Fox’s hit drama Prison Break hasn’t emerged from lock-down yet—it returns Monday, March 20—but the show is already setting the stage for a second round of surprising revelations. In an episode slated to air April 3, the series takes a page from the Lost playbook by flashing back into the pasts of its main characters and offering clues ahout what their futures will he when they break out of Fox River State Penitentiary.

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Prison Break Busts Out Again

TVGuide :: March 6-12, 2006

Fox’s hit drama Prison Break hasn’t emerged from lock-down yet—it returns Monday, March 20—but the show is already setting the stage for a second round of surprising revelations. In an episode slated to air April 3, the series takes a page from the Lost playbook by flashing back into the pasts of its main characters and offering clues ahout what their futures will he when they break out of Fox River State Penitentiary.

"Eventually in this series, some of these people will be breaking out," says supervising producer Zack Estrin, who wrote the flashback installment. "At some point they’ll he outside, so it’s imperative that the audience be invested in their lives because we’re going back to them. After all, the show isn’t called Prison Stay. It’s Prison Break."

Estrin promises that viewers will finally learn exactly what motivated Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) to go to jail in order to help his brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), escape. Fans will find some chinks in their hero’s armor because, Estrin says, "nobody does something this right without at one point doing something wrong."

On the flip side, some of Break’s most notorious villains may not look so bad at the end of the episode. We’ll discover why C-Note (Rockmond Dunbar) convinced his wife he’s in Iraq instead of the slammer and what really happened to the decidedly deviant T-Bag (Robert Knepper). And, at long last, the government conspiracy that landed Lincoln on death row will be explained.

"You will get a surprise from every character," Estrin says, noting that the show’s writers have already been pitch­ing second-season story ideas to the network. "Nobody is who you thought they were. Your loyalties to some of these people will definitely change."

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