Falling behind schedule, Michael maneuvers the prisoners and guards into initiating a lockdown of the prison to give himself more time to dig a hole, but this backfires when T-Bag starts a full-scale riot. Worse, T-Bag and CO Hudson have discovered the escape plan, where T-Bag wants in, and threatens to kill the CO, despite being told not to. Sara's life is threatened after the sickbay prisoners start a riot of their own. Michael sees this via CCTV and risks his escape plan to rescue her before she gets raped. Outside the prison, Savrinn proves to Donovan that he can be trusted, when he finds out that the anonymous call to have Lincoln arrested comes from Washington D.C..