Episode Report Card Megyn: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Bill Of Wrongs
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 07.25.2000
Oooh! Lookie! It's Busmalis, fresh from the escape tunnel with nary a bait hook in his fisherman's hat. Glynn informs him they are going on TV. Busmalis was apparently stalking a children's show star. Way to stay out of the limelight there, guy. Then we hear Glynn state to reporters that they are "closing in on Alvarez." Cut to Alvarez walking through the damp streets in a shot reminiscent of Glenn Frye's video for "Born in the City."
Back to the interior of Oz, at night; Hernandez is sleeping soundly while Bob slowly rises, clutching an ice pick that doesn't seem regulation size to me, and positions it over the sleeping Hernandez's neck. Tension-building music plays. We see Hernandez twitching his gargantuan forehead in his sleep while he dreams of chasing cars. Rebadow strikes, sticking the pick into Raoul's neck. Hernandez sits up in horror and shock and pulls out the pick, and as blood spurts out of his neck, letting us all know that an artery has been struck, he and Bob slam against the wall of the pod, grasping each other's necks and screaming. During the struggle, Hernandez loses strength and blood, and finally, Hernandez goes still as Bob continues his screaming.
Cut to Hill saying "Blah blah blah article five, blah blah due process, blah blah b-l-a-h. We see Hernandez being zipped into a body bag while Bob sobs uncontrollably, leaving us to wonder if it's all crocodile, or if he's sincerely distressed over killing another human being. We see various inmates looking on from their pods; Morales is one of them. Cut to Arif meeting with Kareem "I" Said "I don't want the power!" Arif tells Said, "You missed all the fun." Adebesi chimes in with his thoughts that the murder only helps them in their quest to have Oz run by a black man. Now they must un-seat Murphy, and Said can help them appeal to community leaders. Adebesi then approaches Said in the gym to confront him about helping them. Said refuses, since he wouldn't choose the same leader as Adebesi. As Said lets this sink in, Adebesi then says something in another language that I cannot understand no matter how many times I hit rewind. Meanwhile, Glynn and the "community" discuss how firing McManus was good, but the fact that a "man of color" is not yet running Oz is bad. Glynn plays to them and says he was planning on hiring a black man or woman for the job all along.
Cut to the wake-up siren, and Hill yelling at Mobay (God, we missed you, Mobay! No, actually, I don't think we did) for moving his wheelchair when he went potty in the middle of the night. They argue about it, an argument which consists of Mobay apologizing while Hill laments. They finally shut up in time for Mobay to get a signal from Poet indicating that the "powers that be" are willing to meet with him about selling him drugs. He walks in to Glynn's office and hands him his speech. Then he informs Glynn of the new development with the drug lords of Oz and tells him that he should cut his speech by half. ( Heh. Not.) Glynn tells him to be careful, since Mobay wouldn't have thought to be all on his own. We cut to Mobay meeting with Adebesi, Morales, Chucky, and various other inmates I don't know. They inform Mobay that they've seen him buy product, but they need to see it "go up his nose." Mobay, left with no other choice, snorts the drugs that they've laid neatly out on the ground for him, and we can tell it's going to have a bad effect. Afterwards, he lurches into his pod, sick, while Hill informs him helpfully that he needs some help. Then we hear an unseen officer yell, "Shakedown!" Which means everyone has to line up outside their pods while dogs sniff around their belongings. Cue Hill babbling. We'll just skip that part. Cut back to the dogs finding drugs in Mobay's mattress. They at first seem to assume the stuff belongs to Hill, but Mobay tells them the drugs are his. "To the hole!" Solitary. Mobay. Naked. Yeah. Glynn enters and asks if he's okay. Mobay tells him that he's fine as he lies on the cold, hard floor of solitary (naked. Yeah) while he gets sick from the drugs that are churning through his virgin crime-fighting system, and that it is a "momentary setback."