

So the fact that Scofield is even alive at all is an illustration of how Prison Break deals with the truth. He's dead - the writers even said as much in media interviews. In a follow-up made-for-TV movie, we eventually see his gravestone. The show had a fair bit of resolution as far as TV dramas go: In the series finale, Michael's nose begins to bleed, which suggests his impending demise from hypothalamic hamartoma. People who watched Prison Break's conclusion will probably need a bit of a catch up. The episode one title, "Ogygia," is the name of the facility where Michael is now being held captive. That has been the case with the poor, ennobled Prison Break protagonist Michael Scofield, who in the season five premiere now finds himself in a new facility, this time in Yemen. In Prison Break, which ran on Fox for four seasons between 20, the answer has usually been to throw the prisoners back in jail. It's hard to see how you can sustain that plot line indefinitely, as serialized TV often demands. Where does the Prison Break story go once the prisoners in question have been sprung? In classic films like The Shawshank Redemption or The Great Escape, prisoners either beat the system or courageously die trying. Prison Break has always presented something of a dilemma for writers. To viewers familiar with the Prison Break series, none of this will seem particularly implausible, and watching it will probably be fun as hell. In the first episode of Prison Break season five a mother promises her small child she'll impale an intruder, another character survives a car crash because they weren't wearing a seatbelt, and a convicted white supremacist pedophile gets a cutting-edge robo-hand from a generous anonymous benefactor.
