Prison Break : don't lose your head in a crisis!

By Paul Cole on Jul 9, 08 04:43 PM

Last seen decapitated and with her head in a box, Doctor Sara Tancredi is alive and well.

What's more she's the star turn when Prison Break returns for series four this Summer.

And she may not be the only character back from the dead ...

Actress Sarah Wayne Callies has been filming with Wentworth Miller et al after resolving the ugly contract dispute that led to her non-appearance in series three.

(Apart from the head in the box, that is)

Executive producer Matt Olmstead says that it wasn't actually Sara in there, but a good lookalike chosen by the Company to pile the pressure on Michael and Lincoln.

"Lincoln glanced at the head in the box for a split second. That could've been anyone. He wasn't about to pull it up from the hair and inspect it closely," says Matt.

So yes, it's a con. Bobby Ewing's shower scene in Dallas springs to mind.

But it doesn't end there. Word is that FBI agent Paul Kellerman (played by Paul Adelstein) is in line for a return to action as well.

We never actually saw him die after those gunmen held up his prison truck. There was a burst of gunfire - but who's to say they weren't there to spring him instead?

Season four apparently starts a month or so after the events of Sona, and the first thing we see is Michael dressed up to the nines at a posh party, spying on Whistler.

Soon afterwards Sara turns up, and her story is told in flashback (have they been watching too many episodes of Lost? Dead people don't stay dead there, either).

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On the trail of the team (and we're betting T-Bag, Sucre and Ballick soon get sprung from Sona) is hotshot assassin Wyatt, played by ER and Gray's Anatomy star Cress Williams.

But there's surprise help from an old FBI pal of Kellerman.