Michael Scofield quotes from Prison Break

Michael

I need you down there. It's a two man job. Let's hang a sheet.

Sucre

No way, man. You only hang a sheet when you and your cellie want to get friendly, you know?

Michael

You wanna protect your prison reputation, or do you wanna get out of here?

Michael

It’s just math.

Sucre

What if your math is wrong?

Michael

You’ll drill into one of a dozen gas lines behind the wall. There’ll be an explosion and we’ll be burned alive.

Sucre

But you’re good at math, right?

Michael

Ever been to Baja? Mexico?

Michael

There is this great place down there. Twenty bucks a night, hammock on the back deck. Beers are 50 cents. 25 cents at happy hour.

Michael

Ever been to Thailand? Thailand's great.

Sara

Michael, if you're trying to calm me down, you're doing a terrible job.

Michael

But I am trying. [both laugh]

Sara

Wait, I can't leave you here.

Michael

You have no choice. I'm one of the bad guys, remember?

Michael

Think of this place like it is a map of the U.S. Our cell over there, that's New York City. The infirmary, our exit, is California. The pipes beneath our feet that connect the two...

Sucre

Route 66.

Michael

Route 66. Our ticket out of here.

Michael

You threw away your flowers.

Sara

Like I said, they don't last.

Michael

I don't think they're dead yet.

Sara

I don't like getting attached to things if I know they won't last.

Michael

Why are you so cynical?

Sara

Michael, I think there's cynicism and then there's realism -

Michael

- and there's optimism? Hope? Faith?

Sara

This coming from an eight-toed guy locked away in a penitentiary!

Michael

[smiles] Toes are over-rated.

Sara

Thank you for trying to make me smile. Not today.

Michael

You never know.

Michael

[Referring to PI pay] It pays 19 cents an hour.

Tweener

19 cents an hour?! That's slavery, yo!

Michael

It's prison, yo.

Sara

I'm not a jealous woman. But I'm a careful one. And for some reason, when I'm around you, I'm not...careful.

Michael

You don't have to be.

Sara

Yes, I do. There are so many questions surrounding you, Michael. There are way too many.

Michael

You kept it.

Sara

Kept what?

Michael

The flower.

Sara

Well, I'm a pack rat, I never throw anything out.

Michael

Yeah. The clutter in here is, uh... overwhelming.

Sara

You should see my apartment.

Michael

Whoa! We haven't even been on our first date and you're already inviting me in. I thought you were a nice girl.

Sara

Michael, everyone knows that nice girls finish last.

Michael

So where do you finish?

Sara

That depends on where I start. Deep breath.

Michael

We're not getting out of here.

T-Bag

Unfortunately, pretty, that ain't an option.

C-Note

Now, you know what? There are two things that everybody needs to get with here. [to T-Bag] First, hillbilly, you have got to learn some respect. The man here made everything possible. [to Michael] And you, Fish, you have got to get with that we are doing this thing this afternoon, as soon as we get on PI.

Michael

[laughing] So you're just gonna make a run for it, in the middle of the day?

C-Note

Well, you gotta do what you gotta do, huh, baby?

Michael

You are gonna screw this whole thing up...

C-Note

It's not for you to decide anymore. Now, this train is leaving the station, and I suggest you get on it.

T-Bag

Get on the train, Fish, get on the train...

Michael

Well you know what, you sons of bitches? I won't let you do it.

T-Bag

What you gonna do, blow the whistle on your own escape?

Michael

Is there any news on the appeal?

Lincoln

Don't know.

Michael

'Cause there could still be a ch....

Lincoln

Stop... Michael, please - this is going to happen. I gotta get my head straight. Let's just share memories, swap stories, talk about the damn weather - anything but torturing myself with the idea of hope. I can't take it anymore.

Michael

So if something happens to the chair, he's got three more weeks?

Westmoreland

There's a lot of protocol in killin' a man, new death warrant, another medical clearance.

Michael

A lot can happen in three weeks.

Tweener

Yo, what scripes yo.

Michael

Thanks.

Tweener

What y'all talkin' bout?

Westmoreland

Nothing.

C-Note

Wait a minute - why are you changing the plan, man? We're already through that room beneath the infirmary, that's all we gotta do is get through that pipe and we're home free!

Michael

There's a reason they replaced it with a twelve-inch pipe, Darwin - people can't get through it.

Sara

Painkillers?

Michael

How bad is it?

Sara

I'd take the pills.

Michael

Do I get to see it?

Sara

No, bandage stays on for now. Take the pills.

Sara

Cellmate did this to you?

Michael

Sucre? No.

Sara

Then who did?

Michael

This is the part where I don't answer you.