Episode Report Card Megyn: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do you like gladiator movies?
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.27.2001
Morales and Pancamo play cards in the playroom. The refugee who was friends with ESG -- his name sounds like "Gong," but I hate to misspell things so I'll just call him "Fred" -- sits and stares at the Italian twosome, which makes Morales highly uncomfortable. He turns and yells, "Stop staring!" Pancamo tells him to chill. Morales says he "keeps staring at me like he is putting a curse on me or something." Then Murphy shows up and tells Fred that the warden wants to see him. Off they go, leaving Morales to fret about why the warden wants to see Fred.
In Glynn's office, Fred tells Glynn and Ms. Gau that Morales killed ESG. Glynn asks, "Do you have any proof?" Nope. They tell Fred they didn't call him there to see his Jessica Fletcher impression, but rather to tell him that the man responsible for landing him in this hell-hole has been arrested and will, of course, be serving time in Oz, because there is no other prison. Anywhere. They will keep the refugees isolated from him, which means they will only let them hang out in the back storage room, like, a few days a week. The one with the staple guns and the large, blunt objects in it? Fred wants to meet the guy. He asks them what possible harm he could do to him. Really bad flashback of Jia Kenmin, the man in question, being arrested in what looks like either a bad set dresser's idea of China or a bad set dresser's idea of Chinatown. We go to the room of interaction, where they are told they have five minutes. Jia sits. He is very, very pretty. He looked cheesy in the flashback, but in this scene he looks kinda hot, and I want to pet him. Jia: "So?" Fred: "I am told your parents left China, same as us, escaped the horrors to make a better life for you…how can you treat your own people like dirt?" Jia just looks at him. Fred tells him there is one thing he must do to restore his honor and the honor of those who have suffered. He leans in and tells him in Chinese to kill Enrique Morales. "Will you do that?" We never hear Jia's answer, but see him walking through Em City with his stuff. Pretty, pretty panda. Wait…wasn't he supposed to be isolated from the refugees? How is putting him in Em City, amongst the cots, in any way "isolation"? Right on cue, we witness a newscast reporting that the refugees are to be sent back to China. While the newscaster bleats, everyone stares at the pretty new guy.
Solitary. Supreme is being released. As he walks through the common room, Keller looks him up and down as we hear Redding tell Poet and Hill that he knows Supreme. He refers to him as "Ketchum." Poet corrects him and explains that he is now known as "Supreme Allah." Hill says Allah has been on trial for killing two other inmates. Allah walks up and acknowledges Burr with "heard you were in circulation." Burr replies, "Get the fuck away from me, Ketchum." As he leaves, Hill looks confused and asks Burr what that was about. Burr asks Hill if he "ever wonders how the police knew [Hill's] whereabouts the night [he] was arrested." Hill: "I assumed they had me under surveillance." Burr tells him it's all bullshit, that Supreme turned Hill in. If it weren't for Supreme, Hill wouldn't be in the wheelchair, or in Oz. Now that's a lot to lay on a dude. Hill backs up in his chair and looks ill. He wheels himself away.