Prison Break S1e1 Official

The pilot episode of , directed by Billy G. Hawthorne and written by Paul T. Scheuring , introduces viewers to the Fox River State Penitentiary, where Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller ), a brilliant engineer, finds himself incarcerated for a crime he claims not to have committed. To facilitate his escape, Michael gets a tattoo of the prison's layout on his body, which becomes the central plot device driving the story forward.