Wade Williams plays Brad Bellick, the head of the correctional officers, as a man who has become the prison. Bellick is not a sadist for fun; he is a sadist for profit. He runs the PO (Peace Officers) like a protection racket, extorting inmates and their families.
" I know," Michael said, his eyes glinting in the dim light. "But to get out of here, we have to become the snakes."
C-Note narrowed his eyes. "Everyone is scared in Fox River. The ones who ain't scared are the crazy ones. And the crazy ones... they get you killed."
At the heart of the show is the unbreakable bond between the two brothers, driven by a "healthy slab of guilt" and absolute loyalty.
No discussion of Prison Break is complete without Robert Knepper’s legendary performance as T-Bag. He is the white-hot id of the show. A racist, pedophile, and cannibalistic killer, T-Bag should be irredeemably repulsive. Yet, Knepper injects him with a Southern Gothic charm and a horrifying vulnerability that makes him impossible to ignore.