Why does the company want whistler

The Company seems to have an interest in Whistler, and this is apparently the reason Michael's incarceration in Sona was arranged in the first place. Due to the political spotlight on him, the company were unable to get him out. Initially, Whistler is seemingly unaware of why The Company wants him. One of the Company's operatives, Elliott Pike, approached Michael and offered their support if he breaks Whistler out.

When he refused, another operative, who called herself only by the obviously false name Susan B. Burrows and Michael's girlfriend Sara Tancredi were being held hostage by the Company and would be killed if Michael didn't break Whistler out within a week.

After the bounty on his head and his location is discovered by both Michael and Mahone , Mahone delivers him to prison boss Lechero. Fortunately, Lechero chooses to remove the bounty on Whistler at Michael's request, after Michael restores water to the prison. Whistler tries to befriend Mahone in an effort to get information on Scofield. Later he reveals why the Company is interested in him.

They want to know where Whistler took a certain naturalist to during one of his charters. But he needs the bird guide, which is actually his trip log to retrace his steps and take the company to that location. In Good Fences the bird guide is returned to him with the warning that he is running out of time.

Meanwhile he asks Sofia to look into Scofield and Burrows because he doesn't trust any of them. Also he tells Sofia the Company is interested in him because of a charter he did in Seattle. Michael instructs Whistler to spy on one of the tower guards to learn their behavior. Whistler observes a window of 6 minutes where the sun's glare forces the guard to look away.

When it is revealed he covers for Michael by claiming to be a bird lover. Meanwhile a new inmate, Tyge claims to know him, calling him by the name McFadden and seeing him in in Nice at the Ambassador hotel , thus casting doubt on his story in Michael's eyes. Tyge is murdered and Whistler is suspected after McGrady tips off Lechero that the two had an argument.

I imagine that he had better things to do than killing the mayor's son in Panama City? How did he come to Sona? From Prison Break Wiki :. Before Whistler was incarcerated in the Sona Federal Penitentiary , he allegedly was a fisherman, running a charter boat between America and Australia. One day, he got a call demanding to know exactly where he took a naturalist of some sort, who took water samples and measurements. He then worked for Gretchen Morgan.

He said he couldn't remember — but then government types started snooping around. When James had a bar fight, he killed the Mayor's son, leading to his incarceration in Sona. The people who are trying to get him out demand that as soon as they do, he show them where he took that guy.

After he was transferred into Sona , he hid into a crawlspace as most inmates wanted to turn him in to The Mayor for their freedom. My guess is, whoever was following him around read The Company , was behind him being sent to Sona. They framed him for the murder of the Mayor's son so that they could use his freedom as leverage to extract the information. I say "framed", because Whistler doesn't come across a guy who would kill somebody in a bar fight.

Moreover, he repeatedly proclaims his innocence to numerous characters with a lot of conviction. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. This starts in Sleight of Hand, when the ruthless Company operative Quinn replaces Reynolds' own henchmen Kellerman and Hale in the pursuit of Veronica Donovan in order to silence her.

Quinn fails in this task with Kellerman, who disliked his taking over, leaving him for dead in the well Veronica and LJ left him in , and the nature of The Company is not explained at this point, although Kellerman makes comments to Reynolds that suggests that they are highly ruthless and determined.

In the episode "By the Skin and the Teeth", it is revealed that Samantha Brinker, The Company's intermediary to Reynolds, has taken a firm interest in the Burrows case, and that The Company has significant authority to tell the Vice President what to do, implying that The Company is more powerful than had been previously alluded to.

In the episode "J-Cat", we learn that they had a hidden agenda regarding the framing of Lincoln Burrows: to draw Burrows' father, an ex Company employee, out of hiding in order to eliminate him. Kellerman is dismayed by this news. Thus, the organisation had become a bigger plot point, and in "The Key", The Company's true nature is revealed when Lincoln's father Aldo explains that they are a group of multi-national corporations that effectively controls politics in America.

Samantha Brinker continues to be the primary representative of Company authority in the first season, although executives with a higher standing are briefly seen in episodes "Tonight" and "Go", where they become increasingly worried about Caroline Reynolds' chances at winning the presidential elections after her support starts to plummet in the polls. After Reynolds loses President Richard Mills' confidence and the support for a key energy bill in the episode "Tonight", The Company decides to cut her off and advises her to drop out of the race, or they will have to make her.

They are greatly surprised when Reynolds has the President killed shortly thereafter disguising it as a heart-attack and was then sworn in as the next President of the United States. This happens in the season finale "Flight", and the future of the Reynolds-Company co-operation is left hanging at the end of the season. In the second season, the conspiracy is at first only represented by Kellerman, but the fifth episode "Map " introduces Agent Bill Kim, a member of The Company.

In part because of the absence of Patricia Wettig the actress playing President Reynolds , Kim plays a major role throughout the season. Reynolds is clearly shown as still collaborating with The Company, and in the aftermath of the Fox River Eight escape, The Company's nefarious operatives take charge completely and isolate her from the conspiracy operation and tell her to attend to other matters, as even her own men now report to The Company directly thus explaining Wettig's absence for most of the season.

This scheme was effectively in practice by the time of the episode "Map ", where Kellerman is told that he can no longer speak to Reynolds. Kellerman is frustrated by this, beginning his character arc that eventually leads him to abandon his cause.

Kim and Kellerman form an antagonistic relationship that continues throughout the first half of the season, and The Company itself is a bigger plot point in the second season, with Kellerman and Kim sharing roughly equal screen time. Season 2 also introduces the most powerful man in the organization that the viewers have seen until this point.

He is not a prominent character in the second season, however. The Company takes a direct role in the hunt for the Fox River Eight, and appoints Kim to lead those efforts. It is finally revealed in the episode "Dead Fall" that the leader of the FBI manhunt, Special Agent Alexander Mahone is under blackmail from Kim, Kellerman and The Company to ensure the death of all the fugitives, fearing that they know too much about the conspiracy, even though during their time in Fox River none of the escapees had any knowledge of it besides Michael and Lincoln.

It even seems that Kim, through his connections with President Reynolds, arranged for Mahone to be the one to spearhead the pursuit. Mahone also attempts to coerce Benjamin Franklin Rockmond Dunbar into killing himself in the episode "Wash", but fails. His failure leads to Mahone being compromised as an Internal Affairs investigation offers C-Note exoneration from all charges for testifying against Mahone.

Before he can be indicted, however, Kim arranges for Mahone to leave the country, as The Company still thinks he has value.

The opposite is true for Kellerman, who continues to chafe under The Company thumb until Kim finally disavows [ clarification needed ] him in "Disconnect" for repeated failures and suspicions of disloyalty. Pad Man then tells Kim to "retire" Kellerman because his loyalty to the conspiracy is all too uncertain.

This plot backfires horribly when Kellerman, aware of the impending betrayal, shoots his would-be assassin and allies himself with Michael and Lincoln in hopes of bringing down The Company and the president. After Kellerman switches sides, the conspiracy story arc becomes represented mainly by Kim and the reluctant Mahone. Kim pressures Mahone in the episodes "Chicago" and "Wash" to ensure the deaths of fugitives that he has in his custody in these episodes.

However, Caroline Reynolds herself returns in the episode "Sweet Caroline", when Michael successfully blackmails her into a Presidential pardon for him and his brother with a tape revealing her incestuous relationship with her brother.

Kim tells her just before the press conference that The Company could expose her secrets just as easily as Michael. As a result, the President instead announces she has a malignant form of cancer which will cause her to resign the Presidency and drop out of the race. In addition to this, Pad Man himself begins to have a larger role in the season's later episodes and upon learning that Scofield and Burrows have fled to Panama, he orders Kim to ensure Scofield's incarceration at a Panamanian prison, Sona Federal Penitentiary, where a former operative of The Company named James Whistler is.

Initially it was never known who Whistler was and why The Company wanted him out. Kim also orders Mahone to travel to Panama to assist in the operation. Kim dies in the season finale and Mahone goes rogue, but Pad Man's agenda is secured and Michael arrives at Sona in the season's closing moments. At the same time, the viewers are shown that Pad Man is a General running a top secret research facility on Long Island, hinting at a new angle to the plotline.

He reveals everything: the existence of The Company, the President's role in the framing of Lincoln Burrows, etc. It is not known how severely this affected The Company's operations. With Kellerman's departure and possible assassination, The Company now completely dominates the conspiracy storyline of the show, and a new angle is presented: Michael Scofield's ability to break out of maximum-level penitentiaries seems to have garnered the interest of the organization.

It is revealed that their intention behind his incarceration at Sona was to break out another inmate, which comprises the third season's main plot. They are extremely interested in a man named James Whistler and thus they appoint one of their operatives, Gretchen Morgan, to kidnap Sara Tancredi and Burrows' son L.

To ensure this, Gretchen Morgan went to great lengths to seemingly get Sara killed, claiming to have personally decapitated her, thus showed the brothers that she, and The Company meant business. Just as Brinker represented The Company in season 1, and Kim represented it in season 2, Gretchen is the main Company authority in the third season.