Scylla
The card that holds the Company's secrets.
"Scylla" is the 58th episode of the American television series Prison Break and the first episode of its fourth season, which premiered as a two-hour episode with "Breaking & Entering". It was broadcast in the United States on September 1, 2008 and on the next day on Sky One and RTÉ Two. In the episode, Michael Scofield tracks Gretchen Morgan and James Whistler to Los Angeles, where they are negotiating for "Scylla", a card/disc of important Company data. Whistler kills its current owner rather than pay for it. The episode also introduces the card codenamed "Scylla", which contains information on all the Company's agents and operations, but can only be decoded from within an unknown facility.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Prison Break
- Air date
- 1 September 2008
- Writer
- Matt Olmstead
- Director
- Kevin Hooks
Lore & Background
Scylla is a card/disc of important Company data that appears in the episode. Whistler copies the Card, keeping the original for himself and giving the copy to a Company representative on the way out. When the General discovers this, he orders Wyatt, a Company assassin, to have Gretchen killed. The Card, codenamed "Scylla", contains information on all the Company's agents and operations, but can only be decoded from within an unknown facility. Michael and Lincoln are reunited in custody by Agent Don Self, a Homeland Security agent who was working with Whistler and Aldo Burrows to take down the Company. Self arranges to have Michael and Lincoln be part of an unofficial, off-the-books operation to recover Scylla from the Company, with their freedom guaranteed when it's all over.
Reader's Guide
Item: Scylla
Type: Card/disc of important Company data
Contents: Information on all the Company's agents and operations
Limitation: Can only be decoded from within an unknown facility
Key Events: Whistler copies the Card, keeping the original; Wyatt retrieves the original copy after killing Whistler; Don Self recruits Michael and Lincoln to recover Scylla from the Company
Role in Plot: Central object of the fourth season's first episode, driving the main characters' mission to destroy the Company
Did You Know?
- The episode received a 6.5/10 rating from IGN.
- This and the following episode were the first programs to ever be aired in a letterbox format on FOX.
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