'Prison Break' season 5 release date, plot spoilers: Official trailer teases heart-stopping action; Fox show to premiere in early 2017

The release of the official "Prison Break" season 5 trailer last week has kept fans talking and anxiously waiting for more updates on Fox's revival of the hit serial drama.

It can be recalled that the last installment of the series, "Prison Break" season 4, concluded in 2009. Yet, even after all these years, many avid viewers had kept their hopes up that they would eventually see the return of Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and the rest of the gang to television. Now the recently released trailer has confirmed that Michael is very much alive and is incarcerated at a certain Moroccan prison.

"Prison Break" season 5 trailer begins with a scene depicting Michael's love interest Sara (Sarah Wayne Callies) and their son, who is wondering about the kind of father he has and if he would return. The next scene shows T-Bag (Robert Knepper) and Michael's brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell), where the former is handing Lincoln a photo of Michael in the prison.

Other scenes show a thrilling series of events that mainly focus on breaking Michael out of prison. Lincoln and Sara are seen meeting up and discussing how to get Michael out with the help of the crew, and Michael himself planning some strategies together with a few inmates.

Some interesting clips in the trailer indicate that the crew is planning to implement a city-wide blackout while other sequences show the brothers battling a number of opponents as they carry out their respective tasks. The two-minute trailer may be brief but is packed with enough gut-wrenching action to satisfy the series fans.

Meanwhile, it has been reported that Fox has decided to move the premiere of "Prison Break" season 5 to a later date to accommodate its new baseball drama, "Pitch." Fox announced on Friday, May 20 that it will launch the new show this fall on Thursdays as a replacement for "Bones." "Prison Break" was originally scheduled to follow "Bones" in its Thursday evening timeslot at midseason, but now it will be premiering in early 2017.