Episode Report Card Megyn: C- | 4 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Clayton Hears A Who
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.24.2001
Hill. He wants to go home. I hear you, man.
We see HBO giving themselves a major plug as the inmates test-drive their new cable and watch G-String Divas. Hoyt wanders in with his mail bin and has to call Ryan's name twice before tearing his attention away from the grinding ladies on the TV screen. He has a package. Ryan looks at it and scampers up to show Sinead O'Connelly. It's the wristwatch needed to finish the bomb. Ryan begins to doubt the plan to blow up Em City. Connelly explains that by fighting, they do not necessarily go to war; they just ensure that they never lose. I think blowing myself up is losing, but that's just wacky ol' me.
The gates of Em City. Ryan shifts from foot to foot as he waits for Cyril to arrive. Cyril shows up and squeaks in excitement. They hug, then walk to their pod arm-in-arm.
Infirmary. Ryan stands in the room with Dr. Love. She's counting pills. He says, "I can't thank you enough for getting Cyril sent back to me." She tells him she didn't do it for him, she did it because "it was the right thing to do." He leans way into her space and says he realizes she always does the right thing…that's why he loves her. Then he says, "Kiss me." She just stands there, so he leans and kisses her. She breaks away; he leans his head against a cabinet in defeat while she stutters for the guard to take Ryan back to his cell so he can masturbate a lot. Before Ryan leaves, he says, "I didn't mean to upset you, all I meant to say was that I've got every reason to live now…every reason." He leaves, and she touches her mouth and looks pissed at herself.
Kitchen. Ryan turns on the gas and sees Connelly in the lunch line. He runs over and says he's been thinking about "Operation Dumbo Flop." Connelly says they can't talk about it in public. Ryan: "We're going to wind up killing a bunch of people that don't have to die." Ugh. So many [sic]s…so little patience. Connelly says he will give the hacks a five-minute warning to evacuate. Ryan persists that it may not be enough time, that the blast may spread to other areas, other cellblocks, or even the infirmary. Connelly doesn't care. All he cares about is their "mission" and that it gets done. Ryan makes with the exit speech as he says he realizes the mission makes sense to Connelly but, even though Ryan has killed people, in the end, all his actions don't amount to shit. He has a brother, and a woman, within the walls of Oz who believe in him even though he's given them no reason to; he doesn't want to mess that up. Connelly again insists that the mission be completed. Ryan runs to a hack and asks to be taken back to Em City…that it's an "emergency." Pancamo, with his usual flair, meatheads that Ryan needs to turn the gas off. Ryan tells him to do it. Pancamo doesn't want to.
Connelly running through Em City. He reaches his pod and finds Ryan picking up the bomb, made with mysterious canisters that I can't seem to figure out how they got. Ryan: "I'm taking this fucking bomb to the hacks." Connelly says, "Relax, Ryan, what you said in the cafeteria has started to penetrate this thick skull of mine." Ryan all duhs, "Yeah?" He starts to gush how that is so great and they can fight Irish crime together! Connelly asks him with feigned concern if he shut the timer off. Ryan stupidly says he hasn't done anything yet. Connelly tells him to hand it over, then re-sets the timer for two minutes. Ryan starts to freak and Connelly runs away, reminding Ryan that he only has two minutes to escape. As Connelly walks through Emerald City with the bomb-diggity, Ryan yells to McManus and Murphy what's happening. The inmates slowly react. Connelly yells that they have one minute left and for everyone to evacuate. Everyone runs to the gates of Em City McManus first tries to reason with Connelly, then he shouts orders to the hacks around him to check the computer room and make sure all the pods are empty. Murphy radios to open the gates. Ryan uncharacteristically tries to help out. He asks Connelly to cut the wires. Connelly tells him he'd "better go." Ryan: "Put the bomb down and we'll both go." He reminds Connelly to fight the good fight. Connelly doesn't want to die on English soil. Murphy and Tim yell for Ryan to move it. Ryan swears at Connelly for not coming, and runs. They all turn the corner just outside of Em City and wait. Like, is that really far enough? Connelly stands there, counting down and saying a Hail Mary. The timer goes off, but the bomb doesn't. Connelly drops it to the ground. He stares at it. He kicks it. Stupid bomb. He really kicks it. Ryan and the others realize the bomb is a dud. Murphy sends the guards in to get Connelly.