Episode Report Card Djb: D | 14 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Yawn. Look, Another Penis.
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2000.08.16
Cafeteria. Schillinger's Nazi Freak Henchman asks Schillinger if the Feds arrested Hank, and we learn that they nabbed Hank after he gave the girl up to Beecher's parents. Schillinger also doesn't know if Hank will turn his father in. "In" where, I have no idea. Certainly doesn't seem as if he can get any further "in" than he already is. Keller stops by the table for a moment to tell Vern that, when it comes to parenting, "you're father of the fucking year." Schillinger stands and walks away, while Keller calls out after him that when Schillinger dies, his name dies with him. He looks ruefully down at his lunch and throws it away uneaten, observing quietly, "And the world'll be a better place." Kill the man, save the food! Did the cheese sandwich kill Beecher's son? No, Keller, it did not. What was his name again? Larry?
An unparalleled number of full-frontal naughty bits make their appearance in a scene that pretty much gives me the one-eyed willies for its sheer shock value. Beecher is shaving and his new podmate and another friend are showering when Keller enters, removes his towel (it's a new scene, so it counts as a new sighting), and responds to New Podmate's request, "Mind if I fuck your girlfriend?" Keller doesn't care what they do. Beecher leaves. New Podmate and friend leave. Keller turns the water all the way to "hot" and puts his hand at his side (Hand. Thigh. Water. Naked. Just imagine what's included in THAT close-up) while the water pours down on it until it begins to bleed. Which is to supposed to be an unremittingly disturbing moment, I think, but doesn't even rank in the top three most starkly troublesome visual images I was forced to endure in the previous thirty seconds alone. And that doesn't even include the close-up.
Keller is in confession; Ray listens to Keller's "shucks, no way" admission that "in the past year or so [he has] committed numerous homosexual acts." Then he admits in one sentence to having sex with men and killing them before he came to Oz. Oops. Ray tells him he must confess this again, but this time to authorities. Ray refuses to absolve him until he does so. Keller calls him a "Hack in Black" -- an expression I've never heard, but think would make an excellent title for the debut techno album Ray's so clearly got up his sleeve -- and storms off.