- After Vaughn sets up a meeting with Simon for Michael about his Bible, Michael gets himself placed in a prison to help one of Sam's friends who has been targeted for death by a gang leader.
- Vaugh arranges a meeting for Michael to question torture-resilient Simon, but they fake a fight so Simon can confide the secret whereabouts of damning proof against Vaughn. Sam feels honor-bound to help retired ex-colleague Juan Ruiz, whose life is most uncertain in jail since he got mixed up in a deadly La Nación-Aryan Brotherhood gang conflict. Michael decides to call a recent marker on FBI agents Lane and Harris to arrange his own fake arrest to get inside. Protection proves impossible, so he must improvise an escape. Meanwhile Sam and Fiona follow Simon's clues, leading to a booby-trapped family Bible.—KGF Vissers
- Michael was going through some personal information on Simon in preparation for interrogating him. Fi was none too pleased that Michael was playing a part in getting Simon out of the high-level prison he was in, but Michael knew Simon was the key to figuring out whatever the big plan was.
Michael showed up to a pretty sweet mansion on the water, and Simon was waiting inside, bound to a chair. Michael asked Simon who was trying to steal his Bible, and Simon busted free from his handcuffs and, grabbing Michael, went out a window. When they landed, Simon gave Michael some terse directions to a cemetery where he'd find a tape that would give him some answers, but Simon didn't want Vaughn to know.
Back at the loft, Michael asked for some help trying to get to the tape. Sam said he had to help a buddy who was stuck in prison. Fi volunteered to go along.
Sam went to see his friend, Juan, whose attorney said Juan's life was in danger. He said a member of a prison gang wanted him to steal some money from the gang. Juan said the guy was planning to shank him by the next day. He asked Sam if he could count on him to protect his wife and daughters. Sam said yes, then we saw that Juan was labeled an unsuspecting client. As he left the prison, we saw some gangster-looking guys following him in a black Escalade. Sam sought to escape quietly, so he drove to a criminal defense lawyer's office building and pretended to be an attorney, a tacit signal to the gangsters that he wasn't a threat. Buying into the ruse, they drove by with guns lowered, but left Sam alone.
Sam told Jesse and Michael that he wanted to break into prison to help Juan, who risked his life to save Sam back when they were in the SEALs on a South American op. Michael said Sam couldn't go into the prison, because he'd already been seen, so he volunteered to do it. Michael knew a couple of guys who'd love to see him locked up -- FBI agents Lane and Harris. They got him into a cell with Juan.
They also left him a 'phone in his cell, in case he got into trouble. Michael went in for a week -- the amount of time left on Juan's sentence.
Michael introduced himself to Juan as a friend of Sam's. He told Juan not to act surprised and to never leave his side. Juan tried to talk Michael out of it, but Michael said he believed Juans life was worth saving. Out in the yard, Juan identified Cruz, the guy who wants him dead. Cruz called Michael over, and Michael tried to play like an unassuming milquetoast and Cruz warned him not to cause him any trouble, and to clear out of Juan's cell if Cruz ever came by.
Back at the cemetery, Sam was digging for Simon's tape. Fi figured it was booby trapped. She had to come back with some tools to open the casket where the tape was held.
In the prison, Michael sensed something was going to happen because other inmates were avoiding them. They went to the library, ripped out law books and placed the hard covers under their prison garb as impromptu protection against shanks. They went back to Juan's cell and, sure enough, Cruz showed up with a couple of guys (the floor guard serving as an escort). Michael fought off Cruz and his guys long enough for more guards to come break it up, but Cruz warned Michael he'd be back to throw a big party and Michael and Juan would be his guests of honor.
Later, Juan and Michael saw Cruz talking to the Aryan gang leader and Michael knew they were arranging a riot to create enough cover for Cruz to kill Juan while the guards were distracted. Michael went back to the cell and used the phone to call Sam and tell him he had to break out. Michael planned to use the riot as cover for the escape. He told Sam about the crooked floor guard, Hill, and sent him over to find the guy. Sam and Jesse went to Hill's house. Sam knew Hill's younger brother was doing time in a different prison and Cruz' guys there were putting pressure on Hill to help Cruz. (Got that?) Hill agreed to help so that Sam wouldn't get an investigation opened into Hill's actions with Cruz.
Fi visited Michael in prison and told him how to escape (by locking himself in the infirmary locker) during the riot. Sam and Jesse would be the guards picking up the locker and moving it off site -- which was part of the riot procedure that Hill told them about (he also provided them with uniforms and key cards). Fi then slipped Michael (with the help of a big, sloppy kiss) a pick for the lock on the infirmary door.
At the cemetery, Maddy served as a lookout while Fi cleverly busted through the booby trap. Maddy told the caretaker a story to distract him while Fi finished up the job.
Two guards came and grabbed Michael and Juan, saying it was time to see the barber.
Michael and Juan were taken to a closed-off area where Cruz was waiting and told the guard -- who seemed confused -- it was the end of the line. Cruz and another guy beat the two guards. A couple of quick moments passed and Michael handled his business with Cruz' backup guy while Cruz hit Juan with a pipe, breaking his leg. Mike carried Juan toward the infirmary while the riot broke loose around them. Michael called Sam, who was on his way in with Jesse, and told him to get a message to Cruz in the prison (through Hill) that Michael and Juan would be hiding in the infirmary.
Michael hid Juan in the laundry room, then went an set up some improvised explosive material in the infirmary. Cruz showed up. Using ether and a butane torch, Michael set off an explosion big enough to knock out Cruz and his two guys. Sam and Jesse arrived, and put Cruz into the infirmary locker. Michael called Lane and Harris for help.
We next saw Cruz crawl out of the portable locker, while (in voice-over) Michael explained -- in essence, that Cruz had been set up to look like an escapee. Cruz picked up a gun as he crawled out from the locker in an empty warehouse. When he opened the door, there were loads of cops waiting for him.
Lane and Harris escorted Michael out of prison. Sam got the update that Cruz was taken care of by some of his own gang members who found out he was stealing from the gang. Everybody wins!
That night, Sam and Fi sat with Michael as they listened to Simon's tape they had retrieved from the booby-trapped coffin. It was a phone call between Simon and Vaughn. Simon was telling Vaughn he figured his service was up because Vaughn tried to have Simon killed. Vaughn told Simon he's found another one -- Michael, and if he doesn't work out, he'll find another.
Michael met with Simon again and thanked him for giving him in the information that Vaughn chose Michael, likely having him burned. Michael wanted to know what the Bible decodes and who was after it. Simon wouldn't tell him what it decodes, but told him about John Barrett, the CEO of Drake Technologies, a multi-billion dollar corporation that would rebuild whatever it destroyed. Simon said that if Michael delivered the Bible to Barrett, he'll have everything he needs to wipe out Vaughn and his ilk completely.
Michael went back and told Vaughn about Barrett. Vaughn asked Michael how he got the info.
He tried to convince me to kill you, Michael said. I let him believe he convinced me.
Vaughn asked if he should be worried. Michael asked what's next and Vaughn said they would use a surgical approach in going after Barrett.
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