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No easy run for Prison Break fugitives in second season, creator says BANFF, Alta. (CP) - Desperate and on the run, the fugitives from Prison Break face a bleak future in their break for freedom, says the creator of the popular Fox series. "This show has a finite life span as do some of our characters," Paul Scheuring said at the Banff Television Festival, where industry insiders recently gathered to look for the next hot idea or concept. "People are going to start paying the price here and they're going to start dropping like flies," he said. "In that sense it's like a dark American Idol: you start with eight people, then it's seven and six and five." The drama with the implausible storyline is about to start shooting its second season in Dallas, Tex., - far from the Illinois State Prison where its far-fetched premise played out. Scheuring says the guilt of releasing a pack of murderers and rapists begins to weigh on Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), who used an elaborate blueprint of the prison tattooed on his body to help break out his wrongfully convicted brother and the collection of creepy cohorts. "He will begin to realize he's unleashed this Pandora's box on the world so that's not completely lost on the moral centre of the story," he said. "They're not completely completely blowing off what they've done." Scofield is also wracked with guilt over the fate of prison doctor Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), who was last seen sprawled on the ground, the victim of an apparent drug overdose. "If you think about the world of trouble Sara's going to be in - if she even survives - in large part it's because she did what he asked," said Scheuring. "So there's a lot of responsibility on his end and that weighs very heavily on him." But audiences seemed to have connected with the dark allure of the characters, who each have differing shades of humanity and honour. Among the nastiest is T-Bag (Robert Knepper), who was last seen stumbling into the bushes with his hand cut off. "Everyone is quite concerned about T-Bag's fate," said Scheuring. "But they will be quite happy. We're going to have T-Bag to kick around for Season 2 - for at least the lion's share of it." Scheuring, who had planned to be a novelist before venturing into writing screenplays a decade ago, had mapped a two-year storyline with the original premise. That's taken away some stress about the upcoming season; he has plotlines following each character across the United States. "Preparation is the key to everything, in my opinion," he said. "You have to know what the end game of stories are for the stories to be worthy and make sense. We don't want someone to get to the end of Season 2 and say 'that's impossible - that completely doesn't jibe."' His writing staff has already started to sketch out Season 3 if the public - and the network - want more. "It will be a complete reinvention of Season 2. We never want to tell the same story again." Scheuring promises a lot of loose ends from stories that began in the first season will be played out in the coming months. "It's not simply going to be our guys in a car chase: there are a lot of unresolved issues," he said. "All these things are going to be addressed in one way or another and usually often in the way the audience anticipates. We're playing for keeps ... the audience will be pretty amazed." Canadian Press