It looks like the series is taking a radical new spin heading into its third season, although it would obviously have to in order to keep moving. I would have preferred a sweet clean break after two seasons with the bad guys locked up or dead and the good guys sailing into the Caribbean, but Fox's greed trumps creative considerations.

However, there's no denying that the series left us some intriguing cliffhangers:

• Mahone and Scofield as potential cellies? Whaddaya wanna bet these two end up reluctantly teaming up to escape captivity?
• What's going on with the military experiment? Is Scofield...a robot?? (OK, not likely, but I can't even guess where this story twist is heading)
• A naked, shattered Bellick (not that the guy doesn't deserve some cruelty, but the actor has been excellent at engendering sympathy beneath the bullying)
• "It's in his blood?" Was Tony Denison a master escape artist? Or is Scofield...a genetically enhanced cyborg?? (OK, the last time I bring that up)
• The redemption of Paul Kellerman. I think this is one of the series' most interesting features, and I thought Kellerman's actions in the last two episodes were perfectly played. But is he really dead?

Stepping into the shoes of past honorees Andrew Shue and Chuck Norris is Dominic Purcell, unquestionably the Worst Actor With a Regular Gig on a Network TV Drama. I did enjoy his bit where he tsk-tsked Mahone during his phone call to the ex-wife.

BTW, even though it won't happen, just like it didn't after his amazing work on the cancelled INVASION the season before, William Fichtner deserves an Emmy nod. Consistently top-quality performances all year, even though his character is probably too complex for its own good at times. He's a murderer and a blackmail victim and a drug addict and a lonely ex-husband and an obsessed lawman and a desperate Everyman and a super deductive genius...but how could you not sympathize with the guy when he made his final phone call to his ex-wife?

Looking forward to Season 3? I preferred Season 2 to the entertaining Season 1, and Fox is obviously spending big bucks on this series, considering all the locations (Texas, Louisiana, Florida) and the large cast.

The idea of floating in the sea thinking about what to do with your money while making out with Sarah Wayne Callies is so appealing that I was kind of rooting for it to happen but to give the story a clean break would have been suicidal. Particularly since I hear they are planning to do one more season. Here's hoping they'll have the common sense (at Fox?) not to drag this exasperatingly enjoyable series out to the point where it becomes hard to swallow. (Panamanian prison gang rape pun not intended)

I was impressed by the low-level Panamanian drug dealer having some sort of wireless internet connection on their boat.

How did the Asian guy locate Michael's new boat?

I think Kellerman is alive.

He followed the brothers, I guess. We saw him stumble out of the warehouse just after they did. Plus, he has a knack for showing up like that!

I don't see how he could be, considering the number of bullets the assasins pumped into that tiny truck area (kinda excessive just to kill one guard, doncha think?), but I think the producers left it ambiguous on purpose. Paul Adelstein has a regular gig on the new GREY'S ANATOMY spinoff, so he won't be available in the fall, but if his show gets cancelled, maybe they'll bring him back.

Scofield, Mahone, Bellick & Bagwell.....next season's escape team!

I agree that Fichtner is first class and really helped make the season. Adelstein too.

Scofield is obviously some kind of secret military lab rat and these prison escapes are elaborate experiments. As Scofield is escorted into the Panamanian prison you get a glimpse of the entry sign, the last word of which was SONA. That also happened to the name of the government file glimpsed in an earlier episode.