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
Group. Leroy stands before them and explains his newfound desire to come clean. Straighten up and fly right. He says to Pete that no one believes him. Pete keeps a straight face and says, "We believe you, Leroy." The camera pans around the group as they all snerk over this "revelation." Except Beecher, who of course believes him. We cut to the computer room, where Beecher tells Said that he thinks Leroy's regret is genuine. The room is awash in green light. What's up with that? Beecher wonders why Said has embraced men far worse than Leroy; he ticks off names, and when he gets to Adebisi, Said leaps up: "NO! Not Adebisi!" and slams a book on the table. Arif, lurking outside, looks concerned. Beecher tells Said that his reaction is his guilt, the same guilt Beecher had when he killed Andrew and Hank Schillinger; he thought it was acceptable as long as it was "excusable." Said: "Get away from me." Basically, it's the exact same scene from the laundry room when Said got on Beecher's back for similar issues.
We're in the lunchroom. The Aryans are just finishing a racial joke when Said gets up and confronts the joke-teller, who happens to be Vern's cell-mate, Mini-Vern. MV looks at Said and asks if he "didn't find that funny?" Said: "No…but you…you're a joke." We see MV stand, pull a shank from his pants -- where the hell are all the sharp knives coming from? Between that and the never-ending supply of narcotics, it's just not very prison-like, until a hack throws you in the hole for winking at another hack or something -- speaking of which, MV gets literally thrown in. He slides across the floor and stands up (naked? Yeah.) and hits the wall a few times while swearing angrily. The wall, in fact, doesn't hit back.
Unit B. Schillinger, playing pool. Leroy approaches and asks if he can have a word. Schillinger does that thing where he addresses his fellow supreme beings, instead of the person of color, and says for "somebody" to let Leroy know that he doesn't speak with people of his particular race. Leroy mentions the thing that just went down in the lunchroom -- how Vern's cohort was thrown in the hole as a result, and how Said is to blame. Leroy: "What I'm offering you, is to take care of Said." Schillinger continues to ignore him and says, "Will somebody tell him we can take care of Said ourselves? We don't need to subcontract." Leroy, "Will somebody tell him that I plan to get very close to Said, close enough to cut his throat." Vern stops and turns to regard Leroy thoughtfully.