Episode Report Card Aaron: B | 791 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Baldness <> Death
By Aaron | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2003.02.09
Back in Em Ciudad, Alvarez finds Guerra packing up the last of Morales's belongings. They both discuss how they've grown tired of all the senseless violence in Oz, but I'm distracted by the fact that Alvarez is supposed to be peeing in this scene, and the Foley guys have apparently forgotten to add in the appropriate sound effects. Which means it ends up looking like he's just sort of standing there playing with himself, although I do concede the fact that many of you might enjoy the prospect of a visual like that. When Guerra suggests that Alvarez take over the leadership of El Norte, Miguel vehemently refuses. Then he zips up and leaves the pod, only to be intercepted by Officer Murphy, who informs him that Cutler's widow has come to the prison for a surprise visit.
Cut to the visiting room, where Alvarez finally finds the Widow Cutler waiting for him in the last booth. She looks a bit like Lili Taylor's Lisa on Six Feet Under, and not at all like the extra y-chromosomed East German shot-putter you'd have expected Cutler to be married to. She launches into a prepared speech begging Alvarez not to throw her out of house and home, but he soon interjects to say that he has no interest in keeping Cutler's stuff. He is, however, interested in sharing the loooooooove, and they enjoy a long, smoldering stare after he admits (apropos of nothing) that Maritza hasn't been around to visit much lately. Hmmm. Something tells me the Widow Cutler will be calling Liesel for advice on the best lubricants to use for visiting-day hand jobs sometime in the near future.
A grainy, VHS-style flashback of Nurse Nasty leads us into Morales's funeral, which consists of Father Mukada reciting the Lord's Prayer as Alvarez and Guerra load a simple plywood coffin into the back of a U-Haul. Man, where's Rico when you really need him? As if to mock me for all the times I've criticized their lack of lighting this week, this scene actually derives a significant amount of dramatic weight from the fact that it's one of the few times we've ever seen natural sunlight on this show. Once the coffin is safely on board the truck, Alvarez laments the fact that he'll probably get carried out of Oz in much the same fashion in the near future. McManus turns up to insist that he'll be paroled long before that happens, and then proceeds to promptly piss all over very that suggestion by pointing out that Miguel once punched the parole board's newest member right in the nose. There have been too many spoilers posted in the last few days for me to try to pretend I don't know how all of this is going to turn out, so rather than ruin things for those of you strong enough to stay pure, I'm just not going to say anything at all.