Daniel Hale

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Prison Break character
Daniel Hale
Role(s):	Secret Service agent
Current status:	Deceased
Family:	Allison Hale (wife)
Appearances
First appearance:	S1E01
Last appearance:	S1E16
Season:	1
Portrayed by:	Danny McCarthy

Agent Daniel Hale, played by Danny McCarthy, is a fictional character from the American television series, Prison Break. Hale was introduced as a Secret Service agent in the pilot episode of the series, serving under the Vice President of the United States.

Agent Hale joined the Secret Service after having resigned from the F.B.I.'s Counterterrorism Unit. He was then assigned to Vice President Carolyn Reynold's detail. Previously, he had graduated from West Point Academy, where he met Paul Kellerman (played by Paul Adelstein). Hale's friendship with Kellerman, who was already serving Reynolds, was the primary reason behind his transfer to work for the Vice President. He and Kellerman soon became deeply entangled in the conspiracy that framed Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell) for murder. Officially, he is no longer listed as a member of the Secret Service or even as an employee of the Federal Government. At 22, he married his wife Allison, who he had two children with.

[edit] Appearances

The character of Daniel Hale was first introduced in the show's pilot episode as Kellerman's nervous partner. A relatively minor character, he nevertheless appeared in almost all of the first 13 episodes of the first season.

[edit] Season 1

Hale agreed to participate in the plot to frame an innocent man for murder, convincing himself that he was acting in the best interest of the country. He grew increasingly disillusioned when several innocent people were being killed to cover up the plot and the Vice President ordered the two agents to kill anyone that got in the way. This culminated in the murder of Lisa and Adrian Rix, two people killed only because of their connection to Burrows. When Hale later expressed doubt to Kellerman over how far things had gone Kellerman warned Hale not to question the conspiracy, threathening Hale's life if he did not obey. A few days later, Hale was stakeing out Lisa Rix's funeral to find her son, who he had orders from Kellerman to eliminate. However, overcome with guilt and doubt, Hale could not bring himself to kill L.J. Burrows when the boy arrived. Instead he called Veronica Donovan, offering to reveal the entire conspiracy. He then planned to leave the country with his family, admitting to his wife that he was in trouble.

Hale met Veronica the next day. He was about to give her a three page dossier on the entire conspiracy when he had Veronica hide behind a car, because Kellerman suddenly showed up. Fighting back tears, Hale begged Kellerman for his life, reminding him of their long friendship together. But upon finding the dossier and learning that Hale had also named him in the conspiracy, Kellerman shot and killed Hale. Before Kellerman showed up, Hale had revealed to Veronica that the man Lincoln had been convicted of murdering was actually still alive, a lead which Veronica continued to follow after Hale's death.

Hale's last appearance was in the episode Brother's Keeper, a flashback episode to three years earlier when Lincoln Burrows was first framed.

[edit] External links

• Agent Hale's biography at Fox.com

Prison Break characters v • d • e
Main characters
John Abruzzi | Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell | Brad Bellick | Lincoln Burrows | L. J. Burrows | Veronica Donovan Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin | Paul Kellerman | Alexander Mahone | Michael Scofield | Fernando Sucre | Sara Tancredi
Secondary characters
David "Tweener" Apolskis | Hector Avila | Aldo Burrows | Maricruz Delgado | Roy Geary | Daniel Hale | William Kim | Charles "Haywire" Patoshik | Henry Pope Caroline Reynolds | Manche Sanchez | Nick Savrinn | Terrence Steadman | Frank Tancredi | Nika Volek | Charles Westmoreland
List of Prison Break characters | List of Prison Break minor characters