The 'Prison Break' Discussion thread: Series Finale

Good episode last night on 5.

 

Spoilers from spoilerfix.com:

Airing Mondays at 8 p.m. when the series returns on March 20, 2006.

* 12/17 - Episode 1.14 - The Rat [Airing March 20]: A CO and his supervisor notice that the utility room's frosted glass door has been broken. They do some investigation and find two pieces of broken pipe. Nick and Veronica ask a judge to grant a stay of execution for Lincoln. In the meeting, there is also a man named Peter Tucci who presides over Respondent's table (aka makes it his mandate to destroy Nick and Veronica's case). Sucre and T-Bag face off during rec time. Sucre is sick and gets a guard's sympathy. Lincoln demands to see Michael but Stolte denies it. Warden Pope and Bellick also appear.
* 12/26 - Episode 1.15 - By The Skin and The Teeth [Airing March 27]: Manche Sanchez, one of C-Note's cousins, ends up in prison. It seems that something happened to a doctor and that they made an oath not to talk about it. This gives C-Note the upper hand to get Manche to find an object for him. Manche does laundry duty in prison. He has some explaining to do when T-Bag's uniform has a hole in it. Bellick visits the Prison Psych Ward. Veronica, Nick and Tucci (from episode 1.14) meet with Dr. Wasserman, a County Forensic Expert, where they get autopsy results of a woman. Veronica doesn't believe the results. Michael and Sucre also appear. [Note: It seems they changed the storyline a bit and made Manche be Sucre's cousin instead of C-Note's.]
* 01/04 - Episode 1.16 - Brother's Keeper: The episode will feature a flashback to 1985 where a young Veronica argues with her drunk father after she brought young Michael and Lincoln home since they had nowhere else to go. Lincoln wants to protect his younger brother and doesn't want them to end up in foster homes. Sara deals with a man from her past. Kellerman appears in the episode.
* 01/16 - Episode 1.17: Nick and Veronica are interrogated about the shooting that happened a few episodes back, the fact that they haven't called the cops back then and that they removed the bullet themselves in order to evade the authorities when they went to the hospital. They hope the detective's investigation in this shooting will link the shooter to Lincoln's case. T-Bag has a new bitch hold his pocket. Tweener and Brinker also appear.

 

Very interesting.

 

Anyone know how many episodes total there are this season ? Is it 22 ?

 

Any word on renewal yet?

 

I thought it got picked up for season 2 last year?

I watched four hours of the seven hour marathon today. Good stuff.

 

That may have been refering to last nights return as a "2nd Season". The local TV Guide that came in my newspaper refered to last night's as the "Season Premiere".

As for last night's episode I thought it was a good return. I am very curious as to what's going to happen to Lincoln. It looks as if he's on the way out but it would be a huge leap of faith for them to kill him off as that would pretty much destroy the premise of the entire show. But hey, if Battlestar can change as much as it did, anything can happen!

 

$50 says Sucre shoved another rat in the fuse box, or something similar. No way will Linc the Sink bite it here.

Either that or they'll somehow stretch out 5 minutes into 10 1-hour episodes .....

 

They've renewed PB for a second season.

 

About the second season (possible spoilers, so HTR):

"Season two is basically ?Prison Break: Manhunt,?? reveals another executive producer, Matt Olmstead.

I was wondering how they were going to pull out another season, and I guess this explains it.

 

Yea, a recent article in EW confirms that the producers have had the first two seasons mapped out since before the pilot was even filmed. Its going to cover exactly what w_k said, and we're going to see those who actually do escape in individual arcs. Also, the producers have said that how this season is basically Michael's year, next season will be Lincoln's time to shine.

 

Does anyone know what the deal with the origami swans Micheal made will be?

 

Wasn't that already covered? I think that's how he got some information out of the prison?

 

I believe that they're also going to be exploring the entire thing with the president.

 

Thought I would put this up for you all. It is a laugh out loud summary of the show. It pretty much celebrates how absurd it is. Hope you enjoy it.
Television Without Pity

 

Heh, very funny!

 

I found an article here on the actor who plays C-Note if anyone's interested.

 

Pretty sweet epsiode tonight, with the "Secret Origins" of everyone.

 

It was cool but it seemed kind of random to me. I thought it was kind of a strange to make Sara an addict, too.

 

And all the little connections between everyone was kinda LOST-ish. I was waiting for Jack to show up somewhere, or the numbers to pop up in a tattoo.

Speaking of which, were there a few new tats shown (in the planning phase)? Because a few looked unfamiliar to me.

 

To be honest I really didnt notice.

Oh, and even though it was ridiculous, Sucre robbing the convience store the first time was pretty funny.

 

That was good. But, the rest of the episode kinda sucked. Especially that story about the soldier in Iraq stuff, and then him getting busted for a drug bust.

I like Sara's story. And T Bag's story was pretty interesting. I was hoping for a little showing of the DB Cooper story, though.

And to see the VP brother in the chair at the end was cool.

 

I've never been a fan of C-Note. His character just always seemed like to much of a jerk to me. This episode seemed to be all about making him sympathetic. And really how long can his sentance be for driving a truck full of drugs? If he really wanted to get out of it I'm sure he could name names and get a very small sentence. Smaller than Michael's or Sucre's armed robbery sentences for sure. And it doesn't change the fact that he's still lying to his wife and daughter.

 

I was hoping to see some DB Cooper back story, too, but I figured we wouldnt since it happened over thirty years ago.

As far as how long C-Note is locked up for, IIRC, Im pretty sure he said he had like a 3 year sentence or something at one point (although its very possible I could be wrong). Either way it couldnt be that long, or else how would he realistically keep the Army lie up to his wife ?

 

For anyone who's a Trekkie, the VP's brother is played by the dude that played Dr. Phlox on Enterprise.