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Prison Break :: Pilot (01x01)

Episode Information

Title:

Pilot

Episode #:

01x01

Production Number:

1AKJ00

Original Airdate:

Monday August 29th, 2005

*Also Known As:

Der große Plan ( Germany [RTL])

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Other Release Dates: (Edit)
Country:	Aired On:

NL (RTL 5)	Mar 16, 2006
Belgium	Sep 10, 2006
DE (RTL)	Jun 21, 2007

Episode Crew
Director:	Brett Ratner
Writer:	Paul Scheuring

Episode Summary

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As Lincoln Burrows awaits his fate on death row, his brother, a structural engineer convinced of Lincoln's innocence, gets himself incarcerated as well hoping to free his brother from the inside.

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Camille Guaty	played	Maricruz	Recurring (first appearance)
•Jessalyn Gilsig	played	Lisa Burrows	Recurring (first appearance)
•Laura Scott Wade	played	Tattoo Artist	Recurring (first appearance)
•Muse Watson	played	Charles Westmoreland	Recurring (first appearance)
•Chelcie Ross	played	Bishop McMorrow
Co-Guest Stars
•Alan Wilder (1)	played	Prison Chaplain	Recurring (first appearance)
•Anthony Starke	played	Sebastian	Recurring (first appearance)
•Christian Stolte	played	C.O. #1	Recurring (first appearance)
•Danny McCarthy (1)	played	Special Agent Danny Hale	Recurring (first appearance)
•Gianni Russo	played	Smallhouse	Recurring (first appearance)
•Jay Whittaker	played	Sweatsuit	Recurring (first appearance)
•Ora Jones	played	Wendy	Recurring (first appearance)
•Phillip Edward Van Lear	played	C.O. #2	Recurring (first appearance)
•Rich Komenich	played	Maggio	Recurring (first appearance)
•Rolando Boyce	played	Cop	Recurring (first appearance)
•Billy Chase (1)	played	Speaking Prisoner #3
•Cheryl Lynn Bruce	played	Judge
•Dan Maxwell	played	Cronie #1
•Darnell Jackson (2)	played	Speaking Prisoner #2
•David Pacheco	played	Speaking Prisoner #1
•Jeffrey Michael Parker	played	Tsili
•Nicholas Iovino	played	Brian
•Peggy Roeder	played	Teller
•Philip Rayburn Smith	played	Adrian Rix
Uncredited
•James Azrael	played	Inmate #1

Main Cast

•Dominic Purcell	played	Lincoln Burrows
•Wentworth Miller	played	Michael Scofield
•Amaury Nolasco	played	Sucre
•Robert Knepper	played	T-Bag
•Sarah Wayne Callies	played	Dr. Sara Tancredi
•Wade Williams	played	Officer Brad Bellick
•Peter Stormare	played	John Abruzzi
•Marshall Allman	played	LJ Burrows
•Robin Tunney	played	Veronica Donovan
•Stacy Keach (1)	played	Warden Henry Pope
•Paul Adelstein	played	Special Agent Paul Kellerman

Episode Notes

The prison scenes in the show are shot at Joliet Prison, Joliet, Illinois, USA.

Several scenes are shot in serial killer John Wayne Gacy's old cell.

Episode Quotes

Lincoln: You’ve seen the blueprints?
Michael: Better than that. (shows his tattoos) I’ve got them on me.

Michael: (to Lincoln) I’m not here on vacation, trust me.

Lisa: I figured he (referring to LJ) could use some fatherly advice before it's...
Lincoln: Gone forever?
Lisa: I didn't mean that.
Lincoln: I know you didn't.

Abruzzi: (to Michael) Kudos, Fish. You've got spine.

Michael: (about the Warden's miniature of the Taj Mahal) The Taj... it would be a shame for the eighth wonder of the modern world to collapse because the stress isn't properly propagated.

Special Agent: You have a habit of answering a question with a question.
Bishop McMorrow: And you have a way of asking questions that beg more questions.

LJ: I don't have a father.
Lisa: It wasn't an immaculate conception, honey, trust me.

Warden Pope: Son, it’s better for me to owe you one in here than it is for you to owe me one, I can promise you that.
Michael: I'll take my chances.

Warden Pope: I can't help wondering what someone with your credentials is doing in a place like this.
Michael: Took a wrong turn a few months back, I guess.
Warden Pope: You make it sound like a traffic infraction, like all you did was turn the wrong way up a one-way street.
Michael: Everyone turns up one sooner or later.

Sucre: No good, Fish. No one gets an audience with the Pope—not unless he's real interested in what you got going on.

Sucre: Why do you want to see Burrows so bad anyways?
Michael: Because he’s my brother.