Prison Break Timeline

Michael Scofield dies of his brain tumor, having been free for only a few weeks before his death.

The "Fox River Eight" successfully escape the prison walls. On this same night, Vice President Caroline Reynolds becomes President after poisoning her predecessor. Season 2: The Manhunt (May – June 2005) prison break timeline

Michael Scofield went from white-collar engineer to tattooed convict to dead hero in roughly the length of a single college semester. Michael Scofield dies of his brain tumor, having

Lincoln is convicted and sent to Fox River State Penitentiary on death row. Michael Scofield, a brilliant structural engineer, spends months tattooing the prison's blueprints onto his body under the guise of gothic art. Season 1: The Fox River Breakout (April – May 2005) Season 2: The Manhunt (May – June 2005)

This is the one that inspired the Steve McQueen movie. Allied POWs in a German camp dug three massive tunnels (codenamed Tom, Dick, and Harry) 30 feet underground. They dispersed the excavated sand by shaking it out of their trouser legs in the yard.

The season ends with the successful escape of Michael, Lincoln, and three other inmates, Fernando Sucre (played by Amaury Nolasco), Carlito Solano (played by Luis Antonio Ramos), and Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell (played by Robert Knepber).