Episode Report Card Megyn: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Cock And Balls Story
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 07.11.2000
Next scene: a new inmate is introduced, courtesy of our narrator. What is it with HBO and voice-overs? I mean, between this show and Sex and the City, I've jabbed myself in the eye at least six times an episode to dull the blinding headache it gives me. Anyway, the new inmate is Luis Bevelaqua.
Cut to the "recreation time" of inmates in solitary. This involves them all tied together in a circle, walking in, you guessed it, in a circle. If I were in solitary I'd prefer to stay in my cell than do that. Alvarez is walking with new inmate Luis, and when asked why he's in solitary, Alvarez tells him it's because he killed Carlo Ricardo. Turns out Carlo was Luis's cousin. Oopsie! Officer Claire tells them to shut up. The plot thickens. Later, when Hernandez finds out Alvarez killed Carlo, he wants to finish the job on Alvarez.
Cut to solitary recreational time again, presumably the next day. When Bevelaqua's name is called to join the circle walk, we see him hide a pocketknife in his pants. During circle time, William overhears Alvarez tell Bevel-aquaman that he framed Carlo for a rape. William then sees him go for the knife, and he grabs it from him and stabs them both, so Bevel-aquaman dies before we really get to know him and Alvarez winds up in intensive care. After this particularly jarring circle time, Glynn tells Claire that she's getting transferred to another unit. She's indignant. I take a pull from a jug of whiskey. I think if I mainline caffeine while sitting on a hot plate, I can manage to stay fresh and alert during this show.
Sister Pete and "Glen Garry" Glynn "Ghostbuster" question William in his cell as to what provoked him to stab Bevelaqua and Alvarez. William launches into a story about his tormented childhood, which involves a cookie jar (the hell?) incident and lying and telling his mother abut stealing a chocolate chip cookie -- why must he talk like Tarzan? Broken sentences do not equal good acting. I turn up the hot plate. William says he kills but he never lies.
Hoyt and Hernandez are pissed that Alvarez is still alive, and they plot to get rid of him, Cut to Schillinger and Ryan in the mailroom. Schillinger opens a letter from his sister with a note and pictures of both his sons. He talks about how he misses the other one now that the first one is gone and then tosses it in the trash. Well, I guess THAT moment passed. A little later, Schillinger delivers an empty envelope to Beecher, telling him he had to confiscate the contents. He won't tell him why. The letter was from Beecher's grandmother. Beecher's had it. Go Beecher.