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
Okay, here's the thing. I don't want to recap the dream. We all know he had it. He gets the parole and a new leather day-planner from Catherine, the Aryans try to kill him before he leaves, but he makes it and drives off in a car with Catherine the lawyer and they go on a picnic on a grassy knoll with Holly, the future serial killer. Then, he wakes up and he's back in his ugly pod with his one blanket and flat pillow. There you have it. I get the attempt and showing us the sunlight and yes, it was okay to see the exterior of Oswald, but stupid is as stupid does, Lieutenant Dan.
We open to the real parole day, with Beecher reporting to Pete that they asked him about defecating on Schillinger's face and biting off the tip of Robson's penis. He's "not sure if [his] answers satisfied them." The door opens. In walks Catherine-in-heat. "I'm sorry, Tobias, they voted no." They apparently were impressed, but his progress did not "balance" all the bad behavior from before. However, they will be open to another hearing in one year. Beecher leaves. Pete calls after him, "Tobias, stay here and talk for a while." He says he wants to be alone.
Back in Em City, everyone watches Beecher re-enter with various looks of interest. As he starts taking off his blazer and settling back in, they all realize he's not out. In the library, later, Beecher reads and Schillinger enters with Robson. Vern tells him he's happy they will still get to be inside together. Beecher stands, and Robson hold his arms behind his back so he can't get away. Vern suggests he and Beecher "kiss and make up." As Vern makes with the kissy-fish face, his expression turns to surprise, then pain, as we spot the white knit cap rising from behind him and see that Said has shanked Vern. Arif bursts in from behind where Robson has thrown Beecher to the ground and looks as though he's about to help Vern. Arif throws Robson to Said, who shanks him. Guards burst in and apprehend Said while Beecher looks either upset or disgusted.
Infirmary. Vern is lying on his side with blood on the pillow. Gloria asks him if he can move his foot, which makes me wonder if he might be paralyzed. She then goes over to Robson, who was stabbed in the gut and is swearing like a mad hatter. Cut to solitary, where Said is thrown in. Naked. He looks possessed. That boy's got the Adebesi in him! Back in Em City, it looks like they are all in lockdown, because nobody is walking around except for the guards. Beecher is in his pod, ripping the pages out of his new address book that Catherine gave him. Or, wait, that was in the dream. Maybe it's his old book. The hell?