In Sona, nothing is given freely; everything is a transaction. Michael requires help from various factions (Lechero, the prisoner "T-Bag," Mahone, and the innocent inmate "Whistler"). He must navigate competing agendas. The theme of "who can you trust?" is amplified because the players are all sharks.
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Sona is a character in its own right. Filmed with a yellow, desaturated filter that evokes heat, sweat, and decay, the prison is a former military fortress turned into a cage of the damned. Unlike the orderly, if corrupt, system of Fox River, Sona is pure anarchy. The inmates live in a state of nature, ruled by a brutal hierarchy. At the top is Lechero (Robert Wisdom), a former drug lord who governs from a makeshift throne, surrounded by lieutenants and supplied with electricity and luxuries via a corrupt network of guards outside.
In the pantheon of Prison Break seasons, Season 3 sits as the strange, violent middle child. It is not as iconic as Season 1 or as epic in scope as Season 2. But it is the season where the show’s mythology hardened. It proved that Prison Break was never really about the blueprints or the tattoos. It was about the unbreakable, and often destructive, bond between two brothers. And in that sweltering, lawless prison, that bond was tested to its absolute limit.
Meanwhile, a new character, Brad Bellick (played by Wade Rollins), is introduced as the new lead guard at the fictional 'Sona' Penitentiary in Panama, where some of the escapees are being held.
The end of Season 2 left our heroes in a precarious state. Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and his brother Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) had finally achieved their goal: Lincoln was exonerated, and the nefarious Company was seemingly exposed. But in a cruel twist worthy of Greek tragedy, their freedom was snatched away. The Company, still very much operational, captured Michael’s love, Dr. Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), and Lincoln’s son, LJ (Marshall Allman). The ransom? Break a notorious gangster named James Whistler (Chris Vance) out of Sona, a nightmarish prison in Panama where the inmates run the asylum and the guards only prevent escapes from the outside.
