How did you get the scar on your upper lip? —Maurine, Derwood, Maryland I can’t remember a specific incident. I must have fallen on my face as a kid running up and down die streets of Brooklyn. I’m going to have to ask Mom about that one.

You’re a well-educated man—do you ever regret not taking your knowledge into another career? —Amanda, Memphis Never. Acting is in my heart of hearts.

How do you feel about being a heartthrob? —Amy, Bloomington, Indiana It’s neither here nor there. If it opens a few doors for me, I’m willing to go along on that ride.

Continue reading the full article on Wentworth Miller  from TV Guide after the jump.  More pictures in the gallery!

Fox River’s foxiest inmate Wentworth Miller answers all
of your Prison Break questions and what’s on his iPod.

Wentworth Miller Unlocked

The Prison Break hunk answers all your questions.  And yes, he’s single! — Far from his white-knuckled predicament inside the walls of Fox River State Penitentiary, Prison Break’s hero Wentworth Miller, 33, kicks back in a Greenwich Village photo studio. Maybe the relaxed setting explains why he waxed so wise, warm and reflective as he fielded a slew of your questions fresh off TVGuide.com. Or maybe he’s just a really, really nice guy.

Will we ever get to see Michael and Dr. Sara get together romantically? —Daisy, St. Louis I’ll say that before the brothers break out, Michael and Sara take their relationship to the next level.

How did you get the scar on your upper lip? —Maurine, Derwood, Maryland I can’t remember a specific incident. I must have fallen on my face as a kid running up and down die streets of Brooklyn. I’m going to have to ask Mom about that one.

What is the significance of the black cord pendant necklace you wear? —Kelly, Douglas, Georgia It’s a simple solid-silver piece at the end of that cord necklace. I found it at a flea market. It doesn’t do anything, it doesn’t hold anything. It just is, which I thought was a statement in and of itself. It spoke to me.

How do you pass the time when they’re applying Michael’s full-body tattoo? —Shiran, Los Angeles I listen to my iPod. I watch old movies on a little TV/DVD set, like "His Girl Friday" or the original "The Hills Have Eyes." The-makeup team and I work our way through various TV series. The last was Family Guy. I made it through all six seasons of Oz in three months.

What happened to the Taj Mahal Michael was helping Warden Pope build?  — Bernice, Boca Raton, Florida  It’s nearing completion, and in fact plays a critical part in the penultimate episode. There is a showdown between Michael and the Pope, and Michael must choose whether to betray someone who’s been incredibly kind to him.

When asked about your race, what do you tell people? –Soycheng, Vancouver, Washington  I say I’m of mixed race, and if they ask for specifics, I rattle off the details: My mother is Russian, French, Syrian, Lebanese and Dutch; my father is African-American, Jamaican, English, German and part Cherokee.

How difficult was it dealing with racism growing up and now trying to find roles in Hollywood? —Stephanie, Milton, Massachusetts I’ll find myself standing in the company of someone who will make an offhand comment about someone else who is clearly "this" or "that," knowing that they haven’t realized that I may also be "this" or "that." They feel free to make that sort of comment in front of me, and then I’m faced with the choice of "Do I stop the party and start lecturing, or do I keep quiet and internalize this insult to someone who looks like they could be my family?" It’s a difficult choice, and I’d like to say that I always do the right thing, but the fact is it can be exhausting trying to educate someone. Confronting people can be difficult. As for how race has played into my experience in the business, it’s really difficult to say. Obviously I’m not in the room when they’re talking about my audition tape, so I don’t know what goes into that process. I will say I’ve been fairly pleased by the reaction to my casting in Prison Break, which is basically no reaction at all. I’m playing a white character. There are those who would argue that actors of a certain background should not play certain parts, and those who would argue that those limitations should be challenged. I’m not interested in weighing in on that. I just want to work.

Any interest in comedy? —Camille, Brooklyn, New York Absolutely. Romantic comedy, dark comedy, maybe even slapstick.

What’s on your iPod? —Patty, Los Angeles A lot of classical—Tchaikovsky is a favor—and some old-school Ella Fitzgerald, Simon and Garfunkel, ’80s-era Michael Jackson, Radiohead, Angie Stone. I like Eminem. Grunge. When I was in high school in the ’80s, when I could have been listening to Poison and that kind of thing, my parents had very strict rules, and I wasn’t allowed to listen to music that had lyrics while I was doing my homework. So it was classical music or nothing. I think I missed out on a lot of stuff that my peers were into.

If you could play any character in literature, whom would you play? —Jennifer, Millville, New Jersey Well, if we can expand the definition of literature to include comic books, I’d definitely love a crack at General Zod from "Superman."

So I’m hoping that Bryan Singer makes a sequel to the "Superman" that’s coming out and casts me. What five people in history do you admire? —Angela, Detroit I’ve always had an interest in the English novelists from the 1800s, which is why I became an English major. Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Jane Austen, the Brontes. I have a very romantic, tragic vision of these people scribbling away in some attic only to be really appreciated after their demises.

You’re a well-educated man—do you ever regret not taking your knowledge into another career? —Amanda, Memphis Never. Acting is in my heart of hearts.

How do you feel about being a heartthrob? —Amy, Bloomington, Indiana It’s neither here nor there. If it opens a few doors for me, I’m willing to go along on that ride.

What will you be doing during the Prison Break hiatus? —Michele, Chatsworth, California I’ve decided to do nothing at all. I’ve been lucky enough to get lots of movie offers, but the show is my first priority, and I’m very tired. I know if I want to give my all to the second season, I really need to take a couple months off to recharge the batteries. So after driving home from Chicago to L.A., I’ll kick back and take it easy.

Dave Chappelle recently said, "Success takes you where character cannot sustain you." Agree or disagree? —Voncile, Dallas Agree, for the most part. Anthony Hopkins [his costar in "The Human Stain”] said to me that success shines a magnifying glass on who you really are. Success gives you opportunities and money and power to take who you really are and run with it, so you’ll either become a monster or an even better person. I hope to fall into the latter category.

Do you cook? —Cynthia, Brooklyn, New York I can toast Pop-Tarts. That’s really about the extent of it. Actually, I do have one dish I can make—spaghetti with meat sauce. I thought I was so clever the day I decided to add a can of salsa to a jar of Prego to make a kind of Mexican-Italian Bolognese sauce. I thought it was great. My friends didn’t agree.

What "type" were you in school? —Carrie Ann, Walla Walla, Washington A lot of slashes: nerd/jock/artist/newspaper geek. I was many things, and so didn’t really fit in anywhere.

You’ve mentioned that you were working on some short stories and a script. Any chance of us seeing them soon? —Yue Zhuo, Melbourne, Australia It will be a long time before I feel comfortable enough to share my work, sad to say.

Do you see yourself settling down with a nice girl and having children? —Jerri, Pico Rivera, California Right now, my work comes first. I’m a workaholic, which is the sad truth of it. I did manage to go on a couple of dates over the past year, but I’m happiest when I’m on set, so I really need to get all of that out of my system before I can really turn my attention to more personal matters.

Rumor has it you sponsored a cat shelter. True? —Hunter, Homewood, Illinois Not true. I’m the last person to start a cat shelter, seeing as I’m deathly allergic to them. Unfortunately, I’m allergic to all animals and even some people. There was a scene where I had to give Dominic Purcell a hug—you know, a touching embrace between the brothers—and at the end of the night I had a rash on my neck. I got a lot of teasing on that.

You were a member of Princeton University’s a capella Tigertones. Any chance we’ll see you in musical roles? —Rochelle, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada I’d love to. Not necessarily on stage, maybe on the big screen. I haven’t sung—sang?— in 10 years, and it would take a lot of training to get my voice back to something remotely presentable. So it’s a pipe dream at this point.

If you could have one superhero power, what would you choose? —Kimberly, Las Vegas I wish I could control the weather. I’ve been suffering in Chicago for the last year and am facing an additional six months there.

What TV shows do you watch? —Shaniqua, Newport, Rhode Island I buy the DVDs: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Nip/Tuck and the first season of NewsRadio, because I think Phil Hartman was a genius. When I did watch live TV, I was a big fan of the Law & Orders. Sam Waterston was a personal inspiration, because there was a time I bought into the mentality that success in Hollywood meant feature films. I remember spending a weekend watching Law 6" Order, and Sam Waterston blew me away, episode after episode. I thought, "There’s amazing work being done in every facet of this business, and to listen to my agents and refuse to go out for TV, I’m being a fool."

Prison Break episode "Brother’s Keeper" synopsis :: The episode will feature a flashback to 1985 where a young Veronica argues with her drunk father after she brought young Michael and Lincoln home since they had nowhere else to go. Lincoln wants to protect his younger brother and doesn’t want them to end up in foster homes. Sara deals with a man from her past. Kellerman appears in the episode.

Here are some exclusive pictures for the upcoming flashback episode of Prison Break.  Pictured is Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), wearing 180s ear warmers, talking with in-trouble Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) about not wanting to be an older brother to his older brother. Watch the video preview of this below!  Prison Break episode "Brother’s Keeper" airs this Monday, April 3 (8PM ET/PT) on FOX.  Bigger pictures are in the gallery!

"J-Cat" Synopsis :: Nick (Frank Grillo) and Veronica (Robin Tunney) are interrogated about the shooting that happened a few episodes back, the fact that they haven’t called the cops back then and that they removed the bullet themselves in order to evade the authorities when they went to the hospital. They hope the detective’s investigation in this shooting will link the shooter to Lincoln’s (Dominic Purcell) case. T-Bag (Robert Knepper) has a new somebody hold his pocket.

Michael (Wentworth Miller) and Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) continue to and dig their escape route while they rebuild the guard’s quarters.  After the jump is Bellick (Wade Williams) searching for the rumored escape hole that the inmates dug and Sucre rushing to patch the hole the inmates dug before Bellick can find it.  Prison Break episode "J-Cat" airs on Monday, April 10 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).  More pictures in the gallery!

SPOILERS :: Stop right now if you don’t want to spoil next week’s episode of Prison Break.  Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you!  After the jump are many, many screencaps and a synopsis from Prison Break episode "By The Skin And The Teeth", which airs this Monday, March 27 @ 8PM ET/PT.  Go click happy!  Enjoy the new promo above and the best quote of next week’s episode below –

Michael :: The only way we’re getting into that infirmary is from beneath.  We’re gonna have to find another way.
Westmoreland :: The Psych Ward?
Michael :: It’s the only building that shares a subsurface line with the infirmay.
T-Bag :: You’re telling me… to get into the infirmary, we gotta go through the whack shack?

Prison Break

They open with Lincoln getting straped down into the chair and after they’re done the curtain to the viewers room opens.

Michael and Veronica are shocked to see it and are clearly devestated. You can also see the mystery man in the viewers room. Lincoln recognizes the man and starts mumbling, "It’s him… it’s him." The warden hears something but doesn’t understand Lincoln. Before anything else happens the phone behind the execution room rings, and then the curtain to the viewers room closes.

Next, you see Michael and Veronica in the visitation room out of their mind, not knowing what happened. Then the door opens and the warden comes in saying, "I can’t tell you how sorry I am that you had to go through all this." Then Lincoln comes in - Michael and Veronica are relieved but also beyond surprised and shocked.

Michael :: "What happened in there?"
Pope :: "Judge Kessler called. The execution has been delayed"
Michael :: "What do you mean delayed?"
Pope :: "Apparently some new evidence has come to live."
Veronica :: "What evidence?"
Michael :: "I don’t understand. How long do we have? One day? Two days?"
Pope :: "That’s all the information I have at the moment. I’m sorry. I’ll give you a minute."

Pope leaves the room to give Lincoln, Michael and Veronica some privacy.

Michael :: "I need to know how much time we have."
Veronica :: "I go and see the judge and find out. (She kisses and pets Lincoln a bit more and then leaves to call the judge.) You’re with Michael, you’ll be OK."
Lincoln :: "Did you see him."
Michael :: "Who?"
Lincoln :: "The guy in the viewing room."
Michael :: "No!?"
Lincoln :: "It was Dad!"
Michael is speechless and shocked
Lincoln :: "It was Dad!"

[Opening Credits]

Michael and Lincoln talk about it - Lincoln is convinced that it is their dad, Michael doesn’t believe it.

Meeting between the VP, Kellerman and Brinker.
VP :: "Why is he still alive?"
Kellerman :: "It appears that some information was anonymously slipped to the judge."
VP :: "Anonymously? It was your fat little friend Hale. If you had taken care of him sooner…"
Kellerman :: "It wasn’t Hale…"
Brinker :: "How do you know that?"
Kellerman :: "If Hale would have gotten Veronica Donovan anything that could have gotten stay of execution, I think she would have brought it up when she made her argument in court. It didn’t come from him."
Bringer :: "Who else on your end knows?"
Kellerman :: "Who else on your end knows? Why all the finger pointing at us. Are we sure the leak doesn’t come from your end, the company?"
VP :: "Hey! We are all on the same team. Remember?"
Brinker :: "Absolutely!"
VP :: "Just find the leak and plug it!"

Next scene in the judges room.
Judge :: "All I can tell is, I was working late in chambers, I left at 11 and there is was, right under my door. (
With that he hands an envelope to Veronica.) One is Steadman’s autopsy report and his appendix is present and unremarkable. The other paper is a operative report from when Mr. Steadman was 12 years old. The procedure was an appendectomy (sp?)"
The prosecutor takes the paper which Veronica has taken out of the envelope from her.
Prosecutor :: "That’s impossible! Let me see this." […]

It is further revealed in the conversation that the medical reports are not available that far back and the prosecutor states that this could have been created by anybody (like an anti-death-penalty group or the defense attorney). The judge says he doesn’t know what it means but he’s delaying the execution for 2 weeks to exhume the body of Mr. Steadman since this is the only way to find out if the burried body is indeed Steadman.

Michael is not willing to wait if the corpse is really not Steadman and wants to go "back to work". Sucre is hilarious and say, "Thank god, I was hoping you would say that!" OTP!!! BFF!!! So cute.

They start making plans for a second attempt which is suicide according to Michael. Well, it seems, it leads through the psych ward and half the way between the break room and the psych ward is above ground. The others agree that it is suicide. Nice banter between all of them. Btw, they also comment on the weather (it’s snowing) - at least the producers acknowledge that it’s crazy. When Michael tells Sucre that he’s going over to the psych ward to familiarize with the pipes, Sucre is so protective and doesn’t like the danger Michael will get himself into (he’s so in love!) - then we see a prisoner doing some laundy service and he has an idea. Sucre organizes the guard uniform from his cousin in the laundry.

The VP is doing a press conference and is despised by the actions of the judge and the exhumation of her brother.

The guys keep working in the break room (they still use the hole as entry) and are almost discovered when the wall breaks down and they are in the process to shuffle the dirt from the wall into the hole. That was very tight.

Lincoln asks Sara if it’s possible that he was imagining seeing somebody in the viewing room who wasn’t there. Sara concludes that he’s a prime candidate for post dramatic stress disorder and that is one of the sympthoms.

Really nice convo between Westmoreland and C-Note about his scheme with the postcards from Irak which Westmoreland discovered when one of the postcards fell out of C-Notes overall. They almost start bonding.

Using that CO uniform, Michael sneaks out by night and just openly goes into the psych ward claiming to be a CO and looking for the bathroom. He wanders off and looks around a few storage rooms to find the access to the pipes. The guard in psych finds him but he excuses himself under the claim he was looking for the bathroom down there and got lost. On his way back, he gets almost discovered by a CO in the back walls - when he hides behind the CO (while he has a drink) he has to lean against some pipes which are obviously very hot - poor Michael, you can see him in great pain but he has to remain silent. During that process the uniform on his back is scorched. The pipe burned the uniform into his skin.

On Michael’s request Sucre rips it off and Michael cries out (loud). Afterwards he wakes up in the infirmary with a huge bandage on his back - he was out due to the anesthesia (which he can’t even remember)… Sara had to perform a procedure. Sucre is in the warden’s office and is accused to have deep fried him out of revenge. Sucre claims he didn’t do anything to him, he found him that way but the cell was locked. After Michael doesn’t want to reveal to Sara who did this to him, he gets the cold shoulder again. (Michael is getting quite cocky… his answer, "This is the part where I don’t answer.").

Steadman’s body is examined but the corpse is already so far degenerated that they have to rely on teeth - the dental records match. When leaving the autopsy, Veronica and Nick run into a very angry VP (obviously fake)… the scene is great though.

Veronica visits Lincoln and he discloses to her that he’s sure he saw his father in the viewing room. He had learned from the warden earlier that aside from Michael and Veronica there were only 3 journalists in the viewing room - 2 women and 1 man with the name Will Prall. During the episode we also see Lincoln having a few dreams/flashbacks when he was at a baseball game with his father 30 years ago and his dad pointed out the number 11 player as his favourite… the players name was Willy Prall. Lincoln is convinced it’s his father but Veronica doesn’t believe him.

Brinker & Kellerman check the security camera from the court house - the guy passing on the evidence to the judge is recognized by Brinker - buy we don’t know who it is. Imo, it could be Lincoln’s and Michael’s dad from what we see but the person tries to ditch the cameras so nothing is clear.

Sara has taken some of the cloth out of Michael’s skin during the procedure and has it analyzed by Katie - obviously she’s very curious what Michael is hiding now. She realizes that the tissue is not from a normal prison uniform but a guards uniform.

Michael comes back to his cell from the infirmary. He was told that he has to keep the bandage on his back but of course he takes it off immediately. Important parts of hhe blueprints on his back how to get from the psych ward to the infirmary have been burnt away.

Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller, 33, made a guest appearance on Regis & Kelly this past Monday morning (Kelly was on vacation, Regis’ wife Joy Philbin filled in).  Wentworth signed autographs in his black North Face bubble jacket, North Face backpack and grey Eddie Bauer Windcutter Fleece beanie.  More pictures in the gallery and you can watch the Regis interview video below.  Anybody for a WentwHich?

Prison Break episode "Brother’s Keeper" synopsis : The episode will feature a flashback to 1985 where a young Veronica argues with her drunk father after she brought young Michael and Lincoln home since they had nowhere else to go. Lincoln wants to protect his younger brother and doesn’t want them to end up in foster homes. Sara deals with a man from her past. Kellerman appears in the episode.

Double scoop of Wentworth Miller today!  Here is your second helping of Prison Break pictures, the official production stills of Prison Break episode "Brother’s Keeper."  Some are repeats from a past TV Guide issue, but they’re much better quality. Above is a flashback of Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) looking on as his brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) gets convicted, handcuffed and taken away by security officers. Prison Break episode "Brother’s Keeper" airs Monday, April 3 (8PM ET/PT) on FOX.  More pictures in the gallery including T-Bag (Robert Knepper) tutoring his girlfriend’s children.

Hot Inmates!  Crazy Conspiracies!  That Sexy Tattoo!  The Jailhouse Hit Is Finally Back!  Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell take the cover of Entertainment Weekly in the March 24, 2006 issue. (That’s my birthday. It must be a sign.) Inset: USA Today also has a Prison Break feature where Wentworth reveals, "As the pressure mounts and complications arise, he’s only human, and all that fear and anxiety that he has suppressed starts to rise."  Prison Break returns with an all new episode this Monday @ 8/7c on FOX.  If you don’t know what you’re missing, FX is airring a Prison Break marathon (noon to 7 ET/PT) on Sunday. More pictures in the gallery!

Wentworth Miller is like his Prison Break character
 Michael Scofield in that they both have "a sense of discipline
 and organization. My scripts are in a very neat stack."

Amaury Nolasco revealed, "When I first got here, I
wanted to explore the prison, so I went by myself and
got locked in a cell. I was like a kid in a haunted house."

Wentworth Miller

How did you feel about the three-month hiatus? I hope the fans don’t hold it against us. I talked to some fans who were upset that we got pulled when we did; I think they were quite on the edge of their seats. I only hope we got the hook in deep enough…. All of these [scheduling] decisions are being made by people I’ve never met and probably never will. I was told this was some kind of experiment — that Fox wanted to set up a kind of schedule that’s akin to what you might find on cable, where 24 was on for six months, then we were on for six months… I think there was an outcry. And I think when fans heard we might be off until May… they went to town for it. My mom is a big fan of the show. She misses seeing me on TV every week. I thought it might be cool if we released the first 13 episodes on DVD before we aired, but again, my decisions are mute.

You sound like a real marketing guru. Well, I did work behind the scenes for six years. I picked up bits and pieces when I wasn’t walking someone’s dog or working Xerox machines.

Do you find playing Michael has affected your life? Do you suddenly start thinking real deliberately and intricately about how you’re going to clean your apartment or something? No, I don’t. I don’t have to. Because the character and I already had a lot in common to begin with. I’m not Michael Scofield, but I haven’t plucked him out of thin air… I’ve exaggerated [him] for the show.

What do you have in common with Michael? His sense of discipline and organization. Those are things that have served me well on the road to forging some kind of career for myself. My scripts are in a neat stack at home.

The prison has a real oppressive vibe. What’s it like to work here? How has your regard for this setting evolved? If you find a stone with a sharp edge, and you rub it a great deal, eventually that stone will become smooth. After working here for eight months, it’s simply a place I go to work. The initial feeling of mystery and sadness when I came to Joliet has worn off pretty significantly. I do have a little fantasy where in the last episode of the season we break out of our cells, slip down into the prison’s sewer systems, we’re climbing up through all these grates, and we pop up out a hatch — and we’re face to face with [Lost’s] Matthew Fox. It would be nice to get out of here…. I had a friend who came to visit me who is versed in certain New Age spiritual matters. She said, ”It’s like someone burned toast in the room — the smell remains. So many terrible things happened in this place it’s left a residue, and what you don’t realize is that you’re all taking this home with you.” She said we should all be massaged at the end of the day. I’m all for that!

How has your attitude and approach to your character evolved? It has changed. There is an episode coming up… a flashback episode where you see all the characters in their lives before meeting up behind bars. It was a pivotal episode in terms of how I perceive my character, because up until that point, I had always assumed there was ”Pre-Prison Michael” and ”Prison Michael,” and the division between the two, or at least the catalyst for Prison Michael, was Lincoln being incarcerated — suddenly Michael assumed this stone-cold, poker-face persona to help him navigate these very dangerous corners. But when I read the flashback episode, I realized that that persona is something my character developed early on, when his parents were no longer on the scene. It was just Michael and his brother, and his brother was all he had, but his brother was also dysfunctional. So [because] Michael had to protect himself from the person that also happens to be the most important presence in his life, he started developing that kind of distance. There’s a beautiful kind of irony to my character’s story: The very persona that Lincoln forced Michael to develop at an early age is exactly what’s going to save Lincoln’s ass here and now.

Michael is always in total control. Will we ever see him get ruffled? Absolutely. That [flashback] episode and the one following it, it’s like someone threw a hammer in a mirror and Michael starts to splinter. The plan goes south, his brother is two steps from the electric chair, and now the cracks start to show. Michael’s humanity that he’s been burying all along — his fear, his anxiety, his anger — all that starts to seep through.

It is extremely cold today here on the set — and you’re shooting outside, in the yard. How do you survive a day like this? It all comes back to gratitude. I’m happy to have a show. I’m happy to have a place to go every morning. I’m incredibly fortunate to be working with material that inspires me. And I’m also working with a fantastic cast and crew. If you want to know what gets me through the day and it’s freezing and your lips are refusing to do what want them to do, all you can hope for a take is that you get the words out in the right order.

It seems like you and the cast are a pretty tight. Thick as thieves, you might say. We all genuinely like each other. No one throws tantrums. There are no divas. We do not tolerate divas, as a matter of fact.

What happens when someone pulls some diva behavior? We take ‘em down! We’re like a fraternity: If someone gets a little uppity, or their nose is out of joint, we joke with them, until we slap them upside the head.

How have you dealt with your newfound celebrity? I try to stay as far away from the excessive parts of the business as possible. I don’t go out to the bars and clubs. I’m not trolling the fansites. The attraction is there; two people at a bar, talking about you — you wanna know what they’re saying. Then again, they may not know who you are, and they may not even like you. I remember going on one site, reading something about my performance and it wasn’t flattering. I took it to heart — like it was my acting coach who had given me some criticism — until I realized, This could be some 11-year-old in his mom’s basement who didn’t get his juice box that morning and he’s taking the abuse out on me.

Will you be spending your summer vacation working on a film? As we approached the hiatus, I thought, Now is the time for me to get into a feature, maybe something small, something that winds up at Sundance — a nice contrast to Prison Break. But while I hope Prison Break is a means to an end, it’s also an ends to itself. So I decided not to do anything in my hiatus. We shot 22 episodes. It’s strenuous. It’s important to take a couple months off to recharge the batteries so I can go into the second season and be just as kick-ass.

How much do you know about life after breakout? I know the general outline where things are going to go, where Michael and Lincoln will find themselves in the second season. But I don’t know the day-to-day mechanics.

I’m hearing rumors of a prison break-in somewhere down the road? I have heard about the brothers perhaps winding up back in prison after a season on the run. If they can keep coming up with the ideas, I’m all for it. I personally think this show will burn bright, and fast. There’s a beginning, a middle, and an end. We’re not a Friends or a CSI that can be strung out forever. There’s a certain story we set out to tell, and one day, we’ll reach the end of it.

Will you be able to get rid of the tattoo next season? I wish. It seems that it’s coming with us… Michael has included on his tattoo various things that reference what we might do once we’re on the outside. So we might not see it as much, but it will certainly be there. It’s become difficult. It’s four- or five-hour process, each and every time. The writers have hard-on for it. I know it’s a great special effect. But it takes work. My idea is that as soon as the brothers break out, they stop off at a clinic somewhere south of the border for a little bit of laser tattoo removal and take care of that puppy once and for all.

"By The Skin and The Teeth" — Manche Sanchez, one of Sucre’s cousins, ends up in prison. It seems that something happened to a doctor and that they made an oath not to talk about it. This gives Sucre the upper hand to get Manche to find an object for him. Manche does laundry duty in prison. He has some explaining to do when T-Bag’s uniform has a hole in it. Bellick visits the Prison Psych Ward. Veronica, Nick and Tucci (from episode 1.14) meet with Dr. Wasserman, a County Forensic Expert, where they get autopsy results of a woman. Veronica doesn’t believe the results.

SNEAK PEEK! Above :: a scruffy Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and T-Bag (Robert Knepper) do a little conspiring in the yard before finally making their escape out of Fox River Penitentiary.  Inset :: Michael escapes through a pothole during a snowstorm dressed in a guard’s uniform obtained by Sucre’s (Amaury Nolasco) cousin Manche (Jospeh Nunez) during one of his laundry duty shifts.    Prison Break episode "By the Skin and Teeth" airs Monday, March 27 (8PM ET/PT) on FOX.  More pictures in the gallery!