Brad Bellick
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| Prison Break character | |
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| Bradley Bellick | |
| First appearance: | S1E01 |
| Season: | 1, 2, 3
Episode Count = 53 |
| Portrayed by: | Wade Williams |
| Alias: | Boss; Captain; Brad; Brian; Cap'n; |
| Crime: | Second degree murder of Roy Geary (Exonerated)
Murder of Prostitute |
| Sentence: | Trial pending |
| Occupation: | Captain of Fox River Correctional officers (Season 1) Consultant for the FBI (Season 2) |
| Family: | Edna Bellick (Mother) |
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 all three seasons of 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. Of the main characters, he is the main antagonist of Michael Scofield and the escape team. 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. While not as intelligent as Scofield or Agent Mahone, he has shown himself to be highly cunning, and in Season 2 was able to track down several of the Fox River escapees and travel across America on a low budget.
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[edit] Background
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]
[edit] Appearances
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Bellick appeared in every episode until the fifth episode of the second season Map 1213. He also didn't appear in Subdivision, Buried and Bad Blood.
[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 (PI).
In the flashback episode, "Brother's Keeper", it is revealed that Bellick is a recovering substance abuser and is infatuated with Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), the prison doctor.
Due to 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 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. In Panama, they walk into Michael, who joins their pursuit of T-Bag. They eventually corner T-Bag in a room, but after Sucre discovers a murdered prostitute in a room that T-Bag claimed had the $5 million, T-Bag bails, leaving Michael, Sucre and Bellick trapped in the room as part of an elaborate trap. Michael and Bellick force the door open, however Bellick is then shot in the leg by T-Bag, and then wrongfully arrested for the murder of the prostitute T-Bag had killed. Bellick is then transferred from a Panama prison, and is then discovered by Michael at Sona prison, battered, and lying on the floor, under a bigger inmate.
[edit] Season 3
In Sona prison Bellick quickly finds himself on the lowest rung of prison society, forced to wear nothing but a diaper[3] at all times and given the job to clean the prison's bathrooms and sewers. On his first trip to the sewer he discovers James Whistler, who has been hiding in the sewers to avoid Sona prisoners hunting him. Whistler offers him some rat meat in exchange for getting a message to his girlfriend. Bellick informs Michael of Whistler's location, but upon learning of the bounty on Whistler's head, rats him out to Lechero also in order to obtain food and clothes.
Bellick then overhears Michael and Mahone co-conspiring, and realizes Michael plans to escape. He attempts to use this information to blackmail Michael into letting him in on the escape plan, but when this fails, he instead rats out Michael to Lechero in hopes of a reward. When Michael, however, outwits Lechero and fixes the prison's electrical system, Lechero punishes Bellick by pouring boiling coffee on his lower back for giving him "bad information." Then in Interference he witnesses the arrival of a new inmate, Andrew Tyge, who is beaten, and his shirt taken from him, when he refuses to hand over his wallet. Bellick warns Tyge that such behavior was what put him on the lowest rung of society, and offers Tyge cheese as a gesture of goodwill, while simultaneously warning that Sona is "every man for himself". When Tyge is killed, Michael briefly suspects Bellick of Tyge's murder, but Bellick confides to him that he does not have the stomach for cold blooded murder. He is later shown to be profoundly disturbed after learning of Sara's death, leading him to question his past actions, which may lead to his helping hand in Michael's escape.
In Boxed In a man named Octavio, one of Lechero's new recruits forces Bellick into a fight to the death after he refuses to clean up another man's puke. Bellick tries to appeal the situation to Lechero who is not around, Sammy tells him the fight will go on. Bellick knowing that Octavio is a lot stronger than he is, decides that he must cheat in order to win. He wraps his hands in rags, dips them into turpentine, puts wads of paper up his nose so that the fumes won't intoxicate him, and goes to the fight. At first Bellick can hardly block his opponent's attacks, much less make attacks himself. However the fight is turned when he rushes up and shoves his hands into Octavio's face, the turpentine fumes disorient him and his vision becomes hazy. Bellick takes the opportunity by kicking Octavio in the groin, and punching him several times in the face, before finishing him off with a fierce uppercut. The other inmates cheer Bellick's victory, however his joy is short lived when T-Bag deduces that Bellick cheated. This leads to Bellick being set-up to fight Sammy, in exchange for a place in the escape. Although Bellick fights Sammy, he is almost killed before Sammy leaves the ring to deal with the Lechero in Dirt Nap. Despite failing to keep his end of the bargain, Bellick threatens to tell others about the escape, and so through blackmail, his place is ensured. His jubilance is short-lived however, as Michael lets the greedy Lechero, T-Bag and Bellick escape first, only to be caught to act as a distraction for the true escape moments later. Bellick is forced to show the tunnel to the Sona guards, and is badly beaten when he denies knowing any information. In The Art of the Deal (Season 3 final) Bellick comes to the wounded Lechero's aid along with T-Bag. Bellick watches in terror later as T-Bag smothers Lechero with a pillow, killing him. The season ends with Bellick never getting out of Sona, tired and depressed.
[edit] Personality and Character Transformation
In Seasons one and two Bellick was mean spirited and obnoxious. However after being thrown into Sona, his character has softened or he has simply lost his "bad boy" facade that he had in the previous seasons. Wade Williams, who plays Bellick, has mentioned that "Like all guys with a big ego, Bellick probably has very low self-esteem". His tough guy act is little more than a facade and the slightest bit of real threat will quickly turn him into a quivering coward. When he felt secure behind his position as Captain of Fox River's correctional officers, however, Bellick made it a frequent habit to harass, intimidate and even threaten the lives of others. But in season 3, Bellick finally begins to learn and grow from the bully he has been in season 1 and 2. As the lowest part of the Sona pecking order, he goes through hell as all other inmates spit on him. This experience seems to change him. In "Orientacion" the first episode of the third season , Bellick befriends another prisoner who is also an outcast. Later the man attempts to escape because he is afraid of starving to death, because the other prisoners won't give him food. As he running across "No man's land" he is shot dead, and Bellick is seen screaming in considerable emotional agony. In season 3's latest episode "The Art of the Deal", he was scared and visibly shaken as he watched T-Bag smother Lechero with a pillow. Though previously when T-Bag asked him to help him rescue the wounded Lechero, who was being beaten up by an angry mob of prisoners he initially refused saying that "he could go to hell." T-Bag had fooled both Bellick and Lechero into believing that they needed $50,000 to bribe the guards into letting them leave Sona. However T-Bag's real plan was to use the money to gain the other prisoners trust so that he could be the new king of Sona. Bellick was later seen slumped up against a wall. It is yet to be seen what will happen to him in later episodes.
[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".
- ^ http://tv.ign.com/articles/814/814759p1.html
[edit] External links
- Captain Brad Bellick's biography at Fox.com
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