Episode Report Card Kim: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Napoleon's Boney Parts
By Kim | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 07.20.1999
Cyril walks up and knocks on Ryan's pod door. Ryan is inside with some goofy redheaded guy that I've never seen before or since. Cyril wants to go work in the kitchen. Ryan says they're not working in the kitchen anymore. Cyril is hungry, and says he might go to the kitchen by himself. Ryan tells him he can't. Cyril is really, really hungry. Ryan tells Cyril to get off his stinking back, and turns back to goofy redhead, who is apparently in the market for some tits, and I don't mean boobies. Cyril shrugs and walks away.
Cyril walks into the cafeteria by himself, only to be intercepted and harassed by Robson, with Schillinger looking on. Robson is happy to see Cyril without his brother, and starts touching Cyril's hair and asking him for a little sumpin' sumpin'. Cyril gets pissed and takes a swing at Robson, and the hacks jump in and break it up. The hacks order Cyril and Robson to the hole, as McManus looks on from his office.
Gloria Nathan walks out of her office just as Ryan is being led through the stairwell by a hack. Ryan yells to her that, because he confessed to having Cyril kill Gloria's husband, his lawyer said he would only get forty years added to his sentence. Ryan yells, "Life plus forty years, Gloria! All for you!" The hack ineffectually pulls at Ryan's arm as Gloria walks off. Why do they even bother having hacks escort the prisoners if they're going to let them harass personnel like that? I'm just going to make up a storyline in my head about how that particular hack doesn't like Gloria because she gave medical treatment to one of his most hated prisoners, so he let Ryan verbally abuse her. Works for me.
Ryan runs into Em City yelling Cyril's name, and then Matt Dillon pulls a real sweet camera move as the camera pulls back to reveal that Em City is empty. He even throws in a janitor sweeping the floor, to show that it's REALLY empty. Hey, Matt, why not go the whole nine and have a tumbleweed roll through? Meanwhile, Cyril is being tossed into the hole. Naked, or at least naked from the waist up since that's all we see. Cyril screams that he wants to see his brother as the hack closes the window in the door.
Sean Murphy and McManus discuss Murphy coming to work at Oz. Murphy is apprehensive about working there due to Oz's reputation. McManus tries to convince Murphy that the two of them working together can make some changes. Ryan O'Reily interrupts to demand that McManus get Cyril out of the hole. McManus says that Cyril threw a punch at an inmate, but Ryan insists that Cyril must have been provoked. McManus wearily replies that he'll look into it and tells Ryan to get lost. Murphy asks what Ryan's deal is, calling him "a good Irish mug." McManus brings up the Cyril/Robson fight in the cafeteria earlier, and asks Murphy if he'd be interested in starting a boxing program like he did at Attica. Murphy says all they need is "time, gloves, and a good insurance policy."