'Prison Break' Resurrecting Dr. Sara?

Sarah Wayne Callies to Return for Season 4

Posted: 2008-03-27 18:40:55

Filed Under: TV News

(March 27) -- Don't lose your heads, "Prison Break" fans, but actress Sarah Wayne Callies will be reprising her role as Dr. Sara Tancredi on the upcoming fourth season of the Fox drama.

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Although her character was thought to have been beheaded early in Season 3, Callies will return as a series regular this fall, according to TVGuide.com.

Dr. Sara Tancredi, the love interest to Wentworth Miller's Michael, was killed off after a contract dispute led to the then-pregnant Callies being written off the show.

As for how it's possible that Dr. Sara is still alive, executive producer Max Olmstead had this to say: "Once we realized that the emotional hook of Season 3 was going to be the death of Sara, when we didn't get the actress to do it, as soon as we wrote it and shot it, we realized that there was actually a way she could still be alive. Lincoln glanced at the head in the box for a split second. That could've been anyone."

As a result, Season 4 will find Sara very much alive, though a little worse for the wear. The action will jump forward about a month, with flashbacks revealing what has transpired in the interim.

And, for fans itching to know whether Michael and Sara will finally consummate their love, Olmstead offers hope. "Yes! They are finally together," Olmstead tells E! Online. "There's no physical barriers anymore between them, but they're both pretty banged up when they see each other, and it's about how they get past that to really find that real intimacy."

2008-03-27 18:40:55

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