James Whistler is an inmate at Sona Prison in Panama who has information that members of The Company, the shadowy alliance of corporate interests, desperately want. Company agent Gretchen Morgan directs Michael Scofield to break Whistler out of Sona to obtain this information.Whistler's guide book about birds becomes an important cipher. His girlfriend is a Panamanian woman named Sofia Lugo.Before he was locked up in Sona, the Australian native was a charter fishing boat captain.