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. Something about Willem Dafoe and the quality of life or death. He must be talking about that movie he did with Madonna. It definitely made me question whether I wanted to live.
Visiting room. Reverend "Without A Cause" Dylan, visiting with a guy from the church of "Jesus Christ you took a lot of money from us!" He wanted to do this "face-to-face." Dylan balances his head on the tips of his fingers. Did I mention the abnormally large glasses he's wearing? And a plaid shirt? No wonder he's in jail. The fashion police have once again gotten their man. The man from church says that the "elders" have decided to ask Reverend No-More for his resignation. Luke is aghast. He removes his glasses of abnormally large size and drawls, "The elders voted unanimously on the day of my conviction, that they would stand behind me, no matter what!" The guy says he knows that, but being incarcerated and the scandal that sprung from it has had a less than fortuitous effect on "fund-raising." Luke says he wants to meet with the elders. Church guy says, "How? Via satellite?" Luke suggests they come to Oz. CG says it won't happen, and presents him with a letter of resignation lacking only in signature. Luke looks at it. CG says, "Sign." Luke pauses. Then he signs it. Hey! He's left-handed like me! Except I don't write like a retard. Luke leaves.
The Lunchroom Of Trouble again. Kirk is holding court at a table with all of, I assume, the "congregation" Rev. Dylan has built. The good reverend himself walks behind them, with his tray of square pizza and chocolate milk, and overhears Kirk: "All I'm saying is Cloutier thinks he's better than all of us." Burns breaks in with the baritone "I agree." Kirk continues, "Warden's got us doing physical labor, right? Cloutier got a cushy job in the requisitions office. We're loading cement. He's pushing a pen." Kirk has seen Reverend at this point, but continues on to say that the Rev. should be a "slave alongside us." Cloutier interjects, "Sewing more seeds of discontent?" Luke looks like he used a heavy hand with the ol' Dippity-Do Super Hold. I know that, when I get fired from my church, I like to fix my hair. Kirk says he's just "saying the truth." Dylan tells him to get up. Kirk is unfazed as he addresses the table once more and says the reason he got kicked out of the congregation wasn't because he attacked someone -- in the name of the Lord of course -- but because he disagreed with Dylan.
Dylan then asks Jim to escort him out. Jim feels that the man deserves to be heard. Coming from the man who participated in all the proposed beatings, it doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is the age-old, Mary Shelley-like way it takes only two men to voice concern to create the entire group to turn against someone and begin the lynching process. He healed Jim Burns from…something. Oh CRAP! Stupid itchy angel of distraction just stopped my pause button to show me that MTV is showing Jim Carrey interviews uncensored. Shit! Okay. I am strong. I am invincible. I am woman. So Dylan says, "Let him speak." And all I see is this one hair on his gelled head that curves outward. It's very distracting as it bounces hither and thither while he talks. Dylan and his hair walk away. Kirk excuses himself from the group to approach him of the phlegm-ball name, Hoyt, and asks if he's "still looking to do the Reverend Cloutier some harm?" Hoyt asks why and who wants him dead. Kirk: "Not…dead, exactly." He whispers into Hoyt's ear. I'm sure it's nothing he wants to share with the rest of the prison. Shot of Cloutier eating his pudding cup. Alone. The music swells to a "shit comin' down maaaan" level as we see steam. And a Bible. It's the shower, ladies and gentlemen. Luke's been working out. He turns from the shower, and there's no towel. Hoyt has taken it, and asks Luke if that's what he's looking for. Luke asks if this proves Hoyt's a stronger man. Well, no. But it gets you naked on TV, and that's all that matters. Luke has to walk out of the shower with nothing but a bible to cover his bits. And I'm afraid "bits" is entirely accurate. He walks shamefacedly back to his cell amidst the catcalls and general uproar.
Mukada's office. Shot of "Cool Water" Luke looking at a crucifix as he tells Mukada the story of when he was ten and his daddy, the preacher, called him up onstage. Luke healed a blind man. He was "special" and "famous," and everybody wanted to touch him. He then goes into the limos and the penthouses and how it all made him stray from the one thing he cared most about: Jesus. Pride is the sin that separates us from God and/or keeps us from asking for directions when we're lost on the freeway. Mukada strikes me as strangely…cute? With a new haircut? Oh dear GOD I've gone MAD! Luke explains that when he took the money, it wasn't stealing, but rather taking what was rightfully his. I guess now he realizes how wrong it was. Mukada: "In order to win your congregation back, you must show them you are not their superior, but their equal." How can he do that? By joining them in their work. Which may or may not be in the kitchen, I'm sayin'.