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murder of the vice president's brother.
He insists he's innocent and only his
brother, Michael Scofield, believes him.
An engineer who helped retrofit the
prison where Lincoln is being held,
Michael takes drastic measures to help
his brother. He gets himself arrested
and sent to the same prison so that
with his knowledge of the building the
two of them can escape together.
However while inside Michael discovers
a massive conspiracy that is
determined to see Lincoln's sentence
carried out. Breaking out will be more
difficult than he thought, but he's still
going to try.
Source: imdb.com
for FOX's official
Prison Break site.
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Updated June 20, 2006
BANFF, Alta. (CP) - Desperate and on the run, the fugitives from Prison Break face a bleak future in their break for
freedom, says the creator of the popular Fox series.
"This show has a finite life span as do some of our characters," Paul Scheuring said at the Banff Television Festival,
where industry insiders recently gathered to look for the next hot idea or concept.
People are going to start paying the price here and they're going to start dropping like flies," he said. "In that sense
it's like a dark American Idol: you start with eight people, then it's seven and six and five."
The drama with the implausible storyline is about to start shooting its second season in Dallas, Tex., - far from the
Illinois State Prison where its far-fetched premise played out.
Scheuring says the guilt of releasing a pack of murderers and rapists begins to weigh on Michael Scofield
(Wentworth Miller), who used an elaborate blueprint of the prison tattooed on his body to help break out his
wrongfully convicted brother and the collection of creepy cohorts.
"He will begin to realize he's unleashed this Pandora's box on the world so that's not completely lost on the moral
centre of the story," he said. "They're not completely completely blowing off what they've done."
Scofield is also wracked with guilt over the fate of prison doctor Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), who was last
seen sprawled on the ground, the victim of an apparent drug overdose.
"If you think about the world of trouble Sara's going to be in - if she even survives - in large part it's because she did
what he asked," said Scheuring. "So there's a lot of responsibility on his end and that weighs very heavily on him."
But audiences seemed to have connected with the dark allure of the characters, who each have differing shades of
humanity and honour.
Among the nastiest is T-Bag (Robert Knepper), who was last seen stumbling into the bushes with his hand cut off.
"Everyone is quite concerned about T-Bag's fate," said Scheuring. "But they will be quite happy. We're going to
have T-Bag to kick around for Season 2 - for at least the lion's share of it."
Scheuring, who had planned to be a novelist before venturing into writing screenplays a decade ago, had mapped a
two-year storyline with the original premise. That's taken away some stress about the upcoming season; he has
plotlines following each character across the United States.
"Preparation is the key to everything, in my opinion," he said. "You have to know what the end game of stories are
for the stories to be worthy and make sense. We don't want someone to get to the end of Season 2 and say 'that's
impossible - that completely doesn't jibe."'
His writing staff has already started to sketch out Season 3 if the public - and the network - want more.
"It will be a complete reinvention of Season 2. We never want to tell the same story again."
Scheuring promises a lot of loose ends from stories that began in the first season will be played out in the coming
months.
"It's not simply going to be our guys in a car chase: there are a lot of unresolved issues," he said. "All these things
are going to be addressed in one way or another and usually often in the way the audience anticipates. We're
playing for keeps ... the audience will be pretty amazed."
Michael's Nemesis Cast:
By Nellie Andreeva
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The "Prison Break" gang will face a formidable nemesis next season, to be
played by "Invasion" star William Fichtner.
The second season of Fox's "Prison Break" chronicles the manhunt for Michael (Wentworth Miller), Lincoln (Dominic
Purcell) and the other inmates who successfully broke out of prison at the end of Season 1.
Fichtner will star as a federal agent assigned to track down and apprehend the escaped convicts.
The search for an actor to play the role went down to the wire. Production on the show, which was shooting on
location in Dallas, was postponed by a day until the deal with Fichtner was completed.
Sources said the main issue was working around Fichtner's commitment to the DreamWorks Pictures comedy
feature "Blades of Glory."
Fichtner most recently starred as Sheriff Tom Underlay on ABC's critically praised drama "Invasion" and appeared in
the feature "Ultraviolet."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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Episode 2.01 write up:
Airing Mondays at 8 p.m. The series has been renewed for a 2nd season and will keep its timeslot. The show is set
to begin sometime in August until December, go in hiatus in January and come back sometime in the Spring.
06/06 - Episode 2.01: 30-year-old FBI agent Buck Mahone gives a press conference at the prison about the
escapees and makes sure Americans understand that those men are the most wanted criminals in the country.
When reviewing intake pictures of the escapees, Mahone is highly interested in Michael's tatoos. Why would a
structural engineer get such tattoos? Bellick and Mahone don't see eye to eye as to how they should track down the
escapees: Bellick wants to be on the field, Mahone prefers to tap into the public's fear and try to understand the
men... Let the competition begin!