The first escape attempt fails, and with Lincoln's execution only hours away, Michael tampers with the electric chair, sticking a rat in the circuitry of the electric chair, though Bellick is one step ahead, after appointing Tweener as his rat. Michael pleads for Sara to appeal to her father, the Governor of Illinois, to review Lincoln's case, but this fails as he works for Vice President Reynolds. On the night he is to be executed, Michael and Veronica say goodbye to Lincoln, and he is sent to the chair.