The madness has finally come to an end. After four years of insanity, ill logic and bonding, Prison Break has finally reached its climax. You expect a lot out of the last episode of a series which had brothers fighting their mother to save the world, a beheading (albeit fake!), an “evil as Hell” government company along with a couple of – you guessed it – prison breaks. And to wrap all this up in just about two hours, Prison Break went way beyond the end of the war with the Company.

When it began four seasons back, Prison Break’s lone attraction was a highly resourceful man called Michael Scofield who gets into jail to get his (framed) brother Lincoln out. The USP of the show was the massive tattoo of the prison on Michael’s back.

But all this was Season One. After that, PB took us on treasure hunts, another prison break and war with the evil Company that had framed Lincoln in the first place. In the last season, it was found out that their own mother (played by Kathleen Quinlan), was one of the leaders of the Company.

The series finale had Michael fighting his mother and her rival, General Krantz, to save his brother and his girlfriend Sara. They both wanted Scylla (this season’s surprise element), an object which can expose the Company.

But help comes from unexpected quarters in the form of former Company agent Kellerman (a popular character on the series), who was assumed to have died. However, this is a show where Sara had been “beheaded” and was still hale and hearty all along, so twists like the afore mentioned are par for the course.

In the end, Sara shoots Christina Burrows, while Kellerman gets Michael and gang absolved of their charges courtesy the United Nations. Then, as is the trend, the show fast forwarded years later to reveal the final fate of all the main characters – right down to the grave of Michael Scofield.

Even then, the madness isn’t over yet. Fans who need more of it – including pointers to Michael’s death – can order Prison Break: The Final Break on DVD to see what happened to everyone four years after the final face-off.

After that, Prison Break will officially end and be recollected by many as a crazy, logic twisting series of plots (not dissimilar to 24 but less popular if you go by public opinions). Nonetheless, PB fans would be disappointed that Michael went out without one last prison break.