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Prison Break trailer: Michael Scofield is alive and locked up. Again.

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Prison Break fans rejoice! Fox released the first full-length trailer for the revival series yesterday and seeing the original gang back together again brought all the feels.

“Looks like your brother might just be aliiiive”, drawls dastardly criminal Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell (Robert Knepper) to Dominic Purcell’s Lincoln. As if we ever thought mastermind Michael was gone for good. I was always sceptical of his death, seeing as we didn’t ever witness him bite the dust on screen, but now we have it confirmed. They couldn’t revive the series without Wentworth Miller. He is Prison Break.

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The jam-packed two minute trailer sets up the main plot for the ten-parter which is due to air next year. Michael is alive and he’s got himself locked up for the third time. First it was Fox River, then there was Sona - the ghastly, lawless prison in Panama - and now Michael’s incarcerated in Morocco. But what did the tattooed jailbird do to find himself on the other side of the law yet again?

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It’s a plot reminiscent of the first season with a nice bit of role reversal – it’s now Lincoln’s turn to play saviour and free his brother from the confines of a cell. “Michael, we’re here to get you out”, he says through the prison bars and you know he’s going to succeed (it wouldn’t be Prison Break if they didn’t!). In classic Scofield tradition, Michael intends to get his cellmates involved in the break out as he states: “We’re getting out. Every one of you is crucial to that plan.” The question is, will the prisoners be as loveable, or as resourceful, as the original group?

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“When the lights go black, we’re going to disappear from this place like ghosts”, Michael says, but of course it’s never that simple and he’s going to need more than a little help from the outside. Joining Lincoln on his mission to free Michael is his ‘widow’ Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), with an optimistic Michael Jr. in toe, and original convicts Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco) and C-Note (Rockmond Dunbar).

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“When in doubt go old school”, C Note states towards the end of the trailer and it seems that the writers have done just that. The Prison Break formula works and it’s going to be exciting seeing it play out on screen once more. The one thing the trailer doesn’t reveal though, is whether Mahone (William Fichtner) will return to save the day. That’s something Fox is keeping tight lipped on and I can’t wait to find out!

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