Prison Break: Resurrection, the miniseries serving as Prison Break's fifth season and starring Wentworth Miller, has wrapped.
Prison Break might be returning to your screens in a sixth season: but only, says the producer, if the writers can craft a story to knock your socks off.
Spoilers ahoy.
In the last few episodes, we learned that Poseidon, the enigma haunting Michael, was none other than Jacob (Mark Feuerstein). Michael finally gets the drop on Jacob in the season finale when he—in a ridiculous albeit fun serise of events—uses a fight on an old shipyard to recreate the front of the cabin (complete with drop cloths) where Jacob had Michael framed for the murder of ex-CIA deputy chief Harlan Gaines. In an ironic twist, this gives Michael the footage he needs to frame Jacob for a murder that Jacob actually committed.
So Michael (Wentworth Miller) is finally exonerated, his identity as Michael Scofield restored, his wife Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies) and son by his side.
But not all is well:
T-Bag's (Robert Knepper) son Whip (Augustus Prew) is shot and killed; T-Bag avenges his son's death by killing his murderer and is consequently arrested and imprisoned for it. And in his final scene, he gets to meet his new cellmate: a now very-much-in-danger Jacob.
And Michael himself is in trouble. To arrive at his end, Michael has had to resort to brutal means: executing a long game or two and strategically executing others, betrayals abound and anxiety ascendant.
As such, Michael's character arc—inspired by Homer's epic The Odyssey—has him pay the price for the means he used for his end accumulate emotional baggage. As such, though he seems happy, there is a dark cloud hovering unseen in the sky.
This opens-up the possibility for a sixth season: a rough re-entry from a life of prison breaking to domestic happiness.
The Hollywood Reporter had a great interview with Paul Scheuring about the possible implications of this storyline and what it means for Michael. Read it here.
