- Seven years have passed, with everyone having moved on with their lives. Michael is discovered to still be alive after his apparent death and has ended up in a Yemen prison. Lincoln gets a visit from a familiar face and learns the news about Michael and his whereabouts.—Sorosh Akbarian
- Seven years after Michael's burial, Dr. Sara Tancredi raises their son Mike Jr. with spotless stepfather Jacob Anton Ness. When Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell is paroled, surprisingly early, he receives a mysterious anonymous letter suggesting Michael is alive and jailed. He takes it to Lincoln, who is chased by thugs having relapsed into petty crime, consults unbelieving Sara and finds the hidden message, which indicates it's Yemeni capital Sana'a's infamous political prison Ogygia. T-bag is rewarded for his services as free, first recipient of Dr. Whitcombe's novel hand prosthesis, his mysterious sponsor's only condition for a crucial grant. Someone sends a hired gun to eliminate Michael's family, but only Ness is wounded. Lincoln decides to locate, visit and in necessary liberate Michael and enlists pacific Islam-converted mate Omar, needing knowledge of Arabic and contacts in Yemen, while Fernando Sucre invites himself for the Yemeni rescue expedition.—KGF Vissers
- After an eight-year-long hiatus, Prison Break returned in 2017 for its biggest escape yet. In the show's fifth season, stars Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar and Paul Adelstein are reunited for an all-new adventure spanning the globe and featuring the signature thrills and cliffhangers that were hallmarks of the original series. In addition to the returning cast, Mark Feuerstein, Inbar Lavi, and Augustus Prew join Prison Break as Jacon Anton Ness, Sheba, and David "Whip" Martin, respectively.
In the new series, filmed on location in Morocco, clues surface that suggest a previously thought-to-be-dead Michael may be alive. Lincoln and Sara, Michael's wife until he was presumed dead, reunite to engineer the biggest escape ever, as three of Fox River State Penitentiary's most notorious escapees, Sucre, T-Bag, and C-Note are pulled back into the action.
Prison Break was an immediate critical and ratings hit when it premiered on FOX in the fall of 2005, garnering Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Television Series - Drama and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama (Miller). The original producing team, including series creator Paul T. Scheuring, Neal Moritz, Marty Adelstein and Dawn Olmstead, return to executive-produce the new series.
Prison Break is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series is created by Paul T. Scheuring. Scheuring, Vaun Wilmott, Michael Horowitz, Dawn Olmstead, Nelson McCormick, Marty Adelstein, Neal Moritz and Brett Ratner serve as executive producers. McCormick also serves as a director on the series.
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