in the season premiere, michael witnesses a brutal duel between inmates, the usual manner of settling disputes at sona. he unintentionally makes an enemy of a convicted influential drug lord in the penitentiary, lechero. lincoln informs michael that the company needs him to break somebody out of sona (james whistler), and that they have taken sara and lj hostage to ensure his cooperation. he began to look for whistler, only to find that he has a bounty on his head: whoever kills him can receive exoneration from the mayor of panama city. as a result, whistler had gone into hiding in the sewers. eventually, he found him and successfully persuades lechero to remove the bounty on his head.