Prison Break
Orientación
TV Flash files “Orientación” as a desk essential hour — Prison Break (2005–2009) on Fox, season 3, episode 1, aired 2007-09-17, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 45 of 88 in the Prison Break guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 2007-09-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Sona” (S02E22). Next is “Fire/Water” (S03E02).
Essential hour: “Orientación”. Orientación plants the company in a new lockup: the title as orientation packet, later-cage stretch beginning in a language the first season earned.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The season opener finds Michael Scofield in Sona, a hellish and deadly Panamanian prison where a previous riot has forced all authority out and has left the prisoners in charge of their own lives (and deaths). With the fate of his loved ones hanging in the balance, Michael must to find Whistler, a mysterious fellow inmate hiding within the prison's sewer system, in order to break him out from a prison from which there is no way out. Meanwhile, Lincoln searches for a missing Sara and receives troubling news about LJ on "Orientacion."
Viewer FAQ
Where does Orientación sit in the Prison Break guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 45 of 88 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did Prison Break S03E01 air?
Orientación aired 2007-09-17 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is season one of Prison Break the whole pitch?
Season one is the clean hit of adrenaline architecture — the tattoo as blueprint. Later seasons and a revival stretch the cage; start with the first escape.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Engineer Michael Scofield tattoos a prison blueprint on his body to free his brother — high-concept serialization as summer obsession. Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell as the faces of escape-as-plot. Season one is the clean hit of adrenaline architecture; later cages stretch the premise.
The first useful image is ink, not a lock. Engineer Michael Scofield tattoos a prison blueprint on his body to free wrongfully accused brother Lincoln Burrows — high-concept serialization as summer obsession. Paul Scheuring's Fox thriller premiered August 29, 2005; Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell became the faces of escape-as-plot beside Sarah Wayne Callies, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper's T-Bag, and Robin Tunney. Twists, conspiracies, and ever-larger cages kept the engine screaming. Original run 2005–2009…
Filed against
- Wentworth Miller as Michael Scofield
Wentworth Miller’s Michael Scofield tattooed a prison blueprint onto Prison Break — high-concept serialization as summer obsession, engineer as escape artist, Dominic Purcell as the brother the ink was for. Season one is the clean hit of…
- Dominic Purcell as Lincoln Burrows
Dominic Purcell’s Lincoln Burrows made Prison Break a brother with a death sentence — Michael Scofield tattooing a blueprint to free him, high-concept serialization as summer obsession, Wentworth Miller as the engineer face. Season one…
- Sarah Wayne Callies as Sara Tancredi
Sarah Wayne Callies's Sara Tancredi gave Prison Break a doctor inside the walls — high-concept serialization as summer obsession, Michael Scofield's tattooed blueprint, Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell as escape-as-plot. Season one as…
- Amaury Nolasco as Fernando Sucre
Amaury Nolasco’s Fernando Sucre gave Prison Break its heartbeat under the tattooed blueprint — Fox summer serialization as escape-as-plot, Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell as the faces, season one as clean adrenaline architecture.…
- Robert Knepper as Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell
Robert Knepper's Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell made Prison Break's summer obsession feel dangerous on purpose — engineer Michael Scofield's tattooed blueprint, Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell as escape-as-plot, Knepper the smile that…
- Robin Tunney as Veronica Donovan
Robin Tunney's Veronica Donovan kept Prison Break's first-season adrenaline from becoming only a tattoo — lawyer-sister weather beside Michael Scofield's blueprint, Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell as escape-as-plot. High-concept…