Prison Break fan favourite killed off in latest season 5 episode

*Warning - Prison Break season 5 spoilers follow*

A character first introduced in the original season of Prison Break was killed off in the reboot's latest episode.

*Spoilers follow*

You have been warned...

Both Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) and T-Bag (Robert Knepper) were shot in the fourth episode titled 'The Prisoner's Dilemma' - only as the latter got away with a bullet to the shoulder, while the former Secret Service villain-turned-goodie suffered a blow to the head from Poseidon's henchman Van Gogh.

Ahead of the fatal shot, Kellerman said: “I was you once, killing for a lie.”

Speaking to EW about the character's death, Adelstein said: “No-one knows if there's going to be more Prison Break in general, so while it was disappointing for the character maybe to be dead, it's a cherry on top to even get to go back and do more, so I try not to be too greedy about it.”

Still, some Prison Break fans believe that Kellerman may not be as dead as assumed believing the camera's failure to show his corpse instead honing in on Kellerman's killer - to be intentional. Heightening viewers' suspicions is the fact the character was killed off-screen in the show's second season before making a grand return in the fourth.

However, creator Paul T. Scheuring seems pretty adamant that was the character's end telling The Hollywood Reporter: "This one's for real."

“Kellerman was getting too close,” he said. “He knew too much at that point, so he needed to die.”

Prison Break's revival season continues in the US on Tuesday nights with episodes airing in the UK on FOX every Monday.