SPOILERS :: Stop right now if you don’t want to spoil next week’s episode of Prison Break.  Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you!  After the jump are many, many screencaps and a synopsis from Prison Break episode "By The Skin And The Teeth", which airs this Monday, March 27 @ 8PM ET/PT.  Go click happy!  Enjoy the new promo above and the best quote of next week’s episode below –

Michael :: The only way we’re getting into that infirmary is from beneath.  We’re gonna have to find another way.
Westmoreland :: The Psych Ward?
Michael :: It’s the only building that shares a subsurface line with the infirmay.
T-Bag :: You’re telling me… to get into the infirmary, we gotta go through the whack shack?

Prison Break

They open with Lincoln getting straped down into the chair and after they’re done the curtain to the viewers room opens.

Michael and Veronica are shocked to see it and are clearly devestated. You can also see the mystery man in the viewers room. Lincoln recognizes the man and starts mumbling, "It’s him… it’s him." The warden hears something but doesn’t understand Lincoln. Before anything else happens the phone behind the execution room rings, and then the curtain to the viewers room closes.

Next, you see Michael and Veronica in the visitation room out of their mind, not knowing what happened. Then the door opens and the warden comes in saying, "I can’t tell you how sorry I am that you had to go through all this." Then Lincoln comes in - Michael and Veronica are relieved but also beyond surprised and shocked.

Michael :: "What happened in there?"
Pope :: "Judge Kessler called. The execution has been delayed"
Michael :: "What do you mean delayed?"
Pope :: "Apparently some new evidence has come to live."
Veronica :: "What evidence?"
Michael :: "I don’t understand. How long do we have? One day? Two days?"
Pope :: "That’s all the information I have at the moment. I’m sorry. I’ll give you a minute."

Pope leaves the room to give Lincoln, Michael and Veronica some privacy.

Michael :: "I need to know how much time we have."
Veronica :: "I go and see the judge and find out. (She kisses and pets Lincoln a bit more and then leaves to call the judge.) You’re with Michael, you’ll be OK."
Lincoln :: "Did you see him."
Michael :: "Who?"
Lincoln :: "The guy in the viewing room."
Michael :: "No!?"
Lincoln :: "It was Dad!"
Michael is speechless and shocked
Lincoln :: "It was Dad!"

[Opening Credits]

Michael and Lincoln talk about it - Lincoln is convinced that it is their dad, Michael doesn’t believe it.

Meeting between the VP, Kellerman and Brinker.
VP :: "Why is he still alive?"
Kellerman :: "It appears that some information was anonymously slipped to the judge."
VP :: "Anonymously? It was your fat little friend Hale. If you had taken care of him sooner…"
Kellerman :: "It wasn’t Hale…"
Brinker :: "How do you know that?"
Kellerman :: "If Hale would have gotten Veronica Donovan anything that could have gotten stay of execution, I think she would have brought it up when she made her argument in court. It didn’t come from him."
Bringer :: "Who else on your end knows?"
Kellerman :: "Who else on your end knows? Why all the finger pointing at us. Are we sure the leak doesn’t come from your end, the company?"
VP :: "Hey! We are all on the same team. Remember?"
Brinker :: "Absolutely!"
VP :: "Just find the leak and plug it!"

Next scene in the judges room.
Judge :: "All I can tell is, I was working late in chambers, I left at 11 and there is was, right under my door. (
With that he hands an envelope to Veronica.) One is Steadman’s autopsy report and his appendix is present and unremarkable. The other paper is a operative report from when Mr. Steadman was 12 years old. The procedure was an appendectomy (sp?)"
The prosecutor takes the paper which Veronica has taken out of the envelope from her.
Prosecutor :: "That’s impossible! Let me see this." […]

It is further revealed in the conversation that the medical reports are not available that far back and the prosecutor states that this could have been created by anybody (like an anti-death-penalty group or the defense attorney). The judge says he doesn’t know what it means but he’s delaying the execution for 2 weeks to exhume the body of Mr. Steadman since this is the only way to find out if the burried body is indeed Steadman.

Michael is not willing to wait if the corpse is really not Steadman and wants to go "back to work". Sucre is hilarious and say, "Thank god, I was hoping you would say that!" OTP!!! BFF!!! So cute.

They start making plans for a second attempt which is suicide according to Michael. Well, it seems, it leads through the psych ward and half the way between the break room and the psych ward is above ground. The others agree that it is suicide. Nice banter between all of them. Btw, they also comment on the weather (it’s snowing) - at least the producers acknowledge that it’s crazy. When Michael tells Sucre that he’s going over to the psych ward to familiarize with the pipes, Sucre is so protective and doesn’t like the danger Michael will get himself into (he’s so in love!) - then we see a prisoner doing some laundy service and he has an idea. Sucre organizes the guard uniform from his cousin in the laundry.

The VP is doing a press conference and is despised by the actions of the judge and the exhumation of her brother.

The guys keep working in the break room (they still use the hole as entry) and are almost discovered when the wall breaks down and they are in the process to shuffle the dirt from the wall into the hole. That was very tight.

Lincoln asks Sara if it’s possible that he was imagining seeing somebody in the viewing room who wasn’t there. Sara concludes that he’s a prime candidate for post dramatic stress disorder and that is one of the sympthoms.

Really nice convo between Westmoreland and C-Note about his scheme with the postcards from Irak which Westmoreland discovered when one of the postcards fell out of C-Notes overall. They almost start bonding.

Using that CO uniform, Michael sneaks out by night and just openly goes into the psych ward claiming to be a CO and looking for the bathroom. He wanders off and looks around a few storage rooms to find the access to the pipes. The guard in psych finds him but he excuses himself under the claim he was looking for the bathroom down there and got lost. On his way back, he gets almost discovered by a CO in the back walls - when he hides behind the CO (while he has a drink) he has to lean against some pipes which are obviously very hot - poor Michael, you can see him in great pain but he has to remain silent. During that process the uniform on his back is scorched. The pipe burned the uniform into his skin.

On Michael’s request Sucre rips it off and Michael cries out (loud). Afterwards he wakes up in the infirmary with a huge bandage on his back - he was out due to the anesthesia (which he can’t even remember)… Sara had to perform a procedure. Sucre is in the warden’s office and is accused to have deep fried him out of revenge. Sucre claims he didn’t do anything to him, he found him that way but the cell was locked. After Michael doesn’t want to reveal to Sara who did this to him, he gets the cold shoulder again. (Michael is getting quite cocky… his answer, "This is the part where I don’t answer.").

Steadman’s body is examined but the corpse is already so far degenerated that they have to rely on teeth - the dental records match. When leaving the autopsy, Veronica and Nick run into a very angry VP (obviously fake)… the scene is great though.

Veronica visits Lincoln and he discloses to her that he’s sure he saw his father in the viewing room. He had learned from the warden earlier that aside from Michael and Veronica there were only 3 journalists in the viewing room - 2 women and 1 man with the name Will Prall. During the episode we also see Lincoln having a few dreams/flashbacks when he was at a baseball game with his father 30 years ago and his dad pointed out the number 11 player as his favourite… the players name was Willy Prall. Lincoln is convinced it’s his father but Veronica doesn’t believe him.

Brinker & Kellerman check the security camera from the court house - the guy passing on the evidence to the judge is recognized by Brinker - buy we don’t know who it is. Imo, it could be Lincoln’s and Michael’s dad from what we see but the person tries to ditch the cameras so nothing is clear.

Sara has taken some of the cloth out of Michael’s skin during the procedure and has it analyzed by Katie - obviously she’s very curious what Michael is hiding now. She realizes that the tissue is not from a normal prison uniform but a guards uniform.

Michael comes back to his cell from the infirmary. He was told that he has to keep the bandage on his back but of course he takes it off immediately. Important parts of hhe blueprints on his back how to get from the psych ward to the infirmary have been burnt away.