"Prison Break" Brother's Keeper (2006)

Director:

Greg Yaitanes

Writers:

Paul Scheuring (creator)
Zack Estrin (written by)

TV Series:

"Prison Break" (2005)

Original Air Date:

3 April 2006 (Season 1, Episode 16)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Flashbacks provide exposition on how the inmates arrived at Fox River Penitentiary from The Company's framing of Lincoln to the creation of Michael's plan to save his brother's life.

Plot Keywords:

Debt | Kuwait | Brother | Murder | Female President

Cast

Dominic Purcell	...	Lincoln Burrows
Wentworth Miller	...	Michael Scofield
Robin Tunney	...	Veronica Donovan
Amaury Nolasco	...	Fernando Sucre
Marshall Allman	...	LJ Burrows (credit only)
Wade Williams	...	Brad Bellick
Paul Adelstein	...	Paul Kellerman
Robert Knepper	...	Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell
Rockmond Dunbar	...	Benjamin Miles 'C-Note' Franklin
Sarah Wayne Callies	...	Dr. Sara Tancredi
Michelle Forbes	...	Samantha Brinker
Danny McCarthy	...	Daniel Hale
Camille Guaty	...	Maricruz Delgado
Mike Jones	...	Darius
Kurt Caceres	...	Hector Avila

Language:

English | Spanish

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Rat Entertainment

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Lincoln Burrows has been imprisoned for about a month when Michael Scoffield started planning his escape; yet on the big operation wall behind his brother's desk, the newspaper ad which helped him get married to Nika Volek has the title "Czechoslovakian Brides". Czechoslovakia only existed before 1990, after which it was split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Quotes:

Maricruz Delgado: What do you want for the future?
Fernando Sucre: Would you run if I said you?
Maricruz Delgado: Would you chase me if I did?

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Prison Break: Rendezvous (#2.10)" (2006)

The Older Brother of the Older Brother

Three years ago, Michael discovers that the Lincoln's debt of US$ 90,000.00 permitted him to graduate in Engineering and his mother had no life insurance. Details of the manipulation of the footage of the surveillance camera in the parking area by Kellerman and his men are disclosed. Sara was a junkie addicted in morphine that seeks help in a rehabilitation center. C-Note was a soldier in Kuwait that was discharge with dishonor when he reported torture in the prisoners. Later, unemployed and with a dirty record, he drives an illegal truck to make some money, being arrested. Fernando robs a convenience store to date Maricruz; when he returns to rob the same convenience store to buy an engagement ring to Maricruz, his cousin Hector gives an anonymous call to the police and he is arrested. T-Bag is in love for Susan, but when she finds that he is a pedophile killer, she denounces him to the police.

In "Brother's Keeper", there is a great development of characters: it is disclosed though flashbacks the previous lives of Michael, Lincoln, Veronica, Sara, C-Note, Fernando and T-Bag and their connection before they go to Fox River and the conspiracy of the Vice-President and the Secret Service. The meaning of the crane origami used by Michael is explaining as Familial Obligation. The revelation that Dr. Sara Tancredi was an addicted junkie is the great surprise of this episode. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "O Guardião do Irmão" ("The Brother's Keeper")