Episode Report Card Megyn: C- | 4 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Clayton Hears A Who
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.24.2001
Cafeteria. Beecher eating a shitty-looking lunch as Vern marches over with his Aryan friends. He leans in Beecher's face. They all start taking his food away like lunchroom bullies. Beecher wimps, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the parole…I don't really believe it's going to happen." Vern insists that it will happen because when they see Beecher, a "rich white boy," they'll grant it for sure. Beecher starts to interject but Vern's all, "You're NOT going free, bitch! You're not walking out of here and leaving me behind!" He spits food out onto Beecher's tray and gets up to leave. Then he snarls for Beecher to clean up the mess. The saddest part of that scene is when I see that Beecher's sandwich was just two pieces of bread with one cheese single. Beecher looks worried.
Tim's office. Sister Pete tells Tim and Beecher that she spoke to Vern, and he promised to be a good little racist. Beecher says he's lying. She seems to be aware of that, but thanks him for the newsflash. He insists that Tim put him into solitary. He can't, though, because Vern hasn't done anything. Also, it's full. So is protective custody. No, he'll just put Beecher in his own pod and let him take his meals there. A guard will be placed outside his door. Beecher leaves the office, looking -- say it with me now -- worried. We cut to the common area, where Beecher stands in his pod with a guard out front, as the bikers all look as though they are plotting something. We hear Said and Arif talking about how the Aryans look like they are plotting something. Arif explains that they are trying to provoke Beecher into committing an act of violence so he jeopardizes his chances at parole. Said says he will prevent that from happening. That he will do it for Leroy and all the others whose lives were destroyed by those nasty Aryans.
The weight room. Vern works out. Robson walks up and reports that "Hoyt and Hick can't get near Beecher." The parole hearing is the next day at eleven. Enter the Muslims, led by Said. "Well, if it isn't my old friend, James Robson." Vern says he promised the warden there wouldn't be any trouble between the two groups, then calls for the officer to stand nearby. Said walks up close to Vern, looks at him, and just smiles.
We're back in the common area. Said walks over to visit with Beecher. He asks him how he's holding up. Said wishes him well. Beecher thanks him. They hug. It's beautiful. Then Beecher decides to psychoanalyze Said about accepting his guilt and facing what killing Adebesi is putting him through. Said claims that he feels no guilt from killing him. Beecher says what "haunts" Said is Adebesi's life, not his death. Which makes no sense. Beecher says, "I saw your face, the moment after you killed Adebesi, and a part of him bled into you." Said tells him he's wrong. Beecher insists that Said has "denied the Adebesi" within him. He then advises him to embrace his Adebesi. Said tucks his lips over his teeth and leaves.