The fourth, current and final season of the serial drama television series Prison Break commenced airing in the United States on September 1, 2008. It has currently aired 16 episodes and will have at least six more episodes, which will air from April 17, 2009.[1]
Production
According to TVGuide.com, Fox president Kevin Reilly explained, “Prison Break got to a point where a lot of the stories had been told.” At least six hours of the drama are left to go, with the possibility of a few more hours added as Reilly said he wants the program to “finish strong.” On January 14, 2009, Fox announced the series will be ending at the conclusion of this season.[1]
Cast
Season 4 stars Wentworth Miller as Michael Scofield, Dominic Purcell as Lincoln Burrows, William Fichtner as Alexander Mahone, Amaury Nolasco as Fernando Sucre, Robert Knepper as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell, Sarah Wayne Callies as Sara Tancredi and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as Gretchen Morgan. Michael Rapaport makes his debut as Homeland Security Agent Don Self in the season premiere, while James Whistler (portrayed by Chris Vance) and Sofia Lugo (portrayed by Danay Garcia) exit the series in the premiere. From the eleventh episode onwards, Brad Bellick (portrayed by Wade Williams) is no longer credited.
Major recurring characters include Leon Russom as General Jonathan Krantz, the leader of a Company acting as the season's main antagonist, Cress Williams as Wyatt Mathewson, a tracker for the Company, James Hiroyuki Liao as Roland Glenn, a criminal who helps the main characters with their plan to take down the Company, Kathleen Quinlan as Christina Rose Scofield, the mother of Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield, Shannon Lucio as Miriam Hultz, the receptionist at a business T-Bag works at and Ron Yuan as Feng Huan, a buyer for Scylla, something very important to the Company.
Episodes# # Title Directed by Written by Original airdate Production code
58 1 "Scylla" Kevin Hooks Matt Olmstead September 1, 2008 4AKJ01
After three weeks of searching, Michael finds Gretchen and Whistler in Los Angeles to avenge Sara's death, where they tell him she escaped and is still alive. He finds her through Bruce Bennett and the two reunite. In Panama, Sucre, Bellick and T-Bag escape from Sona after a riot. T-Bag hitches a ride to the US, though the driver steals his money and leaves him for dead in the Mexican desert. Lincoln is arrested after killing a Company agent. Sucre and Bellick are arrested also, and Mahone is arrested after he finds out that Company agent, Wyatt has murdered his son. The arrested are soon brought together by Homeland Security agent Don Self in an offer to bring down the Company once and for all.
59 2 "Breaking & Entering" Bobby Roth Zack Estrin September 1, 2008 4AKJ02
Michael and his gang are brought in to retrieve Scylla, a blackbook for the Company. The only way to do this, is to break into the cardholder's home, and download the information from a device made by Roland, a computer geek. They get the information by planting the device on a maid, though she sends the device back to the home, where Michael and the team retrieve the device by creating a diversion. T-Bag manages to return to the US and finds a location from Whistler's bird book, where he finds something concerning Whistler's double life. Wyatt has Gretchen imprisoned. Roland retrieves the information from Scylla, but breaks the news that Scylla is six cards, and they need the other five to get to it.
60 3 "Shut Down" Milan Cheylov Nick Santora September 8, 2008 4AKJ03
With five more cards than anticipated, Homeland Security shuts down the operation and send the group behind bars again. Michael, Lincoln, Mahone and Sara escape to uncover clues about where the other card holders are, Michael records a meeting with all six cardholders, and with this new development, Self decides to continue the operation. T-Bag uses Whistler's new identity to make a new life for himself. Wyatt captrues Bruce Bennett and injects him with truth serum to uncover Sara's whereabouts, before killing him. Lincoln has a change of heart for Mahone after he hears his son has been murdered, and agrees to help find Cameron's killer.
61 4 "Eagles & Angels" Michael Switzer Karyn Usher September 15, 2008 4AKJ04
The team find the second cardholder, and attend a police benefit by disguising as police officers to obtain the next card. T-Bag starts working at GATE Corporation and starts reading the information from Whistler's bird book. Meanwhile, Sara hears of Bennett's death, which they believe to be suicide, and is striken with grief and guilt. She goes to a bar, where one man steals her credit card, alerting Wyatt to her location, and starts following her to find her team to get Scylla.
62 5 "Safe & Sound" Karen Gaviola Seth Hoffman September 22, 2008 4AKJ05
The search for the next card key holder brings Michael and Lincoln to the Treasury Department, which is hard to break into, though they succesfully manage to download the third card. The General orders all his cardholders to keep the card with them at all times. Lincoln gets concerned for Michael after noticing his nosebleed. Sara manages to evade Wyatt from learning the team's location. Sucre and Bellick search for T-Bag to get to Whistler's bird book. Gretchen manages to escape from her capture. After seeing Pam, Mahone starts his mission to avenge his son's death.
63 6 "Blow Out" Brian Spicer Kalinda Vazquez September 29, 2008 4AKJ06
Michael and the team track the next cardholder to a racetrack and gets the information from the card, however in the process Mahone is arrested, and he has the device with him. Self arranges a deal to retrieve the device, though Mahone is still behind bars. However, Michael and the team manage pull off a sophisticated escape during Mahone's trial, where he narrowly escaped getting killed by Wyatt, the man who murdered his son. The Company targets Self after he digs up information of General Krantz. T-Bag's alias, Cole Pfeiffer is being investigated for fraud by one of GATE's salepeople. In a panic, T-Bag runs to his home to pack up, where he stumbles across Gretchen, demanding to know who he is.
64 7 "Five the Hard Way" Gary A. Brown Christian Trokey October 6, 2008 4AKJ07
Lincoln takes members of the team to Las Vegas to track down the fifth card. They learn that the cardholder needs a male member of the team to get close to the card. Sucre is to take part, where he learns that the cardholder needs someone to be a one-time bedmate for his wife. Sucre is able to get the fifth card, however Roland has his device confiscated when he is caught gambling. Sara learns that Michael has a brain tumor, like his mother had. Meanwhile, T-Bag works with Gretchen, where she kills the man investigating T-Bag, and kidnaps Michael and Bellick to get Michael to find Scylla by using the bird book. They make it to GATE and finds a room that could lead them to it. Mahone is able to rescue Michael and Bellick and capture T-Bag, though Michael gets a phonecall from Gretchen.
65 8 "The Price" Bobby Roth Graham Roland October 20, 2008 4AKJ08
While Michael is forced to form an alliance with Gretchen, and with the device gone, the team targets the General to get the final card, though Wyatt is tipped off and stops it. The General organises Scylla to be moved, as Michael works out the GATE is near the Company building, where Scylla is being held. It is soon revealed that Roland is the traitor, and arranges a meet with Wyatt for the whereabouts of the team, in exchange for money. However, Wyatt tortures him instead, and after he learns of their location, he shoots him in the abdomen. However, the team tracks them and captures Wyatt. Michael stays with Roland until he dies.
66 9 "Greatness Achieved" Jesse Bochco Nick Santora November 3, 2008 4AKJ09
Wyatt is captured, where the team forge his voice to make the General believe that the team is dead. Afterwards Mahone tortures him, and forces him to apologise to Pam, before Mahone kills him by making him drown. Gretchen makes her own plan on getting the final card, by getting to the General. In order to get to the Company headquarters, the team shuts down a water pipe to make a hole and break into the Company. However, in the process Michael suffers a seizure from his condition. They manage to put a pipe through to safely go through the water main. However, it slips, and Bellick risks his life to put it back up. Just as they succeed, the water returns, and Bellick drowns.
67 10 "The Legend" Dwight Little Karyn Usher November 10, 2008 4AKJ10
While the team, including T-Bag mourn the loss of Bellick, they continue to break into the Company, where Mahone visits the architect behind the security of the vault Scylla is in, only to find he is taken by Company agents. It is revealed that GATE secretary, Trishanne works with Self. Michael and Sara visit a hospital to check on his condition. They learn that Michael has to have surgery the next day, which Michael doesn't agree to, since the General is moving Scylla, and their window of opportunity is closing quickly.
68 11 "Quiet Riot" Kevin Hooks Seth Hoffman November 17, 2008 4AKJ11
Gretchen tries to get the last card by luring the General to her, but he finds out her intentions and threatens to kill her if he sees her again. Self and Trishanne find a lead on Feng Huan, the intended buyer for Scylla should T-Bag and Gretchen get there, but the two are captured by Huan and his men. The rest of the team break into the vault, which has sensitive noise, pressure and temperature alarms. The team succssfully manages to get to Scylla. However, the General sees this through CCTV and is sending his men to stop them.
69 12 "Selfless" Michael Switzer Kalinda Vazquez November 24, 2008 4AKJ12
Michael, Lincoln, Mahone and Sucre anticipate that the General is coming and manages to subdue his guards, as well as get the General's card to get Scylla. Although they are stuck in the Company headquarters, their freedom is secured after Sara holds Lisa Tabak, the General's daughter hostage. They are able to leave the headquarters alive, and with Scylla. Self and Trishanne manage to escape from Huan and kills him and his men. While T-Bag and Gretchen wait for Scofield, the boss of GATE notices their machine guns and the two are forced to hold everyone hostage, though Trishanne is eventually able to apprehend T-Bag. With Scylla, Self takes it and organises the team's releases. However, the celebration is cut short when Self has sent the team empty pieces of paper rather than their release, and he kills Trishanne, to sell Scylla himself.
70 13 "Deal Or No Deal" Bobby Roth Christian Trokey December 1, 2008 4AKJ13
Self tricks Homeland Security into believing that Michael and Burrows has killed him, where he proceeds to get Gretchen and T-Bag into finding a buyer for Scylla, by holding Gretchen's sister and daughter hostage. Michael and the team are again on the run, from both Homeland and the Company. However, Homeland is convinced of Self's doublecross, and intends on killing Michael and Lincoln to prevent any fallout, though the brothers are saved by a Company agent, only to get killed by Lincoln. Gretchen finds a conduit, the man who can arrange a buyer. However, Self notices a piece of Scylla is missing, and Michael has it, when Self calls Michael concerning this, Michael merely tells him to "come and get it".
71 14 "Just Business" Mark Helfrich Graham Roland December 8, 2008 4AKJ14
Self's search for the missing piece gets him captured by the group, but is forced to fell after Gretchen arrives. While T-Bag holds Gretchen's family hostage, a Company agent disguised as a bible salesman arrives. T-Bag lets the family go, before he is captured by the agent. Mahone meets with Lang and Wheeler to arrange a meeting with the Attorney General, but realises this is a ruse, and is taken away. Michael is able to get Scylla from Self, but as he escapes, he collapses from his condition, and is taken away by the Company, though Self escapes with Scylla again. Lincoln decides to join the Company, where they promise to take care of Michael in exchange for the safe return of Scylla.
72 15 "Going Under" Karen Gaviola Zack Estrin December 15, 2008 4AKJ15
While Lincoln works with Sucre to get Scylla back, Self kills the conduit and arranges the meet with the buyer, who plans on killing Self and Gretchen, though Sucre and Lincoln find them both and takes them into Company custody, but Scylla is gone. Meanwhile, Michael gets his surgery, where he has visions of Charles Westmoreland and uncovers what Scylla actually is. After the surgery is a success, Michael tells Sara that he thinks Scylla is a formula for a means of harnessing the full potential of solar energy. Mahone manages to escape from Lang and Wheeler. In the end, Michael learns that not only does Lincoln now work for the Company, but his mother did also.
73 16 "The Sunshine State" Kevin Hooks Matt Olmstead & Nicholas Wootton December 22, 2008 4AKJ16
Lincoln, Gretchen, Self and T-Bag travel to Miami, Florida to look for Scylla. Mahone soon joins in. Gretchen is suspicious that the buyer is from the Company and decides to betray the team to get to Scylla, but double crosses them and gets shot. The rest of the team abandon her to the cops, but Scylla is gone. Meanwhile, Tabak tells Sara where the Company is holding Michael, since they attempt to brainwash him to work for them. He learns that his mother may still be alive. With Sara's help, Michael manages to escape. In the end, Lincoln gets a phonecall from the person who has bought Scylla, where he tells the buyer that he is coming after him, not knowing that the buyer is actually his mother, alive and well.
74 17 "The Mother Lode[2]" April 17, 2009[3]
Michael and Sara are on the run, while Lincoln connects with the woman he believes to be his mother.
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