Last week on Oz: Cyril got shipped off. Supreme made nice with Hill, Mobay got stuck, and Ryan got accused of a crime he did commit.
We open with Hill explaining the difference between a hero and a goat. I dial him up and explain the difference between a rat's ass and a subject I'd give one for. He screens my call again. Slippery bastard.
First scene involves some nifty new camera work as we zoom in on everyone watching the tube from behind. It's extremely cutting-edge. In Bizarro World. It's all about Up Your Ante -- question being, what does it mean when a ref does this…give up? Okay, I'll do it again…you guys just aren't getting it, huh? Well, neither does the contestant. We cut to see Omar "Up My Nose With A Lotta Those" White looking around the corner all sly and covert, then turning to snort some of the devil's dandruff up his sniffer. I guess he didn't know that underneath the stairs, he's invisible, so he doesn't have to look around. I'm a tad feisty with this particular episode since I noticed about a hundred things that would NEVER happen in a prison unless it was being run by the blind and acutely unaware. Chico the tool spies White and meanders over to ask Omar how he's feeling. He's feeling good now. Everything is beautiful. Chico turns and says, "I'm still feeling all sorts of aches and pains from when you stabbed me." Omar says he's sorry…sorry Chico didn't die. Cue the flashback of Chico's crime, which was throwing a little person off a roof. Dude! Like, what's that about? That was a BAD Chico! Cut to Chico telling McManus that Omar is still a tit man. McManus tells him he's really more of a leg man, himself…big, long, hairy legs, that is. With a kickstand. Okay, I managed to gross myself out. McManus doubts the motive behind Chico's sharing and asks him why he's telling McManus this. He says it's because Omar shanked him, he shanked McManus, and it's only a matter of time before he shanks some other unsuspecting person. We see the call for shakedown. They shake 'em up good, but after they get Omar and pull a rabbit out of his hat, they shake crafty Chico down too. He's got a trick or two down his sock. Chico and Omar exchange dirty looks. Chico gets sent to the cage and Omar to McManus's office.
Ooh! Tim! You're SO harsh! In the office, Tim asks Omar why he shouldn't ship his sorry ass back to solitary. Now, we all know that when someone asks you why they shouldn't do something, it means that they don't really want to. An example of this would be: "Why should I take you back again?" "Why should I ever trust you again?" "Why should you ever be allowed around my house pets without a chaperone?" These questions beg for you to give the person a reason to not take action. Omar proceeds to embarrass himself by whinging and whining about the tits and the "temptation" and the need to put them "where they don't belong." He squeezes his eyes shut and grits his teeth to convey his incredible lack of acting skills or anything resembling acting skills. McManus then snaps, "You really think I'm a bubblehead, don't you?" Okay, first of all, we all think you're a bubblehead. Second of all, you get shanked by the damn guy and then make him your pet project, an action which the gold standard was based upon to measure the density of a bubblehead. Third of all, we all know you aren't going to punish him since you're talking to him about it so shut. Up. McDrainus. He's still going on and on about rehab and Omar not going. There's a session at one o'clock. He better be there or Tiny Tim will get really mad and make him write "I will not act up in prison" five hundred times. Omar leaves with the guard while Tim catches up on his paperwork. I peer at the screen to see what is actually on the paperwork…he seems to be writing a love letter to Murphy. I can't make out the writing but I DO see two boxes drawn at the bottom for "yes" or "no."
Rehab. Jackson saying that the key to quitting drugs is finding other ways to fill your time…like with trouncing McManus in basketball. Beecher then lends no help at all by saying that isn't enough. You have to hit rock bottom before you can "climb your way out." Thank you, 12-Step McGruff. We are sufficiently enlightened. Omar becomes a little squirrelly because he thinks Beech was "looking at [him]," to which Beecher responds that he was addressing the group. He was calling everybody losers…not just Omar. Omar: "What? You think you're better than me 'cause you quit and I can't?" Then he jumps up and tells Beech that all he did was switch from tits to licks, and that he can lick him if he wants. I don't think Beech wants to though. He starts getting all up in Beecher's face while Pete yells the requisite "Stop!" and Ryan pulls Omar back. Mayhem ensues as everyone begins fighting, kind of. I mean, they sort of slap at each other and yell insults, and there's a lot of people looking relieved that they're being held back. Kind of like a bar. The guards come in and break it all up. Beecher just looks like he gets jostled around and waves his arms a lot. He's such a wuss. Pete claps her hand to her face and rolls her eyes at the unruliness of it all.
Infirmary of nicks, scrapes, and heated forbidden passion. Everyone's wrecked. Hill's got a pack to his head. Jackson hurt his hand, Ryan's talking smack, and Beecher looks depressed. Oh, right. He always looks like that. Well, he now has some cuts on his knuckle too, even though I didn't see him throw a punch, and if he did, he probably didn't even hit hard enough to cut himself. I see him as more of a slapper, actually. Omar is sitting there, looking rode hard and put away wet. Pete tells Tim, "As a rule I don't give up on people but this guy Omar…he may be the exception." McYawnus barks Omar's name. Omar dutifully lopes over. They stand facing each other on opposite sides of the fence and Tim just looks at the very bad boy. Omar: "I know, I fucked up again, all bullshit aside, I want to own my own mind." McCrackass accepts this and yaddas about not knowing why he trusts Omar, but he's not giving up on him. Well, you continue trusting him because you are a dumbass. You're not giving up on him because you are consistent in your dumbassedness, never faltering in making the stupidest choices known to idiots. After he spits a very non-inspiring statement into Omar's face, he grasps Omar's hand, and Omar thanks him for believing in him some more.
Grainy flashback of Beecher facing the mother of the girl he killed while drunk driving. She's yelling, "You killed my baby!" while he stares numbly back at her. He's wearing glasses and shorter hair. Back to the present. Beech stares downward while Catherine the lawyer gives him the same good news as last week. Sister Pete is in attendance also. Once Catherine finishes telling him he could possibly be out by month's end, Beecher asks her if the parents of the girl have been informed that he'll be roaming the streets. Free. She tells him that it's not advisable to do that, as they could in turn sway the board to deny parole. Beecher explains, "Until my son was killed I've never fully understood what I've done to those people. I can't go back into the world knowing I snuck out." In essence, he feels he must have their blessing so as to ensure his spot right to Jesus. Pete says that before they tell them, she will first arrange an interaction between him and the parents, prior to the hearing. He turns to Spready McSlutsky and asks her if she understands why he must do this. She schmoos, "As a lawyer, I think you're insane…as a mother [reaches over to cover his hand with her own], I think you got balls for days." And I bet she would love to see if she's right. Pete beams at the two of them.
We cut to the interaction. Beecher sits opposite the two parents. Pete is at the head of it. Beecher begins, "Last time we saw each other, Mrs. Rockwell, I didn't say much." Mrs. Rockwell: "You didn't say anything." He agrees. "Well, that's because I was on drugs…I was confused and full of self-loathing." Mr. Rockwell asks, "And now you've forgiven yourself?" Beecher: " No…what I did to your daughter will shadow me forever, just as being in Oz will. What's happened to me in here…well…whether I've suffered enough to satisfy you, I don't know." Mr. R: "When you were sentenced to fifteen years, I was stunned. Fifteen lousy years doesn't equal the lifetime my daughter lost. You say you've suffered…I say I'm glad." We cut to Pete's reaction, which is calm concern. The dad really looks like he'd be one of those drill sergeant dads that would yell if you got an A minus in math. Beecher tells them that when the lawyer told him he could be paroled, she said it was because of the extenuating circumstances, that the board might look kindly upon him. Pete encourages him to explain the "circumstances." He continues, "Since I've been inside, my son was murdered and my wife may have been." He makes a dumb comment about how when he entered Oz he was "walking across the grave of [their] daughter" and I get that, I really do, but I think it was an inappropriate way to word it. He adds that he is now walking across the graves of his family. It just sounds weird. Mrs. R: "When I saw you four years ago, the pain of Kathy's death was still so new, and David and I grieved and grieved, we still do. But the sorrow is balanced with joy, we have another child, Richard, and he's growing up to be remarkable." She continues on to say that although they still don't understand why their daughter is gone, they accept that it must be part of some "wise plan." She finishes by saying how they cannot decide if he's suffered enough -- only God can decide that. Cue Pete's deep look at her shoes. Mrs. R to Beecher: " We will not interfere with your parole." Beecher looks both pained and relieved. Fade out.
Hill. A good man knows where to draw the line. I've had it. I dial his number again. Hello? Hill? What the HELL are you talking about? I realize you break the show into sections and bring me some sort of hope that I'm making progress as I tap, tap, tap away but o-mi-gawd! What's with the pointless reference to what good men do? We are dealing with inmates! None of them are "good." Not even you! Hill pauses before replying sadly, "I was trying to share my knowledge with you, young Megyn, perhaps the deepest form of love. One small glimpse of sunshine in an otherwise dismal recap -- and yet, you beseech me for logic? Have I failed you so miserably? By the gods, no! It will not be! I will find your logic! I will travel far and near. Consult with poets and shamen. I will fornicate with whores and virgins. Yes, I accept the divine quest to scour the black depths of my soul and unlock the mysteries of human behavior, all for one iota of logic, and when I find it, like the holy grail, I will return to you, bathed in the blood of my struggle…staggering to you, fall to my knees to lean in and whisper in your ear, the logic you so long to hear. And then, in the warm glow of the moment, you will smile knowingly, for you are, at this point, drunk beyond comprehension. Your eyes brighten and tear at our folly as you laugh at the absurdity of my quest." [Long silence.] Uh, Hill? I actually need to finish this episode during the season, mmkay? Click!
Solitary. Clayton the red-shirted looks through his little window and tells Robson he is "one ugly motherfucker." Robson retorts, "I don't see you modeling in Milan." We cut to Alvarez, engaged in self-love, telling them to shut up so he can concentrate. Probably on his fantasy of having a plot. The guards tell them all to stow it since the warden is on deck. What is this, a spaceship? Glynn enters Clayton's cell and asks the guard if he frisked him. Clayton asks, "You actually think I'd shank you?" Glynn tells him to get to the point. Clayton shares his new plan to confess to the murder of Mobay and ask for the death sentence. He has also taken it upon himself to write a manifesto. Glynn freaks out that he got a hold of paper on which to write said manifesto, and orders the guard to make sure Clayton is not allowed near paper again as he rips up Clay's masterpiece. Clayton can't believe it and tries to attack Glynn but is restrained by the guard, who throws him on the bed. He starts cracking up to remind us all that he's crazy, and they leave him. Robson joins in by screaming to Leo that he wants a lawyer. Get him, Said! He continues yelling and finally begins to bark. Yes, bark. Like a dog.
Hallway. Glynn walking with Said and a guard. Glynn is telling Said, "I don't want to release Robson from solitary any more than you do but I have no choice…Carl Jenkins committed suicide, and a good defense attorney could shoot holes through his testimony." Said recaps why Robson should be punished as they reach the gate to Em City. Glynn says that keeping him in solitary would be "unjust." Said: "Now why is it that justice only works in somebody else's favor?" He then enters Em City to be greeted by the Muslims, who all seem to be wearing the fall collection from J.Crew. Cut to the library, where Said is standing face to face with Arif, telling him he has such rage inside him. Arif tells him he's always been able to control such emotions. Said insists that he feels "possessed." Arif suggests that Said pray to Allah for peace. Said: "Pray? I pray, and I pray and I…" Robson and Schillinger, entering, cut him off. Robson smirks, "Yo! Sorry about what happened to Leroy Tidd." Said goes berserk and begins growling and throwing punches. Arif knocks Schillinger out with one punch. Said continues beating on Robson. He hits him over and over while a guard tries to get into the room but can't. We see Said still hitting. Sort of a visual testament to his craziness, in case we didn't get it yet. Cut to the hole. Said is ushered inside while we fade to a bloody mangled Robson in the infirmary, muttering slurs to himself while a nurse shakes her head. Then we see Arif holding court with the Muslims regarding the current situation. He tells them the Aryans must be punished. Cut to Schillinger with the Aryans, telling them basically the same thing, but about the Muslims. It's war, y'all. Schillinger wants them all to carry weapons whenever they can.
Schillinger enters Mukada's office, where Reverend Dylan awaits him. "What the fuck is this all about?" Dylan tells him Mukada lent his office to him because they all fear an escalation in hostilities between the Aryans and the Muslims. Schillinger confirms that there is about to be a rumble and that Dylan himself should watch out. Dylan says he's aware that Vern thinks Robson was "turned in" by Dylan, but Dylan insists that what he did, he did "in the name of justice." Schillinger differs: "No, what you did, you did because Robson got pissed when you tried to turn me into a psalm singer." Dylan admits that he never intended to convert Vern, but to "bring joy into [his] life." He uses the grandspawn as an example. Vern softens by opening up about his fears that the spawn is not his, thus making it a mere baby. He asks Dylan if he ever got around to asking Sara if she asked Carrie about her ever being a prostitute. Dylan says he did, and it never came up in their conversations, although he didn't instruct Sara to ask her directly. Schillinger says he's due to visit with Carrie and the alleged spawn in one hour. Dylan poses a challenge to that, saying, "Unless the warden puts the entire prison in lockdown." He makes a deal with Vern: if he ensures there will be no problems between the Aryans and the Muslims for right now, Dylan will arrange for the warden not to lockdown so Vern can visit with Carrie and get to the bottom of the baby with fourteen dads. My, my -- Dylan sure has power for an inmate. Why, exactly, would the warden listen to Dylan? I mean, Jim Walsh wouldn't even let him take his daughter to Mexico!
Cut to the visiting room as Carrie changes Jewel into a fresh nappy. The infant is again swathed in pink. Carrie actually looks pretty. Not as trailer as before. Vern enters, she greets him, and he looks down at the wee peanut. I want to squeeze the baby because her cheeks are so chubby and cute. As an egg drops somewhere in southern California, Carrie picks Jewel up and offers her to Vern, who declines to her. "Something wrong?" Vern: "I'm going to ask you some serious questions…and I want the truth." Carrie: "Okay." "Put the baby down." At this point I was scared he was going to hit her, which would have sent me over the edge. She puts Jewel down, and the baby starts to cry. He tells her that it "came to [his] attention" that she worked the streets, and says he thinks she knows it isn't Hank's baby. She starts to protest that she doesn't know for sure that the baby isn't Hank's. She says the day Jewel was conceived, she slept with three men: Hank, and two out-of-town salesmen. She doesn't know which one is the father. She doesn't look pretty anymore. Maybe it was the lighting before. Now she has a face that would make a train back up and take a dirt road. Carrie pleads with Vern, "Don't she look like Hank?" Vern looks at the baby and storms out of the room.
The hole. McManus enters and asks Said to assure him that the Muslims will keep the peace as long as the Aryans will. Said sits in the corner and pets his throat while spitting and smiling. He tells McManus he can't assure him of anything, least of all the "good behavior" of his people. He babbles about what is going on, going on still. It doesn't make sense, but I think he just means that there's gonna be a rumble. That the fight is older than they are. McManus, irritated that he doesn't get his way, yells, "Maybe you need another couple of days in here!" Said yells his agreement. Tim storms out and goes to find his daily affirmation tapes.
Hill. Tempers. Sports. Hitting is the best part. Well, I agree that it is in ice hockey. But other than that, hitting is wrong.
The gym. McPainus shooting sad hoops. Cut to the locker room. Enter Dave, the equivalent of that ever-present, unrecognizable member of the Star Trek team sent to the foreign planet with Kirk to "explore." McManus asks him what he thinks about Jackson. Dave says he's a "stone bitch." The point? A scout from the Sacramento Kings is coming to watch Dave play, thanks to Tim, I guess. Cut to the lunchroom, where Poet gives Jackson a complimentary platter of seconds. Poet remarks on Dave's obvious talent. Jackson admits that he's good, but that he, meaning Jackson, is "too big for him" and that he'll win the second game for sure. They all laugh at their cleverness while we overhear the guards saying that if there is "no way to guard" Jackson, McManus won't win. Hmmm. What to do about that. They advance towards Jackson and tell him to pick up his tray, as he has gotten up to leave the table. Poet protests that he has it. The guards say no, "he buses his own tray," to which Jackson says, "Fuck that," and begins to walk away. They take him down by hitting him in the knees with their clubs. The inmates begin to protest, but the guards hold them at bay.
Infirmary. Jackson is being checked out by Gloria while McManus believes the guard's story that Jackson brought on the attack. Gloria tells Jackson to stay off the leg for a while. McManus walks over and says they'll postpone the game a week. Of course, the testosterone flares in Jackson, who says, "Because you care about me, right?" And, of course, McManus has to comment on how "if the ball bounces the right way," he could win, thus causing Jackson to say he can play. Never mind that no doctor would allow him to, and that the guards are apparently not going to be reprimanded -- both facts get on my nerves. Cut to the game. McManus, who rented Basketball Diaries just so he could get into character, nods to Dave. Whatever that means. Cue "edgy" soundtrack music to make it all seem so cool. I'm a music idiot so I can't name that tune. They didn't show it in the credits either. The game doesn't go well for Jackson, and the staff wins fifty-eight to forty-six.
Common room. Jackson, no longer a hero, gets the slick and diss from Ryan; then, as he passes the table where Pancamo sits, Morales walks up and lets Jackson know he had a lot of money bet on the game. Jackson keeps moving, only to come to a table where he isn't entirely welcome to sit down. It's just so Can't Buy Me Love when they all find out Ronnie paid Cindy to pretend to date him. Jackson sits down. Tug and Poet leave the table. Ouch. Cut to Dave meeting with the scout from Sacramento, who tells him not to "pick-up games"...get it? He needs to be careful so he doesn't hurt himself and screw up his chances for greatness. Gosh, I bet he makes it big time! Dave tells Tim he'll honor his commitment to the last game. Tim poo-poos this and tells him to go. Dave lopes out happily. McDumbass sits and makes a stupid face. Then he swears. Why is this storyline centered around him? Why can't we dedicate some time to Ryan? Or hell, even find out where Busmalis's bride went? I mean, c'mon!
McManus and Murphy walk by the green laundry room. Morales, in said room, calls out, "There he goes, the luckiest man on the planet!" Tim takes the bait and swallows it whole: "Lucky?" Morales: "Correction, formerly lucky." The word is apparently out that Dave is on to greatness and McManus will be left to wipe the floor with himself. Morales says he has a lot of money on the game since it's such a "sure thing" that McManus will lose, now that superstar isn't playing. McManus: "Well, who says I'm without him?" They leave while Morales lets his face fall to the floor and break into a million pieces. As Tim and Murphy walk away, Murphy asks what that was all about. McManus says he couldn't let Morales have the satisfaction right away. As opposed to the satisfaction he'll get in just a while. Yeah, that makes a bucket of sense. We see Morales making a deal in the gym to have Dave taken care of. , in Unit B, Dave thinks he's breaking up a fight and winds up getting his Achilles tendon slashed. I can't recap that in detail because I get the heebies from anything to do with that tendon or anything relating to the ankle and I'm currently squirming in my chair…ugh! The sound effect was gross. I can't watch it again. Dave wriggles and makes pain noises. He actually looks like he's being electrocuted. Infirmary. Gloria tells Tim that Dave just left in the ambulance, and that his tendon wasn't just (gulp) severed, a chunk of it was missing (ack!). He'll apparently be walking funny the rest of his life.
Lunchroom. Tug sits to Hill and asks, "How does it feel?" Hill: "How does what feel?" Basically, how it feels to be a snitch. Tug tells Hill that Burr instructed that Hill not be killed because of their history together but, when the old man dies, Tug will be free to kill him. I guess in prison people sometimes make long-term hit plans. Up walks Supreme, who asks Tug what's up. A guard helpfully suggests that they break it up. Supreme leans down to Hill: "This is all I'm sayin', Augustus, you ain't got no friends, 'cept me." Poor Augustus. He really doesn't. P.S.: I've had those little juice bottles they drink in the lunchroom, they're really gross. Oh, and [sic]! We cut to the library, where Supreme and Tug pretend to read books while sitting back-to-back and discussing the sheer genius of the two of them teaming up over their shoulders. Supreme makes mention of his surprise when Tug originally came to him, and how he didn't figure on that since he greased Tug's brother and all. Neither one of them sees Colonel Clink enter the room. Tug explains, "When I shanked you, and you didn't die? I knew you had balls." Cut to the army pod, where Clink tells Burr of the conversation. Clink says it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Tug is a traitor. Burr: "I always had my suspicions." Clink asks what he plans to do. Burr hisses, "I'll give him a fair trial…before he's executed."
Gym. We see Poet entering before the camera cuts to Tug, tied in a chair, bloody and beaten. Not a guard in sight. So, they can go to the gym and just kill people, because the guards are busy looking for their asses based on a map of a hole in the ground. Burr follows Poet in while grousing, "This court is now in session." Oh please, pipe down and just kill him already. Poet: "Tug Daniels, you're being accused of the three disses: disloyal, dishonest and disrespectful." Burr asks Tug how he pleads. Tug tells them to cut the bullshit and kill him if that's what they plan to do. Word. Poet says he was seen fraternizing with Supreme Allah. Tug gets all logical on Burr when he points out that he's about to be killed for the same crime Hill committed. He tells Burr he's getting old and soft. Burr gets pissed and leans close to the bloody face. He spouts about how he "hereby sentences" him, and proceeds to strangle Tug. Then he hisses the rest of the sentence: "To deeeeath." He tells them to dump the body in a garbage can.
Cafeteria. Ryan dumps a bag of trash and, of course, spies a bloody hand. He alerts Officer Robinson. The guards call for a lockdown. Ryan walks by Supreme and sidebars that Tug is dead. We see Hill look up as Supreme warns him that if they aren't careful, they'll end up the same way. Supreme leaves and passes Burr, who is grinning evilly.
Hill, reading a paper. "More and more these days, you pick up a paper and read that…" Snore.
Glynn's office. Governor Gremlin enters and says he's so sick of "hearing about death row." Sister Pete says calmly, "I see you've fully recovered." To which he replies, "And I can see how much that pleases you." Gremlin gets down to business. "I've has extensive talks with the attorney general and this is how it's laid out -- according to the law, Giles is within his rights, asking to be stoned to death." He continues bitching about the lawsuits that will surely follow and how it will drag all the way to the state supreme court and "God knows what those buttheads will decide." Pete snarks, "You appointed half of them." Gremlin arranges himself in a chair, which basically swallows his tiny frame. "Instead of plotting through that much, we've decided that you, Sister Peter Marie, declare Giles mentally incompetent." Gremlin thinks he's pretty smart at this point and says that, once declared insane, Giles will then be shipped off to the Connolly Institute. Pete says she won't do it. Grem asks why. She answers, "Because he is not." Grem looks to Glynn, rouses him from his peaceful slumber, and suggests that now would be a good time to "jump in." Leo folds to the task. "Peter Marie, this solution would make the problem go away." She snaps that the "problem" will go away when the death penalty does. She yells about all the mistakes the courts have made, sentencing innocent victims to death. Grem interrupts with, "If I want to debate this issue I'll go on Meet The Fucking Press!" Pete looks shocked. He tells her that she's not the only shrink in town, and if she won't say Giles is crazy…he'll get someone who will. Grem grabs his little coat and marches out of the office to get to a meeting with the Lollipop Guild.
Death row. Peter Marie walks up to Giles's cell and asks how he's doing. He's lonely for Moses. She tells him she knows how he feels. That, in trying to fight against the system, she feels powerless. Giles looks at her with a smile and raises a fist: "Noisemaker!" She laughs and says, "That's me, making noise and banging pots together, yet, nothing has changed." Giles gets to his feet, walks over to her, and says, "Us…pray…God." She looks back at him fondly and says, "Well, we do have that, don't we?" She touches his face and they pray. As we go to the common room, the television is tuned to the news, where we hear that the Supreme Court made its decision and the execution of Giles is "unconstitutional." Everyone cheers. Cut to a press conference, where Gremlin smarms that he needs to "re-examine" all aspects of the death penalty. Then we see Giles being led to solitary. Clayton tells him he thought he was halfway to dead. Giles calls back, "No, alive…alive!" until they open his new cell. We pan around the little room. He mumbles, "Alive?" He'll be really lonely now.
Ryan walks up to Murphy and rasps that he needs to see Dr. Nathan because his throat hurts. Murphy knowingly says that Gloria isn't in that day. Ryan lapses back into his regular voice and says he wants to see Cyril in protective custody. Murphy says, "What a shock," and picks up the phone. Cut to Cyril in his cell, listening to his neighbor yap about why he didn't send support money for his kids and the wife is a bitch…blah blah blah deadbeat-cakes. Ryan sneaks around the corner to surprise Cyril, who reacts with glee when he sees his brother. They hug, and Cyril asks when he can come back to Em City. Ryan says soon, and he knows Cyril has to be lonely. Cyril says he's "not so lonely" and introduces Ryan to Stanton, the babbling neighbor, who then unwisely says, "You're Ryan, right? Cyril's told me all about you." Which wigs Ryan out. He asks Cyril what he's told Stanton. Ryan taps Cyril on the chest and tells him to not tell other people his business. Cyril says he doesn't, and that "Henry is nice." Stanton starts to interrupt again, and Ryan yells at him that they're trying to have a "private conversation." Stanton says to go ahead, and the scene ends with tension as Ryan sits down to continue the visit.
Kitchen. Claire walking up to Ryan, who is busy with his kitchen duties. She gives him a push. Startled, he asks what she wants. She mentions that she heard that they're "shipping Cyril away." She proposes that if he tells Cyril to participate in her booty call, she'll tell the warden not to ship him off. Ryan says, "No way." She insists that it's the only way. Ryan departs after telling her she's a sick bitch. He then delivers lunch to Alvin the chipmunk in Unit J. They greet each other, and Ryan performs his patented steering of the conversation to what he needs the other person to do. After hearing Al's comments on how he's alone now that John was killed and the other is in solitary, Ryan sits down and asks how Alvin would like to have "extra vittles." Yes, he would like that. The price? Make sure Claire has a little accident. Alvin says he's no killer. Ryan says he just wants her busted up. Enter Claire to make a bitchy remark to Ryan while shooting the stink-eye at Alvin. Basically, sealing the deal. We then see her taking Alvin to some stairs -- where to? Who knows? He trips her as they begin the descent, and she falls all the way down. Hard. He calls quietly for help until he's sure that she's hurt. Then he starts yelling for it.
We cut to Ryan's pod as Liam gives him the news that Claire busted her pelvis. Ouch. He sees Connelly walk by, and he and Liam both bitch about how Connelly acts superior to them. Ryan then asks Liam to check up on Cyril's neighbor. They bump fists, and Liam skips off. We then see Kirk and Burns trying, again, to beat up on Connelly. Ryan comes in to stop it. They both tell him to stay out of it. Ryan says he's "got God on his side," and in walks Dylan to break up the quarrel. Dylan tells Kirk to meet him in the library and that he'll talk to Burns later. He apologizes to Connelly, but gets dissed like everyone else as Connelly ignores his extended hand. As Connelly walks by Ryan, he says something I can't make out, but the gist is that he's grateful.
We cut to Dylan telling Kirk that he is no longer a member of the congregation. Kirk tries to plead with him and grabs his arm. Dylan yells for him to let him go. Kirk looks upset and Dylan looks furious.
Cut back to Ryan, Liam, and Connelly, who sit at a table while Connelly regales the two of them with his horror stories of "bloody Sunday" and the ongoing battle in Ireland. Ryan hangs on to his every word until the bell sounds for visiting time. He gets up to go see his mother. Connelly asks him if he "treats his mother right." Ryan says he does. He's known her for two seconds, so it's hardly cookie-earning. In the visiting area, New Mommy tells him why she left. She hasn't wanted to explain before. He encourages her to tell him now. She begins by saying that the sixties were a mixed-up time. She protested, along with her friends. They all armed themselves. They were militant. He guesses correctly that someone got killed. She confirms this and says she ran then, but is now tired of running: "I'm going to turn myself in." Ryan panics and says he doesn't want her to; he only just found her and is working on a plan to get out so they can "be together." She tells him not to do that. Ryan: "Why the fuck not?" "Because you'll have to spend the rest of your life doing what I did, lying and hiding." She tells him that it's no life. The buzzer signals the end of visiting time. They rise. Ryan kisses and hugs her sadly, calling her "Mom." She's pleased by this and tells him she loves him. "I always have, and I always will." They say goodbye and we see tears on Ryan's face. She's crying too. He leaves the visiting room.
Connelly enters the room where his lawyer awaits. "Bad news, the attorney general has circumvented the law of asylum." Connelly asks if that means they've lost the fight. The answer is yes, and a week from that day, Connelly will stand before a British judge. That means he'll hang. Those pesky British!
Flashback of Ryan killing Patrick Keenan, and then of Gloria recapping that he admits to killing Keenan to her, even though she could rat him out to the warden. The present. Ryan enters her office, where she fondles the golden shamrock. She asks him how Cyril is; Ryan replies, "He's a little anxious to get out of protective custody but he's okay." He asks her if she's given thought to "what [they] talked about." She answers, "Any thought? Your little proposition had me sleepless for three nights." He probes for her to continue. The warden asked her a few days ago if she knew anything about Patrick's death. She lied and said she didn't. Ryan looks happy that she covered for him. "Ryan, the medical board is deliberating whether or not I'm qualified to hold this job." She tells him they are questioning her ethics and how at first that fact upset her, but since her actions have been questionable of late, she realizes her "ethics" aren't exactly rock-solid any more. She returns the necklace to him. Ryan pleads, "Look, love is more important than ethics." She disagrees: "Well, now how would you know that? I mean, what ethics you have are completely screwed up." He asks her why she doing this to him. She says she should tell Glynn that he beat Keenan to death, but she won't. She is not going to help him escape and if he asks her again, she will tell the warden about Keenan. She tells the officer that they're done. You go girl! Ryan turns to her before leaving and says, "I do have ethics and I'm not screwed up." She just looks tired as he leaves.
Ryan goes straight to Connelly's pod. Connelly: "What do you want?" Ryan: "I've been on the computer, reading about the troubles. It's not all about God, it's about the money. It's about the Protestants taking Catholic land." Connelly smirks and makes fun of Ryan's "newfound knowledge." Ryan tells him not to laugh at him. "Everyone knows I get things done, that's my talent. I want to help you do something for the cause…something for Ireland." Connelly considers this as he looks out, over Em City. "All righty. I know what we should do." Cut to Ryan entering the laundry room, basket in hand. He pulls out two gallons of bleach and says to Connelly, "All your whites are clean, so you mind telling me why you need this stuff so bad?" Connelly continues pulling his clothes from the dryer. He asks Ryan to get him a wristwatch. Ryan asks why. Connelly slams him against the dryer and pulls a shank to his throat. Ryan holds him off and looks like he's soiling his pants. They struggle for a minute, the point of the shank right at Ryan's throat. Connelly asks if Ryan's willing to die with him. He lets Ryan go. "The bleach and the watch are part of my scheme." Ryan: "Which is what?" "To make a bomb…you and me, O'Reily, we're going to blow up Emerald City." Ryan looks ill.
Hill. Teamwork. We see different types of "teams" walk up behind him. The hacks, the inmates, some army guys. He says to make sure the success you go after, is the success you need. Ah, wise grasshopper. You have learned me once again.
week, the explosive season finale of Oz. We see quick scenes of mayhem, one of which seems to be McManus being kicked in the head. Heh. That makes me smile. We see the bomb and people running. It's so very Melrose, isn't it?