With no other options and time running out, Michael takes drastic measures to get incarcerated alongside his brother. Lincoln Burrows is scheduled to die on death row for an assassination his younger brother Michael is convinced he did not commit. Meanwhile, outside the prison walls, the brothers' childhood friend and Lincoln's lost love, attorney Veronica Donovan, works within the law to free them Lincoln's teenage son LJ may be going down a path similar to his convicted father's and Secret Service Agent Paul Kellerman's investigation into Lincoln's case proves that there may be a national conspiracy at work. When Michael arrives at the jail, he meets the prison denizens who will, unknowingly, help in his escape plans. Once he's inside, Michael, a structural engineer with the blueprints for the prison, begins to execute an elaborate plan to break Lincoln out and prove him innocent. With no other options and time winding down, Michael takes drastic measures to get himself incarcerated alongside his brother in Fox River State Penitentiary. After a short recess, the judge returns and hands down Michael's sentence: five years in the nearby Fox River Penitentiary.Lincoln Burrows is currently on death row and scheduled to die in a few months for an assassination his younger brother Michael is convinced he did not commit. Regardless, Michael stands his ground and implores his nephew LJ to leave the courtroom. When Michael's day in court arrives, his friend and longtime lawyer Veronica Donovan attempts to dissuade him from entering a no contest plea. When the police surround the building, the intense robber drops his weapon, throws his arms into the air, and surrenders without incident.

The next day Michael is in a bank, brandishing a gun, and demanding that the teller open the vault. Later, after hurrying back to his apartment, Michael pulls the hard drive out of his computer and throws it into the Chicago River from his apartment window.

In the past months Michael has gotten his chest, back, and the entire length of his arms covered in tattoos, and when the artist comments that most folks do this over a matter of years her heavily inked subject replies that he doesn't have quite that much time.

As the first episode of FOX's Prison Break begins, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is receiving the last in a series of elaborate tattoos.

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