Westmoreland tells him that the guards sometimes steal the personal items of the prisoners. Michael sneaks off at night to use the card to enter the room. With that data, he encoded the card with the master keycode to the prison personal items storeroom. Flashbacks are shown of Michael gaining access to the prison security system manual, and an encoder. Michael rips off the front and back to reveal a plain white card with a magnetic stripe. However, it isn't a credit card it's keycard. The next part of Michael's escape plan involves the credit card Nika gave him. He proves to Michael by handing him a unique $100 bill which had the same serial number as the hijacked money. Cooper who hijacked a plane and got away with 1.5 million.

Westmoreland offers his money and admits that he is D.B. When Westmoreland tells Michael that he wants join the team, Michael is skeptical and tells him that every member of the escape team has to bring something to the table. She turns and walks off in the opposite direction. As Sara walks down the corridor, she sees Michael hugging Nika after her visit. She gives him a credit card and promptly asks him why he would need a credit card in prison. Nika, Michael's wife married Michael two days before he robbed the bank, the crime for which he was sentenced to Fox River for. Michael's conjugal visit with his wife shocks the other escape team members. Westmoreland then decides to join the escape team.

He wants to see her alive once again, but Warden Pope says the law makes it impossible. Meanwhile Westmoreland, who previously rejected Michael's invitation into the team, finds out his daughter is dying of cancer, but he can't see her until her funeral. He is accepted as a break member due to his knowledge of the plan. However, C-Note barges his way in, telling them that he knows about the hole to the escape route. After Michael and Abruzzi successfully set up Philly Falzone in a fruitless raid in Canada, Abruzzi is back in charge of prison industries.

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