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Spoiler: Prison Break

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Major news has emerged out of the US regarding the fourth season of Prison Break, confirmed earlier this week.

The casting news certainly a significant plot move for the FOX drama, and an exciting one. But it’s also a real spoiler so TV Tonight won’t publish it up front. As usual, don’t go, if you don’t wanna know.

Michael Ausiello reports that “Sarah” is coming back from the dead.


Sarah Wayne Callies — whose rather ugly contract dispute with producers led to her apparent decapitation last October — is returning next season. Full-time. As Dr. Sara Tancredi. Head and all. Seriously.

So… I take it that wasn’t Sara’s head in that box….
Matt Olmstead: Yeah, that wasn’t.

But initially it was supposed to be her head. What changed?
Olmstead: What changed was…. once we realized that the emotional hook of Season 3 was going to be the death of Sara, when we didn’t get the actress to do it, as soon as we wrote it and shot it, we realized that there was actually a way she could still be alive. Lincoln glanced at the head in the box for a split second. That could’ve been anyone. He wasn’t about to pull it up from the hair and inspect it closely. And then we were fairly careful thereafter of references we made to that and who took credit for it and what was seen or heard, and we left it fairly [vague]. But initially when we realized that we never actually saw the character get killed, we just had that knowledge in our back pocket and moved forward with the narrative as we intended. Which was: she’s out of the picture, Michael’s [feeling guilty] and Lincoln is freaking out because if they did that to her, they could do that to his son. It really gave us a real push for the season.

Full story at TV Guide

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  2. good news, it was a really bad idea for them to kill her off in the first place, i guess they worked out the contractual dispute, i always hoped she’d come back, now the story can end properly.

  4. In other words… the fan base went collectively ape scat when we killed her off over a contractual tiff. Now we’re trying to undo the damage.

    Admittedly this is good news, motives of FOX aside. The Doc was a good character and didn’t deserve the exit she seemed to have been given.

  5. David, I imagine that Seven are still some time away from showing the remaining eps of Season 3, given that Season 4 I would imagine wont start in the US until “the fall” around September?

  6. Ordinarily I’d say it was a shark jump, but the way they seem to be telling the story does give it an interesting hook.

    Most fans were dissapointed with the Sara situation and this is a great way of getting back those viewers. It also stopped the endless – “is she really dead?” threads on forums!

    If you don’t take the show too seriously, this can be a fun advernture!

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