To save his brother’s life, Michael concocts a detailed plan to have himself imprisoned and then to free both of them. Prison Break follows architect Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) whose half-brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) has been jailed for a murder he didn’t commit. While fans have all been expecting a big finish, few expected it would truly end this way.
Tonight’s Prison Break series finale solved many of the drama’s ongoing storylines and then, we were treated with a montage that shows our “heroes” four years down the road.
Besides, Michael, Lincoln, and Sara were all busy enjoying their happy endings, with little Mikey and even Sheba enjoying a nice day together.After four seasons of jail, torture, perilous escapes, stabbings, and death, Michael Scofield’s saga has come to an end. Jacob paid for all his many crimes with his life, and it was somehow more cathartic to infer that T-Bag totally murdered him as soon as they were locked in a cell together than it would have been to watch Michael or Lincoln or even Sara bludgeon Jacob to death. That said, it was a pretty awesome ending for those of us watching from the comfort of our homes. "Behind The Eyes" did end on a low note for T-Bag, as his only possible happy ending for his son was enacting vengeance on the man who led to his death. So it's supposed to be heartbreaking, but it also leads the ultimate justice for Jacob. Also, in a lot of ways, you could never have a happily-ever-after moment for T-Bag. You have to have no doubt in that scene that T-Bag will kill him, and if Jacob has done something so insidious as to kill the son of T-Bag, who just found out he had, then you're pretty certain that T-Bag's going to kill him. We infer that T-Bag has killed Jacob in the cell, which is nice in a lot of ways than just seeing him die on camera, but T-Bag's truly got to be motivated. Irony of ironies, who's his cellmate but T-Bag. I wanted this final moment where it's a poetic ending where we're back in Fox River, where we started the season, and Jacob is now in Fox River. It was that I wanted Jacob to think that he'd outsmarted the system again and that he was going to get away even when he went to prison.
Paul Scheuring has come out and revealed why poor Whip had to die in the middle of the finale, saying this: Luckily, he paid for his actions at the very end of the episode in a fairly epic way. Although he didn't fire the shot into Whip's gut, Jacob's actions led to the death of T-Bag's son. Whip, recently united with his father, couldn't take the pressures of a standoff and tried to lunge at an armed and very dangerous A&W, resulting in his tragic death. The finale did indeed kill off some major characters, one of whom kind of deserved to live. After all, "Behind The Eyes" could very well be the last episode of the entire series, and all bets are off when it comes to series finales.
Executive producer Paul Scheuring hasn't held back from killing off characters in the revival, and so the odds were good that some people would be biting the dust in the finale. The Prison Break revival brought back the biggest and most unforgettable characters from the original run of the series for a set of well-crafted and seriously suspenseful episodes.