<P> Two episodes later, Sara returns in "The Message". She reunites with Michael in Evansville, Indiana in "Chicago". Together with the brothers, Sara travels to Chicago where her father has hidden the audio file that can help prove Lincoln's innocence . On the train to Chicago, Sara admits to Michael that she has fallen in love with him, and they kiss . Later in the episode, Michael admits he has fallen in love with her . Michael, Sara and Lincoln eventually retrieve the audio file but discover that it's not legally valid as evidence . They decide to use it to blackmail President Reynolds for a presidential pardon instead . When this fails, Michael and Lincoln are forced to leave the country . When Sara realizes she is being tailed by the FBI, she surrenders herself in order to let the brothers escape . Sara is then faced with a 12 - year prison sentence but as she is about to plead guilty, Kellerman comes forward to testify on her behalf . His testimony exonerates Sara and Lincoln in "Sona", and Sara reunites with the brothers in Panama and tells them of the news . However, when Agent Kim suddenly appears and tries to kill Lincoln and capture Michael, Sara shoots Kim in the chest . With nowhere to run, Michael and Sara surrender themselves to the Panamanian police but to Sara's surprise, Michael confesses to Kim's killing instead of her . She is last seen in a crowd by Lincoln . </P> <P> In this season, standbys are used to portray the character, including Katie A. Keane in the photographs for the episode "Call Waiting". She is revealed to have been kidnapped by The Company, and is said in "Good Fences" to have been murdered in response to a failed rescue attempt . She was decapitated and her head was sent to Lincoln Burrows in a box . Michael swears to avenge her death . </P> <P> In Season 4, Sara's death is retconned and she returns as a main cast member for all 24 episodes . After Gretchen reveals to Michael in the season premiere that Sara's death was faked, Michael contacts Bruce Bennett, the former aide of Governor Tancredi (Sara's father) and asks him for help tracking down Sara . The two are reunited later in the episode . Much of Sara's plotline in the fourth season focuses on the character processing what happened to her in Panama and making a new life with Michael . After they are tracked down by the Company hitman Wyatt, Sara escapes with Michael and Lincoln and accompanies them as they strike a deal with, they must get their hands on Scylla, The Company's little black book . Sara joins the rest of team as they work to copy the cards, such as in "Breaking and Entering" where she slips, most notably in "Eagles and Angels" where Sara is informed that Bruce Bennett was found dead and goes out to a bar . She manages not to drink, and instead tells the bartender stories from her childhood and the importance Bruce had for her . In the next episode, she realizes that Wyatt is following her back from the bar and manages to lose him . In "Five the Hard Way" Sara's character takes part in holding the general's daughter, Lisa, hostage . The team is then betrayed by Self, who takes Scylla for himself to sell it to a buyer . Other homeland security agents chase after them to arrest them for the murder of Trishanne and Self (Self murdered Trishanne, faked his own death and framed the Scylla team for all of it). Michael offers Sara and Sucre to take a bus back to Chicago, although they decided to stay and help . In the next episode, Sara finds it increasingly difficult to watch as Michael neglects his health to continue chasing after Scylla . Sara urges him to get medical attention, but he resists despite her insistence, and refuses to have the necessary operation until Scylla has been acquired . She is forced to provide temporary relief from his condition through a series of injections . However she warns him that he is developing a tolerance, and that they are no substitute for proper medical attention . Nevertheless, Sara helps the team to track down Gretchen and Self . Despite their best efforts, they are unsuccessful and lose both the missing piece of Scylla, and Michael, who is captured by The Company at the end of "Just Business". </P> <P> In the last third of the season, Sara becomes Michael's only remaining ally, as Lincoln makes a deal with The Company to get Scylla back in exchange for Michael's surgery . Michael refuses to accept this deal, and escapes from The Company's clutches after the surgery with Sara's help . The plot of the next few episodes see Michael and Lincoln's teams working against each other to acquire Scylla . Sara's character gives critical help to Michael, such as distracting a guard at the airport where they capture Vincent Sandinsky, a scientist that appears to have ties to The Company . Sara also attempts to comfort Michael after he learns that his mother, Christina Rose Scofield, is still alive and a Company operative and the buyer of Scylla . In the same episode it is revealed that Sara is pregnant with Michael's child . In "Cowboys and Indians", Michael and Lincoln put their differences aside and work together to steal Scylla from Christina . Meanwhile, Sara is kidnapped by The Company to hold Michael at ransom . In this and the next episode "Rate of Exchange", Sara shares screen - time with T - Bag for the first time . She is almost raped by him, but is rescued by Michael at the last minute . In the series finale, they hand Scylla over to the UN and are all exonerated . Their happiness is short - lived when it is revealed that Michael's tumor is back . In the epilogue of the series set four years later, Sara is shown living in Panama with her son, Michael Scofield Jr. (presumably she is forced to relocate there after her escape from prison as documented in the Final Break). She then appears at Michael's grave with her son at the reunion of many of the series' principal characters - Lincoln, Mahone and Sucre . She lays flowers on Michael's grave and the series ends with all the characters walking towards the seaside in the sun . </P>

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