Prison Break it is that labyrinth of deception, private justice, emotions and a sense of morality shaped in a sneaky and bloody context.
The intelligence and generosity ofengineer Scofieldthe ruthlessness and pride of the boss John Abruzzithe corrupted mind and its predisposition to deception snake Of T-BagPrison Break can boast very valid characters, even sublime in some cases.
Today we will talk about an extraordinary character, Alex Mahone, the ruthless and obsessive face of the FBI. The sad and cynical look of the great actor William Fichtner, the one who provides an actor’s performance that remains among the best in the serial panorama. Anyone who has seen Prison Break he knows it is. The Italian voice of Mahone is lent by Luca Wardyet another sumptuous result.
Alex Mahone appears at the moment when Prison Break, according to many, begins to decline (in the opinion of the writer, a too categorical and hasty judgment). The entrance on stage oftormented and paranoid agent takes place in the second season. Yet after that ingenious escape plan, cursed and revisited day after day which is the core of the first season, Prison Break has continued to guarantee excellent standards. The presentation to the viewer of the inscrutable Mahone turns out to be spot on in this sense.
Catapulting a cumbersome and enigmatic character like Mahone into the intricate plot and adrenaline-pumping action was undoubtedly a very successful operation.
Alex Mahone presents itself to the public with a brilliant press conference in which the hunt for the ‘eight of Fox River’. Scofield and company soon realize they’re being tracked down by a purebred mastiff. The initial episodes place the figure of Mahone under an aura of infallibility and control: an agent shrewd, insightful and resolute which exalts itself in fire of battle.
The boss John Abruzzi gets trapped by his own urge to blind vengeance and Alex is ready to take advantage of it, agent Bellick is unleashed on the trail of the less cunning escapees and Alex reflects part of his existential weight on the deranged Haywire Patoshik pushing it to suicide of freedom. The young and unfortunate Tweener Apolskis, is shot dead by an increasingly cynical and resolute Mahone. The circle of eight of Fox River it shrinks more and more.
But Scofield will discover Alex’s secret. That corpse of a serial rapist, who escaped the agent numerous times, that harrowing search for a maniac that made Alex a cynical and paranoid agent. The relationship will change, enmity will inevitably have to change into partnership. Mutual esteem can no longer be repressed, e Michael ed Alex they will be the fulcrum of the fight against the Company.
Alex Mahone lives a personal hell, he pays Dante’s law of retaliation on earth. A man imprisoned and blackmailed by Company that hunts free men, the symbiosis of the antipodic roles of guard and thief, hunter and prey. Complementary and specular figures that will attract each other more and more (example the case of Heat-The Challenge, in which Fichtner himself recites), ending up overlapping.
In fact, the third season will see Mahone himself sharing that open-air prison enclosed by a violent and primitive space with some of the famous eight escapees.
That Hell with sick stadium screams, that survival ring that responds to the Panamanian prison of Sona.
Before taking the defense of Scofield, Mahone remains for a very few episodes in the Ignavi’s Antinferno, in the unresolved reticence of a choice. Mahone was betrayed by the Company, Mahone is in Sona prison, for the umpteenth time stroke of genius by Michael Scofield. A man who throughout his life has always been something: the ungrateful title that Dante attaches to ‘the sad soul of those who will live without infamy and without praise‘ it certainly does not belong to dear Mahone. It’s just a gray phase, mostly momentary, that will serve him to embrace the light again after the dark.
The Mind of Escape and the Mind of Capture have the same goal: to break out of Sona and destroy the Fellowship. The symbiosis of two different souls blossoms and evolves in the reciprocity of a purpose.
Nell’ antipodic symbiosis between guard and fugitive, developed from the hellish detention in Sona, Michael and Alex will reap mutual benefit. Michael’s cold lucidity will marry Mahone’s rancor and explosiveness. Alex is a man on the path to redemption for his soul, and a father seeking vengeance for his son, killed by Wyatt after Sona’s experience. From dichotomy and rivalry, to union and indissoluble combination. The relationship between Mahone and Scofield is one of Paul T-Scheuring’s best ideas.
It’s simply impossible not to root for this character.
If T-Bag is a prisoner of his identity, if Michael and Burrows are victims of the Company’s machinations, Mahone is the victim of his actions, rather than his choices. An ambiguous, insidious and paradoxical concept that allows you to empathize with this character. Alexander Mahone before a sentient being was a veritable tool of repression subjected to the underhanded orders and underhanded machinations of the Company.
