Template:Prison Break episode "Manhunt" is the twenty-third episode of television series Prison Break, and the season premiere of season 2.
The second season opens the morning after the escape, as Michael, Lincoln, Abruzzi, C-Note and Sucre barely manage — with the help of a freight train — to elude Captain Bellick. When FBI Special Agent Alexander Mahone is assigned to lead a nationwide search for the escapees, this makes their escape even more difficult. Mahone calls a press conference, and urges everybody watching the television broadcast to find the "Fox River 8".
In the meantime, Michael, Lincoln, Abruzzi, C-Note, and Sucre are found by a hunter, and held at bay when the hunter brandishes his rifle. Abruzzi holds the hunter's young daughter hostage at gunpoint, and is able to get the hunter to drop his weapon, and give Michael the keys to his Jeep Grand Cherokee. The five escapees board the SUV, presumably en route to a storage room where Michael has some items ready.
Agent Mahone and Captain Bellick use Michael's credit card invoices to find a storage room in Oswego, and each seperately rush to the storage facility. It turns out to be a ruse of Michael's, as he is seen in a cemetery storage room, gathering shovels to unearth the ground at the grave of (RIP) E. Chance Woods. Agent Mahone deciphers the message on Michael's tattoo ("Ripe Chance Woods") and arrives at the scene right after the escaped gang of five unearthed Michael's package and put on a fresh set of clothing. Lincoln took the backpack Michael hid and found the brothers' fake passports. The five were able to escape to Oswego and blend in, despite being tailed by Agent Mahone.
Elsewhere on the run, T-Bag raids a nearby campground, threatening campers in order to steal a hat and cooler. T-Bag finds the veterinary clinic of Dr. Marvin Gudat, and coerces him to reattach his left hand without the use of anesthesia. Meanwhile, Dr. Sara Tancredi recovers from her drug overdose and discovers that 6 more prisoners had escaped with Michael and Lincoln. After Nurse Katie came to visit her, Sara discovers an origami swan inside her purse which had the message, "There is a plan to make all of this right", along with a dotted code, written inside one of its wings.
Veronica discovers yet another secret from Terrence Steadman. He is being held captive, although somewhat willingly, inside the estate; the doors are locked from the outside, and the windows are bulletproof. Veronica receives a phone call from Lincoln after calling 911, and informs him of what she has learned. While on the phone, what appears to be members of The Company arrive and immediately kill Veronica for finding Terrence Steadman.
Trivia
- Veronica Donovan (played by Robin Tunney) was killed off at the end of this episode.