Prison Break is a TV series that revolves around the story of Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller), a young engineer who gets himself incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary to break out his brother, Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell), who is on death row for a crime he did not commit. The first season of the show premiered on August 29, 2005, and consists of 22 episodes.