Soon enough Paxton see that something is brewing, the black inmate and white gonna fights against each other very soon. Paxton quickly adapted to the prison life and remained under Bellick's radar for a while. Tom Paxton in his cell just like other prisoners and proving that he's rating him out he accept him into the PI. In the block A, Tom Paxton approaches Abruzzi and ask the same as Scofield by taking in PI, After doing a favor for Abruzzi: spying on an Abruzzi's goon who's rating him out, Teets, to the C.O. He met Charles Westmoreland who told him to talk to John Abruzzi, the mob boss who led the PI in the joint, he tryied to approaches him but only witness a fight between him and Scofield who came to ask him the same thing. He realized that only the cahs worked inside the prison.After that he's accepted into King's underground club, he heard a conversation between Scofield and Burrows: Scofield wants to break him out! Paxton decides to report it to Mannix and advise him about enteingr into PI in order to being close of Burrows. Paxton sneaks in into the Boiler room to find meds to Jeremiah's fighters and paying C-Note debt. Just before entering in the yard he sets up inmate T-Bag in order to send him into the SHU and encounter convict C-Note who congratulates him about his fight with Bagwell and introduces him to Underground fights organisator: Jeremiah King, Tom always keep a dictaphone to record his feelings and cover his back during his mission in Fox River.ДЇew times later Paxton is judged, convicted for an unknown time into Fox River, he is send in the prison in the same bus as Michael Scofield and make a first contact with him, he then meet Captain Bellick and after a confrontation with inmate Avocado is assigned the cell 44.ДЄt the time of yard he began to observe the prison and his structure. Agent Mannix orders Tom to infiltrate the Fox River State Penitentiary and investigate Scofield's activities about his brother. The FBI and the Secret Service had both discovered that Scofield, a young and successful structural engineer, was convicted in the same prison as Lincoln Burrows, but the problem is that they are brothers. Tom Paxton is given his new Company assignement by Jack Mannix Two years before the event of the Fox River, Paxton's father was killed while he was on an deep undercover assignment for The Company.ДЄ few days after Michael Scofield's conviction after a bank robbery, Tom, now a Special Agent from the Secret Service (in factan undercover job in order to hide his allegiance to the Company) is summoned by Agent Jack Mannix, a senior Company executive and Tom's superior, to the FBI office in Chicago. Tom climbed very quickly up the hierarchy ladder, and given an increasing amount of responsibilities: his patriotic heart combined with his extreme efficiency makes him one of the deadliest and better operatives of The Company. Tom was very attracted by the Company's goals, the action, the lack of pencil-pushing and the all-day non-routine. Like his father in the past, Tom was recruited by the same group who recruited his father - ' The Company'. Paxton's ambition drove him to continue his military career at West Point Military Academy, where he graduated with honors and the grade of Captain. However, by this time, his girlfriend was pregnant with Tom's daughter and so Tom sends money to them every month.

When their relationship was pushed too serious he brutally broke up with her. In his adult-hood Tom joined the US military (eventually joining a special operation force unit either in the US Army) in the 75th Ranger Regiment (probably the 2nd Battalion), and eventually fought in the First Gulf War where he may have been encountered Captain Paul Kellerman, and years later was stationed in Burma for three years where he had a short and close relationship with a local woman. His only friend and the only man he considered like a father-figured was his uncle Aldo Burrows who helped him to get out of his difficulties when he was adolescent. Tom himself was an only child and he grew up with a very assertive father and gave him a very specific view of the world.

According to his military files, his father was a former Secret Service agent but become an agent of The Company and his mother was killed in a bank robbery when he was just a child.

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