Knowing how low the show has sunk since they let her go, the producers of “Prison Break” have begged actress Sarah Wayne Callies to return to the show.

‘But wait!’, I hear you scream, ‘Isn’t her character (Dr. Sara Tancredi) dead!?’

Um, well, yeah, supposedly. (For you who don't know, Sarah Wayne Callies couldn't return to shoot Sara's death scene last season, so producers used a Polaroid photo of her from a wardrobe test. Later, Lincoln, played by Dominic Purcell, apparently saw Sara’s head in a box)

Or Not.

Executive producer Matt Olmstead tells E! Online that Sara has been alive this whole time.

‘’It wasn't because of the fans that we did that, but it was the combination of the fans' reactions on the boards and emails, and people we, the writers, know personally would ask about it. And that led us all to have conversations internally, about the fact that there were a lot of people out there asking, "Is she really dead?"

We knew internally that when we didn't get Sarah Wayne Callies to come back in season three and be there to portray her character's death, as soon as it was written and filmed and we saw it on screen, we knew that it was actually a way you could describe how this wasn't Sarah's head in the box, basically. But at that point, we were going forward with other stories, so we kind of put that on the back burner.

But throughout that time we watched how people externally were really talking about what we thought might be the case, internally: The question of, "Is Sara Tancredi really dead?" So throughout season three we were mindful of references we'd make to and who took credit for killing her and all kinds of stuff regarding her death.

Ultimately, we came back after the strike to talk about season four, and that's when a bunch of things kind of came together, and we then had the big conversation. Is Sarah really alive and can we bring her back? And once we opened it up, it happened really quickly.’’

Olmstead says Michael (Wentworth Miller) and Sara will also be bumping uglies when we see them again.

‘’Yes! They are finally together, but like I said there have always been these physical barriers between them. He was incarcerated, she worked in the prison hospital, so obviously there's a barrier. He was on the run, she was in another part of the country, there's a barrier.

Here they are finally able to be together, but we are jumping ahead [in time], so there's that period that's unaccounted for, so what happened to her, what happened to him and hope they both help each other get past that, get past these…invisible barriers.

There's no physical barriers anymore between them, but they're both pretty banged up when they see each other, and it's about how they get past that to really find that real intimacy.’’

It would’ve been interesting to have been a fly on the wall when the producers came knocking on the actresses door to ask her to return to the show. There was apparently no love lost between there, especially after she was unfairly – she says – dumped from the show (some say because she wanted more money) so the negotiations would’ve been fierce.
I think it goes without saying that Sarah will be returning for season 4 with a bigger wage…..
Shit, they need this girl. Quite frankly, the show dipped when she left. Can she salvage it now? Or is it too late? I, for one, will tune in again….. but as far how long I’ll be watching, that depends on the show.