Every episode of Prison Break introduces some new layer of complexity to the "break out" plot.
Just when you think you've seen enough--or indeed, too many--obstacles, the writers interject some new plot device which further complicates their getting out.
Although it has the effect of frustrating the viewership (we just want them to break out, already!) it works to assure some sense of authenticity or reality, that this is a show about what might happen in *real life* even if you think--as Mike Schofield does--that your break-out plan is fail-proof.
Thank goodness for this show, House, and Grey's Anatomy, for those dry spells lately in Lost's plot, particularly with regards to its mythology...
Posted by stephend at April 10, 2006 9:40 PM