Episode Report Card Megyn: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT There once was a healer from Nantucket
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2001.01.14
Pete with Beecher: "I believe Schillinger is genuine in wanting to put this to rest." Beecher whines, "I tried to do that by finding his son, Hank, what did I get? My son is dead and my daughter traumatized." Pete points out, "But, for the first time, the need for reconciliation is coming from Schillinger." Captain Pessimism: "It could be another of his plans." Sister Optimism: "Well, we'll never know if we don't try."
We are introduced to Brian Bloom as the newest addition to Emerald City. We see, a la flashback, that he was involved in a car theft ring. He'll be in Oz for a while. His name is Ronald Barlog. Beecher is his new friend, who gets to show him around the place and teach him how to get along well with others. Oh, also, they're roomies. After they're introduced, Beecher takes him through the common room. When Keller sees Ronnie, they greet each other enthusiastically, like they were the best of buds on the outside. Beecher takes this in with a little amusement. Keller tells Ronnie to get settled and they'll catch up then. Beecher to Keller: "He's cute…does he like to fool around?" Keller glares. Beecher smirks. I roll my eyes. Ryan looks on and wonders how this can benefit him later.
Beecher and Bloom enter their pod. Bloom: "So, I guess I'm on the bottom? Uh. Snerk! You betcha! Beecher: "Unless you wanna be on top?" "No, I do well on the bottom." Beecher gives the entendres a rest and asks how Ronnie knows Keller. Bloom: "We were partners for a while." Beecher: "You two ever fuck?" Well, now, way to get to the point. "What?" Beecher chuckles to himself and just says, "You let me know if you need anything," and shakes Bloom's hand. Keller watches them from the chess table.
Another new guy, who shoots several cops after they shoot his friend. The whole scene is so camp and fake that it just kills me that it made it to print. I mean, he shoots the last cop in the leg, and you can see the bulge of the blood-packet in the cops pants; you see it burst and blub thickly out onto his leg. Yeesh! Hill VOs that he's Burr Redding. Life, no parole. We see Said in McManus's office. McManus wants him to make a friend of Burr instead of a foe, because the "homeboys" have been in disarray since Adebisi died. Enter Burr. Burr faces Said. McManus makes with the introductions and Burr looks at Said: "You're the cat that wasted Simon Adebisi?" Said: "Yes, I am." Burr: "Outstanding! I heard he was one mean motherfucker -- that makes you even worse." Said calmly repeats the now over-told story of how he killed Adebisi in self-defense. The court exonerated me." Burr: "No doubt. But motives are less important than outcome. He's dead and you're not." He's got a way of speaking. I don't know…it cracks me up. Said to McManus: "May I go now?" McManus to his ego: "No." McManus tells Burr they just want to let him in on the way things work around Em City. Burr launches into history of how he grew up poor, pops died, quit school, played craps and been in the clink many times, many different clinks. He tells him he knows the ropes. Then says, "May I go?" McManus allows it. Burr strides to his pod and is spied by Hill, who knows him. They hug. Hill rolls after him into the pod and after a brief catching up, Burr asks him who the players are and who "needs talking to." Hill points out Poet, and we then cut to the fluorescent-green laundry room. Burr asks him if he's the one currently running things. Poet: "Yeah man." Burr basically tells him it's going to change, and that a wise man knows his limitations. Poet wonders if he knows this wise man, and maybe if the dude has some smack, while Burr leaves him to ponder that little mystery. Poet returns to retrieving his things out of the dryer while making a most unpleasant face.