Fernando Sucre, played by
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, is a
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from the
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television series,
Prison BreakPrison Break is a drama television series created by Paul Scheuring, which premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company on August 29, 2005. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an elaborate plan to help his...
. He is introduced to the series in the
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episode as the prison cellmate of the series protagonist,
Michael ScofieldMichael J. Scofield is the main protagonist in the American television series Prison Break. He is portrayed by Wentworth Miller...
(played by
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).
Background
Of Puerto Rican descent, Sucre grew up in
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where he had several run-ins with the law. However, he later finds a steady job at a
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and his girlfriend, Maricruz Delgado. He ends up in prison after he attempts rob a liquor store. In the flashback episode, "Brother's Keeper", it is revealed that the reason Sucre had held up the store was to get enough money to pay for an engagement ring for Maricruz. His cousin Hector then tips him off to the cops, as he was also infatuated with Maricruz. After his incarceration, Sucre has conjugal visits from Maricruz, but is occassionally worried about her seeming indecision about her future with him, as she is contemplating dating Hector.
Appearances
Fernando Sucre was first introduced as a main character in the series premiere. He has appeared in every episode so far except ten, "First Down", "Unearthed", "
John Doe"John Doe" is the thirty-sixth episode of the American television series Prison Break and is the fourteenth episode of its second season. The episode was aired on January 22, 2007 after a seven-week break. It was written by Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora, and directed by Kevin Hooks. The title,...
", "
Chicago"Chicago" is the thirty-eighth episode of the American television series Prison Break and is the sixteenth episode of its second season. It was written by Nick Santora and Matt Olmstead, and directed by Jesse Bochco. The episode first aired on February 5, 2007, making it the first episode to be...
,
Orientación"Orientación" is the 45th episode of the American television series, Prison Break and the first episode of the series' third season. It premiered on September 17, 2007 in the United States on the Fox Network. "Orientación" is Spanish for "Orientation." On iTunes, the episode is known as "Visitation"...
, The Sunshine State, The Mother Lode,
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,
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and Cowboys and Indians.
Season 1
Fernando Sucre is introduced to the show as the cellmate of the show’s protagonist, newly arrived inmate
Michael ScofieldMichael J. Scofield is the main protagonist in the American television series Prison Break. He is portrayed by Wentworth Miller...
(
Wentworth MillerWentworth Earl Miller III is a British-born American actor who rose to stardom following his role as Michael Scofield in the Fox Network television series Prison Break.-Early life:...
). In the pilot episode, he mainly serves an exposition purpose, explaining various plot points to Michael and the viewers, as well as providing some light-hearted humour in some scenes. Sucre is at first oblivious of Michael’s intention to break out of prison. Instead, his first few episodes focus mostly on establishing his background and setting up his character arc. This includes revealing and building up Sucre’s devotion to his girlfriend Marcicruz, which we see in the pilot episode when he asks her to marry him. In the next episode his treacherous cousin Hector, who wants to steal Maricruz from Sucre, is introduced. Upon learning of the escape in the episode "Cell Test", Sucre briefly serves as an obstacle to Michael’s plan by refusing to have any part in it and demands a cell transfer. A mentally unstable inmate called Haywire (
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) replaces him. Sucre’s character motivation changes in the next episode, however, when he is visited by Hector, who informs him that Maricruz is now in a relationship with him. Desperate to get his girlfriend back, Sucre becomes eager to break out of prison and pleads with Michael to be allowed back into the breakout. After Michael engineers Haywire's removal as his cellmate, Sucre returns, this time anxious to have a role in the escape.
The following episodes focus on building a bond between Michael and Sucre as the two cellies work together to further the escape plan. In "English, Fitz or Percy", a nervous Sucre serves as a look-out while Michael is sneaking out to the roof. In "Riots, Drills and the Devil", Sucre suggest a lockdown to give Michael additional time to dig, and later helps him to drill through a critical cement wall. In these scenarios, Sucre often takes on the role of comic relief, while still showing loyalty to the protagonist. From "The Old Head" and onwards, Sucre also helps to dig a hole in the guard’s break room. His devotion to the escape increases in a later episode when he is visited by Maricruz who informs him that she is pregnant by his child, but is contemplating marrying Hector. Meanwhile, his friendship with Michael continues to strengthen; despite for some brief trust issues explored in "Odd Man Out", Sucre empathizes with Michael's situation and his anxiety for his brother, death row inmate
Lincoln BurrowsLincoln Burrows, played by Dominic Purcell, is a protagonist of the American television series, Prison Break. The plot of Prison Break revolves around Lincoln Burrows' setup for the murder of the vice president's brother and his brother's plan to help him escape his death sentence. Lincoln's...
(
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), and ultimately supports him. Sucre is one of the six inmates that are part of the first failed escape attempt in "End of the Tunnel". Despite their failure, Sucre is shown as having no ill will towards Michael, which is shown in "The Rat", where stands up for Michael when T-Bag (
Robert KnepperRobert Lyle Knepper is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for starring as Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell in the Fox network's drama series, Prison Break for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award. In 2007, he appeared in the film Hitman, as Yuri, chief of the Russian secret service...
) expresses his anger for the first failed escape attempt and tries to threaten Michael.
In the season’s later episodes, Sucre aids Michael's plan in numerous situations through his connections with other prisoners. Occasionally, he comes up with ideas that help to save Michael's plan, like in “By the Skin and the Teeth” where he urges his cousin Manche Sanchez, who works in the prison laundry room, to give Michael a guard uniform that enables him to sneak into the yard without being questioned. When Michael is later transferred to solitary confinement in the episode "J-Cat", Sucre is forced by the other breakout team members to use the hole behind his toilet to get out of his cell during the night to cover the hole in the guard's room. Knowing that he would most likely be caught once outside his cell at night, Sucre forces T-Bag to retrieve another inmate's underwear in order for Sucre to give a reasonable answer to Bellick for being outside his cell at night. Bellick is fooled by Sucre’s ruse, but still send him to the Solitary Housing Unit (SHU). He has only a minor role in the next episode. After Sucre is released from the (SHU) in "The Key", he rejoins the rest of the break-out team. Eventually in the penultimate episode "Go", Sucre escapes from
Fox River State PenitentiaryFox River State Penitentiary is a fictional level one maximum-security prison featured prominently in the first season of the television series, Prison Break. It is a state correctional facility located in Joliet, Illinois. The real-life representation of the prison is Joliet Prison...
, with seven other prisoners. He is one of the five escapees, along with Michael, Lincoln, John Abruzzi (
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) and C-Note (
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), left running for their lives when their plane takes off without them aboard and the police close behind them in the season finale.
Season 2
Sucre's plot line in the second season mainly involves finding and reuniting with Maricruz. He is also part of the plot to retrieve Westmoreland’s money in Utah. After evading the authorities, Sucre separates from the others in the episode "Otis". Learning that Hector and Maricruz are getting married in Las Vegas, he attempt to stop the wedding in the episode "Map 1213". However, Sucre fails and is again betrayed by Hector, who calls the police, forcing Sucre to flee. He then decides to find the hidden money in Utah, and in the following episode, "Subdivision" Sucre reunites with the escape team. When the money is found and packed, Sucre holds the others at gunpoint, forcing them to hand over all the money. In "Dead Fall", it is revealed that it was a ruse planned by Sucre and Michael. However, they are in turn fooled by T-Bag, who managed to take all of the money. As they run from the police pursuing them, Sucre falls into a river and is pinned by a fallen tree. Michael refuses to abandon Sucre and eventually saves his life, which Sucre repays when he saves Michael from the coyote in "Bolshoi Booze". Finding out that Maricruz has left Hector at the alter, Sucre again decides to find her, eventually making plans to meet her in Mexico. Sucre and Michael then reunites, planning to flee to Mexico together with Lincoln. In the next episode, "Disconnect", Sucre gets on the escape plane alone after the brothers decide to stay and solve the conspiracy.
After being forced to eject from the plane in "The Killing Box", Sucre lands safely in the Mexican desert. In the following episodes, he travels to Ixtapa and eventually meets with Maricruz in "Bad Blood". They arrive safely at Sucre's aunt's home in "Wash", but Sucre is soon captured by
Brad BellickBradley "Brad" Bellick is a fictional character from the American television series, Prison Break. He is portrayed by Wade Williams. As one of the principal characters of Prison Break, he has been featured in all four seasons of the series...
. In an attempt to have Bellick free him, Sucre offers to lead him to T-Bag and the five million dollars, which Sucre has surmised is in the
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. While heading to
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to
look for T-Bag"Panama" is the 42nd episode of the American television series Prison Break and is the 20th episode of its second season. The episode aired on March 19, 2007. The plot features the protagonists' escape to Panama while subplots include that of Sara Tancredi, Brad Bellick, Fernando Sucre, Theodore...
, Bellick tells Sucre that he has left Maricruz in a hole to die, and if she is to live Sucre must lead him to the money. Michael joins their hunt in
the next episode"Fin Del Camino" is the 43rd episode of the US television series, Prison Break and is the 21st episode of its second season. The English translation of the Spanish phrase, "fin del camino", is end of the road. Written by Matt Olmstead and Seth Hoffman, and directed by Bobby Roth, the episode first...
, wanting to turn T-Bag in. Unfortunately, Bellick is shot in the
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by T-Bag and arrested. Michael and Sucre corner T-Bag with the intention of turning him in, but T-Bag stabs Sucre in the
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and flees. Sucre later leaves the
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against
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advice, risking his life for Maricruz. He chases after Bellick, who is being transported in a prison transport van, but collapses and blacks out. His fate is left open at the end of the Season.
Season 3
By the beginning of the third season, Sucre remained the only member of the Fox River Eight to be still at large. The second episode of the third season Fire/Water shows Sucre to be alive and he is seen purchasing a gun at a local store. He proceeds to confront Bellick at
SONA prisonPenitenciaría Federal de Sona is a fictional prison in the TV series Prison Break. The prison is set in Panama...
and threatens to shoot him if he doesn't tell him where Maricruz is. He reveals he never really had her and that he chased her off by threatening to arrest them for accessory. Sucre eventually finds out that Maricruz is in
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and calls her and tearfully tells her that he must stay in Panama until he gets his life back together. In Call Waiting, Sucre asks Lincoln to split the money of Westmoreland. But Lincoln rebukes Sucre, saying they lost the money and chases Sucre away. Sucre later reappears, this time unconscious with a bottle of
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in the front steps of Lincoln's
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, after which Lincoln takes Sucre in. At first, Sucre is eager to move down to
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as a
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to financially support Maricruz and his unborn child, and refuses to act as an interpreter to aid Linc in setting up Michael's escape plan.
Upon hearing of the murder of Sara Tancredi, Sucre changes his mind and commits to preparing a route for the escape from SONA by taking over as gravedigger to secretly damage the electric fence protecting the prison. Lechero's cousin Augusto soon approaches Sucre, to smuggle a package into SONA a single time. Sucre is swayed by the large amount of money offered. Afterwards Augusto asks him to make another delivery. After initially resisting Sucre ultimately agrees. Sucre soon commits himself fully to the escape plan in Photo Finish and Vamonos and almost helps Lincoln free his son L.J. Burrows. He and Lincoln later devise a plan to fool Company operative Gretchen Morgan that Sucre has turned against the brothers.
Later Sucre finds out the alias he chose to get a job at Sona has an arrest warrant, and is locked up in Sona shortly after Michael and Co. escape when T-Bag recognizes him and reveals his true identity. As a result, Sucre became the sixth and final member of the Fox River Eight (as C-Note was placed into witness protection and dropped of all charges, and Lincoln was exonerated) to be taken down by the authorities, and the third member not to die upon interception.
In the
third season there is a conversation between Sucre and Gretchen Morgan about the meaning of his family name: Sucre in
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means
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. That's why she began to call him "azucar" (sugar in
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).
At the end of Season 3 Sucre was incarcerated into Sona for refusing to reveal to the guards thew whereabouts of Michael Scofield subsequent to his escape. T-Bag convinced them that Sucre was involved, and after being tortured for several hours he was thrown into
prisonPenitenciaría Federal de Sona is a fictional prison in the TV series Prison Break. The prison is set in Panama...
Sona, just in time to see T-Bag take over as the new ruler of the Panamanian prison after the death of its former ruler, Lechero.
Season 4
In the three weeks between Season 3 and Season 4, Sona has burned down by a fire started by T-Bag allowing Bellick, T-Bag, and Sucre to escape. Later in the season 4 premiere, Sucre and Bellick are shown getting across the US border. As Sucre goes to visit his newborn daughter, the authorities are alerted by Maricruz's sister Theresa, and Sucre and Bellick are both arrested at the hospital. They are then recruited into Homeland Security agent Don Self's covert "A-Team" along with Lincoln, Michael, Sara, and Mahone. Their task is to steal Scylla from The Company in exchange for full exoneration. They are then joined by hacker/identity thief Roland Glenn who is assigned to the team by Self. Sucre's character is not featured as much in season 4 compared to earlier seasons, but appears in most episodes with a supporting role. He is shot in the stomach during an ambush attempt on the General in "The Price", but Sara rescues him by removing the bullet. Sucre is often teamed up with Bellick, as the two characters are said to have formed a strong friendship while together in Sona. Consequently, Sucre's character is shown to be heartbroken following Bellick's death in "
Greatness Achieved"Greatness Achieved" is the 66th episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on November 3, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network.In this episode Michael, Lincoln, Sucre and Bellick tunnel into the Company's headquarters. Gretchen meets with The General....
".
It is revealed in "
The Legend"The Legend" is the 67th episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on November 10, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network.-Plot:...
" that during the fire in Sona, the inmates started running to get out of the prison. During the bedlam, Sucre was knocked down and ran over. He was nearly crushed to death. Bellick picked him up and the two escaped. Sucre, very upset about the death of Bellick, refuses to continue to work until Bellick's body is returned home. Later on, Sucre called Bellick's mother to inform her of her son's death. Bellick previously wished this to happen in "
The Price"The Price" is the 65th episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on October 20, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network.-Plot:...
". In "Selfless", Sucre works with the rest of the team when they obtain Scylla from The Company, only to be betrayed by Self, who steals Scylla. Their hopes of freedom now gone, Sucre for a while continues to aid the brothers in their attempts to get Scylla back, but ultimately decides in the episode "Going Under" to leave and reunite with his family. Sucre's character is absent for the next five episodes, but returns for the final two episodes of the series, uniting with C-Note to locate the brothers and persuade them to hand Scylla over to the UN, after which he is finally given his immunity. In the epilogue set 4 years after the rest of the events of the show, Sucre is seen living happily in Chicago with his wife Maricruz and young child. He is last seen visiting Michael's grave along with the others.
Characteristics
In the flashback episode of the
first season, "Brother's Keeper", Fernando's first illegal act involved armed robbery with a
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pointed right at the shopkeeper - only to take 20 dollars. He later repeated the act to earn the money for the
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he intended to give to Maricruz, only to be turned in by his own cousin,
HectorHéctor Julio Avila is a retired boxer from the Dominican Republic.Avila competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the Men's Flyweight division by Hungary's eventual bronze medalist István Kovács...
. During his time at Fox River Penitentiary he appeared to be in good terms with almost all correctional officers and other inmates prior to the prison break. He's easily one of the members of the Fox River Eight whose loyalty towards Michael is unquestionable, (as seen in "The Art of the Deal" when at gunpoint, countless times, he does not give up any info regarding the whereabouts of Michael) the other one being Lincoln Burrows. Fernando also has a knack for making unconventional and seemingly-mundane yet effective strategies from time to time, as seen when he managed to successfully cover up the hole that Scofield's PI crew dug up. Outside, he displayed being able to hot wire various vehicles in record time, which was a valuable asset for Michael and all the other cons that Scofield took with him on the night of the escape.
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