Scylla

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.

In Their Own Story

Michael Scofield has tracked Gretchen Morgan and James Whistler to Los Angeles. The pair are negotiating for "Scylla", a card/disc of important Company data, and Whistler kills its current owner rather than pay for it. Before they can finish their operation, Michael arrives, planning to kill them as revenge for the death of Sara Tancredi. Gretchen claims that Sara is alive, but before she can say anything else, the police arrive in response to a murder committed by Whistler. Unbeknownst to Gretchen, Whistler has copied 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 to have Gretchen killed. Later, Michael is contacted by Alexander Mahone and Whistler, who are secretly working with Homeland Security to destroy the Company. Key to this plan is 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. Wyatt arrives and attacks them, killing Whistler and retrieving the original copy of Scylla.

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?

• "Scylla" is the 58th episode of Prison Break and the first episode of its fourth season.
• The episode premiered as a two-hour episode with "Breaking & Entering".
• It was broadcast in the United States on September 1, 2008.
• 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.