Alexander Mahone

Alexander Mahone
Prison Break character
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William Fichtner as Agent Alexander Mahone
First appearance "Manhunt"
Last appearance The Final Break
Portrayed by William Fichtner
Information
Aliases Alex
Frank Zwan (S4E06)
Bruce Liberace (S4E16)
Occupation FBI Special Agent
The Company employee
Family Cameron (son, deceased)
Felicia Lang (love interest)
Spouse(s) Pam Mahone (ex-wife)

Alexander "Alex" Mahone is a fictional character portrayed by William Fichtner in the American television series Prison Break. The series revolves around two brothers: one who has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and his younger sibling, a genius who devises an elaborate plan to help him escape prison. Mahone is introduced in the premiere of the second season as a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, specializing in manhunts for escaped prisoners for 14 years.[1]

When the protagonist of the series, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), successfully orchestrates the escape of eight prisoners from Fox River State Penitentiary, Mahone is assigned to spearhead the task force assembled to recapture the fugitives. Mahone hunts the escapees and manages to successfully capture four of them; however, he is arrested in Panama and imprisoned in Penitenciaría Federal de Sona in the second season finale. Mahone manages to escape from the prison, and is coerced into taking down The Company, a secret group of multinationals which exerts an influence on the White House.[2] An assassin is hired by The Company to murder his son, and Mahone spends the majority of season four trying to seek revenge.

The writers created Mahone's character in the second season so that there would be a fugitive pursuer who was not corrupt. When the writers realized the increasing amount of antagonists, they decided to make him the flip side of Scofield. The writers try to let Mahone inhabit a gray area, and constantly shift the audience's sympathy for the character. Fichtner was cast as Mahone just one day before filming began for the second season, attracted to the potential of the character. Fichtner signed on to appear for only two seasons, but was convinced to appear in a final third one.

Contents

Arc

Background

Mahone is born into an abusive family, in Boardman Ohio, repeatedly beaten by his father. After joining the military, Mahone is transferred to the Gulf War Special Ops and later becomes an FBI agent. The nature of his quick advancement is questioned, and many of his files are classified.[3] Mahone marries a woman named Pamela (Callie Thorne), and together they have a son, Cameron. The marriage lasts for 15 years, until Mahone abrubtly ends it without explanation, ordering his family out of the house. Prior to the separation with his wife, Mahone pursues Oscar Shales, a murderer whom he struggles to capture. It is revealed that Mahone killed Shales and buried the body in his backyard. Fearful that his wife would discover his secret, he cut her out of his life. Mahone becomes plagued by visions of Shales, causing him to take strong medications.[4]

Season 2

After eight prisoners escape from Fox River State Penitentiary, Mahone leads the investigation to capture them. While reviewing their files, Mahone decides to concentrate his efforts on Michael Scofield, who masterminded the breakout. He tracks the escapees to Oswego, Illinois, however they manage to escape.[5] Mahone continues to pursue Michael and his brother Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), who are able to avoid him on several occasions. While investigating a car explosion, Mahone is shown to have a drug problem, swallowing pills concealed in a pen.[6] Mahone eventually tracks down John Abruzzi (Peter Stormare) and David "Tweener" Apolskis (Lane Garrison). Mahone orders his men to shoot Abruzzi to death when he fails to surrender, and later murders Tweener in cold blood.[7][8] When he returns to his office, Mahone is questioned by Internal Affairs Agent Richard Sullins (Kim Coates) for their suspicious deaths. It is revealed that Mahone is being blackmailed by Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein), a Secret Service agent forced to work for The Company. Kellerman threatens to reveal that Mahone killed Shales, and forces him to kill all the escapees in exchange for his silence. Although hesitant, Mahone agrees when an operative from The Company, Agent Kim (Reggie Lee), threatens to murder his family.[3] Mahone continues his hunt for the remaining six escapees, but is betrayed and shot by Kellerman, who changes allegiances for the brothers'.[9] He survives and decides to stop chasing the escapees, but is forced to resume his search when his son is injured in a car accident orchestrated by one of Kim's agents. Before returning to work, he murders the agent who arranged the car accident.[10]

Mahone returns to his FBI field office, where he is informed by Agent Wheeler (Jason Davis) that Internal Affairs is investigating him. When Charles "Haywire" Patoshik (Silas Weir Mitchell) murders a civilian, Mahone asks Brad Bellick (Wade Williams), the ex-Captain of correctional officers at Fox River, to help him find Haywire. Bellick finds and chases Haywire up a grain mill, and Mahone climbs the mill and talks Haywire into killing himself.[11] Mahone's next target, Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin (Rockmond Dunbar) narrowly evades him, but C-Note soon offers to turn himself in, on the condition that his wife and child are taken care of.[12] C-Note is taken to jail, and Mahone tells him to commit suicide in order to guarantee the protection of his family.[13] C-Note attempts suicide, but is rescued by the guards. Sullins makes a deal with C-Note, and promises to release him if he testifies against Mahone.[14] Meanwhile, because he is unable to capture Michael, Mahone orders Agent Lang (Barbara Eve Harris) to follow Michael's girlfriend Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies).[15] Mahone's sanity starts to deteriorate from his determination to catch Michael and Lincoln and his benzodiazepine addiction. Michael and Lincoln travel to Panama, where Mahone lures them into a trap by impersonating their fellow escapee Fernando Sucre (Amaury Nolasco). He captures Lincoln and contacts Michael, ordering him to surrender Charles Westmoreland's (Muse Watson) five million dollars and his boat, Christina Rose.[16] Michael plants drugs in the Christina Rose, which he gives to Mahone. After an attempt to kill Kim, Mahone takes the boat and leaves, but is arrested after drug possession charges. Mahone is taken to Sona along with Michael, Bellick and Fox River escapee Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell (Robert Knepper).[17]

Season 3

Inside Sona, Mahone attempts to convince Michael to form a partnership. Michael refuses to work with him, angry that Mahone killed his father. Being among the new prisoners, Michael and Mahone are brought before Lechero (Robert Wisdom), a prisoner who governs Sona and its residents.[18] When Mahone learns about the bounty placed on fellow inmate James Whistler (Chris Vance), he manages to find him and deliver him to Lechero.[19] Mahone begins to suffer from withdrawal from his medication, and is informed by his state appointed lawyer that his trial is almost a full year away. When Whistler realizes that Michael is not entirely on his side, he forms an alliance with Mahone.[20] Mahone deduces that Michael is planning to break Whistler out of the prison, and Michael eventually agrees to let him join the escape. After he begins hallucinating Haywire, Mahone accepts heroin from T-Bag to calm himself.[21] Agent Lang visits Mahone and offers him a deal: eight years in a St. Louis prison in exchange for testifying against the government in the Lincoln Burrows conspiracy instead of multiple homicide charges if he does not cooperate.[22] Mahone eventually accepts the offer,[23] and confesses to Lang that he killed Shales and guilt made him turn to drugs. Unable to keep his composure during his testimony, Mahone's testimony is dismissed,[24] and Lang is forced to return Mahone to Sona.[25] Mahone, now rehabilitated, approaches Whistler and Michael and re-joins the escape.[26] Mahone is informed that their escape route, a tunnel leading to the edge of the prison, is almost complete, and that they will break out of Sona that night.[27] Michael, Whistler, Mahone and fellow inmate McGrady (Carlo Alban) manage to escape, however Lechero, T-Bag and Bellick are caught by the Sona guards. Lincoln wishes to shoot Mahone in revenge for killing his father, but Whistler escapes from Lincoln's custody and Lincoln is forced to chase after him. Mahone takes advantage of the situation and flees,[28] eventually making his way to a bar. Mahone is approached by Whistler, who offers him a job in The Company with him and operative Gretchen Morgan (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). Mahone warns Whistler that Gretchen is the "weak link", and that Michael will eventually hunt them down if Gretchen has indeed killed Sara.[29]

Season 4

Mahone accepts Whistler's offer and works for The Company with Whistler and Gretchen. However, the group is secretly working with Homeland Security to destroy The Company, focusing their attention on a card, codenamed "Scylla", which contains information on all The Company's agents and operations. Whistler finds the card, however he is killed by The Company's hitman, Wyatt (Cress Williams), who takes the card. Mahone returns to his family home to find his son has been murdered and, being a wanted criminal, he is arrested by the police. Mahone is contacted by Agent Don Self (Michael Rapaport), a Homeland Security agent who was working with Whistler to take down The Company. He offers Mahone freedom if he joins an unofficial operation to recover Scylla from The Company. Mahone accepts, and learns that other members of the operation are Michael, Lincoln, Sara, Bellick, Sucre,[30] and computer hacker and identity thief Roland Glenn (James Hiroyuki Liao). The group devises a plan to regain the card, which succeeds. However, they learn that Scylla is actually made up of six cards held by different members of The Company. The group continues to look for the other cards,[31] while Mahone asks Lang to find out who killed his son.[32] Mahone obtains a picture of Wyatt and meets with his estranged wife, Pam, who makes him promise to hunt down and kill Wyatt.[33] When Wyatt is captured, Mahone tortures him and forces him to apologize to his wife over the phone. He takes Wyatt to the ocean with a cinder block tied to his wrists, and drowns him.[34] The group manages to complete Scylla, and Lincoln absolves Mahone in his role in his father's death.[35] However, Self betrays the team and steals Scylla, forcing them to be fugitives once again. While the others hunt Self, Mahone meets with Lang and asks for help. Lang calls Wheeler to help Mahone; however, Wheeler lies to Mahone about a meeting with the Attorney General, and arrests him.[36] While transporting Mahone to the airport, Lang allows him to escape and lies to Wheeler about the direction he flees.[37] Mahone returns to help Lincoln, Self, T-Bag and Gretchen to retrieve Scylla. When Gretchen is shot while trying to double-cross the team, Mahone and the others leave her for the authorities.[38] After realizing Lincoln's mother, Christina Scofield took Scylla, he assists him in order to stop her, and retrieve Scylla, after the Company threatens him with a photo of Pam.[39] He later saves Lincoln from being assassinated by one of Christina's snipers. He identifies one of the people who has connections to Christina, Vincent Sandinsky. However, the team doesn't find any connections with him, and he believes his "story", that is in fact a lie.[40] They catch him on his lie, and after Krantz arrives to take charge, they interrogate Sandinsky and reveals some information on a hotel room. He and the team track a car rental slip and after more digging, eventually finds the car outside the energy conference, with their passports, realising it is some kind of set up. It is revealed that Christina is setting the team up for the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister's son, who was though to have brought Scylla. After the assassination of Naveen Banarjee Mahone and Self are outside the hotel on the Phone with Scofield and Burrows. The brothers tell Mahone to head to the apartment where Sara is holding Christina hostage & the brothers tell Mahone to make Christina talk by any means necessary. Mahone heads to the apartment but finds only Sara tied up he unties Sara and heads back to the loft where the General and T-bag are. Mahone Michael and Lincoln then head to a bank where they believe Christina is with Scylla. They enter the bank with masks on to avoid being recognized. They take Scylla and when they get outside a shoot-out begins. Mahone and Michael get away but Linc gets caught. In the next episode Mahone and Michael are the only ones left on the team. Linc and Sara are captured and Self is in the hospital. Mahone and Michael decide its time to bring the company down and save everyone. Mahone and Michael decide to go after Lincoln first. They set up a trap for Christina but the cops show up and one of Christina's guards are killed in an explosion set up by Michael meant for Christina. Later Michael gives Scylla to Mahone without the hard drive and has him save Lincoln while Michael goes after Sara. The Scylla device Mahone has a bomb in it big enough to kill Christina and her man Downey. Christina has Mahone put in the same room Linc is in and moves him to the other side of the room. When the bomb fails to detonate and Christina realizes there is something wrong with Scylla she calls out Mahone to check the device and threatens to kill him if he can't activate it. He then sets it up manually. Mahone beats on Christina and Downey and runs to the room where Lincoln is and the bomb goes off and blows up the room killing Downey and it seems to kill Christina but she survives. Michael and Sara come to pick up Lincoln and Mahone and head to another location where the hard drive of Scylla is. The remaining team then head to a hospital to get some supplies to treat Lincoln's gunshot wound. Sara and Mahone go into the hospital and Mahone gets arrested by Federal Agents. Mahone is later freed and exonerated when Michael delivers Scylla to Kellerman. In the series epilogue set 4 years later, Mahone with Lincoln, Sucre, Michael's kid and Sara went to visit Michael’s grave at a beach.[41]

Characteristics

Mahone is depicted as an intelligent FBI agent with "an amazingly sharp mind", quickly discovering the secret of Michael's tattoos and his plans.[42] His thoroughness and investigation skills allow him to extrapolate the fugitives' location, causing Michael to remark, "it's like he knows where we're going, what we're thinking."[6] Mahone has been described as "intellectually matched with Scofield", mainly in his ability to analyze and interpret his surroundings.[43] Craig Blanchard from the The San Diego Union-Tribune describes Michael as the "Brains of the Operation" and Mahone as his "'Arch nemesis', sort of his equal on the other side of the law".[44] Michael and Mahone have been described as "two sides of the same brilliant coin";[42] however, Mahone notes, "there's one big difference between you and I, Michael. And you just proved it. You can't kill. And that's what it's gonna take to stop me. Because I don't have the same reservations. I can."[45] His willingness to commit murder in order to preserve his life is shown when Michael asks if he would kill two innocent men to "get his life back", to which he replies, "absolutely".[9] Fichtner defends Mahone by saying that he "doesn't do everything he does because he wants to do it. He's not OK about it. It's going to start to come out."[46]

Mahone is not a straightforward character and his history is revealed as the series progresses. According to series' creator Paul Scheuring, the writers try to let all the characters in the show "inhabit a gray area".[47] Scheuring says that although Mahone's pursuit in the second season is very noble, "there are some things about him that we will learn that are slightly less than noble".[47] Fichtner tries to play the character with a soft side, and believes that those characterizing him as "a hard guy" are "missing what I'm trying to do".[48] Regarding the frequent intake of pills by Mahone, the series' executive producer and writer Matt Olmstead says:

Mahone has certain things in his past, as far as what he's done in the service of his country, things he's done around the world—he's starting to hear footsteps from all of that. It doesn't throw him off his game at all but the sum total of his life does begin to present itself.[49]

Mahone's anxiety is evident when he reaches for his midazolam pills hidden inside his pen. When Mahone runs out of his pills, he is shown to be highly tense and easily agitated.[50] Fichtner notes the erratic behavior of his character, commenting, "The more twisted the better! Who wants to play a straight-away FBI guy?"[51] He says that the actions that Mahone takes are affected by "some of the things that Mahone has in the back of his closet—and in the back of his mind, the voices he is hearing about his own life".[51] Andy Dehnart from MSNBC observes that Mahone "as played by William Fichtner, always seemed to be on the edge of a nervous breakdown".[43]

Although it isn't a major characteristic, Mahone is depicted as remarkably good at unarmed combat, probably due to his military background. It comes as a surprise as, when Lincoln attempts to kill him, he rapidly masters him and tries to choke him and Lincoln only manages to master him by squeezing his previous gunshot wound, only to get mastered again and have Mahone's gun on him. At the beginning of season 3 when one of Lechero's men attempts to stab Michael, Mahone stops him and breaks his neck within seconds. He is also the only one T-bag believed could kill Sammy but when the tunnel crumbles on top of Sammy Mahone rapidly masters his men. Finally, in season four, when Christina Rose orders her bodyguard to kill Mahone he beats both of them down within seconds.

Development

The character of Mahone was not in the original plan of the Prison Break staff writers for the second season. When the writers approached the Fox network with their plan of the second season, Fox Entertainment president Peter Liguori suggested to include a fugitive pursuer who was "not corrupt"; a character who is "like the Tommy Lee Jones character in The Fugitive".[49] Along with Paul Kellerman and Brad Bellick, Mahone became a fugitive hunter at the start of the second season. However, the writers were aware of the increasing amount of antagonists in the show, which led Olmstead to remark, "If there are too many people pursuing them, [the pursuers] are rendered inept because they're not all catching our convicts, and you can only have so many close calls."[49] The writers decided that the character of Mahone was to be a "very formidable" nemesis for the protagonists, and the "flip side of Michael Scofield".[49] Scheuring acknowledges the reference made between Mahone and Les Miserables' character, Inspector Javert, "He certainly is Javert to Michael's Valjean, but you can express it however you want. He's his nemesis."[47] One of the tricks used by the Prison Break writers is to constantly shift the sympathetic characters. Olmstead notes, "A white-hat character can be kind of boring".[46] Fichtner does not believe that Mahone is a "bad guy", rather he has "a lot of demons driving him".[46]

"The bottom line is, if I didn't really have a good time doing it, I wouldn't have come back for one more year."

William Fichtner on his return in the fourth season[48]

Fichtner was cast as Alexander Mahone one day before filming began for the second season.[52] After having acted in the previous year in the television series Invasion, Fichtner did not intend to return to network television.[51] When he was approached with the scripts of the first two episodes of the second season, Fichtner was uncertain about his character's background, but was attracted to "the potential of who this guy is".[47] Fichtner was given two days to decide whether he wanted to portray the character, and although he was unsure if the experience would be worthwhile, he later said that he was glad to have accepted the role.[47] Fichtner has praised the quality of writing on the series, saying "Television shows live or die on writing. The joy of Prison Break has been the writers. They're great and they forever challenged me, which makes the journey worth it."[53] However, Fichtner has also had several concerns with the scripts written for him, and talks to the writers to make sure that the character stays consistent. On at least one occasion, he has sat down with the writer and tweaked the whole script.[48]

Fichtner said that his role on Prison Break ended up being "a lot longer" than he had originally thought.[48] He was signed on to appear for a further two seasons after being convinced by Olmstead to appear in a third and final one. The series' move from Dallas to Los Angeles for filming was also an inducement for Fichtner, who previously had to leave his family for filming. When Olmstead asked Fichtner to return in the fourth season, his only request was to make it challenging by making his character's journey difficult. Fichtner believes that in Mahone's journey, "All of a sudden the blinders went up... And little by little, he's trying to make his way back."[48] He thinks that his character's journey should end with "something really out of the blue": "What if he totally loses it?"[48]

Reception

Mahone is often referred to by critics as Michael's arch nemesis.[42][44] Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette found Mahone to be "a far more worthy adversary for Michael than prison guard Brad Bellick... who's still after the convicts but seems like a cartoon compared to the Inspector Javert-like Mahone."[54] Jeff Comings from the Arizona Daily Star comments that "William Fichtner is going to be the best actor on any show this season. He's brooding, sexy, enigmatic and a little scary as the FBI man waiting for the clan to cross state lines and make this a federal case. Add in the reliance on those pills he's hiding in that pen and I think I smell Emmy!"[55] Brian Zoromski from IGN believes that the "strongest portions of 'Manhunt' deal with the introduction of a new character, an FBI agent named Alexander Mahone, played by the great character actor William Fichtner."[56]

Digital Spy's Ben Rawson-Jones praised the "wonderful" Fichtner, claiming he "quickly became more appealing than the brooding hero himself".[42] However, he did not enjoy Mahone's storyline in the third season. Rawson-Jones felt that Mahone had turned into a "gibbering, sweating wreck most of the time", with only "occasional glimpses" of his brilliance.[42] Robert Bianco of USA Today said that although Fichtner was a welcome addition to the cast, he could not compensate for the "harebrained absurdities that have swamped this show".[57] Dehnart called Mahone the best new character of the second season, but remarked that his ability to move from various locations in a short amount of time made him seem to possess "the power of teleportation".[43]

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