Prison Break

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Prison Break
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Building 38, Room 125
Los Angeles CA 90035

Previously Doc and Michael were entering the cigar club. They poke around, but Doc is recognized so they split.

Minneapolis. Private Perturbed Mahone lands and calls his positively adorable son, Cameron, who’s still in the hospital, but recuperating. They chat and Mahone’s phone rudely beep beeps ‘cuz Lang is on the line. She informs her boss that C-Note has been id’d from the diner. She also says that Dede’s been sick a lot so she’s checking into local hospitals in southeast Minnesota, my own backyard.

Michael and Doc get back to the other half of the PBCT. Michaels shares the information that Pope is also a member of the club so…

We head to Pope’s house. The man himself answers the door to find Doc, who asks for a moment of his time. Pope’s all, “Nuh huh, lady,” and is so not pleased when a brooding Michael pops in as well. I sure wouldn’t mind, God Miller looks hot.

Credits.

Pope’s pissed. Michael used him and blah blah. Doc brings up GJH’s murder and shows Pope the key.

Alabama. T-Bag and his hostages are still on the road. They pull up outside a shitty rundown house, T-Bag’s old home.

Mexico. Sucre’s still in his stolen car when it either breaks down or runs out of gas, no se. A guy pulls over and offers Sucre a ride. Sucre says his girl’s coming in on a flight and the guy is all, “What a coincidence! It just so happens I’m airport security and we’re expecting an American fugitive.” Sucre sits back and revels in the awkward.

Mpls. C-Note brings Dede to a hospital.

Pope’s house or shall I refer to it as The Vatican? Pope’s still pissed. Get over it already, dude. He won’t listen to the fugitives and says he’s gonna call the authorities. Michael’s all, “I don’t think so,” as he pulls a gun. “I don’t want to hurt you, Henry.” “Said by the man with the gun,” Pope shoots back. Michael babbles about Linc’s innocence. Pope’s not having it and points out that Michael’s not going to convince him of anything by holding a gun on him. So Michael sets the gun on the counter.

C-Note can’t get someone to look at Dede so they leave. And who should arrive just as they are exiting? Why it’s the lunatic with the federal badge (no, not Bellick and where has he gotten off to?). Mahone gives chase and corners C-Note and Dede as they board a bus. Mahone orders C to put his little girl down, but she won’t let go. As the bus doors close, Mahone warns C, “Don’t let her pay for your mistakes.”

The Vatican. Pope’s still not on board, so Michael offers him a deal, which we don’t get to hear.

Vomit, Southern style. T-Bag finds a ratty old dictionary and flashes back to his glorious childhood. His father/uncle made him memorize the dictionary (which explains why he’s so wordy) and show off his knowledge for his friends. Then he molested him as a reward. Ew! Ew! Ew! God, that scene was so creepy, vile, disturbing…actually I could use T-Bag’s skills with synonyms.

Owen and Linc chat on a rooftop overlooking the cigar club. Linc can’t get over the fact that Owen spent all of last season and the better part of the current season trying to kill him. Owen gives his standard response, “Just following orders.” So Linc brings up Pres Patricia. He recalls that NuSteadman said that Owen was in love with her. Owen dismisses this, “You don’t love someone that loves power more than life.” “Bitter, huh?” Linc asks. “Am I?” Linc’s response is all eyebrows and smirks and it’s hilarious. Anyhoo, Owen changes the subject, saying there’s no way they’re gonna survive this. Linc channels Michael when he says he has faith that they’ll make it. Owen’s Buddy Bringdown and says sooner or later They will get to them, but he plans on taking as many down as he can. “She must’ve really broken your heart, Paul.” Heh.

SAM’s sitting around being all smarmy and teeny and generally evil. He gets the news that Doc was spotted at the cigar club so he orders a jet to Chicago. Going out in the field again, SAM? We know you hate that.

Mexico. Sucre and the security guard arrive at the airport and part ways. Another security dude shows the first guy Sucre’s pic and he’s all, “Oh shit! I gave that guy a ride here!” They hustle us to commercials.

After said commercials, Sucre runs up to MariCruz and they smooch. It’s sweet. Sucre tells her, “I got three words for you.” “Yeah?” “We gotta run!” Heh. So they do.

Cigar club. Doc hands Pope the key and he heads into the club. Michael and Doc cutely banter in the car while Owen and Linc keep watch on the roof. Inside Pope retrieves the recording and asks to borrow a guy’s computer.

Alabama. T-Bag shares with SM that he “can’t procreate.” His words. He says that’s a good thing, ‘cuz it’ll mean the end of the Bagwells. He sees Zach and Gracie as his “salvation.” Barf. He asks SM if she could ever learn to love him and her answer is negative. And we all know how well T-Bag handles rejection.

C-Note brings Dede to a shabby clinic and offers the lazy ass doctor four hundred bucks to take a look at his daughter. He informs the doctor that she has a kidney disease. Well, that’s one question answered.

Linc and Michael converse via cell as Pope exits the club. Gah! SAM shows up! He tries to be menacing, but considering the fact that he’s all of two feet tall and has to crane his neck to look Pope in the face, he’s really not. SAM orders Pope to empty his pockets and Pope resists the urge to bitch-slap the little gnat, but SAM’s cohort shows off his gun (dirty!) to show he means business. Everyone sees that Pope’s in trouble, so Michael guns the car right into SAM. Awesome! Then Linc barrels up, boots SAM (Go Linc!) and punches the snot outta him. He turns and calmly walks back to the car as Owen shoots SAM’s cohort. Owen hustles to the car, but what’s this? It appears that my BFF has gone and locked the doors. Hee! The brothers and Doc speed away, leaving Owen standing on the sidewalk, reliving his high school memories of being excluded by the in-crowd. He spares a glance at a bloodied SAM then takes off.

Alabama. The cops show up and find SM and the kids locked in the cellar. They say they got a call about a hostage situation, but SM points out that no one knew where they were. Cut to a shot of T-Bag sobbing by the side of the road.

No good news for C-Note, I’m afraid. Dede’s in renal failure and needs dialysis. They can’t do that at the clinic, but what they can do is shove a big ass needle in her throat to prep her for treatment somewhere else. C balks. He grabs Dede and leaves.

The PBCT, currently minus one of its founding members, (kinda like when John left the Beatles, so the PBCT shall be referred to the Beatles from here on in) arrive at The Vatican. Pope and Michael get out of the car, the latter informing his brother about his deal with Pope. Michael offered to turn himself in if Pope helped them. Linc takes this about as well as you’d expect. He gets all shouty (and hot). Pope takes this in and tells Michael to go. He says he listened to the recording and it’s important. He figures there’ll be people out there who will want it destroyed. Michael thanks him and the Beatles depart.

As C-Note rocks Dede he totally loses it. Sniff. I am not crying. Shut up!

Lang calls Mahone, saying he’s got a call. It’s C-Note. He offers to turn himself in if Kacie is released. Mahone points out that C-Note’s not really in the position to make demands. So C offers him something else.

Dede’s lying in a hospital bed and Mahone gives her a teddy bear. He informs C-Note that Kacie’s been released and reminds C to hold up his end of the bargain. “I will,” C promises. “I’ll get you Scofield.” Dun!

The Beatles stop at what I presume is a motel and set up a laptop. The get ready to play the recording, but…wuh? That’s it. That’s the end of the episode. No racing Prison Break theme, just a shot of Miller and Purcell standing in what appears to be a big ass tunnel. What is up with ending the episodes minus the theme? And as hot as Miller is, that color doesn’t look the greatest on him.

Last night’s episode of Prison Break was one of the best episodes of this season so far, in my opinion. I have a few thoughts that I thought I would share with you.

C-Note is absolutely amazing! Bottom line! The man turned himself in and went back to prison just to make sure his daughter, Dede, got the medical care she desperately needed. And he made sure his wife was released from jail so someone would be there to care for and look after Dede. It was a tear-jerking part.

We also saw the somewhat softer side of T-Bag. After holding Susan and her kids hostage in his childhood home, he called the cops and told them a hostage situation so they could be released. I think T-Bag is a horrible criminal but he apparently does have a heart after all.

Anyone else have any other opinions?

Episode 2.17: Bad Blood
Airdate: February 19, 2007

02/10 - In Chicago, Michael and Sara seek out Pope (Stacy Keach) after their first attempt to get at the evidence in Gov. Tancredi’s cigar-club humidor is thwarted. In Minneapolis, Mahone closes in on C-Note and an ailing Dede. In Alabama, T-Bag takes the Hollanders to his boyhood home and makes an offer to Susan. And in Mexico, Sucre must hitchhike to his rendezvous with Maricruz at the Ixtapa airport after running out of gas. He gets a ride easily enough—with an airport security guard. Source: TV Guide Online
02/10 - Guest Cast: Camille Guaty as Maricruz Delgado; Reggie Lee as Bill Kim; K.K. Dodds as Susan Hollander; Rachel Loera as Theresa Delgado; Barbara Eve Harris as Lang; Helena Klevorn as Dede Franklin; Zachary Friedman as Cameron Mahone; Michael Gohlke as Young Theodore; Joel Stoffer as Old Man Bagwell. Source: FOX
01/29 - Michael and Sara realize that Warden Pope (guest star Stacy Keach) is the key to recovering information that will bring down “The Company”; Mahone corners another escapee; C-Note fears for his daughter’s life; Sucre learns the dangers of hitchhiking en route to reuniting with Maricruz; and T-Bag walks down memory lane when he takes the Hollander family to his childhood home. Source: FOX
01/29 - Stacy Keach resurfaces on Prison Break, as Michael and Sara realize that Pope might hold the key to bringing down the Company. Source: TV Guide Online
12/29 - T-Bag is at the Alabama home where he grew up. In the flashbacks set 30 years back, T-Bag’s father drinks with two of his buddies while T-Bag is playing with a GI Joe. The two friends make fun of Old Man Bagwell’s IQ. The conversation shifts about T-Bag and the old man claims the boy was adopted. To prove his point, he has his son recite ten synonyms for a word chosen by one of the buddies. Source: SpoilerFix.com
12/20 - An upcoming episode will feature flashbacks of a 9-year-old T-Bag and his father. T-Bag’s father, who is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, has his son study the dictionary. Source: SpoilerFix BuddyTV Spoilers Chat

I figured that I would start a post and see who everyone’s favorite character on Prison Break and why? So I will start. My favorite character is Michael. I think that anyone who risks everything to clear his brother’s name is one awesome guy. He stagged a bank robbery to get into prison. He knew his brother was innocent and he set out to prove that.

Things keep heating up on Prison Break. Just when Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) and Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) thought they’d turned the tables on their pursuers, they’re on the run again. They even found the president’s brother, who Lincoln was framed for killing, but he took himself out of the equation by killing himself. Lincoln continues to be on edge, repeatedly threatening to kill their new ally Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) because he remembers when he was a bad guy. Dominic Purcell seems cool and smooth though, hanging out at TV network parties just ready to talk about the show.

Crave Online: What do you think of Prison Break continuing to change the dynamic?

Dominic Purcell: I think the dynamic of the show is continuing to rise. People are just loving the show and I don’t think Prison Break has a problem with dynamics. It’s just getting more and more intense. I suppose there’s an unusual dynamic between Kellerman and Lincoln and Michael. Lincoln’s having to justify his reasons to why he shouldn’t kill Kellerman so yeah.

Crave Online: Will you get to do any more stunts as you guys run?

Dominic Purcell: The other day I was on a moving train on the roof and that was kind of terrifying. The stunt man was insisting that I was going to be all right but I felt very precarious up there.

Crave Online: Do they let you do a lot yourself?

Dominic Purcell: Yeah, I’m a physical kind of guy. I’ve always liked being physical. It takes a stuntman to really say, “Look, we don’t want you to do this. No, no, I’m serious, you’re not going to do this” to get me not to do my stuff.

Crave Online: Did you expect Prison Break to become such a hit?

Dominic Purcell: Well, you never expect a show to be a massive hit around the world. You just don’t expect that. The best you can hope for when you sign up for a TV show or a pilot is that it gets picked up. That’s your first step. The second step is ratings. So no, I didn’t expect it to do what it’s doing.

Crave Online: Did you always know you’d make it to season two?

Dominic Purcell: I didn’t think that far ahead. I was much more just driven to making sure that the potential was utilized and I believe it was. Prison Break’s become this phenom around the world now. It’s the number one show, well it’s in the top five of every country in the world. It’s like number 2 in Oz, number one in South Africa, number three in London, it’s huge in France. It’s the fastest selling DVD in Japan. Again, it’s massive in Australia. We have a great story here and people dig it. So now I’m kind of expecting it to last for a long time because there’s a lot of money involved. This is going to be a big moneymaker for Fox.

Crave Online: Why do you think it’s a worldwide phenomenon?

Dominic Purcell: I think primarily the rest of the world for some reason is quite kind of interested in American drama. There’s something there that they love about it. We’re talking about a show that’s unique, it’s refreshing, it’s different. It’s not your procedural drama kind of thing. There’s a lot of elements there. You’ve obviously got hunky guys and great stories. We’re dealing with prison, convicts. You’ve got a great guy in Wentworth in the first season, fresh new face. It had all the elements of doing really, really well.

Crave Online: Women like the big sweaty guys, right?

Dominic Purcell: The good thing about the show is that the audience is both, and it’s mainly a younger demographic. I think that’s one of the reasons why we don’t do the 18, 20, 25 share. We do the 12 share because the audience that sees the show are young. When you look at, say, an example, CSI, you’ve got 12 million young people watching CSI and you’ve got 12 million people watching Prison Break, I’m just using it as an example. But with CSI you’ve got another 10 million people who are above the demographic. So we just bring in a core kind of group.

Crave Online: What has it changed for you so far?

Dominic Purcell: Lincoln’s looking after the Purcell family, let’s put it that way. I don’t know. I don’t think there’s been a great change in me. I think I’m getting older, obviously. I’m just happy to be working.

Crave Online: How do you see the brothers relationship evolving?

Dominic Purcell: I think the relationship hasn’t had time to really grow. It hasn’t had time to really gestate because they’re much more concerned about trying to evade the law. But there have been glimpses. There have been moments of insight into the way the guys are ticking but we haven’t had an opportunity to really explore that yet because the brothers are so caught up in that frenetic world of escaping. As an actor, you’d love to. Michael and Lincoln have to service the plot at present and the other characters are the guys that are getting all the fun stuff to do. Michael and Lincoln are just having to deal with the A story.

Crave Online: What’s your real relationship like?

Dominic Purcell: I just have the utmost respect for Wentworth just as a person. He’s very polite, genteel private guy. He’s a good friend.

Crave Online: What do you relate to about Lincoln?

Dominic Purcell: Michael’s sensitive and Lincoln’s sensitive even though he disguises it through his brutality and his armor that he has. The two characters have a similar kind of sense of humor which we’ll be seeing this year. Lincoln tends to call Michael on sh*t a lot and vice versa. So there are a lot of similarities.

Crave Online: Do you ever wish you had switched parts?

Dominic Purcell: No. I never wanted that role. I was always fascinated with Lincoln.

Crave Online: Even when he was stuck in the cell most of last year?

Dominic Purcell: Yeah, I mean, as an actor, I was getting bored towards the end of the show because I thought we had kind of exhausted the hole. And it was hard, but that’s my job to come up with imagination for the role and I always knew that we were breaking out and then so this year is wonderful in that we’re getting to see Lincoln and Michael and all the characters in a different light. But the story was what it was and I said before, then it became my responsibility and my job to use my imagination to create new things for Lincoln to worry about. I’m just thankful that we’re out now because now I feel Lincoln is like reborn. I’m taking this guy in a completely different direction. Well, not a completely different direction but certainly you see a lot more shade and color to Lincoln this year.

Crave Online: Do you have brothers?

Dominic Purcell: Yeah, I have five brothers.

Crave Online: Did you and Wentworth bond to give yourselves that kind of bond?

Dominic Purcell: Not really. We just good friends. Wentworth and I are pretty easygoing guys. Went’s obviously very, very private but we have a great relationship in that we come to work and we can easily discuss certain things and it’s not a problem. There’s no censorship between us. So Went’s always offering things and likewise. Wentworth and I have to work out, and are working out, the history between the brothers and the way they interact, the way they did before they were incarcerated. That’s been one of the funs and joys of doing this season.

Crave Online: How much is on the page vs. you and Wentworth filling in backstory?

Dominic Purcell: The majority of it is on the page but as actors, we get onto the set and we flesh out stuff. The good thing about this show is that the writers are not married to the words. They trust the actors and that these are the guys, we live within the character. We know these guys more now than the writers. The writers obviously are all about objectives and the structure of the story, but if I read a scene or a line and I’m like, “No, no, no, the wording’s wrong. Lincoln wouldn’t say it like this.” I have the liberty to go to the writers and say, or even on the day change it without them knowing just as long as I don’t change the intent of what the writer wants me to say.

Crave Online: What shows do you follow every week?

Dominic Purcell: I don’t watch TV dramas. I watch ESPN, HBO boxing, National Geographic Channel and I kind of like to get some DVDs, movies that I haven’t seen and I just pop them in. That’s usually what I do. Oh, Entourage is one of my favorite shows. I love Entourage.

Crave Online: Would you be good in prison?

Dominic Purcell: No. I don’t think anyone’s good in prison. Prison is a terrible, terrible place. Obviously, I’ve done a lot of research on it and it can destroy anyone. I know the etiquette, what to do because from my research, part was talking to inmates and what have you but no, I wouldn’t be good.

Crave Online: What’s the worst crime you ever committed?

Dominic Purcell: I got into a fight when I was 18, I was drunk and I got put into a holding cell for the evening.

Crave Online: What was the fight about?

Dominic Purcell: I can’t remember. I just woke up. They didn’t charge me though.

Crave Online: Shooting in Dallas this year, what do you do there on your days off?

Dominic Purcell: Well, man, I’m a big reader and I kind of, on my days off, I like to read in the mornings. I hang by the pool because it’s so hot. I swim a lot. There’s a boxing gym where I live and I work out there. It’s been an experience in patience for me. I’m a surfer and it’s hard for me to not be near the water, and I have my family. But I’ve really been very happy with the way people of Dallas have treated all of us. They’ve been very hospitable. At the end of the day, man, I’m usually really tired. It’s pretty exhausting but I love Dallas. I love how there seems to be a great infrastructure there somehow. Everything’s clean and well put together and people are very, very friendly. I’m enjoying my time there.

Crave Online: Is moving around part of the life of an actor?

Dominic Purcell: Well, it seems to be for me. Some actors get lucky. They do shows and it’s always at home. For me, I haven’t done one yet. I did a movie in Africa, I’m doing in Dallas, I was in Chicago, I was in Canada. I’m just everywhere.

Crave Online: Where do you consider home?

Dominic Purcell: America.

Crave Online: Is your family in Dallas with you?

Dominic Purcell: It’s hard, man. We’ve got four kids. I’ve got to do that commute thing. My kids are in school and what have you, so we’ll just see. Obviously next year, if and when the show moves to a different location, they’re going to have to come with me. But we’ll just see what happens. They’re getting fed up with it. My daughter actually said this morning, “I don’t want to get on another plane.”

Crave Online: Do you think you’ll stay in Dallas next year?

Dominic Purcell: I think third season, I think there are whispers of it maybe being in Florida or Louisiana at this point. That’s what I’ve heard. Whether or not that eventuates, who knows? It also depends on where they want to take the show, where the writers want to set the show.

Crave Online: Are you worried you might go back to prison?

Dominic Purcell: If anyone’s going to be behind bars, I could imagine Michael being behind bars and Lincoln trying to break him out maybe.

Crave Online: How does your family deal with your new fame?

Dominic Purcell: They’re very happy for me. My mother lives in Ireland and Europe and I visited them at Christmas. They were fascinated with the amount of times I was recognized and people freaking out that Lincoln Burrows was walking down a little Irish street. I’m very appreciative and humbled by the success of Prison Break. I’m in a unique position.

Crave Online: Are you a cool dad?

Dominic Purcell: Yeah, man, I’m a hands on dad. I love my kids more than anything. It’s very important to me. I’d give myself a 10 out of 10 for being a dad.

Crave Online: Why do you think Australians are rising to the top of entertainment right now?

Dominic Purcell: I think one of the reasons is the industry back in Australia is very, very small. So the people that make it in Australia, I’m just talking about in Oz, have to have a lot of talent because it’s so competitive. And they bring that kind of thing to the states. I’m not putting down any actors, I’m just saying the majority of them are theater trained, classically trained kind of thing. It’s hard to pinpoint.

Crave Online: Is there any backlash from home for leaving for Hollywood?

Dominic Purcell: No, they get it down there. The industry in Australia has a lot of problems. The government, John Howard hasn’t really supported the arts in any way. The last prime minister that did was Paul Keating and he was amazing to the arts. We’ve lost a lot of funding. I think the stories that are coming out of Australia are just; the people of Oz, the audience in Australia are just not interested. So I think something has to happen there to get the audience back into the movie theaters and support Australian films.

Crave Online: Is it true you used to cut grass to make money?

Dominic Purcell: Yeah, I was a landscape gardener. I left school and didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and I got into landscape gardening. Thankfully, I’m not digging holes anymore.

Crave Online: And you were having a wild time back then?

Dominic Purcell: Yeah, I was pretty wild, silly and stupid. I haven’t had a drink now in 15 months, been sober for a while. I’ve managed to clean up my way. It’s the best thing I ever did. It was time and it’s time to grow up.

Prison Break star Wentworth Miller has hit out at media reports questioning his sexuality, insisting he is straight. The 34-year-old star is still adjusting to life in the spotlight and the intense media scrutiny surrounding his personal life.

He explains, “No, I’m not gay. I know these rumors are out there…I’m cool with the fact that they exist, I mean this is about fantasy. Certain people are going to have certain fantasies. If someone wants to imagine me with a woman, or a man or one of each, that’s cool with me as long as you keep watching the show.”

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Side note: I never even heard rumors that he was gay. It never even crossed my mind. Whoever started these crazy rumors have nothing better to do with their time.

Just wanted to let everyone know that if you missed an episode of Prison Break, just let me know and I will post a recap of that episode for you.

Prison Break star Sarah Wayne Callies is pregnant with her first child. The 29-year-old and her husband Josh Winterhalt are expecting the child in the late summer, according to publicist Jodi Gottlieb.

Callies plays Dr. Sara Tancredi on the hit TV show, and has also guest-starred on Law & Order: SVU.

There is a 2 hour (24) show on tonight so there is no Prison Break tonight. I am having serious withdrawls going on here. I need my Prison Break fix. Now we have to wait until next Monday. Brand new episode!

I love message boards. I think they are a great way to connect with other people of similiar interests. So what better way to connect with Prison Break fans than with message boards dedicated to our favorite show…..Prison Break. Here are some awesome message boards for you to check out.

http://www.tv.com/prison-break/show/31635/forums.html
http://www.tvshowboards.com/24/
http://www.prisonbreakforum.com/
http://prisonbreakwire.com/

I have been a avid Prison Break watcher since Day One. But there are just some things in each episode that happen that make you go…..hmmmm!

In the episode where Michael sends Sara a message on tv. Did anyone else figure that one out? Did it really take a pill-addicted FBI wanna be to discover it? I knew right off he was sending her a message. Oh yeah, it wasnt even Agent Malone that first put 2 and 2 together. It was the ex-guard in prison who said hmmm.

And did crazy, lunatic Kellerman not think that Sara would tell Michael and Lincoln what he did to her in the motel room?

How long will PB last? How long can the writers actually drag this out? I mean it is a great show, no doubt. But eventually with all the people looking for them, dont they have to get caught at one point? Then what happens? They all go back to prison and it starts all over again?

HMMMMM

“Prison Break” leading lady Sarah Wayne Callies and husband Josh Winterhalt are expecting their first child.

According to TV Guide, the 29-year-old actress is due in the late summer, which may impact Callies’ availability for the episode third season episodes of “Prison Break.”

That assumes, of course, that FOX picks up a third season of “Prison Break.” It also assumes that Callies’ Dr. Tancredi, instrumental in last season’s eponymous prison break and somewhat less instrumental in the events of the second season, is still alive for a third season, a decidedly dicey proposition given the drama’s love for killing off female characters.

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Callies and Winterhalt have been married since 2002.

Other credits for the “Prison Break” star include CBS’ “Queens Supreme” and The WB’s classic update of “Tarzan.”

Here is an awesome interview for all you T-Bag fans out there.

Will T-Bag, he of the one hand, ultimately be done in by his heart? Robert Knepper of Prison Break (Mondays at 8 pm/ET) dropped by the TV Guide office last week to survey his deviant alter ego’s fate, take us inside his painful, painful prosthetic, and give those who appreciate and honor Fox’s serialized thriller a big “hand.”
TVGuide.com: When I heard you were stopping by, I was concerned that this was maybe part of some “Farewell, T-Bag” tour or something. But you’re probably in town just to tout the show’s return, right?
Robert Knepper: No one can guarantee that any of our characters are around…. But people seem to really like this character, so I think he’s going to be around for a little bit.

TVGuide.com: T-Bag has the Hollanders all boarded up and terrorized…. Why doesn’t he just give up on this vendetta, cut bait and run off with the money?
Knepper: Because Teddy’s got an incredibly deep connection with this woman. It’s a love, love, hate, love, love relationship that can’t be summed up easily. You saw the episode — he genuinely believes in his heart that she’s the ticket, that she is his salvation. If she can just see that, then everything will be hunky-dory.

TVGuide.com: I thought he almost pulled it off, when the kids run in, squeeing, “Uncle Teddy!!
Knepper: Yeah, they really missed him! These last two episodes, and there’s one other one that goes with them, were so intense, you’ll see. There is so much that comes out about, as he hinted, “You know, my daddy never was around much, so I taught myself how to use a hammer,” all that stuff. There’s stuff about family that comes out that’s just…. [Sighs]

TVGuide.com: Did K.K. Dodds (Susan Hollander) suspect that your paths might cross again sometime during the series?
Knepper: I told her last year, “K.K., you’re really good. Really good. Don’t be surprised if this story line’s not dead. Mark my words, we’ll be back.” And I was right. Any time you can pull vulnerability out of one of these characters, you’ve got to run with it, and you can’t get more vulnerable than Teddy was with her last year. He genuinely loved her and believed that she loved him, so how could she turn him in?

TVGuide.com: Now, about the “hand”: Do they have you wearing, like, a hard plastic mitten? It doesn’t seem to be the “bad pirate movie/handheld hook” thing you sometimes see.
Knepper: We have gone through so many things…. They hired a prosthetic company in Dallas to do a mold of my hand. Usually, this would be made into an actual hand that slips over the stub of the wrist. The problem for us is — and I’ve been offered alternatives to alleviate this problem, but none of them look as good — this hand is so tight on me. Ideally, you would make the fake hand bigger than your real hand, so you could slip into it like a glove, but they made this basically the same size as mine, so I am putting my hand inside my hand, basically. I can only wear it for about 15 minutes at a time, and even then, my fingers come out literally white-tipped.

TVGuide.com: I asked Sarah Wayne Callies (Sara) this same question: Has it been kind of lonely for you this season, being broken away from the other guys?
Knepper: I miss the guys, I really miss them. Even Sarah, and I never had a scene with Sarah, but at least I’d see her on the set. I’m on location somewhere in a house, supposedly in another town, and I never get to see the guys. That camaraderie, I really miss. That was a lot of fun.

TVGuide.com: Is there anything you can tease about the possibility of T-Bag crossing paths with any of the other guys before this season is up?
Knepper: I think we’re going to cross paths…. I think things are going to rapidly be crossing in these next four episodes that we have to shoot. We’re on Episode 18 right now. I don’t know who might cross their paths, but….

TVGuide.com: There’d have to be a plausible reason for it.
Knepper: [Scoffs] It’s Prison Break! Anything is possible. No, I was thinking about the world “unbelievable” the other day. There’s a difference between “I don’t believe that” and “That’s unbelievable.” You can describe something as “unbelievable” in a great way, and if you really look at our show, you go, “That’s just unbelievable.” You can say it in a negative way, but you could also say it in a positive way, as in, “I can’t believe that can actually happen!” You have to suspend your belief system a bit.

TVGuide.com: It was hinted at TCA that the writers might have come up with that long-elusive Season 3 premise….
Knepper: The doors are not as locked as they once were when you would call the writers office. It used to be like, “They can’t be disturbed, they’re trying to figure out Season 3!” OK, go ahead! Keep working on Season 3! [Laughs] People don’t want to let this show go yet. I don’t think Fox wants to let it go, they realize what they have. The disappointment would be to just put a third season out there for the sake of a third season, or a fourth season, or a fifth season. “We’re going to make this damn thing work! Get Aaron Sorkin in here!” I think they’ll do anything to keep this thing going. I just hope that they keep the detail in it, the good storytelling, as opposed to cheap shots or something that is just appeasing an audience or is so fantastical that you’re like, “Oh, come on…. ” You can’t have too many moments like that in a row. Remember last year [when Michael tied a rope to the tunnel grating], there weren’t any knots in that rope. So the next time we all go in there, we went, “We can’t climb this rope!” And they were like, “Well, we already shot Michael coming down it.” [Muse Watson, Westmoreland] was like, “I just don’t think the audience is going to buy this,” and at the same moment, we went, “It’s Prison Break.” It’s edited so quickly that I bet you that if even for a moment people were like, “There’s no way they could climb up that rope,” they give up on being right about that. But if you get too many of those things in a row, people are going to go….

TVGuide.com: I just did a story on how some of the things on 24 this season are unbelievable, as in not believable….
Knepper: Now, Kiefer and I are buddies, and Kiefer [Sutherland] said once, “I feel like I’ve got to help make sure that this all makes sense.” Because if we as actors don’t step up to the plate…. They said to me last year, “We don’t care how or where you put that razor blade, you’ve just got to get it out of your mouth and slash it across [Abruzzi's] throat.” I said, “Well, I can’t do the scene with the blade in my mouth,” and they said, “We don’t care.” I ended up doing a thing where I have it stuck in my sock, and I reach in, and then I put it in my mouth…. It’s the same thing with 24. You go, “I, the actor, have to have this make sense to me. if it doesn’t make sense to me, it’s not going to make sense to the audience.”

TVGuide.com: Your name often comes up as a Prison Break cast member who has been overlooked by the Emmys and such. Do you think actors on serialized dramas might be at a disadvantage?
Knepper: It’s great to hear that that [is what fans are saying]. I’m not opposed to awards at all, I think it would be great. When we won the People’s Choice Award last year, it was a hoot. We had that Rat Pack kind of thing, because Dom[inic Purcell] and Went[worth Miller] and I were out smoking when they announced the award, so the doors opened up and we were literally running down the aisle while everyone else was up on stage. [Executive producer] Marty Adelstein was like, “Guys, where are you?” That kind of excitement would be nice to have happen again. It would be nice to happen to any of us individually, and it certainly would be nice to happen as a group.

TVGuide.com: Could the type of character you’re playing be a stumbling block for voters?
Knepper: No, that I don’t think has to do with it. People come up to me on the street, and their immediate reaction is about the acting, which to me would be a prerequisite to being nominated. It’s about the best acting, not the most lovable character. Any time you’re playing someone so different than who you are, it’s acting. Megan Mullally and I were classmates [at Northwestern], and while she was doing her [talk] show, she said, “Rob, I got your Emmy screener, and I loved it. You so deserve a nod. But it really boils down to the fact that the show is too new.” She said, “Your time is coming, and I think it’s coming next year.” If you look at what our work was in our first episode last year, and up to this point in what has aired, the changes that each of us as actors have made, how much more deeply we’ve gotten into these roles, every one of us has gotten better. That episode at the end of last year, when Sara was walking along the lake, contemplating going back to doing drugs? Sarah [Wayne Callies] is a woman walking down that lake, and when she started the series she was a girl. I feel like we were all boys, and now we’ve moved into the skin of being a man, and that should be recognized. Now I’m still scratching my head as to why we didn’t get a nod for the Golden Globe like we did last year, and I’m really scratching my head over why SAG didn’t nominate us for best ensemble. The next one coming up is Emmy, and if it doesn’t work out… it’s OK. When I got out in the next day and somebody comes up to me and says, “I love your show,” that is so gratifying to hear. All those Oscar speeches I made up while mowing lawns as a kid? I just say it right to them: “Thank you.”

TVGuide.com: Last question: Did you talk to Lane [Garrison, Tweener] either during or since his car-crash ordeal? [Last Dec. 2, Garrison, showing signs of "alcohol intoxication," crashed an SUV, killing a 17-year-old passenger.]
Knepper: I’ve been very close to everybody I have worked with on the show, and I know he can’t discuss the case, and I don’t bother asking about it. It’s a terrible thing all the way around. I feel so much for that, for the family [of the teen killed in the crash]. That kid’s gone, and there’s nothing anybody can do to bring him back. Lane is devastated. He is f–king devastated by it. There but for the grace of God go you or I. Nothing is going to bring that kid back, and that’s something he has to live with the rest of his life. And he will. It will always be a part of him.

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February 19, 2007
“Bad Blood”

After exhausting all their resources, Michael and Sara come to the conclusion that Warden Pope (guest star Stacy Keach) is the key to recovering information that will bring down “The Company” — talk about coming full circle. Will Michael’s karma come back to bite him in the….well, you know!

Another escapee is cornered by Mahone.

C-Note fears for his daughter’s life.

While desperately trying to get to Maricruz Sucre learns the dangers of hitchhiking the hard way.

T-Bag walks down memory lane when he takes the Hollander family to his childhood home. We’ll see T-Bag as a child and learn why he is the way he is — will his father be as creepy?