If we never get another episode of Prison Break, we can rest easy knowing that Michael (Wentworth Miller), Lincoln (Dominic Purcell), Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies) and Michael Jr. are chilling in a park somewhere living a life of freedom where none of them are stuck in prison, breaking into a prison or breaking out of a prison. Or concocting the most convoluted attempts at revenge against random bad guys. They're just living a normal life, which is anything but normal to them.
Michael finally got one over on Jacob (Mark Feuerstein) after a few episodes of back and forth, and he did it in the most insane way possible. During a scuffle between Jacob and Michael at an old shipyard (so cliché it's brilliant), Michael was able to lure Jacob into a full re-creation of the front pathway of the cabin where Jacob had Michael framed for the murder of CIA deputy chief Harlan Gaines. Let that sink in for a bit. One of Michael's friends from his prison-breaking days just so happens to love making re-creations of murder scenes, so Michael had him build a replica of the front of the cabin complete with drop cloths to make it look like the forest where Gaines was shot by Jacob. And this was all done in the back of a semi truck. That is impressive. Totally ridiculous and something that South Park's Eric Cartman would come up with, but impressive.
T-Bag (Robert Knepper) didn't get the same happy ending treatment as everyone else, sadly. During a struggle with the feds closing in, Whip (Augustus Prew) -- who we discovered was T-Bag's son in the last episode -- was shot and killed by A&W (Marina Benedict). A sad T-Bag snapped her neck, was arrested by the feds, and thrown back in the slammer. This guy can't catch a break. Or can he? Because in the final moments of the season, Jacob was placed in a cell with T-Bag (something the feds arranged after Michael impressed them), where lord knows what happened. Hopefully something awful and speakable, because Jacob was the worst.
There is only one story and it continues from one season to the next. The same characters are involved, at least for Seasons 1 to 4. (I haven't seen Season 5 myself.) There are multiple literal prison breaks, but not one per season.
Created by Paul Scheuring for Fox, Prison Break revolves around two brothers, Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield, played by Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller respectively. Burrows is sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, leaving his genius sibling Scofield to devise an elaborate plan to help his brother escape prison and clear his name. The show originally ran for four seasons, ending in 2008, before being revived for a sequel miniseries in 2017, something which both Miller and Purcell were reportedly heavily involved in making happen.
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