“Michael’s home, but I don’t know if he’s at peace,” Wentworth Miller told The Hollywood Reporter about the season finale. “He’s been living a nightmare, for years, and now he’s back - back from the dead. He’s reunited with his loved ones, but I think he would be haunted for a long time. I think there’d be paranoia, insomnia, anxiety … maybe a lingering taste for darker things, illegal things. If there are new stories to tell, we could probably start there: with Michael’s not-so-smooth re-entry into civilian life.” Indeed, Miller isn’t the only one wondering if there are more stories to tell about Michael Scofield. As he puts it: “There’s a zero percent chance of the show coming back if we don’t have a top-notch story.” Despite envisioning the fifth season as a closed-ended story, Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring has started coming around to the idea that there may be another breakout in the future - just don’t expect it any time soon, and don’t expect it at all if Scheuring and his team can’t come up with the right idea. Here’s everything else Scheuring has to say about the Prison Break finale, including the return to the show’s Fox River roots, the dark direction for T-Bag (Robert Knepper) and the decision to kill the main antagonist Jacob Ness (Mark Feuerstein) offscreen. Mostly, the goal was to tell a rip-roaring and close-ended tale with a ton of action, a ton of emotion and a ton of twists, filled with some brain-bending strategy. Like any great feature film - like an Indiana Jones or something - the movie itself is self-contained, but if there’s going to be a sequel, that can be its own self-contained thing afterwards.

The intention for this season was to just really kill it for nine episodes, walk away and then should conversations ever develop again about doing another season, we would consider that, and then in turn create another self-standing season.

In other words, the idea of getting Michael to smile in the end and walk away with him happy … that wasn’t necessarily the endgame. You have talked about how structurally, a lot of this season is inspired by The Odyssey.

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