Jim Allen

“Allen”
Prison Break episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 2
Written by	Paul Scheuring
Directed by	Michael Watkins
Production no.	1AKJ01
Original airdate	August 29, 2005
Season 1 episodes
Pilot Allen Cell Test Cute Poison English, Fitz or Percy Riots, Drills and the Devil (Part 1) Riots, Drills and the Devil (Part 2) The Old Head Tweener Sleight of Hand And Then There Were 7 Odd Man Out End of the Tunnel The Rat By the Skin and the Teeth Brother's Keeper J-Cat Bluff The Key Tonight Go Flight
List of Prison Break episodes

"Allen" is the second episode of television series Prison Break which was first broadcast on television on August 29, 2005. The episode was written by series creator Paul Scheuring and directed by Michael Watkins. The episode's title refers to the hex key that Michael makes from a screw, the key being named "Allen Schweitzer 11121147".

Summary

Michael Scofield continues to observe people interacting. A knife is found in his cell, but thanks to Warden Pope, that was all that was found. Michael's cell mate Sucre has to go to the SHU for possession of the knife. Michael meets T-Bag for the first time in the yard. While they chat, Michael is loosening a screw he needs from the bleachers they are sitting on with a quarter. Unfortunately, T-Bag does not want Michael on the bleachers unless he is willing to join in the racist battle between the whites and the blacks, which Michael declines.

When Michael tries to finish unscrewing the screw, T-Bag and his group arrive again, this time taking the screw from him. Meanwhile, on the outside Veronica Donovan is searching for proof of Lincoln Burrows' innocence at Michael's insistence. However, she receives a security tape which shows Lincoln firing his gun at the car. Back at the prison, Michael asks C-Note about the PUGNAc, an insulin blocker, which he needs to take in order to appear diabetic on a test Dr. Tancredi wants to administer. C-Note tells him it's coming.

Due to the importance of the screw, Michael tells T-Bag and his group that he will join them in the inevitable fight between the white and black people. After C-Note sees this, he has Michael pushed against the wall and put in a sleeper hold and refuses to give him the PUGNAc. Meanwhile, Lincoln gets a visit from Veronica, who tells him that she saw the security tape but Lincoln says he never pulled the trigger. In his flashback, he arrives at the car to find the Vice President's brother Terrence Steadman already dead. Lincoln says he was set up, but Veronica is not convinced.

As everyone comes out of their cell for count, the fight starts, C-Note sees Michael fighting one of T-Bag's cellmates to get the screw he needs. A black inmate comes to Michael's aid and stabs the guy in the chest several times, then runs off. When T-Bag sees his cellmate collapse onto Michael, he thinks Michael is responsible.

The fight is eventually stopped by the guards and the warden initiates a lockdown. During the lock-down, Michael rubs the screw against the floor to match the size of a mark on his tattoo blueprints. After the lockdown, with new-found trust, Michael receives the PUGNAc from C-Note just before he has to go to the infirmary. As the test is being run, Sara notices Michael's anxiety. When she tells him the results, Michael is visibly relieved. After he leaves, Sara remarks on the odd behaviour of Michael to her nurse. Afterwards, John Abruzzi and his band of prison mobsters enclose Michael in a storage shed and try to get him to reveal the details of Fibonacci, a former associate of Abruzzi who was put into the witness protection programme after reporting details of Abruzzi's crimes and had him imprisoned for life. Michael insists on not revealing the details until they are outside of the prison walls. As a result, Abruzzi and the other P.I. members cut off Michael's two smallest toes on his left foot in an attempt to torture the details out of him.

Trivia

• Marshall Allman (L. J.) does not appear in this episode.
• The two songs used in this episode are both by Black Toast Music - "Willing to Die" and "This Is War".
• Gunner McGrath, singer of the Chicago punk rock band Much the Same appears as an extra in this episode. He is seen wearing a black bandana on his head just prior to the outbreak of the riot.

External links

• Official summary for Season 1 Episode 02 from Fox

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