<Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> The eight escapees (Scofield, Burrows, Sucre, Abruzzi, Bagwell, Franklin, Apolskis and Patoshik) start running towards a van parked by Abruzzi's men . They leave Patoshik behind and escape with the van . Realizing that Abruzzi will certainly kill him, Bagwell cuffs himself to Scofield and swallows the key . They leave the van behind and continue on foot . Scofield forces Apolskis to leave the team because of his betrayal . They get in a warehouse, where Abruzzi cuts off Bagwell's left hand, freeing Scofield . They leave Bagwell behind and run towards the airstrip . Meanwhile, the President dies as a result of a heart attack, implied to be an assassination . Reynolds quickly swears as the President, making the Company respect her . The police enter Tancredi's apartment and find her overdosed . Donovan goes to a mansion in Montana and meets Steadman . Apolskis passes the checkpoint inside an animal transferring vehicle . Patoshik takes a bicycle . Bagwell keeps running with his hand . The team arrives at the strip just after the plane leaves . As the police approach, they start running . </Td> </Tr> <P> The season was produced by Adelstein - Parouse Productions, in association with Original Television and 20th Century Fox Television . The executive producers were creator Paul Scheuring, Marty Adelstein, Neal H. Moritz, Dawn Parouse, Brett Ratner and Matt Olmstead . The staff writers were Scheuring, co-executive producers Nick Santora and Zack Estrin, supervising producer Karyn Usher and Olmstead . The regular director throughout the season was Bobby Roth; additional directors were Jace Alexander, Matt Earl Beesley and Dwight H. Little . Its incidental music was composed by Ramin Djawadi . </P> <P> Most of the first season of the series was filmed on location in and around Chicago . After it was closed down in 2002, Joliet Prison became the set of Prison Break in 2005, standing in as Fox River State Penitentiary on screen . Scenes set in Lincoln's cell, the infirmary and the prison yard were all shot on location at the prison . Lincoln's cell is the same one in which John Wayne Gacy was incarcerated . Most of the production crew refused to enter the cell, thinking that it was haunted . Other sets were built at the prison, including the cell blocks that housed the general prison population; these blocks had three tiers of cells (as opposed to the real cell block's two) and had cells much larger than real cells to allow more space for the actors and cameras . Exterior scenes were filmed in areas around Chicago, Woodstock, and Joliet in Illinois . Other locations included O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and Toronto, Ontario in Canada . Prison Break spent $2 million per episode in the state of Illinois, which cost them a total of $24 million in 2005 . </P> <P> Metacritic gave the season a Metascore--a weighted average based on the impressions of a select 32 critical reviews--of 65, signifying generally favorable reviews . Based on its strong opening, The New York Times dubbed Prison Break "more intriguing than most of the new network series, and...one of the most original" and a "suspenseful thriller", complimenting its "authentic look". Entertainment Weekly called it an "original drama", noting the show's "edge - of - the - seat action". On the other hand, however, The Washington Post criticized the show for its "somber pretentiousness" and "uniformly overwrought (performances)". </P>

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