When Season 5 begins, the brick-faced criminal with a soft inner core no longer has the makeshift family that kept him going during his most hectic days, so Lincoln has to look backwards.
Because everything changed for Lincoln after Season 4’s feature-length finale, in which Wentworth Miller’s Michael Scofield was (supposedly) killed off by sacrificing himself for Sara to live.
It’s impossible to picture anyone but Dominic Purcell in the role of Lincoln Burrows, and it’s brilliant the way the video above directly juxtaposes the actor talking about the role back in 2005, when Lincoln was wrongfully sentenced to death for the (non) murder of the Veep’s brother Tim Steadman, and Purcell talking about the role twelve years later.