Prison Break Third Season

2008-11-17T10:20:00.000-08:00

Prison Break - Season 3

After focusing on the breakout and the manhunt. Prison Break Third Seaon, season three of Prison Break turns the concept on its head by throwing everyone involved with the show so far--fugitives, lawmen, villains--into the same prison.

When we left off in season two's finale, Lincoln Burrows had been exonerated of the murder for which he was framed since the beginning of the series, but Michael Scofield anded himself behind bars during the escape in Panama.

A remote place for the lowliest of criminals, along with his pursuers Agent Mahone and Bellick, and fellow former inmate "T-Bag" , who naturally cozies up to the crime lord who rules the prison in an effort to move up in the ranks.

The main premise of Prison Break Third Seaon, this time around is Michael needing to break someone elsePrison Break fans may have skipped town before then. out of prison for The Company, the crime network responsible for all nefarious doings on the show. The Company's rep is a homicidal, sneering assassin named Susan , who's holding hostage both Lincoln's son LJ and Michael's love Sara until Michael carries out his mission.

The typically false starts, double-crossings, and man-that-was-close moments you'd expect to come from a series like this are all there, but this time around episodes feel scattershot, a far cry from the white-knuckle tension builder that was season one. Fichtner, who joined in the second season, is a standout as a pill-popping agent-turned-inmate in withdrawal who must now collaborate with the man he chased across the country.

The new characters introduced don't have much purpose; the many plot twists leave you a little less motivated each time to keep tuning in, and the final straw is one main character's death early in the season . Originally planned as a jolt to the series, it instead angered many fans who had been long awaiting a just payoff. This would later be rectified before the fourth season, but there's no telling how many .Prison Break Third Seaon on DVD and BluRay