During the meeting, Luchero makes known that he is aware of Michael's history and is wary of the new prisoner. Luchero tells the new prisoners about their main rule: if one man has an issue with another, they are to fight to the death in an organised event. Later, Michael and Mahone are among the new prisoners who are brought before Luchero, a prisoner who effectively governs the entirety of Sona and its residents. Within Sona, Michael is confronted by Mahone, who wants the pair to ally in order to survive within the prison, but Michael refuses because he can't get past the fact that Mahone shot and killed his father. However, evidence uncovered by the Panamanian police is backing up Lincoln's claim that the killing of Bill Kim was self-defence, and the clerk is able to arrange a transfer for Michael to a safer facility until his trial. Since then, the prisoners have organised their own internal forms of leadership, economy and workforce and run the prison themselves. The clerk explains to Lincoln, and the audience, about Sona: after violent riots a year previous, the prison guards pulled out of Sona and left the prisoners to their own devices. As Michael and Mahone enter Sona's courtyard and witness a brutal fight between two prisoners which results in a prisoner's death, Lincoln tries to convince a clerk at the American Consulate to drop the charges against his brother and release him.
