Episode Report Card Megyn: D | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Bill Of Wrongs
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 07.25.2000
Props to Denise for taping this episode, as my VCR decided it just wants to be a VC. Also, props to whomever thought of the lemon drop martini and somehow knew it would become an integral part of my workweek. Bless you.
Fade in on Augustus Hill, narrator to the stars, yapping about the Bill of Rights and the preservation of liberty while an American flag backdrop lowers behind him. Note to Hill: Irony doesn't actually have to, you know, fall on us like a sack of iron -- we get that prison is unfair. Cut to Leo Glynn giving a statement to a bevy of reporters about the recent escape. He says in a calm, assertive and very "I'm in control here despite the fact that I'm currently shy two prisoners" kind of voice, "Sometime yesterday, before 5 pm, two inmates escaped through a tunnel, under the southeast wall of the prison." He continues, "Miguel Alvarez, thirties, Latino, Agamemnon Bousmalis, fifties, Caucasian, are not believed to be armed -- Alvarez is, however, considered to be dangerous." We cut to the TV area inside Oz and see that the inmates are watching the whole thing on TV. Cut back to Leo; flashbulbs are going off as an eager reporter, who seems to be perfecting his impression of a mid-thirties Jimmy Olsen, asks Leo how long it took them to dig the tunnel. Did it take more than a day? A week? Leo says he wouldn't know, but the reporter isn't finished. "How come none of your staff knew about the tunnel?" Leo goes into the explanation that Bousmalis was a low-risk prisoner and Alvarez, although dangerous, was on medication. We go back to the inmates watching the whole thing on TV as Simon "Toboggan Noggin" Adebesi rags Hernandez, a.k.a. "Willie Lopez," about the fact that he "missed his chance to kill Alvarez." Hernandez gives him a sour face while scrunching one eye, as if straining to pass the obstruction behind his eyebrows that causes his forehead to reach a size of Dawson Leery (tm Sars/Wing Chun) proportions, and says, "Adebesi, you better shut the fark up." You can see here how I am following the fine example set by Djb last week to keep the expletives at a minimum. He didn't really say "fark." That would be silly. Adebesi sits back and chuckles at his own cleverness.
We see Glynn enter his office with Wendy and Governor Devlin. Leo is grousing about "those gosh-golly-darn reporters." Devlin obviously went religiously to acting class to learn how to enter a room with one hand in his jacket pocket while raising an eyebrow to look confident and politically savvy. Anyway, Devlin tells Glynn, in a smug tone, that Glynn handled the reporters extremely well. Wendy breaks in with "people love a prison break -- it's sexy and exciting." Wendy needs a clue. And a boyfriend. Stat. While Glynn reassures the both of them that he will search high and low for the escaped convicts, Devil-in says, with a tell-tale I-patented-this-while-staring-in-the-mirror bobbing head that's proof of an obsession with George Clooney, "I hope so, because if you don't, you're chances of becoming Lieutenant Governor are zero."
We go to Glynn "Buster" questioning Rebadow, who says glumly that he's hurt that Bousmalis didn't ask him to go with him. Then we see Hernandez with Glynn, saying he never heard from Alvarez, while Glynn reminds him that he hates Alvarez and that turning him in would be a way to exact revenge. As Hernandez leaves, he passes Ade"beat'cha" and sees him pantomiming killing Poet but not succeeding -- in essence, ridiculing him for not being able to kill Alvarez. Hernandez says, "You won't be feeling so flippin' cocky when I talk to the hacks." And, no, he did not say "flippin'." Adebesi asks about what. Hernandez says, "About you giving Frenchy the gun." "Warden wants to know how he killed four guys, soon as they find out it was you, they'll ship you to death row." As he says this, he gives Adebesi the thumbs-up sign. Wait. That's not his thumb. Cut to Hernandez ratting Adebesi out to Glynn in Glynn's office. When asked who Adebesi got the gun from, Hernandez says it was Clayton Hughes, the day Glynn fired him.