Episode Report Card Megyn: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do you like gladiator movies?
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.27.2001
Poet, Hill, and Omar in the library, discussing when Redding will "make his move" on Pancamo and Morales. Omar pronounces Pancamo "Pank-a-mo." Hill tells Omar to relax -- Redding will tell them when the time is right. Omar looks up to see Rick the Fox enter the library and starts wriggling in excitement. "Is that who I think it is?" He wants to meet him, so Poet takes him over. Fox only wants drugs. Poet says, "I thought you were off the drugs?" Fox says, while looking at Hill, that he has another seven years, so he may as well partake of the goods. Omar is practically peeing himself, but before Alvarez can show up to splash around in it before drinking, Fox leaves. Omar needs a nice, calming herbal tea. He's very excitable.
Underneath the cloak-of-darkness stairwell, Omar bitches to Poet about how "nobody notices [him]" -- he just doesn't impress people. Poet just laughs, "What are you gonna do, man?" Omar yaks that he's going to make them fear him and pulls out a shank -- out of his ass, I presume -- and starts waving it around, and I try to make out the name on it…Mc…something…or other. Anyway, Poet nervously asks him to stop waving the shank in his face. Omar takes off and walks through the TV area. Pancamo tells him to move out of the way; Omar looks up, spies McManus, and proceeds up the stairs. He calls his name, and as Tim turns around, "Yeah?" Omar stabs him like the bitch he is…I mean, he stabs poor McManus. Pancamo, below, jumps up and cheers while Murphy freaks that Tim might die without ever knowing the lust burning deep within his hack heart, as he cradles Tim's head and calls for back-up. Tim moans; Hoyt claps his hands and asks "how it feels." Off Omar goes to solitary. Again.
Hill shows us the "knife" called a "blunt." "A prisoner pounds a hunk of metal while working in the shop, he then rubs it against a stone wall -- we got a lot of them here in Oz [insert my eye roll at the obvious here] -- and sharpens it into a blade. It causes internal damage." He does not explain what the handle is made of, or how the blade gets wedged in there. That's the part I don't get. The bayonet was pretty easy to construct, but how the hell do they get the blade into a handle?
Unit J, where the fun never stops and lunch is a little too salty. Mobay is playing cards with Alvin when a guard tells him he has a visitor. It's his "partner." Alvin sees his face and asks if it's his mistress. "Kind of; she pretended to be my girlfriend." He clarifies that she was indeed his partner, and that, until that very day, said partner had refused to see him. Pointless scene ensues where she acts cold and he asks her to understand that he "got too deep in Desmond Mobay." She tells him their captain ordered her to visit him; she blames him for everything from society's perception of the police to what makes the world a bad, bad place. Mobay just looks sad. She leaves and asks him to make sure he tells the captain she was there. She's a bitch. Back in the bad-cop/bad-cop unit, Alvin, bored, asks Clayton if he wants to play cards. Clayton rudely declines and sulks while petting his prayer beads. Alvin gets up and lets Clayton in on the secret that they are in the same boat up the same creek; they are all cops who "copped out." Yeah, Alvin, that was clever. Clayton pouts that he is not like him…he's a "political prisoner, incarcerated by an unjust system." "No, son, you're just a punk with bad aim." D'oh! Clayton: "And you're a dead man." "Is that a threat?" "It ain't a valentine." I think Clayton and McManus should go off on an island together. They both work my nerves.