Prison Break (TV Series)

Contingency (2017)

Dominic Purcell: Lincoln 'Linc' Burrows

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• Michael Scofield : There's another station thirty miles outside Sana'a. We can find a way there, hop a train. They won't anticipate us coming that way.

  Lincoln Burrows : Doubling down on a bad bet. Just like you did seven years back with the CIA. Look around you. Your plans affect people, you don't even see it.

  Michael Scofield : I don't blame you for resenting me.

  Lincoln Burrows : You're damn right I resent you.

  Michael Scofield : I see it, Linc. I see it. Every second of every day; the people, the collateral damage, the lives I've... affected. But I can't start thinking about that. Because if I do, then it all falls apart and none of us get to go home. I have to stay focused, be the man with the plan. Just like Fox River.

• Michael Scofield : I'm sorry, Linc. I should have come to you. I should've asked for your help when Poseidon offered me the deal. I blew it. At the time, I thought if I dealt with it myself, the pain would only be mine. But instead I opened this Pandora's box. I wanted to make it better, but I only made it worse for everyone. And somewhere in there... I became a ghost.

  [flashback of Michael covertly following Sara and Mike in a forest] 

  Michael Scofield : I made a lot of mistakes. A lot of foolish, imperfect choices, but every one of them... every one of them I made for love.

  Lincoln Burrows : I know. I know. Michael, you're the smartest person I've ever known, but you can't carry the load on your shoulders alone. You need to share the burden.

  Michael Scofield : Yes.

  Lincoln Burrows : That's family. That's what family's for.

• Lincoln Burrows : This is the part you tell me what's going on. The whole thing.

  Michael Scofield : No, th... there's no time. Country's about to fall. You'll get your answers, I promise. Right now, our window is closing. We need to... we need to pivot to the next contingency. Train station.

  Whip : Get up to the north.

  Michael Scofield : Exit the country that way.

  Lincoln Burrows : Things have changed in the four years you've been locked up in Ogygia, Michael. Your plan's redundant. ISIL control the north, roads, checkpoints, train stations. Even if we make it across the city, it's suicide.

  Michael Scofield : No, you're wrong. It's a shell game. You go where they never expect you.

  Whip : [to Lincoln]  Wait, you came all the way to Yemen looking for him. You think he was lost or something? Come on.

  Lincoln Burrows : [getting in his face]  You want to live? The airport's the only option.

• Michael Scofield : Michael Scofield had to die. I had to fake my death. Go away. It was part of the deal I made. If I went to work for a deep-cover operative named Poseidon, we would all go free.

  Lincoln Burrows : We were free. We were exonerated.

  Michael Scofield : No. That's what we thought, but we were wrong. A few weeks before I married Sara, I was approached by Poseidon.

  [flashback] 

  Dr. Sara Tancredi : You think I'm showing? I'm not used to that yet. I got to... I got to tell Michael. Here you go. Burgers will be just a second.

  Michael Scofield : [answering a ringing phone]  Hello? Yes, this is Michael.

  [as he listens, his eyes widen and he turns to look at Sara] 

  Michael Scofield : [back in the present]  Poseidon told me Kellerman didn't have the authority or jurisdiction to exonerate our crimes. He used that as a legal fulcrum. Told me he could put us all away for life within the mandate of the law unless... unless I went to work for him.

• Lincoln Burrows : Who the hell is this Poseidon guy?

  Michael Scofield : A psychopath. A frustrated policy wonk in the CIA who felt he could do better than his superiors. So he created a cell within the CIA called 21 Void, implenting his own intelligence operations. And he needed my help breaking out people imprisoned all over the world. Terrorists, political dissidents, rogue agents. And if I did it, you and Sara, you'd go free. Your record's expunged, but... there was a rub. I wasn't allowed to have contact with any of you, including my son.

  Lincoln Burrows : Michael...

  Michael Scofield : So, Michael Scofield was dead and... over the years, I assumed many names. Kaniel Outis, the most recent.

  Lincoln Burrows : Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you reach out to me?

  Michael Scofield : I didn't have a choice. Poseidon made that... very clear.

  Lincoln Burrows : How?

  Michael Scofield : At first, I said no. I wouldn't do it. Then within weeks, Sara was incarcerated, beaten. And so I gave in. Everything I did, I did for family; for you, for Sara, for Mike. So none of you would ever have to spend another day inside a prison cell or... or live a life on the run.

  Lincoln Burrows : Look at us now.

• Lincoln Burrows : I think it's time we get sane and head to the airport.

  Michael Scofield : No, no, no. This is better. They control the station. They'll never think to look for us here now. They're repurposing those trains for cargo, not passengers. Once we're on, it's... it's a straight shot to the north. They won't check the cars again.

  Lincoln Burrows : That's what you see when you see the train? I see a bunch of dudes with AK-47s who don't look a thing like us. Do you really believe we can survive three hundred miles on a train through ISIL territory? Now, that's suicide.

  Sid : It does seem risky.

  Whip : No kidding.

• Michael Scofield : The airport's the only play.

  Ja : The airport is five miles away. The border is hundreds.

  Michael Scofield : Look, the airport might be the right choice, but I trust my instincts. They've gotten us this far. And by gut says we can still make it out through the north. Your choice.

  Whip : [to Lincoln]  Look, man, I agree with you, even if I don't know you from Adam. But... got to go with the horse that got you here, you know? So... he's my horse.

  Ja : [he and Sid start to follow Michael and Whip]  Craziest horse I've ever met. But got us this far.

  Lincoln Burrows : Crazy only works if it doesn't get you killed.

• Michael Scofield : [trapped in a blocked-off hospital]  There's got to be a way out. Something... something that connects to the surface.

  Lincoln Burrows : Going down's not gonna work, Michael. We need to set up an ambush and fight.

  Michael Scofield : Yeah, well, fighting is your default setting. It's not always about fists.

• Whip : [after Ja eliminates a pair of ISIL soldiers]  I love you, you crazy Japanese son of a bitch!

  Ja : It's Korean, champ.

  Whip : Whatever. I still love you.

  Sid : ISIL are like roaches. More will be here soon. What do we do now?

  Michael Scofield : I need to take a break from making decisions. Linc, airport?

  Lincoln Burrows : Airport.

• Lincoln Burrows : I got someone I want you to talk to.

  Michael Scofield : [Linc hands him the phone]  Hey.

  Benjamin Miles 'C-Note' Franklin : [laughing]  Oh, man! Now that's a voice I never thought I'd hear again. Man, you got some explaining to do, brother, risen from the dead and all.

  Michael Scofield : Soon. Where can we meet you?

  Benjamin Miles 'C-Note' Franklin : Uh, hangar two. Right off the main runway.

  [hearing shouting nearby] 

  Benjamin Miles 'C-Note' Franklin : But you better hurry your ass up.

  Michael Scofield : [to Lincoln]  Hangar two?

  Lincoln Burrows : We could be there in twenty minutes.

  Michael Scofield : [to C-Note]  We can be there in twenty minutes.

  Benjamin Miles 'C-Note' Franklin : I don't know if we have that long.

  Michael Scofield : Wait for us. We'll be there.

• Michael Scofield : A wrench and a pipe against AKs.

  Lincoln Burrows : It'll be fun. I've always wanted a crack at these bastards.