When the original series left the air, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) was dead, his brother Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) was free, his wife Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies) and child were grieving and everybody else in the cast was taking a breather from three-plus seasons and tacked-on specials of ludicrous and unbelievable plotlines, which were exhausting. If Prison Break had a point — and it had exactly one — it was pretty much dried up in the first season, and everything after was a brain-free exercise in entertaining fans who were willing to stick around and buy whatever was being sold, plot-wise.
That didn’t stop Fox from believing that this new storyline, conjured from series creator and writer Paul Scheuring, would work. And so we get — gasp! — the realization that Michael is alive and in prison in Yemen. Repeat — he’s not dead. He was dead. And before he was dead, he even had a brain tumor. Now he’s not dead at all. But he’s in a prison again. And he’s reaching out, cryptically, to get the gang all back together to save him or perhaps even the world.



