Episode Report Card Megyn: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ryan's Hope
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.10.2001
The infirmary of lost souls. Gloria, Pete, and McManus all pretend he isn't a walking panty stain while he gets the bullet on Omar's condition. Gloria says she was just about to send him back to solitary. Then Pete tells him she thinks it's just the drugs that make him volatile. Drugs are bad. Marijuana is bad. I don't want to be good. McManus decides that if they can keep Omar clean, he's "salvageable." McManus walks into the room where Omar lies in his cot. "Hello Omar." Omar is all, "Hellooo Newman." No, really, Omar's all, "I'm sorry for shanking you," and McManus is all, "I forgive you," and then fairies alight on the shoulders of each and bitch-slap their asses while screaming, "Stupid little men!!" McManus asks him how he'd like to go back to Emerald City. "Instead of solitary?" That Omar, he's a smart cookie, you betcha. McManus says they'll "have to go over some ground rules" like, no stabbing me when we're together, 'k? And, no stabbing anybody else, 'k? WHAT. Ever, dude. He stuck you in the guts, not the nuts. Act like you have one, even two, and put him in solitary! Cut to the kitchen, where Poet asks Omar how he pulled that one off. Omar clicks and whirrs and grunts a whole lotta nothing.
Hill doing "Itsy Bitsy Spider," which is supposed to be Orpheus's wife strolling along and until she gets bitten by snake. Orpheus freaks out and demands that his wife be returned. Some goddess says, "Okay, on one condition, if you look at her before getting back to earth, she goes back to Hades, yo." Well, guess what? He does, 'cause he's a stupid-ass, and she goes right on back. Lesson learned? Get a snake-bite kit and a man who will listen. Problem being, snake-bite kits are hard to find.
Unit J. Claire sits on her ass while yapping on the phone to what sounds like a girlfriend. We overhear her saying, "You know how men are." While she doesn't do her job, Hatin' Clayton pounds the speed bag and decides to ask Alvin what kind of name Yood is. Al says it's American. Hatin' says, "There are no American names, dumbass" -- everything Alvin says is met with "dumbass," so for a change, it seems Hatin' is looking to scrap. It's so annoying how his character is just so punkish and looking for a fight when all anyone wants to do is help him. Ungrateful ass. Any. Way. Yood pretty much ignores Hatin' and tells him his name isn't American, it's "dumbass." Mobay calls to Claire and tells her to "do her job." She tells Clayton to put a lid on it. Clayton looks at Mobay and basically tells him he can't believe he took Alvin's side, since they are both black and Alvin isn't. Mobay for the most part ignores him, but does call him a "fuckwad," which I like. Cut to the visiting room of foreshadowing. Mobay greets his wife, who is already weepy, and she tells him she misses him a lot and to "come home." He reminds her he can't do that for three more years. She says she "won't make it three years." They talk of their son and how she has to be strong for them and for Robby. He tells her they will get through this and that everything will be okay. Next, he says he's ready for her to bring Robby for a visit. She looks at him like she just can't believe it, and then they touch foreheads and revel in their love.