58 Facts About Alexander Mahone

Alexander "Alex" Mahone is a fictional character portrayed by William Fichtner in the American television series Prison Break.

Alexander Mahone is later arrested in Panama and imprisoned in Penitenciaria Federal de Sona in the second-season finale.

Alexander Mahone manages to escape, and is coerced into taking down the Company, a secret group of multinationals which exerts an influence on the White House.

An assassin is hired by the Company to murder his son, and Alexander Mahone spends the majority of season four seeking revenge.

Alexander Mahone was born at Boardman, Ohio into an abusive family, and was repeatedly beaten by his father.

Alexander Mahone married a woman named Pamela and they had a son, Cameron.

Alexander Mahone is plagued with visions of Shales, which cause him to self-medicate with prescription drugs.

Alexander Mahone continues to pursue Michael and his brother Lincoln Burrows, who are able to avoid him on several occasions.

When he returns to his office, Alexander Mahone is questioned by Internal Affairs Agent Richard Sullins about their suspicious deaths.

Kellerman threatens to reveal that Alexander Mahone killed Shales, and forces him to kill all the escapees in exchange for his silence.

Alexander Mahone continues his hunt for the remaining six escapees but is betrayed and shot by Kellerman, who transfers his allegiance to the brothers.

Alexander Mahone 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.

When Charles "Haywire" Patoshik murders a civilian, Alexander Mahone asks Brad Bellick to help him find Haywire.

C-Note is taken to jail, and Alexander Mahone tells him to commit suicide in order to guarantee the protection of his family.

Alexander Mahone's sanity begins to unravel from his determination to catch Michael and Lincoln, and from his benzodiazepine addiction.

Alexander Mahone captures Lincoln and contacts Michael, ordering him to surrender Charles Westmoreland's five million dollars and his boat, the Christina Rose.

Alexander Mahone is taken to Sona along with Michael, Bellick and Fox River escapee Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell.

Michael refuses to work with him, angry because Alexander Mahone killed his father.

Alexander Mahone begins to suffer from drug withdrawal and is informed by his state-appointed lawyer that his trial is almost a full year away.

Alexander Mahone deduces that Michael is planning to break Whistler out of the prison, and Michael eventually agrees to let him join the escape.

Agent Lang visits Alexander 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, or multiple homicide charges if he does not cooperate.

Alexander Mahone eventually accepts the offer and confesses to Lang that he killed Shales, and that guilt made him turn to drugs.

Alexander Mahone is informed that their escape route is almost complete, and that they will break out of Sona that night.

Alexander Mahone takes advantage of the situation and flees, eventually making his way to a bar.

Alexander Mahone is approached by Whistler, who offers him a job in the Company with him and operative Gretchen Morgan.

Alexander Mahone warns Whistler that Gretchen is the "weak link", and that Michael will eventually hunt them down if Gretchen has indeed killed Sara.

Alexander Mahone accepts Whistler's offer to work for the Company, although the group is secretly working with Homeland Security to destroy the Company, focusing their attention on a card, which contains information on all of the Company's agents and operations.

Alexander Mahone returns to his family home to find his son has been murdered and since he is a wanted criminal, he is arrested by the police.

Alexander Mahone is contacted by Agent Don Self, a Homeland Security agent who was working with Whistler to take down the Company.

Alexander Mahone offers Mahone freedom if he joins an unofficial operation to recover Scylla from the Company.

Alexander Mahone accepts, learning that other members of the operation are Michael, Lincoln, Sara, Bellick, Sucre and computer hacker and identity thief Roland Glenn.

The group continues to look for the other cards, while Alexander Mahone asks Lang to find out who killed his son.

Alexander Mahone obtains a picture of Wyatt and meets with his estranged wife Pam, who makes him promise to hunt down and kill Wyatt.

Alexander Mahone later saves Lincoln from being assassinated by one of Christina's snipers.

Alexander Mahone identifies one of the people who have connections with Christina, Vincent Sandinsky.

Alexander Mahone and the team track a car rental slip and after more digging, eventually find the car outside the energy conference; they realize it is a set-up.

The brothers tell Alexander Mahone to go to the apartment where Sara is holding Christina hostage, and make Christina talk by any means necessary.

Alexander Mahone goes to the apartment, finding only Sara tied up and gagged; he unties Sara and heads back to the loft, where the General and T-Bag are.

Alexander Mahone has a bomb in Scylla which is large enough to kill Christina and her man, Downey.

Christina has Alexander Mahone put in the same room Lincoln is in, moving Lincoln to the other side of the room.

Sara and Alexander Mahone go into the hospital, and Alexander Mahone is arrested by Federal agents.

Alexander Mahone is later freed and exonerated when Michael delivers Scylla to Kellerman.

Alexander Mahone is offered his old job back with the FBI if he agrees to give them credible information that leads to proof of Michael's plans.

Alexander Mahone gives up the blind spot in the cameras that Michael had found, which the FBI fixes and then demands more information from Alexander Mahone.

Alexander Mahone eventually decides not to turn his back on Michael but instead to use the connection to his advantage.

Alexander Mahone informs the FBI that Michael is going to parachute into the prison, and when a dummy is parachuted into the prison Michael has enough of a distraction to break Sara out.

Once Sara has escaped safely, Alexander Mahone gives her and Lincoln a tape from Michael that explained why he sacrificed himself for Sara.

Alexander Mahone's absence is somewhat explained in the final episode of the revival; in which Michael Scofield recounts to Theodore Bagwell how their mutual enemy Poseidon had been monitoring Michael's communications with anyone he believed could be a resource or ally.

Alexander Mahone is depicted as an intelligent FBI agent with "an amazingly sharp mind", quickly discovering the secret of Michael's tattoos and his plans.

Alexander Mahone is not a straightforward character, and his past is revealed as the series progresses.

Alexander Mahone's anxiety is evident when he reaches for the varatril pills hidden inside his pen.

When one of Lechero's men attempts to stab Michael at the beginning of season three, Alexander Mahone stops him and breaks his neck in seconds.

Alexander Mahone is the only one T-Bag believed could kill Sammy, but when the tunnel crumbles on top of Sammy Mahone rapidly masters his men.

In season four when Christina Rose orders her bodyguard to kill Alexander Mahone, he beats both of them down within seconds.

The character of Alexander Mahone was not in the original plan of the Prison Break staff writers for the second season.

Alexander Mahone was signed on to appear for a further two seasons, after being convinced by Olmstead to appear in a fourth one.

Alexander Mahone is often referred to by critics as Michael's nemesis.

Rawson-Jones felt that Alexander Mahone had turned into a "gibbering, sweating wreck most of the time", with only "occasional glimpses" of his brilliance.