Episode Report Card Djb: D | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT In The Claire
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2000.08.30
This seems a bit late in the going to just be starting up now, but we cut to the laundry room, where Arif listens to Said talk crazy about wanting to move in with Adebisi to get a hold of that videotape. Why not just walk into the pod and take a tape or two while he's out being evil over in one of those classrooms? I'm just sayin'. Meanwhile, a stoned-as-all-get-out Poet is under the steps. He is approached by one of Adebisi's henchmen, but Poet lets his guard down and offers the information that soon they "won't have to worry about Adebisi anymore. Me and Said, we're working on that angle." Henchman has his information and leaves, reporting back to Adebisi, "It's what we thought." And still, that evening, Adebisi welcomes Said into his pod. Adebisi is all smiles.
Glynn's office. McManus yells quite loudly that Glynn hasn't been at Em City since Querns started working there, and "don't you think it's time for another fucking visit," a comment necessitating a retort of the "I'm the warden, dammit! You can't talk to me like that!" variety. And, in fact, Glynn delivers one. McManus pays no mind, continuing on with a warning that "the behavior there is illegal, immoral, and Querns turns a blind eye. You gave the man a free hand because he kept the violence down. But two inmates are dead. You've got to step in." McManus leaves. Glynn frowns extravagantly.
Back in Em City, lights out signals that it's girlish-bonding time for new roommates Said and Adebisi to get to know each other better, play Truth Or Dare, braid each other's hair, and write really catty things in each other's slam books like "Trying to steal contraband tapes" or "Actively, and with every fiber of his mortal coil, trying to kill me." So Adebisi cuts to the chase: "I know you have come to destroy me." Said says he merely wants to help Adebisi change, but Adebisi claims, "That is what would destroy me," before undertaking his best Popeye demeanor and claiming, "I am what I am." Then he hands over the tape, claiming, "I have everything. Everything I need. Every lust satisfied. And it's not enough. It'll never be enough." But. But why? "Because we are still in Oz." Adebisi strips down to the tighty-whities that are more than a little incongruous with the rest of his dangerously large body and climbs into bed. Said is just relieved that the ol' "I get to be on top" bunk-bed joke has played out so benignly in these new surroundings.