The casting of Hunnam helps make the case for this - the actor’s expressive face and brute-force charisma transmit everything Lin is feeling, notably the pull of temptation. “Drunk on whiskey and visions of my own redemption,” he tells us, “I’d forgotten what I really was - a fugitive, who needed to stay invisible.”Ī show in which a man on the lam goes into hiding, or at least tries to evade notice, might be an interesting one, but “Shantaram” is telling another, more complicated, story - Lin, who’d benefit from staying anonymous, can’t avoid calling attention to himself. And Lin’s confessions to the audience can have an expatriate headiness that becomes repetitious. There’s a certain ticking-clock element to Lin’s anticipation of danger that adds chewiness and tension to Bharat Nalluri’s able direction, although given the 12 hourlong episodes, one comes to wish “Shantaram’s” clock might tick a bit more rapidly.

Rooted in place by this sense of nascent romance and by a growing affection for the place and its people, Lin begins establishing a life, even while repeatedly telling us that he’s aware that his past - his identity as a wanted man and his knowledge that he’s being urgently sought by the authorities - makes all of this a holiday from reality.

Making his way out of an Australian penal institution in the pilot episode, Lin, a recovering heroin addict, seeks to disappear into a city of millions before, potentially, moving on, but is perpetually drawn toward an intriguing, possibly amoral woman named Karla (Antonia Desplat). It’s that dynamic that tends to frustrate over the course of a long season.īased on the novel by Gregory David Roberts and executive produced by Steve Lightfoot, “Shantaram” is set in the 1980s, in the wake of Lin’s prison break. Today known as Mumbai, the Indian metropolis is many things on “ Shantaram,” it’s the staging ground for a white fugitive to lose and find himself. Mahone calls Kim to fly over immediately.“Bombay felt exhilaratingly free, a place where everyone started new.” That’s Lin Ford, played by Charlie Hunnam, speaking to us in voice-over about the city where he hopes to begin again. Kellerman's self-incriminating testimony and documents he brings get all charges against Sarah and Lincoln dropped, him arrested. Only back at the yacht, Michael notices Lincoln is gone and calls him- Alex Mahone tells him Linc is no cold-blooded killer, so he was overpowered and hand-cuffed, and the ransom is the yacht and the fortune he assumes to be in it, to be agreed in five minutes, now Mahone is even more wanted then the brothers. A fire-cracker he pays a local boy to plant shows Michael Mahone's two plants on the plaza, but Bellick pulls his gun at him, accompanied by Fernando who denies sending the message- Schofield smells a trap and states their goals: money for Bellick, Maricruz for Sucre, T-bag for him, then reminds Fernando in private Maricruz is his. Linc finds Michael is gone from their Christina Rose yacht after receiving Sucre's message (also intercepted by Mahone, who thinks to have found his way out) scary scumbag T-bag is in Panama City's Fin del Camino hotel with the money.

Fernando grabs Bellick's gun while looking for T-bag, but he shows a crucifix to prove he has. In Mexico, Fernando Sucre has car trouble and gets a ride- from an Ixtapa airport security employee, who sees his wanted-poster just after they parted at the airport, so he must run with.Ī week later, an FBI big-whig offers C-note a lesser sentence for testimony against Mahone, even freedom and witness protection for his family- bingo.

Michael Schofield and Sara Tancredi fail to get the tape from the Corona de Oro cigar club in Chicago, where security was at the ready, and turn to former warden Henry Pope, a club member, but he wants to call the police, so Michael draws his gun and hands it over to prove his veracity Sarah convinces him to go in with her late fathers humidor key- he finds a computer memory stick. T-Bag tells Susan that they are passing through an 'adjustment period' in their lives when she tells him that she will have a guest called Patty Wallace, T-Bag welcomes Patty with a magnificent family brunch and. Caroline calls Kellerman and he tells that he is heading to Chicago by train, and she promises his life back, inclusive the chief of staff position. Kellerman tells that she has a key of a private cigar club in Chicago.

Prison break all seasons kickass