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The two-part premiere aired back-to-back, immediately drawing audiences into Michael's world. Within the first ten minutes, Michael is convicted and behind bars in Fox River—a prison on the brink of a race war, where the guards are dirtier than the inmates. The pilot episode drew .

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Notable episodes and beats (without spoiling key surprises) The first season features , with numerous memorable

David Apolskis arrives. He discovers Michael’s hole. The chess match begins. Meanwhile, Lincoln almost gets the electric chair (the "hot box" sequence). Exclusive note: The use of the chair is delayed by 23 minutes—the real time it takes for a pardon. The chess match begins

When Prison Break debuted on Fox in 2005, it fundamentally changed the landscape of serialized television. The premise was deceptively simple yet brilliantly high-concept: an innocent man is sent to death row, and his structural engineer brother deliberately gets himself incarcerated in the same prison to break him out from the inside.