We fade up on a rotating skull, which morphs into the head of "Ajustice" Hill. The prologue in question would be the debate on whether criminal minds are predestined or simply an effect of environment. Thus segueing to
prisoner number zero zero G one one five, Detective Bruno Gergan. The flashback to his crime shows us what a bad cop he is, or was. Cut to the interior of Emerald City. Bruno is being led through and passes Mobay and Poet as they pass drugs between them. We notice a look of recognition on Mobay's face, which turns to a look of "oh shit." Bruno returns the look as he passes. Poet asks Mobay if he knows him, to which Mobay all too casually replies, "Naaah, he's just so fucking ugly." Cut to the interior of Mobay's pod. Bruno is gleefully saying how he saw Mobay and wondered "what the hell Johnny Basil is doing in Oz!" Mobay asks him if he plans on blowing his cover by leaking to the inmates that he's a cop. Bruno says one hand washes the other, my brother in blue. Bruno doesn't want the others knowing he's a cop either, lest they introduce his neck to Mr. Icepick. Mobay tells him he remembers Bruno from when they were cops and what a bully Bruno was, strong-arming people when there was no need. Bruno evilly asks him if that means he wants Bruno to tell everyone who he is, and we see Hill wheel himself into the pod. Mobay lapses into accent and says he will help him any way he can. Bruno, satisfied, leaves.
We go to Sister Pete with Bruno in her office: "Normally, when a cop comes into Oz, I give them special counseling." Bruno regards her in all his cocky glory and asks why he would need extra help. Sister explains how going from a position of authority to being in a position of, well, basically nothing can be potentially upsetting. Bruno pooh-poohs her concern and denies needing any "special" attention. He gets up to leave and turns to say, "You know, my wife was a nun for years." Really? Sister asks, as the room fills with the unmistakable creaking sound of un-oiled hinges on the huge trap door opening underneath her. Bruno: "Yeah -- she fucks like a $500 whore. Must've been all those years of pent-up chastity." Actually, Bluto, I think you mean pent-up sexual frustration. You see, chastity was what she practiced, so it couldn't very well be "pent up," could it?
Cut to the gym, where Mobay seems to be lifting weights and Bruno is running on the treadmill. He's approached by two of Adebesi's disciples, who proceed to engage our fearless gorilla into a battle of racial slurs and end up beating his ass against the chain link fence. Later, we see Mobay shaving in the bathroom, and while I furrow my brow in confusion as to why he's allowed to have a razor in prison, Bruno points to his blackened eye and says, "How is THIS you watching my back? You should have pulled those apes off of me." Mobay and I both say "Those apes?" Bruno tells him that time he's going to blow the proverbial lid off of Mobay's cover.
Cut to Mobay with Adebesi, Pancamo and Morales who are giving him a gentle reminder that in order to join them in their quest for the holy jail, he has to "do the deed," i.e. kill someone. He must make it look like an accident and do it far away from Em City. Cut to Mobay and Hill, lying on their beds. Mobay asks Hill if he will help him join Adebesi and the gang by helping him kill someone. Hill says, "I ain't helping you kill anybody. The coke is rotting your brain." Uh, drugs are bad, mmmkay? As the sun rises over a new day in Em City, we find Mobay and Bruno in the laundry room. Mobay tells Bruno that Hill knows he's a cop. Bruno is appropriately bummed at the news. Mobay then tells him convincingly that Hill wants to meet, and how 'bout they tip Hill's chair, with him in it, down an elevator shaft? Cut to said elevator shaft and the dynamic duo waiting for Hill to arrive. Mobay busies himself readying the elevator while Bruno laments about how working the streets as a cop wasn't so bad compared to prison. Hill wheels into the room, asking Mobay crankily why he wanted to see him. Bruno grabs the chair and starts to wheel him towards the open elevator shaft. Hill immediately gets frightened, looking helpless as he grabs anything he can to keep Bruno from pushing him over. Mobay says, "No, let me." And turns Hill around so Bruno is behind the chair but in front of the shaft, then shoves Bruno down. Smell ya later, detective!
Back to the main room in Em City, where Murphy is announcing a lockdown. Mobay comes down the stairs looking pleased as punch and informs Morales that there was an accident "far away from Emerald City." As Mobay saunters away, we pull back to see Morales perfecting an expression of "Wha?" and Adebesi, who is standing on the stairs, pretty much makes the same face as Morales. Mobay enters his pod with Hill right behind him, saying, "Man, I'm seriously considering moving to another cell!" "Relax, mon, the worst is over." Then we see how Mobay got his groove back as he sniffs a shot of courage and good humor up his nose.
In the visiting room, Mobay greets his partner, who, in case we all don't understand the relationship between them, calls him "partner" whenever she can. Mobay asks her why she's there; she tells him it's because she hasn't heard from him much, and when she does, the e-mails don't make sense. Um, that's because he's been stoned out of his gourd, partner. Mobay's been starring in his very own, very "special" episode of Oz. She scrutinizes him and then asks, "Have you been using?" Mobay says no, but she doesn't buy it: "You have. I can see it in your eyes." Mobay asks what else she sees, and she sees someone in his life that may be going on a long trip. Someone with the initial J. Okay, that didn't happen, but Mobay does say that he's very close to busting these guys and to please not report this. He needs just a little more time. She relents: "Okay, but I want to hear from you every day -- every goddamned day!" At this time, Hill has entered the room (of course) and is greeted by his wife, who kisses him. A shot of Mobay looking at his partner while Hill glances over at Mobay with the look of someone who definitely knows something's rotten and is about to find out what smells.
And we're in Leo Glynn's office, where we see a flurry of activity and cameras. Just in time to help set up the storyline, his wife enters. She looks over at Mobay and asks, "What's the hubbub?" Yes. She actually said that. No, I don't know why. Mobay tells her they are shooting a public service announcement. She then notices his sweaty face and tweaked-out expression and asks if he's okay. Mobay replies, "I may be getting the floo." Yes, indeed, some coke "floo" up his nose and made him all sweaty and strung out. Glynn's wife has already tuned him out and is now asking to speak with Glynn in private. They walk into the bathroom, and she tells him the Tribune is planning to break the story about Glynn's brother, who is currently doing life for murder. Leo accepts the news with little reaction and says he knew it was going to happen. A baseball-hat-wearing director man opens the door without knocking and tells them the schedule is tight. Instead of jabbing hat guy in the eye for interrupting, Leo exits to shoot the commercial, and Mrs. Glynn watches from the doorway while everyone else cocks their head to listen to the sound of trouble brewing in the marriage.
scene. Anyone wanna guess who Glynn goes to for advice? None other than the illustrious Guv'nah Devlin, who is currently walking down the same hall that everyone seems to walk down when there's something to be discussed. Let's tune in, shall we? "This isn't such a terrible thing," the Guv'nah says confidently. He suggests they turn it around and mold it into an advantageous sorta thang. He points out that Glynn was the very one who got his brother to turn himself in. Glynn then ducks so the wrench that Guv'nuh is about to throw doesn't hit him in the face: "We need to leak your daughter's rape to the press." Screeeeeeech! Glynn stops, turns, and stoops down the necessary three feet to look the little leprechaun in the eye: "I am NOT going to exploit her rape just to get elected." After looking around for a pile of rocks or books to scramble atop in order to return the gaze, Guv'nah says with all his Lilliputian might, "People don't vote for a candidate with values and beliefs, they want a husband and father -- someone who understands pain." Glynn: No means no. Devlin disgustedly says he needs a lieutenant governor with balls, since his are currently stuffed in his shoes to add one more crucial inch, and huffs off. The gates open, and he marches right between the guard's legs and out the door.
We now see Glynn standing with his faithful wife, holding hands before the press as he issues a statement about his brother. He intones, "I'm a family man, and there is nothing harder than to see my family suffer or cause suffering.My brother's crime devastated me[insert pregnant pause here]my daughter's rape did too." Ka-CHING! That is the sound of selling out, ladies and gents. Glynn's wife whips her head around to stare incredulously at her husband while the flashbulbs capture this beautiful Hallmark moment. Oy.