Brad Bellick
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| Brad Bellick | |
| Role(s) | Captain of the Fox River correctional officers (season 1); Bounty hunter (season 2); Prisoner at Fox River (season 2) |
| Current status | Active |
| Crime | Second degree murder |
| Sentence | Released via Habeas Corpus hearing |
| First appearance | Pilot (1x01) |
| Season | 1, 2 |
| Portrayed by | Wade Williams |
Bradley "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 almost every episode in the series. The character was introduced in the series' pilot as Captain Brad Bellick, the leader of the correctional officers at Fox River State Penitentiary. In the second season, the character's role changes as the main plot moves away from the prison setting, which allows him to remain as one of the main characters in the series.
Bellick has wanted to be a correctional officer his entire life. He was employed at Fox River shortly after graduating high school and has been there ever since. Due to his belief that punishment is the primary purpose of prison and not rehabilitation, he and Warden Henry Pope (played by Stacy Keach) do not always agree on several issues. Nevertheless, Warden Pope continues to give him more responsibility with the intention of having Bellick succeed him as warden when he retires. As described by his ex-colleague, Bellick is as "crooked as scoliosis", referring to his corruption as a guard at Fox River.[1] Bellick is about 40 years old, judging from his own words in "The Killing Box".[2]
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[edit] Appearances
[edit] Season 1
Bellick has a history of corruption and inmate abuse. He arranged a deal with John Abruzzi (Peter Stormare), who was a mobster prior to his incarceration, that in exchange for monthly payments, he would have control of Prison Industries (P.I.).
In the flashback episode, "Brother's Keeper", it is revealed that Bellick is a recovering substance abuser.
Due her visit to Fox River and her connection with Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), Bellick goes to search for Nika Volek (Holly Valance) and finds her at a strip club he frequents. After finding out about Michael's deal with Nika, Bellick attempts to agitate Michael by insulting Nika.
On the night of the breakout team's escape, Bellick discovered the hole dug by Michael Scofield and the P.I. crew during their initial escape attempt. Before he could tell anyone, however, he was attacked, tied and gagged by Charles Westmoreland (Muse Watson), though Westmoreland received an injury during the struggle that proved fatal in the end. Bellick was trapped in the tunnels under the guard's room and witnessed the escape; after he was found, Bellick swore revenge on the escapees.
[edit] Season 2
Bellick continues hunting the escapees through the night and into the following day. He is resentful of the arrival of FBI Agent Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner) and of his involvement in the manhunt. Shortly after in the second episode of the season, Bellick is terminated from duty by a conduct review committed based on the testimony of C.O. Roy Geary (Matt DeCaro). Bellick returns home where he contemplates on committing suicide but is stopped at his mother's announcement of the reward money for the capture of the Fox River escapees.
For the next few episodes, Bellick teams up with Geary to hunt down the Fox River escapees. When they discover that the escapees are heading for Utah in search of Westmoreland's buried money, their objective also changes. After their failed capture of Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) in "First Down", Bellick and Geary temporarily give up their hunt. However, when they learn of the fugitives' location, they immediately head to the location and find out that the money has been excavated. They correctly surmise that T-Bag (Robert Knepper) took the money.
After a long session of torturing T-Bag, Bellick and Geary retrieve the key to the locker where T-Bag had stored the money. Bellick is betrayed by Geary, who attacks him and leaves with the money. In "Bolshoi Booze", Bellick calls Geary from a Wichita hospital on his cell phone and promises revenge. The threat goes into a voicemail and becomes one of the key piece of evidence that leads to his arrest for Geary's murder in the following episode. After Bellick discovers Geary's death, he is promptly approached by Detective Slattery. He is later arrested for the murder and is sent to Fox River with a sentence of 25 years. Bellick is then forced to live in the general population with Avocado, the prisoner he had forced Tweener (Lane Garrison) to live with in the final episodes of the first season.
In "John Doe", Bellick has conflicts with his fellow Fox River prisoners, particularly, Banks (played by Lester Speight). He beats Banks up, which turned out to be a bad move as Banks had connections with the night guards. Bellick is later taken out of his cell at night.
In the next episode, Bellick once again becomes a part of the main storyline featuring Mahone's hunt for Lincoln and Michael. He is in the infirmary with a heavily bruised face, and Trumpets (Anthony Fleming) warns that the other inmates will continue to abuse Bellick heavily due to his status. Bellick begs Nurse Katie to keep him in the infirmary one more night, and she agrees. Agent Mahone later comes to Fox River for the first time since the manhunt began, looking for information on Sara Tancredi. Bellick helps him decipher a code by Michael to Sara which was taken from chapters of the Alcoholics Anonymous book. In return, he asks Mahone to have him transferred to Ad Seg. In the next episode, Mahone returns and says that he can have Bellick released from prison upon a Habeas Corpus hearing if Bellick agrees to hunt down Charles "Haywire" Patoshik, who had killed a Wisconsin man in the previous episode. Bellick successfully corners Haywire by chasing him up a silo. Mahone then climbs the silo and talks Haywire into killing himself by jumping off.
An impatient Bellick visits Mahone's field office in "Wash", demanding his reward money for the capture of Haywire. Mahone threatens to kill Bellick if he ever comes to his office again, but assigns Bellick to look for Fernando Sucre, who has escaped to Mexico. After bribing Manche with a transfer to Club Fed in exchange for Sucre's whereabouts, Bellick boards a plane to Mexico, coincidentally the same plane that T-Bag is on. Bellick eventually captures Sucre. However, Sucre tells him that T-Bag and the five million dollars are in town. Bellick asks Sucre to lead him to the money, later forcing the issue when he reveals to Sucre that he has Sucre's girlfriend Maricruz in a hiding place with only enough food to last for three weeks. Sucre eventually finds out T-Bag is in Panama City.
Michael joins Bellick and Sucre's pursuit in the next episode. However, Bellick is shot in the leg by T-Bag. Bellick is then arrested for the murder of a prostitute T-Bag killed, but his information leads the Panamanian police to T-Bag.
[edit] References
- ^ "Bluff", Prison Break season 1 episode 18, spoken by Matt DeCaro as Roy Geary.
- ^ When Bellick's attorney is advising him, he says that the D.A. will offer 25 years in exchange for a guilty plea. Bellick protests by saying he will be nearly 65 when he is released, indicating that Bellick is around 40 years old as of "The Killing Box".
[edit] External links
- Captain Brad Bellick's biography at Fox.com
| Production: | Season 1 | Season 2 | Broadcasters | DVD releases | Mobisodes |
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| Miscellaneous: | The Company | Escape plan | Europeangoldfinch.net | Fox River State Penitentiary | Reynolds-Again.com |
| Characters | |
| Main: | John Abruzzi | Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell | Brad Bellick | Lincoln Burrows | L. J. Burrows | Veronica Donovan Benjamin Miles "C-Note" Franklin | Paul Kellerman | Alexander Mahone | Michael Scofield | Fernando Sucre | Sara Tancredi |
| Secondary: | List of minor characters |
