Throughout Season 4, Michael discovered he had a brain tumor, the same kind that "killed" his mother when he was a boy. Season 4 ended with a pregnant Sara marrying Michael on the beach, and years later visiting his grave.
Here's everything that happened on Prison Break that you need to know before the event series begins. With so many twists and turns, it's impossible to remember all the important things that happened to the fugitive brothers.
Over the course of the series' four seasons, Michael and his brother broke out of prison, went on the run, found themselves planning yet another prison break, and then uncovering a massive government conspiracy.
Of course, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan, and Michael ended up saving his brother, while also breaking out a handful of more distrustful criminals. Lincoln insisted that he was being sent up, and so Michael came up with an elaborate plan to break him out of prison ( Prison Break, get it?). Prison Break started with a simple premise: a super smart man, Michael Scofield (Miller) manipulated the system to get arrested and sent to the high security Fox River Prison, where his brother, Lincoln Burrows (Purcell) was awaiting execution for allegedly killing the Vice President's brother. The new series takes place seven years after the original, and, given the gap, I think it's time for a quick Prison Break recap to get fans caught up before the new event series premieres.
Barely a year later, Fox is bring back the hit show for a nine-episode Prison Break event series. That is, until stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell teamed up to play a bad guy duo on The Flash and hatched a plan for a Prison Break sequel. When Prison Break went off the air in 2009 after four seasons, the great escape seemed to have come to an official end.