Sara doesn’t run. She contacts Lincoln. They decide to wait—but prepare. Lincoln trains in covert entry. Sucre learns drone surveillance. Mahone re-activates his old Bureau contacts to track Onyx dead drops.

This backstory turns the frustrating release delay into a deliberate, emotional part of the plot.

For those who may need a refresher, Prison Break follows the story of Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller), a brilliant engineer who gets himself incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary to break out his brother, Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell), who is on death row for a crime he did not commit. Along with a group of fellow inmates, they hatch a plan to escape and clear Lincoln's name.