unwilling to go into surgery until they get scylla, michael receives temporary treatment from sara and goes onwards with their plans to break into the company. although the group eventually succeeds in getting scylla, self betrays them and takes it for himself to try to sell it. michael, however, had taken a small piece of scylla and self needs that piece to make scylla complete. self goes back to find michael and shoots the warehouse and a gas tanker to try to force them out. fortunately, lincoln was not in the warehouse at the time, and upon discovering self's car outside, he finds self at the top of a building and knocks him unconscious. they bring self in and are about to get scylla when gretchen holds the group at gunpoint, allowing self and herself to escape. everyone except mahone head to the hotel self and gretchen are staying at. michael tampers with the ladder outside so that when self tries to escape, it comes loose and self falls to the ground. michael takes this opportunity to grab scylla from an unconscious self, but as he is running away his nose starts to bleed profusely. he begins losing his balance and blacks out, falling to the ground. self then catches up and takes back scylla. as he is preparing to shoot michael, company agents appear and start shooting at self. self jumps into gretchen's van and they escape. the company agents lift an unconscious michael into their van and drive away, with lincoln running after them.