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
Computer room. Allah and Ryan are both on the computers, about two away from each other. Ryan acts irritated with his computer and asks Allah if he'll take a look at it for him. Allah looks at him and says, "No." Ryan asks if he has PMS or something. Oh, whatever, Ryan. The PMS joke just gets funnier and funnier. Supreme says he "did a lot of thinking in solitary" and came up with the brilliant formula of Shemin and Brown plus Ryan and Keller equals Supreme, almost on death row. Now you try! Ryan glares at him: "You added wrong, cuz." Allah says that addition was never his strong suit; he favors subtraction. Oz minus Keller and Ryan equals justice. God, please kill me. Ryan takes this in and gets up to back out of the room.
Meanwhile, in the laundry room, Keller asks Redding if he will take care of greasing Allah for him. Burr plays it cool and asks why he would want to do that. Keller offers his assistance. Burr clarifies that he "doesn't need assistance" in these matters, because he "doesn't mean the man any harm." Keller gets up and leaves. We next see Redding on the payphone while Poet stands guard outside, biting his nails fretfully. We hear Burr say, "Thursday, eleven a.m., sharp. Be on time!" He walks out, looks at Poet, and says, "We're all set." Off they go into the wild blue yonder as we cut stage left to see Keller and Ryan lurking in a corner. Ryan: "I'm telling you, we gotta do something." Keller: "Y'know, I just got the funniest feeling the old man is gonna take care of everything." With that, they walk away.
In the visiting room, Supreme visits with a girl, and we hear him tell her in muffled tones why he hasn't been in touch, solitary, blah blah yadda. At the table behind them, Poet indicates to his "guest" to check under the table for the next shank to be explained to us. Method Man reaches underneath the table, pulls the shank from where it's taped, gets up, and stabs Supreme in the gut a few times while the girl screams.
Hill. "This shank is a classic, a toothbrush, with the end carved into a sharp point. The brilliant part is, the weapon doesn't have to be concealed…you just put it in your pocket, brush side up."
Poet being questioned by Glynn. Poet denies knowing anything, about anything. Ever. Glynn bitches about the stabbing, and Poet unwisely says, "Don't be blaming me for your lax security." Glynn tells him that "a few days in the cage" should show him what for. That birdcage is the stupidest idea I have ever heard. It's right up there with throwing them into a dirty room, naked, with a bucket to piss in. Don't get me wrong, I like the naked part, but -- c'mon! This is rehabilitation? This is why McManus and his preaching piss me off. Anyway, we see Supreme being wheeled into the infirmary while Hill looks on from his bed of pain. Supreme looks pretty messed up. Again with the annoying balloon music. It's right up there with nails on a chalkboard and Yoko Ono records.