Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blood And Guts
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 08.17.1997
In the CO locker room, Hunt drinks some wine out of a bottle and smokes. This show just keeps giving me great ideas. Diane asks if he's drinking on the job, but he says he's off duty. Just to be fair to her, I think she was expressing concern, not self-righteousness. Hunt toasts Smith and Groves, although the content of the two varies a bit. He starts to spew some circular logic about whether it's better not knowing if he killed Groves. Diane: "Go home. Sleep it off." Thanks, hon. Hunt says he doesn't think he'll sleep much that night. Another bottle of that stuff and you will, dude.
Hill goes back to the "mice and men" quote, and talks about rats. God, shut up.
Dobbins plays the cello in the cafeteria. Hill asks Diane who he is, and she says he's a hotshot cellist that McManus gave permission to practice for an hour every day. As long as he's not Omar White. Hill seems mesmerized by Dobbins's playing. Suddenly we're in a sepia flashback, as Dobbins watches some young dude play the violin. He rushes at him from behind, and stabs him with the point of his cello. And they let him bring that thing into Oz? "Prisoner Number 97D403. Eugene Dobbins." Murder two, twenty-two years, parole in eight. Back in the cafeteria, Dobbins tells Hill that his cello was made in 1744. Dude, they should have made Red Cello instead of Red Violin. Especially with the blood and all. I'm overthinking again, aren't I? He says that he keeps it locked in the chaplain's office. Hill opines that it's beautiful, and Dobbins agrees, but says it's also lonely, as he has no one to play with. Uh, maybe I'm overthinking yet again, but I'd guess you'd have people to play with if you didn't, you know, stab them to death. Later, in the gym, Vahue shoots hoops, then asks Wangler if he has any drugs. Hill starts to leave, but Vahue presses him to take a hit of his stuff. I think Hill's now more impressed with Dobbins's instrument that with Vahue's balls. What?
Pete's office. Hill gets confirmation that their talk is confidential, and brings up Vahue, from which Pete quickly deduces that Hill's sniffing to impress him. God, Pete has more smarts than Glynn and McManus put together. But really, you wouldn't accept any less from a Rita Moreno character, would you? Pete says she'll talk to Vahue without implicating Hill, and tells Hill to quit it with the heroin and come to counseling. She sighs and looks at him. "Maybe it's time you got yourself another hero." He's way ahead of you, Sister. She adds fondly, "'Cause to be honest, the one you got sucks." Sister, can I buy you a drink?