
Afterwards, Michael and Lincoln both traveled in and out of different foster home situations. ( 1x5, 1x16)įollowing the death of his mother, he and Lincoln moved in with the family of Lincoln's friend, Veronica Donovan.

This became one of Michael's reasons for hatching an escape plan to help his brother. However, Lincoln worked hard to prevent Michael from taking his own path and suffering the same fate. Having lost both their parents, Lincoln descended into a deep life of crime. Lincoln became his guardian and tried his best to take care of him. ( 1x4) When Michael was 11 and Lincoln, his older brother, was 15, their mother (then aged 31) supposedly died of a brain aneurysm brought on by a brain tumor (she is later found to be alive), though it was initially thought to be liver cancer. After his father, Aldo Burrows, deserted the family before his birth, Michael took up his mother's maiden name as his own surname in order to start a new life because she told him that his father was an alcoholic and drug user (which was later proved untrue). He obtained a jail sentence by robbing a bank in order to be incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary himself. When his older brother, Lincoln Burrows, was sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, Michael created an elaborate plan to break him out. Scofield is the main protagonist and principal character of the series. Incarcerated in: Fox River, Sona, Ogygia Prison Superstar, Waterboy, Engineer (by Lechero)
