Episode Report Card Megyn: F | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT West Suck Story
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.20.2001
Leo enters the holding cell where Clayton sits. Leo reacts to Clayton's beaten face and visible weight loss as Clayton thanks him for bringing him back to Oz. He asks which unit he's going to. Leo tells him he's headed for unit J -- the cop unit. Clayton bitches about this until Glynn reminds him he doesn't have a choice. Never mind that Bruno Gergen was a cop and was sent to Emerald City back in the day. Oh, sweet consistency, why hast thou forsaken me?
Flashback. A cop beating a teenager in a chair. Another cop tries to restrain him. We hear Hill VO his name, which is Alvin. He doesn't look like an Alvin.
In the cop unit, which is a lot sunnier and brighter than the rest of Oz, Alvin asks Claire when lunch is getting there. She snarks back that lunch is coming "the same time as every other day." He tells her that he used to know a deputy sheriff like her. Mean, opinionated, yadda yadda. Claire: "Oh yeah?" "Yeah. But she went to a bar and got drunk. Then she got gang-raped on a pool table." Change that to a pinball machine and you've got yourself a Jodie Foster flick. I mean, she wasn't a deputy sheriff, but it's very close. Glynn walks in to break up the love-fest. He sidebars with Claire about keeping an eye on Clayton and making sure no harm comes to him. She rolls her eyes and says, "I'm a CO, not a miracle worker." Why does Leo let his employees talk to him like this? On his way out, Glynn stops at Johnny Basil's cell -- a.k.a. Mobay Dick -- and asks how he's doing. Mobay stares suspiciously and says he "couldn't be better," sans the fake accent (thank God). Glynn's all, o-kay then! And walks out. Lunch arrives courtesy of Poet, who tells Mobay helpfully that he seasoned his food extra special by dosing it. Mobay pushes it aside and picks up his orange. I would NOT touch that either if I were him.
Alvin sits across from Mobay and asks if Clayton is the one who shot the governor. Then he snarks that maybe Clayton should have gone to target practice. Clayton springs into attack mode, and a fight ensues. We fade to a flashback of Mobay pushing Bruno down the elevator shaft. It leads to a visit, already in progress, with his former superior, who tells him, "A lot of people in the department feel you did what you had to do." Mobay mopes, "Except Nancy." It takes me a minute to remember who Nancy is, since he doesn't call her "partner." The other guy reasons that it's hard for her...he betrayed her trust. He goes on to mention the fact that Mobay won't allow his wife to visit with their son. Won't even return calls. Mobay: "I can't face her." It is pointed out to him that he's doing to his wife exactly what Nancy is doing to him. The silence is killing her, and she would like to visit, without their son. Mobay ignores what was just said, rises, and offers his hand: "It was an honor serving under you, sir." Oh, please with the dramatics! Later, in his cell of doom and gloom, John-Mobay looks at a picture of his wife and son while lying in bed. He cries. Oh, shit. I just felt sorry for him. Dammit!