Prison Break Revival Makes A Shocking Change To Michael Scofield

WARNING: Major spoilers ahead regarding the Prison Break revival premiere!

After eight long years, Michael Scofield as returned from the dead – just not exactly how everyone would’ve imagined.

Prison Break aired the first episode of its highly-anticipated fifth season on Tuesday, beginning a nine-episode revival story. Even though he died at the end of the original series, the new season revolves around the idea that Michael is actually alive.

Lincoln and C-Note head to Yemen to find Michael, and they end up in a prison called Ogygia. As the episode ends, Michael appears to the men from behind the visitation gates.

This moment was shaping up to be an awesome one for fans, as it was shaping up to be an emotional reunion between long-lost brothers. However, it ended with a shock that threw everyone for a loop.

As Lincoln told Michael he was going to break him out, Michael uttered words that no one wanted to hear. He said, “I’m not Michael. I don’t know who you are.”

Just like that, Michael disappeared back into the prison with one of the guards, leaving Lincoln pleading for an explanation.

This is a huge moment for fans, as Michael and Lincoln had one of the strongest sibling relationships in the history of TV. Seeing one of those brothers turning from the other one is hurtful, to say the least.

Could Michael really believe he’s someone else? Or is this all part of one of his elaborate schemes? Only time will tell.

More Prison Break:

• Official Season 5 Review
• Producers On Why Prison Break Is Back

The original action drama centered on MICHAEL SCOFIELD (Miller, “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow“), a young man determined to save his convicted brother, LINCOLN BURROWS (Purcell, “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”), from death row by hatching an elaborate plan to escape from prison.

In the new series, filmed on location in Morocco, clues surface that suggest a previously thought-to-be-dead Michael may be alive. Lincoln and SARA (Sarah Wayne Callies, “Colony,” “The Walking Dead”), Michael’s wife until he was presumed dead, reunite to engineer the biggest escape ever, as three of Fox River State Penitentiary’s most notorious escapees, SUCRE (Nolasco, “Telenovela”), T-BAG (Knepper, “Heroes”) and C-NOTE (Dunbar, “The Mentalist”), are pulled back into the action.