The team frantically tries to lift the slab, but it’s too heavy. Lincoln gets an iron bar to try to pry it up, but the angle is wrong. Bellick, watching from the side, realizes there is only one possible way to generate enough lift to free Michael before the water rises.
The moment Michael is free, the slab shifts fully. Bellick is crushed beneath it. The others scream his name, but the water surges, and he disappears under the murky flow. They are forced to flee or drown. The team escapes the tunnels, soaked and shaken. Michael is visibly distraught. The loss of Bellick—the man who once tormented him—hits the hardest because it was utterly selfless. prison break bellick death
Later, Bellick’s body is recovered off-screen. In a subsequent scene, Lincoln and Michael visit his grave. The tombstone reads: The team frantically tries to lift the slab,