Episode Report Card Kim: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Legs
By Kim | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 07.27.1999
Rebadow sits in the visitors' room, waiting. A guy and a little kid walk in. The little kid is wearing a beanie with a propeller on top. The fuck? The kid walks in, puts the beanie on Rebadow's head and hugs him. Rebadow glances over to the guy in the doorway, his son, and smiles. What was up with that beanie?
Flashback to Adebisi sticking Nappa with the AIDS infected needle. In the AIDS ward, Adebisi helps a patient into bed. The patient says he knew that Adebisi used his blood to try to infect someone with AIDS, and wants to know who it is. Adebisi tells the patient that he's delirious.
In the bathroom, Nappa asks Adebisi why he transferred to the hospital to be around "those fags." Adebisi says that outside, he doesn't like gays, but in prison, "sometimes you need your dick sucked." That Adebisi is a philosopher for the ages, no? Nappa says that unlike Adebisi, he has self-control, and he believes that "fags are fags, dirty perverted animals." Adebisi says gleefully that he wishes he were more like Nappa, and then asks about the Sicilian practice of kissing each other. Nappa says that is about "respect, not sex." Adebisi walks into the shower, drops his towel, and scratches his ass. He's still wearing the one striped sock. Man, that guy kills me.
Gloria tells Nappa that he's HIV-positive. Nappa says that it's not possible, because he hasn't had sex or shared a needle. Gloria says that she double-checked, and Nappa insists that she triple-check. Gloria tells him that by state law, he has to be transferred to a special HIV unit. Nappa wants to talk to the warden, and says, "This isn't happening to me!"
Nappa packs up his things in preparation for his transfer. Pancamo doesn't understand how this happened, and Nappa says that someone must have monkeyed with the tests. Nappa tells Pancamo that the unit is isolated, so they won't have contact, and until he gets back, Pancamo is in charge. As Nappa leaves, he goes to kiss Pancamo on the cheek, but Pancamo pulls away. Nappa walks out of Em City, right past Adebisi and his striped sock. Nappa enters his new cell to find that his roommate is in drag. He says, "Fuck!" as the door to his cell is slammed shut behind him. I love how one person's fortunes can completely change on this show in the space of about six minutes of airtime.
Flashback to Keller getting stabbed in the storage room. McManus visits Keller in the infirmary, telling Keller that he gets to go back to Em City by the end of the day. Keller is glad to hear that. McManus says that Keller made a miraculous recovery, considering that he had two stab wounds in the back, and wonders if Keller has any idea who did it. Keller says they attacked from behind and it was dark, so he doesn't know. McManus whispers that they know it was Schillinger, or someone taking orders from Schillinger, but they have no proof. McManus also thinks that Keller is talking all this calmly. Keller asks McManus about his brush with death in the riot, and talks about how that changes your perspective. Keller says he had every right to snitch on Schillinger, and Schillinger has every right to try to get revenge. Speaking of the devil (literally), in walks Schillinger, delivering mail. McManus says they know that he's behind Keller's injuries. Schillinger says that while it fits metaphorically, since Keller backstabbed him, he didn't do it. Schillinger wishes that he did, but if he had done it, Keller would be dead. Schillinger walks off while Keller chews his gum real hard.