Darnell and Joy decided to tie the knot while Earl learns thru Randy’s invitation that he is not invited. To make things worse Joy has scheduled the wedding on Earl’s birthday so that all of their friends will be unable to celebrate with him. A drunken Earl crashes the party accidentally breaking Joy’s nose and now is forced to add “ruined Joy’s wedding” to his list.

Michael gets a visit from his wife, while Veronica and Nick get a visit from Quinn.

As Lily becomes more of a permanent fixture in the apartment, Ted feels like he is being edged out of the mix by his engaged roomies. Petrified of being left alone and homeless, Ted tells Marshall that when he and Lily are married, he wants the apartment. The problem is that Marshall wants to keep the place, too, so they settle it like real « grown-ups » — launching into a sword fight that leaves one man down for the count.

Earl attempts to help Scott (guest star Johnny Galecki) get over his preoccupation with golf–an obsession caused when he and Randy started fixing Scott’s golf game to get free beer. But after becoming so thoroughly entangled in Scott’s personal life that he drives Randy away, Earl realizes that he may be the one with the obsession.

After John Abruzzi loses his power to control the prison industries (PI) when Philly Falzone ceases to pay Captain Brad Bellick, Michael Scofield and the other escape team inmates watch helplessly as PI is taken over. Abruzzi tells Michael the only way out is to tell his gang he still has control – and that means giving up Otto Fibonacci to them. Michael doesn’t want to give up an innocent man’s life, but ultimately hatches a plan with Abruzzi. Abruzzi’s mob gang visits him in prison, then demands to know how Michael figured out the location. Michael explains that he did his homework – before they go into witness protection, they are in the custody of a local sheriff. Only one was out of town during Fibonacci’s custody, and he made a lot of calls to his wife, which Michael intercepted.

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Abruzzi’s Mobsters goes after Fibonacci, who they believe is in Canada. However, the RCMP cracks them before the assault. Fibonacci picks up a copy of a Kansas newspaper in the meantime. Abruzzi confronts Michael, asking him how he feels. Both men are pleased with the results, but soon fall mysteriously ill.

During a scene in the C.O. break room, Michael, Lincoln, Abruzzi and Sucre reveals where they want to go after they have escaped. Abruzzi says Sardinia, Sucre says he wishes to get back to Maricruz, and Michael quietly says to Lincoln that together they will go to Darien Gap, Panama to live and perhaps run a scuba shop.

Meanwhile C-Note has noticed the disposition of cement from the break team. He offers the new head of P.I. $150 a month to work with them. It is accepted. C-Note then uses his brains to figure out the escape plan. Once he finds the loose cement in the shack, he knows of the escape plan.

When a matchmaker with a 100% success rate turns Ted away because he is not compatible with any of the available women in her database, he is still determined that he is going to find his match. After getting information from the matchmaker’s computer, Ted pays a visit to a very cute but taken dermatologist in an effort to prove the prediction wrong that there are no women out there for him. Meanwhile, Marshall and Lily are obsessed with ridding their apartment of a critter.

In order to replace a fancy figurine that he broke, Earl lends a hand to help Joy’s former adversary and her daughter win a mother/daughter beauty pageant . However, Joy enters the pageant also with her « dead » mother trying to win that same figurine, hoping to trade it for a hot tub.

Recap:

The episode begins with Randy sitting down at the bar. Earl walks in and hands a cereal box to Randy. He looks very happy. Earl tells Randy no more generic cereal for him. He only gets the best now.

When Earl and Randy get back to the apartment, Joy is there digging through all of their stuff. Earl tells Joy she isn’t getting any of his money. She tells him that all she really wants his a hot tub. Earl looks on his list and sees that Joy his on it. He tells her that he will fix that so she’ll leave him alone. It says that he blew up Joy’s Trophy but he can’t really remember what it was for. Later that night he dreams about it. Randy and him are using firecrackers to blow stuff up. They run out of things so Earl brings Joy’s trophy. It is a little girl sitting on a lawnmower with the companies name on it.

The next day Earl goes to the company and asks if he can have one of the trophies. The lady there tells him that the trophies are given out to the winners of the Lawn Mower companies Mother and Daughter beauty pageant. The lady remembers when Joy won. The next year a new mother and daughter entered and that family has won every year since. Their name is the Stokers. Earl goes to the mother and daughter and asks if he can have one of their trophies. They make a deal that if Earl helps them win this year, they will give him the trophy. Earl tells Joy he is going to enter and win her a trophy. She doesn’t want him to so she is going to enter, too.

The beauty pageant is also has a talent show part. The reason this family has won every year is because they have a « gift » in which they can throw knives with amazing accuracy. Earl is placed on a large circle which spins ar

Seth « Cherry » Hoffner approaches Michael for help but his request is cut short by T-Bag who interjects and subtly threatens Michael to stay out of his business. Fearing for his escape plan, Michael concedes. When Seth asks him for help the second time, Michael turns his back on him.

The team continues to work on pounding the concrete floor in the storage room during PI. Sucre worries over how they are going to dispose of the concrete fragments. Michael tells them to hide the fragments one piece at a time. They take the pieces out, littering and hiding them all over the yard. After Michael walks off, C-Note picks up one of the concrete fragments half hidden in the yard. As Michael and Sucre walk back to their cells, Seth jumps off from the second tier and hangs himself. Michael looks horrified.

Michael tells Lincoln of Seth’s suicide and how he felt responsible for his death. Lincoln tells him that it’s not his fault and that he had to keep the escape plan safe. Michael relays that their mother taught them better, « When a man is down, you give them your hand. » Meanwhile, a new inmate, David « Tweener » Apolskis tries to fit in. However, neither the black nor white inmates want to associate with him. T-Bag uses this opportunity to intimidate Tweener and suggests that he could be his new « friend ». Tweener tells T-Bag to stay away from him. T-Bag is annoyed by his noncompliance.

Dr. Sara Tancredi inquires Michael’s insurance company about the cost of his medical treatments at Fox River. She finds out that he had psychiatric insurance. Sara visits his psychiatrist who informs her of Michael’s psychiatric condition. Michael has low latent inhibition and low self-worth. The psychiatrist tells her that Michael’s condition coupled with his high I.Q., explains why he goes to such extraordinary lengths to help other people. After Sara learns this, she becomes more perplexed by who Michael is.

Michael notices Tweener’s distress and decides to intervene. He hits T-Bag

Michael finds out a storage room, fundamental to the escape because it is the only building directly over the pipes, has been converted into a break room for the guards, and the team must find a way to set it on fire so that Abruzzi can get them assigned to PI work there. They have to convince Westmoreland, who is a trustee (and thus has access to the break room freely), to help them burn it down.

Michael approaches him with his cat (who ran away during the riots), but he refuses to help. Meanwhile, Bellick starts an investigation into Bob’s death, and upon hearing rumors that he died outside of Westmoreland’s cell, he goes to question him. Westmoreland doesn’t say anything, afraid of being considered a « snitch ». Bellick tells him that if he doesn’t get an answer before he leaves the cell, their friendship is over. Westmoreland still doesn’t cooperate, and Bellick pets Marilyn, saying « …nice cat. » A while later, Westmoreland returns to his cell and finds Marilyn dead on his bunk, and spots Bellick looking down on his cell from the second level.

The next day, when Westmoreland goes to deliver the coffee to the break room, he looks at a pack of Bellick’s cigarettes and his lighter. Meanwhile, while Michael and Lincoln do PI work, a fire erupts in the break room. Michael approaches Westmoreland and thanks him, but Westmoreland responds with « I didn’t do it for you. » The group begins by breaking through a drain in the floor and enlarging the hole so that they can fit through it.

Ted makes his yearly pilgrimage to the rooftop Halloween party in search of a girl dressed as a pumpkin who he met years ago. Meanwhile, Robin is dumped after driving her new boyfriend away with her independent ways.