Sara is found alive and well, but Bellick dies when he sacrifices himself to help the team. Michael and Lincoln are recruited by Homeland security agent Don Self to recover a device named Syclla, which they believe contains information on The Company and could expose the conspiracy. But when they get to an air field their escape plane is nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile the Fox River Eight hatch their plan and successfully break out of the prison. Sara reluctantly helps, but her guilt drives her to overdose on pills. He tells her about his plan to break out of the prison, and asks her to leave the infirmary door unlocked on the night of the escape. Michael and Sara become romantically involved. Michael reveals that his architecture firm had previously worked on retrofitting Fox River, meaning that he had access to its blueprints.īefore the robbery, he spent four months having a huge tattoo inked on to his torso, which contains the plans to the prison and details of their escape plot.Īs the men prepare to escape Michael feigns diabetes in order to get daily access to the infirmary, with the intention of stealing a key from Sara. Confused? You shouldn’t be: once you’ve seen someone make it out of the slammer that many times, returning from the afterlife is no big deal.After Lincoln is imprisoned, Michael stages a bank robbery and is sent to Fox River where he meets inmates such as John Abruzzi – who helps to arrange a getaway plane, and Charles Westmoreland – also known as DB Cooper, who has $5 million hidden in cash. He’s now working for a rogue CIA agent in Yemen. Well, not quite: Michael bounced back to the land of the living for the show’s reboot and conclusion this year, managing to shake off the terminal brain cancer he’d suffered from in the previous series by, er, pretending to be dead for seven years during which he … broke into and out of prisons. Plus, we had to watch a video he’d made, telling his family that he loved them and that, if they were watching it, he was no longer with them. The emotional “final” episode when the show originally ended back in 2009 saw Sara weep as she laid flowers on Michael’s grave. Indeed, death meant little in Prison Break. But the show’s fondness for killing off main characters, then panicking and bringing them back from the dead, was definitely the most incredible part. Shark fully cleared, the show spun off into a series of increasingly unbelievable plotlines: one where the escaped prisoners were recruited by Homeland Security to get information on an advanced renewable power cell another where they attempted to escape a Panamanian prison by helicopter (it’s that easy, apparently – just get a mate with a pilot’s licence and leave!). The sheepish explanation for Sara’s magical return from the other side was that the head must have been a very complicated trick by The Company to force Michael into making a series of dangerous decisions, although nobody ever explained how a) The Company managed to make such a realistic head and b) how Lincoln managed to mistake it for that of his brother’s partner. She’d been in witness protection, y’see, and couldn’t tell Michael for his own safety (in reality, actor Sarah Wayne Callies left the show because of a contract dispute). Tears were shed, revenge was sworn … only for Sara to turn up, alive and with her head very much intact, one series later. Sara’s decapitated head was sent to Lincoln in a box, Seven-style. However, its real shark-jumping moment came early in season three with the death of Michael’s love interest, Sara Tancredi. Want to escape from jail? Just get a mate with a pilot’s licence and leave! Has nobody pointed out that the quickest way out of prison these days is to get a true-crime podcast made about you, not crawl through miles of sewers? And so on, like a jail-based hokey cokey. As the series progressed, it got tangled in a confusing mess of conspiracies, secret service double agents and a mysterious, probably evil movement called The Company, who framed Lincoln for murder and seemed intent on ruining Michael’s life.įurthermore, it was a concept with a built-in problem: what happens to a show called Prison Break once they’ve broken out of the prison? It’s on to another prison, of course, which they have to break into … and then out of. But, rather than leave it at that, the show was intent on throwing as many complicated plotlines into the mix as it could. Ostensibly, the main story was that of architect Michael Scofield, who gets the plans to Fox River State Penitentiary tattooed on his body so he can break his brother Lincoln out from the inside. Prison Break was never a straightforward TV programme.
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