Wentworth Miller: The Final Break for Prison Break

I’ve finally managed to compose myself after writing about the ending of the series of Prison Break in my last blog “Heartache and Heartbreak in Prison Break.”  I guess it’s time that I find the courage to continue with the last sad segment of Prison Break and give closure to a chapter of the first of Went’s many successful projects.  I’ve decided to relay the story of the “Final Break” for those who haven’t been fortunate enough to see it.  So here goes.

In the beginning of the movie we see Went’s character Michael standing on the wharf and he’s gazing at the sea.  What a wonderful sight to behold.  I remember my heart pounding with joy when I saw him, suddenly my mind started playing tricks with me and I thought wow the end of the last series was a lot of hog wash.  Michael didn’t die and I imagined seeing his tombstone.  Immediately I sat up in my chair with extra enthusiasm and interest.  I thought to myself perhaps there is going to be a twist to this series after all with a wonderful happy surprise ending. 

Michael and Sara exchange wedding vows in a romantic setting at the waters edge.  This was the scene everyone was waiting for throughout the series.  It was so beautifully filmed.  Of course Went (I mean Michael) looked so attractive that quite honestly I forgot to look how beautiful the bride, Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies.) looked. [She laughs].  When Went’s character Michael says to Sara “you look beautiful”, well my heart completely melted and I fell in love with Michael all over again. [She sighs.]   [OK … OK, I’ll pull myself together and get on with it …]

In the next scene we see everyone at the wedding reception having a wonderful time, laughing, drinking and dancing and suddenly cars pull up and men rush over interrupting the wedding reception.  They have come to arrest Sara for the murder of Christina Scofield (Kathleen Quinlan).   Poor Michael and Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) and all the others are helpless … their hands are tied.  [So this was the twist after all.]

Sara is incarcerated at the over crowded Miami-Dade State Penitentiary for women.   In there she meets up with Gretchen Morgan (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe) who was imprisoned after the events in “The Sunshine State.”   Across the yard in the neighbouring men’s prison, “T-Bag (Robert Knepper) and General Jonathan Krantz (Leon Russom) are being held.  When General Krantz hears the news that Sara is in prison, he puts out a $100,000 bounty on Sara’s head. 

Meanwhile poor Sara gets beaten up by the Miami-Dade COs for having left the door unlocked at Fox River allowing the “Fox River Eight” to escape and the eventual dismissal or suspension of several staff members of Fox River.  She is also poisoned but gets medical treatment in the infirmary [thank goodness] that saves her life and pregnancy but she is informed by the doctor that as soon as she gives birth to the baby, she would only have 30 minutes with it before it’s taken away from her.  The only advice he could render was that she should consider being a surrogate mother to her own foetus to avoid the inevitable separation. 

Michael (Went) hears about Sara’s predicament and he is left with only one choice and that is to break her out as soon as possible.  Mike [I mean Michael] enlists his brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) and Fernando Sucre (Armaury Nolasco) to help him with his scheme.  When Lincoln and Sucre are staking out the place, Gretchen Morgan sees them and blackmails Sara into including her in the escape plan.

Went [my hero] … or should I say Michael finds a fault in the security system after analysing the photographs of the prison.  Alexander Mahone (William Fitchner) arrives on the scene and offers his help.  His true intentions are unclear though as he has been reinstated with the FBI on one condition and that is he reports any incriminating evidence he can find on Michael. 

Michael cleverly comes up with an escape plan but has to relay the message in a written letter to Sara about the escape.  However, while Michael is out of his apartment FBI Agent Todd Wheatly (Chris Bruno) breaks into his apartment and discovers the plans.  Michael has to explain himself out of this one and tells the FBI Agent that he was only looking for faults at the prison, so that he could warn the prison warden (Amy Aquino) about them and by doing so he had hopes that she would grant him visitation rights to see Sara.

The visitation rights are granted, and Michael does visit Sara.  Under tight security Michael manages to subtly ask Sara if she understood the hidden message in the letter and thank goodness, she does.  Unfortunately after leaving the prison Michael finds out that Agent Wheatley also discovered the fault that he was going to use for the escape plan.  Agent Wheatley [a spoke in the wheel if you ask me] has the camera system adjusted foiling Michael’s escape plan for Sara.

Meanwhile, Sara joins the “family” of the leader of the prisoners, an inmate who goes by the name of "Daddy" (Lori Petty), in order to join the work detail and gain access to the yard.

Michael comes up with another plan and that entails to use parachutes to rescue Sara but Lincoln puts a stop to this daring plan.  This leaves Michael with one other option and that is to coerce T-Bag to help them by offering him a $5,000 reward for doing so.  Lincoln visits T-Bag to persuade him but as we all know T-Bag he demands more money, more than the brothers can provide.  Instead, since the General refused to provide any financial incentive for T-Bag's help, T-Bag tells Lincoln how he can rob the man (Richmond Arquette) holding the General's $100,000, in exchange for his help. Lincoln agrees to steal the money, and tells T-Bag to simply pull the fire alarm at the right moment. Lincoln and Sucre then proceed to rob the money holder and set up the fund transfer to T-Bag.

Gretchen Morgan comes to Sara’s aid when Sara is attacked by a fellow family member and kills Sara’s attacker.  Gretchen manages to persuade Sara to allow her to escape with her by telling Sara that she wishes to see her daughter, Emily to give her a gift.   When one of the guards tells Daddy of the death of her family member, and mentions that Sara and Gretchen are thought to be behind her killing, Daddy becomes infuriated.

Meanwhile Mahone divulges Michael’s parachute plot to Agent Wheatley [immediately I wondered how could Mahone betray Michael like that!]  Michael continues to trust Mahone and gives him a piece of paper and a DVD which he asks him to give to Sara, in the event of his death.  Michael visits Sara once more to tell her that the previous plan has been foiled and cryptically tells her of a the new plan,  which involves her getting to the chapel, that is linked to the outside via an underground connection to an administrative building.

Daddy the leader of the convicts is eventually freed from lockup and appears to stalk Sara and Gretchen.  As a decoy before the escape begins, Gretchen distracts a guard while Sara confronts Daddy for an explanation of her behaviour.  Sara purposely picks a fight with Daddy and pushes her into a brutally strong and frightening inmate (Dot Marie Jones), who instantly retaliates by attacking Daddy.  At the same time Gretchen punches a guard and knocks her to the ground, but unfortunately Gretchen gets stabbed in the leg.  Sara acts quickly while all this is going on and grabs the guard’s keys.  The two of them escape and hide in the kitchen amidst the chaos going on around them.

My man Michael begins the escape.  Meanwhile Agent Wheatley, thanks to Mahone’s misinformation, orders all the lights to be switched off and orders the armed officers to be positioned where Michael parachute is supposed to land.   As the parachute lands, it’s riddled with bullets but aha much to Agent Wheatley’s surprise it’s a dummy.  Meanwhile Michael cleverly uses this opportunity as a decoy and sneaks out from under Wheatley’s car and runs into the prison.  [Now how’s that for a brilliant plan?]

During the escape Gretchen tells Sara that she can’t continue as she is badly injured.  Gretchen insists that Sara should leave her behind but Sara [the good person she is] chooses to help Gretchen.  However, as they run to the chapel, two guards spot Gretchen. She is asked if she's alone … [at this moment time stood still for me in the movie.  I wondered if she was going to rat on poor Sara.]  Gretchen finds some goodness within her and refuses to divulge Sara's presence and stalls the guards by telling them that she only wanted to be with her daughter.  Sara is almost spotted by a guard but she manages to unlock the door to the Chapel.  At this point Gretchen is taken into custody.  Sara then notices a necklace lying on the floor.  She picks it up and realises that it’s the necklace that Gretchen made for her daughter.  Sara decides to take the necklace with the intentions of passing it on to Gretchen’s daughter out of gratitude to Gretchen for not revealing her to the guards.

Michael and Sara meet up with each other, meanwhile Sucre is supposed to transfer the money into T-Bag’s banking account but alas the bank is closed.  When T-Bag realises that the money hasn’t been transferred as promised he rats on them all revealing the plot to the warden and tells the warden that he was instructed to pull the fire alarm as a decoy.  As soon as the warden hears about the plot he instructs the guards to turn off the fire alarms.

Doesn't Went look sexy in this picture?  I wouldn't mind him helping me to escape. [She laughs.]

However, unbeknown to T-Bag he played right into Michael's plan.  Michael anticipated that T-Bag would rat on them to the warden as he knew what an evil person he was.  With the alarms off, Michael then burns through a locked door with a blowtorch and manages to force it open.  However, when Michael and Sara try to get through the next door, it’s locked electronically.  Michael anticipating this possibility from the beginning tells Sara to run as soon as the door opens and urges her to leave him behind as the only way for him to open the door is to manually cause a power surge, knowing that this would however inevitably kill him. Sara refuses to leave Michael if he can’ go with her, but he emphasizes that there is no other way, touching her stomach and saying that he will be going with her. [I remember blurting out “Don’t leave him Sara, don’t believe him. He’s going to die … whatever you do don’t let Michael do this!”]  Unfortunately, Sara couldn’t hear my cries and she runs away and turns and looks back … we see the sparks and know this was Michael’s final act of sacrifice.  Overcome with emotion, Sara is speechless and is unable to describe to Lincoln what had happened. Mahone, who purposely misled the agents, knew of Michael's plan from a previous discussion with him, and simply tells Lincoln, "He's Gone". They get into the van and drive away, still shocked over Michael's death.

T-Bag is put into solitary confinement for aiding Sara’s escape.

Mahone gives Sara the paper and the DVD that Michael left her.  The paper is a medical examination that Michael recently underwent, and it reveals that his brain tumour had returned and that his condition was terminal.  Sara and Lincoln view the DVD together on a boat.  It’s a pre-recorded message from Michael. Here's the message ….

Wipe those tears away everyone, it’s only a movie.  Went is alive and well and hopefully walking around with a huge happy smile on his face.  I know that whatever Went tackles, he's going to be enormously successful with it and that he is protected and guided at all times. [Never mind me that's just my intuition talking.] 
 

“Wentworth Miller is most definitely “A bright shining star.”

I would like to thank Brett Ratner for having a wonderful memory and for never forgetting Went when he auditioned for the Superman movie.  Thank goodness Mr Ratner had the good sense to arrange for Went’s audition for Michael Scofield’s character.  I couldn’t imagine any other actor portraying the “Michael Scofield” character as engaging as Wentworth did.  He was absolutely perfect for the role.  A huge thank you too, to the writers and the producers of the show.  Prison Break was a terrific series and it will always be fondly remembered.

I found these wonderful tributes that I feel would end this blog off so nicely. [She dabs her eyes for the last time.]

 

Last but not least I wish to thank Wentworth for entertaining us all with his amazing acting abilities, his touching performance and his total dedication and professionalism towards the series.  Went you are a superb actor and a wonderfully gifted person and I applaud you and blow you a …

The movie “The Final Break” was released in the US and Canada on the 21 July 2009 on DVD and Blu-ray.  It aired on the 27^th May 2009 in the United Kingdom on Sky 1.



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Wentworth Miller: My Christmas Wish for You!

Dear Went,

My Christmas Wish For You

My Christmas wish for you, my friend

Is not a simple one

For I wish you hope and joy and peace

Days filled with warmth and sun

I wish you love and friendship too

Throughout the coming year

Lots of laughter and happiness

To fill your world with cheer

May you count your blessings, one by one

And when totalled by the lot

May you find all you've been given

To be more than what you sought

May your journeys be short, your burdens light

May your spirit never grow old

May all your clouds have silver linings

And your rainbows pots of gold

I wish this all and so much more

May all your dreams come true

May you have a Merry Christmas friend

And a happy New Year, too

My Christmas Wish For You

~ Ruth Kephart ~

I wish you, dearest Went & your loved ones and all of your fans a very Merry Christmas. May you all be showered with love and blessings and may all your dreams come true.

Best Wishes

Debra

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Wentworth Miller: 'Twas the Night before Christmas by Major Henry Livingston Jr.

'Twas the Night Before Christmas

or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas

 

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,

Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,

And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

"Now, DASHER! now, DANCER! now, PRANCER and VIXEN!

On, COMET! on CUPID! on, DONNER and BLITZEN!

To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,

So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,

And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke of it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly,

That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,

"HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!"

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Wentworth Miller: Heartbreak and Heartache in Prison Break - Season 4

Season Four of the serial drama televisions series was shot in LA and was aired in the United States on September 1, 2008.  It consisted of 24 episodes (22 television episodes and 2 straight to DVD episodes), 16 of which aired from September to December 2008. After a hiatus, it resumed on April 17, 2009 and concluded on May 15, 2009 with a two episode finale.

One of my favourite pictures of Went.

Fox’s President Kevin Reilly confirmed on the 13 January 2009, that Season Four of Prison Break would be the conclusion of the Series.  He explained, "Prison Break got to a point where a lot of the stories had been told." At the time, he said there was a possibility of adding two extra episodes; he said "We want to finish strong."   I remember reading this article somewhere and feeling as though my heart was breaking.  I had become so addicted to watching Prison Break that I swore inwardly that no other show would ever interest me again and you know what?  No other show has caught my interest as much as Prison Break did. 

While I was overcoming my dilemma about the finale of Prison Break, Prison Break Fans all over the world were over the moon when they heard the good news that Sarah Wayne Callies was returning to the Fourth Season of Prison Break. It meant that the fans were going to see Michael and Sara getting back together with a romantic rendezvous and some more kissing scenes.   Their meeting certainly didn’t disappoint the viewers and it definitely lifted my spirits up.  Went and Sarah once again pulled out all the stops and gave their fans exactly what they were waiting for.  The tender scenes of Michael and Sara together were so lovely.

Tender Moments. 

Many characters from the previous seasons were brought into Season Four.  The goal of bringing everyone together was to tie up all the loose ends creating the feel of one cohesive story instead of four individual seasons.   A wonderful actress Kathleen Quinlan joined the cast who played Lincoln and Michael’s estranged mother and Company Operative, Christina. [“The Manipulative Mother from Hell”.  She laughs.] Wyatt (Cress William) was the Company guy hired to track the boys down. [A mean looking dude.  She shudders.]  Then there was Roland Glenn (James Hiroyuki Liao) a hacker hired by the guys.  Don Self (Michael Rapaport) was The Homeland Security agent who hires the guys to bring down the Company. He’s character was the handler who provided them with tools, gadgets and cover stories [and turncoat … so it would seem … but it turned out that he was rather a sad and desperate case later on in the season.]

A beautiful friendly smile.

I feel like a stalker posting these videos below but it's so nice to see Went being himself for a change instead of a made up character isn't it?  I guess this is the closest some of us will ever get to seeing Went the man. [She sighs.]

Producer Matt Olmstead confirmed that there would be deaths in the series and he wasn’t wrong.  I couldn’t keep up with all the death counts and body bags.  There were a lot of kidnappings going on too and poor Michael had a gun pointed at his head at every turn. [She laughs.]  Speaking about Michael’s head, I was most upset that Went’s character Michael had a brain tumor and he was dying.  I found it quite difficult to watch Went [oops I mean Michael] having a nose bleed every now and then and passing out. The scene where Michael heard the news that he had some sort of incurable brain tumor was too much for me to handle. Of course Went’s convincing performance made it even more realistic for me too.  I remember crying uncontrollably.   [Went, you touched my heart and broke it at the same time!]

So Serious.

Went looking ever so sweet in his "Bucket Hat".    

Everyone in this final season was chasing Scylla.  The General wanted it, Christina Scofield was after it.  Even China and India wanted it.  Hell I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want Michael [oops … I mean] Scylla badly too but I preferred seeing Michael and Lincoln chasing after it so I could see Went over and over again on my TV Screen. [She winks and laughs.]

Another favourite of mine: Went taking a Cat Nap.

Very Cute & Naughty!

I mentioned earlier that there were a few faces of old in the mix:  Benjamin Miles “C-Note” Franklin (Rockmond Dunbar), Paul Kellerman, (Paul Adelstein), General Jonathan Krantz (Leon Russon) and Charles Westmoreland (Muse Watson).  It was good to see these characters once again.

A lovely kiss!

"Hello Officer!"

When Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) who was then backed by the United Nations offered a legal way out for everyone I thought thank goodness, finally everyone was safe they must have being “pulling our leg” about this being the end of Season Four. Nope, to my horror and disbelief I was looking at Michael Scofield’s tombstone on my TV screen.  There was Sara and Michael Jr standing together with Sucre, Mahone and Lincoln four years down the line, paying a remembrance visit to Michael’s grave.  Just to add another stab to my aching heart Lincoln leaves “The Origami Crane” on top of the tombstone with the words inscribed ....

Wow! Talk about heart breaking stuff.

… as if this wasn't enough there was even more heart ache waiting for the fans of Prison Break.

I’m too overcome with emotion now so I’ll continue with the finale of the Series “The Final Break” in my next blog. [She sniffs, dabs her eyes and blows her nose.] Goodbye.

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