I didn't kill that man, Michael.
I was set up.
Swear to me.
I swear to you, Michael.
I find it incumbent that you see the inside
of a prison cell, Mr. Scofield.
I'm getting you out of here.
That's impossible.
Not if you design the place, it isn't.
You're asking me to break the law.
I'm asking you to make a mistake.
Forget to lock up.
As soon as it gets dark, we go.
Sound the alarm.
We did it, Mike.
However this plays out, I have no regrets.
"Prison Break" was a very pivotal and rewarding chapter
in my personal development.
Ever so often a job will come along where you say,
this is special.
We didn't know if "Prison Break" was going to be a hit.
I think they called it a phenomenon.
"Prison Break" is a job that by and large, all of the actors
on it owe their careers to.
I think it was ahead of its time--
B mark.
Action.
Edgy--
You can't possibly get away with this, son.
I don't think you want to find out how badly I want
to get my brother out of here.
--dark--
Who are you fooling?
You ain't got it in you.
--Cinematic.
To have that be on network television on Fox,
specifically, it was remarkable in 2005.
I'm a fan myself, and I'm very blessed to be part of something
that changed the history of TV.
I died seven years ago.
I left behind a brother, a wife, a son.
But the dead talk if you do listen, because not
all deaths are the same.
Some are real.
Some are a story.
This Resurrection came to be because Dominic Purcell
and myself wound up working together
on another show playing completely
different characters.
It was just like we had never stopped
working with one another.
And we just started talking about "Prison Break."
Out of that conversation came this idea that there
might be more to the story.
Season Five, it's taken it to a different level.
As soon as we got the first script,
I just knew this was going to be great.
We've got Paul Scheuring, who is
spearheading these new nine episodes
and originated the show.
So it's got his tone.
It's going to be the biggest version of "Prison Break."
We're introducing new aspects of these characters.
We're housing that and this massive international story
that spans the entire world.
It feels like the biggest season of "Prison Break" ever.
It has this epic, mythological scope.
Paul Scheuring, the creator, was really excited about doing
a cool action-packed Season Five that
captures the intensity and the adrenaline of the first season.
It's not just about breaking out of prison.
That's the beginning of the story.
The goal is to break out of the country itself,
out of the entire Middle East.
All the people that you loved from the original "Prison
Break" will all play a very significant role
in helping Michael and Lincoln get out of this alive.
It feels like it's happening out there in the world today.
At the same time, it's a continuation of the same themes
that worked so well.
The first time around, family, sacrifice,
loyalty, and brotherhood.
Lincoln and Michael are the heart of the show.
They always have been.
And I think it's one of the things the fans can look
forward to is their reunion.
The connection between the two brothers is a universal theme.
It's love, it's bond, it's blood.
It's a story about a group of people who believe in devotion
to one another at all costs.
When you have a fundamental heart at the basic massive epic
that we intend this to be, I think that the audience is
just going to be like, I'm in.
"Prison Break" fans are by far the most vocal and loyal
that I've ever encountered, which
given that we've been off the air for seven years
is remarkable.
It's something you never quite get used to.
I'm humbled by it, and I'm very grateful to the show and fans.
It is great that we have so many of the old cast
back because I think it's one more thing for the fans
to look forward to.
But we've also got a handful of great new characters as well.
It really is bringing all of those pieces, all of that
family back together again.
And that is the heart of the season.
Still tight as scales on a snake.
T-bag gets out of prison, and then boom.
Must have friends in high places, Bagwell.
How a cesspool like you get his walking papers,
I'll never know.
He gets the first clue.
And one last piece of correspondence.
And he's right back into it again of that very thing
that he did not want to be involved with again, which
is Michael drawing him in.
Lincoln has gone to the depths of despair at this point.
He's lost his brother.
It's been seven years.
Before you know it, Lincoln was back in the old hood
doing odd jobs, moving things from A
to B for gangsters, crooks.
Girls, how about you step out and pay us
the hundred grand you owe us.
He gets information from T-bag that there's a possibility
that Michael may be alive.
It seems fate has deigned to join us at the hip once again.
Have a looksie.
Looks like your brother might just be alive.
You know, I've made my peace of what was coming.
And you show up, and give me the one thing a man in my situation
shouldn't have--
hope.
Now that's going to be taken away.
Don't do this, Linc.
I've got three weeks.
What do you want me to do?
Michael was someone that always used to show him the way,
to a degree.
And he didn't have that guiding light in his life.
Now I've been a mess ever since you left,
fallen back into my old ways.
There's a guy who lost what was most near and dear
to him, which was his brother.
And mark.
When the potential of his brother being alive
comes on his radar--
If you don't get off my deck, I'm going to crack your skull.
I get a surprise visit from T-bag, who Lincoln despises.
Have a looksie.
T-bag said he thinks Michael's alive.
That's impossible.
That's what I thought.
He starts this journey out into the world,
which is to find out, extensively,
is his brother alive.
I know you want it to be true, losing a brother, massive hole
that leaves in your life.
Sara, she has moved on with her life.
You're talking about a woman that had this profound
life-changing relationship with a man seven years ago that
lasted less than two years.
Michael was sick.
He was terminally sick, and he died.
She's a different person than she was before.
She was never a wife and mother in the show,
and she certainly was never a widow.
I don't know that Sarah would have made
it were it not for her son.
I think her son has become the center of her universe,
partly because he's all she has left of Michael.
As he gets older, he's more like his father every day.
He looks more like him.
He thinks more like him.
What was my father like, my real father?
Somewhere along the way without looking for it,
she met a man who was willing to take what she had left to give,
which isn't a lot.
Jacob Ness is a professor of game theory
at the University of Ithaca.
He's a really good guy.
But he's basically there for her in her moment of need.
And he has stepped in to raise a child who's not his own.
And he's done it with generosity and class.
I don't think Sara and her new husband Jacob are
under any delusions that this is a love of your life
kind of a situation.
But I think there's respect, there's friendship,
there's comfort.
I've got a stake in this too.
This is my wife, my son.
The reintroduction of the possibility that Michael might
be still alive starts to threaten that relationship
because she's very conflicted, because the man she's
married to is a wonderful guy.
But, of course, we as "Prison Break" fans are like, well,
but you got to get Sara and Michael together.
I think Michael and Sara, they will be drawn towards one
another no matter what.
Ultimately, these are two people who would
do anything for each other.
The question is, he still the man that she remembers?
Is he deserving of her love?
Is he deserving of a happy ending?
Your brother's dead, Lincoln.
Where is he then?
Where's the body?
If he's been out there for all of these years,
why did he abandon his own son?
Can he still call himself a good man?
Is he still considered a hero?
Is he worthy of Sara and their child?
Michael Scofield was like a storm, and frightening,
and mysterious.
And he would show up in your life
out of the clear, blue sky.
And then he would disappear just as quickly.
But storms, they can come back, can't they?
If I needed to get to Yemen, is that something
you can help me with?
There a period of time where C-Note,
he goes on a journey, and he figures out
a way to make himself happy.
It's a change and culture.
It's a change in characteristics.
It's a huge change for this man.
And, of course, where we left off before,
it was always a tug of war with these guys,
because they're trying to break out
and get their own lives back.
How is this friendship or this lack of friendship
going to mesh right now?
Lincoln is in search C-Note, and he finds him in a Mosque,
and he needs my help.
I thought he was dead.
So did everyone.
Because the clues are leading to a country far away to come
to a guy like me, C-Note, who has ties in the country where
Michael could possibly be.
Needs C-Note to come to the Middle East,
negotiate, and to translate.
We do a little research, and we're often and running.
Do you really got contacts?
Contacts with contacts.
Seven years back, my brother waded into hell to save me.
He was a genius that no prison could hold.
We need to break him out, wade into that hell,
and find him, and bring him back to life.
Michael reappears in a prison in Yemen,
and that's changed him.
His got a new deadly set of skills.
He's now always vigilant.
It's always been one of the most interesting parts
of the character to me is that he's
a good man pursuing good ends.
Please tell me, do you still plan on getting us out of here?
I'll start the process.
But the means are somewhat shady.
It's the good stuff, morphine derivative.
I need access to your cell phone and a credit card number.
His hands dirty at this point in the story.
Some of the prominent new characters
are prison mates of Michael's.
Does any of this phase you at all, the fact
that we're going to die in here?
We're not going to die.
We're still getting out, all of us.
T has formed an alliance that work together
to patch this plan to escape.
Whip is Michael Scofield's right-hand man.
He's very much the lovable rogue.
You're a brother to me.
I had zero, nobody, until you recruited me.
He's very loyal, and very dedicated
to Michael and what we're trying to achieve together.
Nobody has the ability to trust each other.
But these guys are in the same cell,
and they're from international territories, and they bond
together.
Getting over wall is just the start.
Every one of you is crucial to that plan.
He's got a new family.
And there's a question-- who is Michael now?
Sometimes, my friend, I can't tell which is bigger,
your plans or your lies?
Every time I get the new script, I'm turning the pages,
I put it down, I lay in my bed, and I just can't go to sleep.
There just couldn't be a greater
crucible to put them in.
Everything is a threat from all sides,
and you don't know who to trust.
We're the only one's coming into the place.
Yeah, the country's falling apart.
Who's that contact again?
Another new character is Sheba, who's
trying to help her country from within while it's
being eviscerated from without by this invasion of ISIS
forces.
This is very radicalized neighborhood.
She's a Yemenai activist, and a freedom fighter.
C-Note and Lincoln need someone that knows
the ins and outs of Yemen.
And so that's where my character comes in.
The suburbs are out there, frontline of the war.
You have to get us past the checkpoint.
Two Americans will never make it without.
She's my go-to girl.
She's the girl that can actually unlock
doors that I can't unlock.
There.
It says yes.
The man in the picture is here.
And we can see him but only because we're
dealing with Sheba.
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Michael.
New tats.
Michael has a new set of tattoos,
and they are pivotal to the story.
They're different in terms of the idea around them.
It's got that great "Prison Break" puzzle that will really
be something exciting as it unravels as to what they are
and why he has them.
I have always liked the symbolism of Michael
being a marked man.
And tattoos are a reflection of that.
Roll camera.
Action.
Coming back to do this again, one of the huge mandates
was that we're not going to shoot
this on a sound stage in LA.
We're going to go to Africa.
Morocco was a once in a lifetime experience.
The show has an international fan base.
And going to these various places,
actually shooting in Morocco for Yemen,
gives the show a look and flavor.
It just looks gorgeous.
We were in Ouarzazate, which has cool, Arabic architecture.
And then the Sahara Desert, it is
incredibly hot and incredibly windy, and gusty, and sandy.
And every day was just brutal in its own way.
And these actors are really impressive to stick with it
and do what they did.
Action.
The look of the show is very intense, very real.
With the action sequences so big,
you don't have time to make a mistake.
You really got to go for it.
Three, two, one, and boom.
We're standing outside a technical school
here in Ouarzazate, Morocco that we've turned into a prison.
For some of the shots, we'll be adding additional pieces
to the prison, mostly which is a practical prison
that they've done a great job building here in Morocco.
Luca, our production designer, is incredibly talented.
And he has created these amazing environments and sets.
It feels like we're making a movie.
I think the original series had a big movie
feel for television.
So besides the scope of actually where we're shooting,
there will be planes, trains, automobiles, shipping vessels.
You name it, it's in there.
It's bigger than any other ventures
because this is one that spans the globe.
It goes from the Middle East, to Europe,
to Africa, across the Atlantic, all the way back to the US.
And ultimately, the story is, what is
the mystery Michael Scofield?
I was a fan of the original series.
At the time when it first came out, I read the script.
And when I read it, A, I was blown
away because it was just a perfect kind
of story setup for a show.
The thing that really stood out to me
was the relationship between the brothers
and what you're willing to do for family.
I think we had a nice blend of action, adventure, and heart.
It was about family.
It was about sacrifice.
It was about loyalty, and brotherhood, specifically,
as well as the cliffhangers, and the cool engineering stuff,
and the tattoo.
It has that DNA of the original "Prison Break."
and we all thought there was more story to tell.
It's going to be incredibly exciting.
I think this is going to be better
than the original "Prison Break."
I think more and more, especially
in light of these last nine episodes,
there's also something about suffering and endurance.
All of our characters go through extreme hardships.
And I there's something inspiring about watching
someone endure, and endure, and endure,
and come out the other side.
Well, one of the amazing things about the new season
is I think that has been some time off between the four
seasons and this, which lets there
be a little bit of a reset and build up the mystery again.
What has happened to Michael?
What has he been doing for the last seven years?
Why hasn't he contacted Sara?
Is he the same guy?
Is he a good guy?
Is he a bad guy?
And that's the fun.
We've got nine episodes to do what we used to do in 22.
It's what you expect "Prison Break" to be,
which is television by the edge of your seats.
It's the way Paul Scheuring writes.
And that's what makes him such a brilliant writer.
He writes in a very multi-layered almost
Shakespearean kind of way.
They're just plots, just intersecting,
and weaving in and out.
And at the end of the day, they all connect,
and it makes perfect sense.
People are just left, like, give me the next episode.
There's an expectation to bring you what you know.
But I also think there's a responsibility
on the writer's part to let these characters have
learned something.
Please don't give us the same old thing.
Paul, I think, because he knew he was doing a short run,
it was going to be an event series.
I think he wanted to just bring back the people
that he could really tell a full story about,
really give them the time they needed.
When we see the characters this time around,
they're been affected by life and it's turmoils.
T-Bag and C-Note, and different characters are coming
back as part of the family.
But they're all getting a really unique, cool story.
It was something that I think everyone
wanted to be a part of.
And you felt that energy.
You felt this energy.
You felt everything just pulsating around this project.
It was just like old times.
We all fit.
We all understand each other's rhythms.
We're all good friends--
just like a big family event.
To come back to this group of people
that we started with was really--
it was emotional.
It resonated, I think, in surprising ways for all of us.
Coming back to this project was like riding a bike.
This story still lived in me somewhere.
And my very first scene, I'm behind bars.
Dominic's on the other side.
And it was just like old times.
Just looking into his eyes was enough to ground me in the
who am I of these characters.
There's so many new people, so many new characters,
incredible, incredible talent.
The writing is top notch.
The compilation of the action, and the intrigue, and the drama
is heightened dramatically.
It's just nonstop thrills, nonstop mystery,
and information being revealed.
It really matters that we deliver
something that honors the commitment
that the fans have given to us.
You can expect what you always saw in "Prison Break,"
which is a lot of shorter nails, and a lot of-- no,
wait a minute.
I got to wait till next week?
It's a grand epic.
It's not constrained to a prison.
It's not a throwback.
It's right here, right now.
It was a great show.
It was a great experience, and I'll do it again.
Let's go.