Episode Report Card Djb: D | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Love Pope
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 08.01.2000
Glynn is in full politico mode as he and Devlin discuss current issues at the prison in the middle of a smiley, hands-a-shaking photo shoot somewhere near the entry of the prison. Devlin lauds the capture of Busmalis and Cardinal Stubing's visit, telling Glynn that there is a bit of backlash, what with the upcoming execution and the fact that Alvarez is still on the loose. Wendy spouts statistics and makes Hillary Clinton-esque faces to complement the hair. Devlin tells Glynn to track down Clayton Hughes and tell him to stop talking to the press about the governor. Glynn recounts his relationship with Clayton's father, and Wendy's heartlessness and political motivation is unsubtly alluded to when Glynn reveals that Clayton's father died in his arms and she observes, "We could use that." Anyway, Devlin tells Glynn to shut Hughes up. And while he's on his way to find him, Glynn might want to stop by his local book retailer and pick up a copy of Catcher in the Rye and a biography on John Hinckley. I see Hughes doing something real radical in the future. And it's not "campaigning strenuously for the opponent."
Hughes and Glynn walk through the prison, and Hughes fairly freaks out when Glynn tells him to "cool the rhetoric." Hughes counters that Devlin represents "all that is evil in white society" (did he fail to meet Schillinger during his entire season in Oz?), and Glynn counters that Hughes only sees the world in extremes, as black and white. "Trust me," Glynn continues, "Life is gray. As gray as these fucking walls!" Wait, which walls are those? Oh, that's right. All of them. Clayton says that somebody "must stop him. And soon." Better put a rush order on that book.
The Alvah Case political ad blares on the Em City television as Stanislofsky comments to the O'Reily brothers that elections don't make countries great, but "to be ruthless" does. Cyril comments that he doesn't "know anybody named Ruth." Then he drops a box of toothpicks and counts them with expeditious speed before loudly insisting that it's time to watch Wapner. Okay, most of that doesn't really happen. The "Ruth" part does, though. Sadly. O'Reily leans in and tells Stanislofsky that they could make a lot of money renting out the threadbare leitmotif cell phone to the others in Oz. Stanislofsky doesn't want anybody to know about the phone. The he leaves. Ryan comments under his breath that he wants to find the cell phone. Cyril innocently (because what other emotion is there for Cyril, really) asks if he can be of help on this "treasure hunt." Cue almost "zany" montage of Cyril overturning desks, knocking books off shelves, and searching through other people's laundry to find the phone. All that's missing is the heavy-on-the-horns, up-tempo vaudeville soundtrack and the slapstick sequence where Cyril is reporting the missing cell phone by yelling into the very cell phone it is he's looking for, and this caper would be nothing short of wacky. Back in their pod, Cyril reports that he hasn't found it.