamilla leaves, Lechero and Sammy realize that Michael's the one who must have tried escaping. Pike tells Susan that the guards just took a head count: nobody left Sona today. Sucre reports to Linc that Susan is leaving with LJ. Sucre gets in his car, and plows into Susan's van to give Linc time to catch up. Linc punches and disarms her. Agent King has LJ. It's a standoff. Linc convinces Susan to give him one more chance to get Whistler. LJ is safe for now, though he's still her captive. They drive off, and Linc notices several body bags that have fallen out of the back of her van.

Sammy drags Michael to Lechero. His power in the prison destroyed, Lechero wants Michael to help him break out. Sullins tells Mahone the Panamanians are back on board with his release, but the hearing won't happen until tomorrow. Mahone, starting to get the shakes, demands that the hearing happen immediately. Sullins, disgusted with Mahone, tells Lang to cuff him.

Bellick tells Michael he spent his whole career trying to keep bad people behind bars, but that Sara's death has convinced him that maybe there are more bad people outside than in prison. In Sona's visitation room Susan has a secret meeting... with Whistler. She's been working for him all along. He originally told her he needed to be out in seven days. She's not filled with confidence when he says he may still be able to accomplish his goals if he gets out in another couple of days, but she agrees to give the Scofield brothers more time. The meeting is overheard by Michael.