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-- Working on improving Pilot (Prison Break episode) --
| "Pilot" | |
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| Prison Break episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Brett Ratner |
| Written by | Paul Scheuring |
| Production code | 1AKJ79 |
| Original air date | 29 August 2005 |
Pilot was the premiere episode of drama television series Prison Break.
Synopsis[edit]
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The Prison Break pilot introduces Michael Scofield, Veronica Donovan and Lincoln Burrows. Michael is shown in his office, reviewing all his material for the last time. He throws a hard-disk out the window, and takes down all the notes he has written on the paper stuck to the walls.
He then goes and robs a bank, discharging a pistol several times in the process. Veronica is his attorney in front of the judge. He acts like he does not mind his five year incarceration. He accepts the judge's punishment, while Veronica is arguing with the judge and Michael, asking him why he is letting the judge throw the book at him. Michael dismisses her and the judge ends up sentencing him to jail for five years. She places him in Fox River Penitentiary at his request of going to a prison close to his hometown.
He meets his brother, Lincoln Burrows, and becomes convinced that Lincoln was framed for the murder of the Vice President's brother. Michael takes notes of the people and surroundings around him. In his cell, he meets his cellmate Fernando Sucre.
Michael asks how to get into PI (Prison Industries), and Sucre tells him that it is controlled by Mafia boss John Abruzzi. When Michael approaches Abruzzi, he is rejected. Michael calmly tells Abruzzi that he has something Abruzzi needs, and leaves a swan made of origami. Abruzzi later recieves a phone call telling him that someone knows the indentity of Fibonacci, the informant who put Abruzzi behind bars, and could put the other Mafia bosses away as well. The only identification this person left was a swan made of origami. Abruzzi realises Schofield knows Fibonacci's identity and allows him to join PI. One of Abruzzi's friends asks "Why'd you let him in?" Abruzzi replies "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
During PI, Michael reveals to his brother that he is going to get him out of the prison. Burrows says that it is impossible. Michael says that it isn't if you designed the prison. Burrows asks if he has seen the blueprints to the prison. Michael says, "Better than that -- I've got them on me." He reveals his mysterious body tattoo, which is animated to reveal that they are the disguised blueprints to Fox River, on which Michael bases his escape plans on later in the series.