Cute Poison (Prison Break)

"Cute Poison"
Prison Break episode
Haywire, Michael's new cell mate
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 4
Directed by	Matt Earl Beesley
Written by	Matt Olmstead
Featured music	Ramin Djawadi
Production code	1AKJ03
Original air date	September 12, 2005
Guest appearance(s)
Frank Grillo as Nick Savrinn Danny McCarthy as Daniel Hale Camille Guaty as Maricruz Delgado Patricia Wettig as Caroline Reynolds Stacy Keach as Henry Pope Silas Weir Mitchell as Charles "Haywire" Patoshik Kurt Caceres as Hector Avila Mac Brandt as Mack Andrews Deanna Dunagan as Judy Pope John Judd as Benjamin Forsik Kevin Kelly as Officer Weston Jennifer Kern as Allison Hale Phillip Edward Van Lear as Louis Patterson Haley Nero as Hale's daughter Brandon Tyler Russell as Hale's son Christian Stolte as Keith Stolte Jennifer Joan Taylor as Becky Michael Vieau as Christopher Trokey Jason Wells as Bo Cedric Young as Choppy
Episode chronology
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List of Prison Break episodes

"Cute Poison" is the fourth episode of television series Prison Break. It was first aired on September 12, 2005 in the United States. The episode is directed by Matt Earl Beesley and written by series producer Matt Olmstead. The words "Cute Poison", one of Michael Scofield's (Wentworth Miller) tattoos, are a mnemonic for CuSO₄ (copper sulfate) and H₃PO₄ (phosphoric acid), the two ingredients needed for the third part in his escape plan. Also, his new cellmate Charles "Haywire" Patoshik (Silas Weir Mitchell) starts to notice Michael's tattoos and may expose his escape plans. Michael has to stop him and get his old cellmate, Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco), back.

Michael is three days behind on his plan to free his brother, particularly with his new insomniac cell mate, Haywire (Silas Weir Mitchell), whom he witnesses take some tablets to keep him lucid but spit out when the doctors leave, describing them as "invisible handcuffs". He then notices Michael's tattoo and sees the hidden "maze" in it.

Meanwhile, Veronica Donovan (Robin Tunney) meets with Nick Savrinn (Frank Grillo) from "Project Justice", who wants to assist her. They question Lincoln regarding the evidence, which he insists was planted. Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) is visited by his cousin, Hector Avila (Kurt Caceres), who tells him that Maricruz (Camille Guaty) is with him now. He eventually gets hold of Maricruz, and learns that Hector told her lies to get her not to come. With this new development, Sucre urges Michael to get him back into the cell.