50 Fun Facts About Hard Prison Break

Lincoln Burrows is convicted of murdering Terrence Steadman, who is the brother of whom?

Reynolds later becomes president, and the Company framed Lincoln because of his father Aldo's past with them.

Why did the conspirators frame Lincoln?

Veronica Donovan, the brothers' childhood friend, is the one who starts unpicking the conspiracy.

What crime does Michael commit to get himself sent to Fox River?

He is a structural engineer, and the prison's blueprints are hidden in his tattoo.

What condition does Michael pretend to have to get daily access to the infirmary?

The insulin shots put him in front of Dr. Sara Tancredi every day.

How do the Fox River Eight physically get over the wall in the season one escape?

It happens in the penultimate episode of season one, not the finale.

Which of these was NOT one of the six inmates who escaped with the brothers?

Bellick was the guard captain; he was fired and chased the fugitives for reward money.

Which inmate's buried cash do several escapees hunt for in season two?

He was Fox River's rumoured D.B. Cooper, and the money became the season's MacGuffin.

How did series creator Paul Scheuring describe season two?

He also likened it to the second half of The Great Escape.

FBI agent Alexander Mahone, sent to catch the fugitives, is secretly working for whom?

They want all eight men dead; William Fichtner played him from seasons two to four.

Whose testimony exonerates Lincoln and Sara at the end of season two?

The ex-Secret Service agent had worked for the Company-controlled president; Sara had let herself be arrested to protect the brothers.

Which four characters end up imprisoned together at Sona in Panama?

Sona is run by the inmates and guarded only from outside after a riot the year before.

Who does Gretchen's organisation want Michael to break out of Sona?

Gretchen Morgan holds LJ and Sara hostage to force him, and Chris Vance played Whistler.

What does Gretchen send Lincoln to make him believe Sara is dead?

Sara turned out to be alive, which season four revealed after Sarah Wayne Callies returned.

Who is Lechero?

Robert Wisdom played the Panamanian drug kingpin Norman St. John.

Which character gets thrown into Sona just after the season three escape?

A guard discovers his identity; he had been working the outside of the plan.

Season four's team is recruited by Homeland Security agent Don Self to obtain what?

Michael Rapaport played Self, who turns out to be a double agent planning to sell it.

Michael's supposedly dead mother Christina turns out to be what?

She wants Scylla for herself; Sara kills her in Miami to protect Michael.

In which city does the season four storyline finally end?

Scylla is recovered, the General and the Company fall, and Sara kills Christina.

In The Final Break, why is Sara imprisoned in Miami-Dade?

The General puts a $100,000 bounty on her from the adjacent men's facility.

What is Michael dying of when he sacrifices himself in The Final Break?

The Final Break was assembled from two extra episodes, The Old Ball and Chain and Free.

Under what alias is Michael held in Yemen's Ogygia Prison in season five?

The name is linked to terrorism; Outis is Greek for nobody, the trick Odysseus used on the Cyclops.

Who is revealed to be Poseidon in season five?

Mark Feuerstein played the economics professor and rogue CIA operative who made Michael disappear.

Which reformed fugitive helps Lincoln in Yemen, now a devout Muslim with local connections?

Inbar Lavi's Sheba, leader of a resistance against ISIL, is his friend and Lincoln's love interest.

How many episodes did the 2017 revival season have?

It ran from April 4 to May 30, 2017; a sixth season was mooted in 2018 but shelved by 2019.

Fox first rejected Prison Break in which year?

The success of 24 and Lost changed the network's mind about serialized drama in 2004.

Which director was interested in a 14-part Prison Break miniseries before leaving for War of the Worlds?

The miniseries never happened, and Fox eventually ordered a full series.

Season one was originally planned for how many episodes before ratings extended it?

Nine more were added, and the premiere drew 10.5 million viewers.

How many viewers watched the series premiere on August 29, 2005?

The season two premiere averaged 9.4 million.

Which real correctional facility, closed in 2002, became the Fox River set in 2005?

Jake Blues walks out of the same limestone gates at the start of The Blues Brothers.

Joliet Correctional Center operated between which years?

Its limestone was quarried on site, and White Heat used it for exteriors in 1949.

Where did filming move for season two, starting June 15, 2006?

Rural and urban locations within a 30-minute radius sold the producers, and the show spent over $50 million in Texas.

What was season three's budget per episode?

It was shot in Dallas too, standing in for Panama; season one had spent $2 million an episode in Illinois.

How long did it take to apply Michael Scofield's tattoo to Wentworth Miller?

Tom Berg designed it and Tinsley Transfers made it.

Who composed the show's Emmy-nominated theme music?

He was nominated in 2006 and later scored Game of Thrones and Westworld.

What did Prison Break actually win in 2006?

It was nominated for the 2005 Golden Globe for Best Television Series Drama but lost.

Prison Break: Proof of Innocence was a spin-off made exclusively for what?

Sprint customers got it first in April 2006 on SprintTV's Fox station.

Robert Knepper reprised T-Bag in which 2011 A&E series created by Prison Break writers?

Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora created it.

Fox's Kevin Reilly announced in 2009 that Prison Break would end after which season?

He blamed creativity rather than ratings, saying all the stories had been told.

Wentworth Miller was born in which country?

Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, to American parents; he later graduated from Princeton with a thesis on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea.

Wentworth Miller made his screenwriting debut with which 2013 thriller?

He also played Captain Cold in The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.

Dominic Purcell's family moved from Merseyside to which Australian city in 1972?

They lived in Bondi and then Penrith; he later played Heat Wave alongside Miller's Captain Cold.

Robert Knepper was cast as T-Bag in 2005 after a recurring role on which HBO series?

He later played Samuel Sullivan in the final season of Heroes and Rodney Mitchum in Twin Peaks: The Return.

Sarah Wayne Callies studied drama at which college?

She grew up in Honolulu and went on to play Lori Grimes in The Walking Dead.

Series creator Paul Scheuring was born in which Illinois city?

He wrote the 2003 film A Man Apart and once worked as a courier, cable installer and factory worker.

Which actor played the Chicago mafia boss John Abruzzi?

Stacy Keach was Warden Pope, Wade Williams was Bellick and Muse Watson was Westmoreland.

Which actor played Homeland Security agent Don Self?

Fichtner was Mahone, Adelstein was Kellerman and Vance was Whistler.

Sara Tancredi's father, whom the conspirators have killed, held what office?

His death is what sends Sara back to Michael in season two.

The 2010 video game Prison Break: The Conspiracy follows which Company employee sent inside Fox River?

The game was first planned for a February 2009 release but was cancelled when publisher Brash Entertainment shut down.

Under what title did Channel One's Russian adaptation of Prison Break premiere in 2010?

Some scenes and dialogue were copied outright, but new storylines reflecting Russian life were added.

Which writer is behind the Hulu Prison Break reboot for which a pilot was ordered in December 2024?

The reboot is set in the same world but does not feature the original characters; Emily Browning and Lukas Gage were cast in 2025.