Back at Scofield’s hideaway, Christina and her men show up, and after a shoot-out, Scofield is left with the gun in his hand pointing at his mother, but unable to shoot her, Sara does the deed of shooting Christina in the back, thus killing her.
As Sara rushes Lincoln to the hospital, Scofield is left with Scylla, which he must hand over to Kellerman. However, Scofield turns suspicious, wondering how Kellerman’s United Nations’ contact is able to exonerate the gang so easily. Kellerman tells Scofield that he wants this to end, and Scofield also realises that he doesn’t want to run anymore either, leading him to trust Kellerman in the end and he hands over the missing piece of Scylla.
We then see the entire gang — Sucre, C-Note, Mahone, Scofield, Sara, and Lincoln — sign papers that leave them exonerated and free. (Remarkably Lincoln, who hours before was dying from a punctured lung due to a bullet, has on a clean shirt and seems unhurt as he moves around with such liveliness in this scene!) The Gang take a vote on the fate of T-Bag, and they decide to send him off to prison. Sara and Scofield then have a well-deserved relaxing moment at the beach where they talk about their upcoming parenthood. However, Scofield’s nose starts to bleed, and the scene finishes with Sara looking concerned.
The episode ends with a flash forward of four years (which brings the series to our present time since Prison Break is on a protracted time table) and we see where everyone is. Lincoln is with Sophia, Sucre is with his daughter, C-Note is reunited with his family, Sara is with her son named Michael, Self is paralyzed in a semi-vegetative state, The General gets the chair, Kellerman is a congressman who’s tormented by his past victim, T-Bag is his usual self as he’s incarcerated in Fox River once again, and the biggest surprise is seeing Mahone coupled up romantically with Agent Lang (Barbara Eve Harris).
The biggest shocker though is finding out that Michael Scofield ends up dead! He apparently dies in 2005, which means that he probably doesn't get to see the birth of his son. The last scene is of Lincoln, Sucre, Mahone, Sara, and her son Michael at Scofield’s grave by the beach.
“Killing Your Number” was just as its preceding episode “Rate of Exchange” in that the cat and mouse game for Scylla, between The General, Christina, and the gang was simply tiresome and was too dragged out. It was evident that Prison Break had no more stories to tell and hence the writers were simply taking Scylla out of one hand and putting it into another, and throwing in shoot-outs and chases in between just to fill up the time.
Article comments
1 - Samantha
Great article Sara was pointlesss and that's why her return this season was so bad and the tv audience left.Season 4 is by far the worst season of this show and it even ended with a who cares feel to it.The writers ruined everything from making Sara a love interest for Michael to her return (that's where the show jumped the shark).As for the DVD's they just put those extras eps because they know there are gullible people who would buy it so they want to make more money.The ones who will buy it maybe expecting something so great but in reality it's the same dragging all over the place with stupidity just like the rest of this season.Alot of people probably are going to waste their money buying that garbage!!