Great Men(Oz episode)

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“Great Men”
Oz episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 11
Written by	Tom Fontana
Directed by	Bob Balaban
Original airdate	12 July 1998
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Season 2, Episode 11, "Great Men." Directed by Bob Balaban, written by Tom Fontana.

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Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 2.1 Notes 3 Quotes 3.1 trivia

[edit] Synopsis

Hanlon overhears Miguel boasting that he knows who raped Warden Glynn's daughter. He tells Father Mukada what he overheared and who then tells Glynn. Miguel refuses to give up the man's name so the Warden begins to beat him until Father Mukada intervenes. Glynn later turns down Peter Schibetta's offer to learn the truth in his own way.

Busmalis and Rebadow start to dig an escape tunnel through the floor in their pod under the cover of night.

McManus gives Diane the brush-off on her first day back in Em City.

McManus gives Wangler a book by Booker T Washington after he makes strides with reading. Adebisi pressures Wangler against going to school which causes Kenny to fall behind, much to the disappointment of McManus.

Beecher, Busmalis and Hill vote Sister Pete the sexiest woman in Oz. Beecher reveals she had a husband before becoming a nun.

Sister Pete visits Giles in solitary after he repeats her name over and over again. The conversation turns violent before she gets any answers.

Said's book about the riot is published and copies arrive in OZ.

Hill learns the judge who sentenced him has been arrested for taking bribes during trials. He enlists the help of Said to fight for a new trial. Hill berates his former public defender and begins to hope for an overturned verdict. He and Said meet with the prosecutor in his trial, Marilyn Crenshaw who was Said's fiancée before he became a Muslim. Said and McManus clash over how much leeway he deserves for preparation.

Against Gloria's wishes, the prison chooses to give Ryan a lumpectomy, instead of the more expensive mastectomy surgery.

Ryan meets with his wife Shannon and brother Cyril, before he has his surgery.

Schillinger is released from the Hole and charged with conspiracy to commit murder. After being beaten by black inmates on his first day back in gen pop, Vern and the Aryans kill Alexander Vogel, carving "Jew" on his chest and hanging him upside down from the gym. With the fear toward the Aryan Brotherhood regained, he tells Mark Mack his next target is Beecher.

Shirley Bellinger, is sentenced to death row for killing her daughter (the first woman to be executed in that state since 1841), arrives at Oz.

[edit] Cast

• Ernie Hudson as Warden Leo Glynn
• Terry Kinney as Tim McManus
• Harold Perrineau as Augustus Hill
• Eamonn Walker as Kareem Said

Also Starring:

• Kirk Acevedo as Miguel Alvarez
• Edie Falco as Officer Diane Wittlesey
• Rita Moreno as Sister Peter Marie
• J.K. Simmons as Vernon Schillinger
• Lee Tergesen as Tobias Beecher
• Dean Winters as Ryan O'Reilly
• B.D. Wong as Father Ray Mukada

Guest Starring:

• Lauren Velez as Dr. Gloria Nathan
• George Morfogen as Robert Rebadow
• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Simon Adebisi

With:

• George E.M. Kelly as Travis Ballard
• muMs da Schemer as Arnold "Poet" Jackson
• Philip V. Scozzarella as Officer Joseph Mineo

[edit] Notes

This episode marks the first appearance of Cyril O'Reily, Ryan's mentally challenged brother. Ryan and Cyril are played by real life brothers Dean and Scott William Winters. The Winters' other brother Bradford is a writer for the show.

(Prisoners featured)

• Agamemnon Busmalis, aka The Mole, convicted May 10th 1998, grand theft larceny, breaking and entering. Sentence: 10 years, up for parole in 4. (prisoner # 98B242)

• William Giles, convicted February 6th 1958, second degree murder. Sentence life, up for parole in 60 years. (prisoner # 58G714)

[edit] Quotes

• Shirley:(arriving on Death Row) How comfy.
• Schillinger: The Brotherhood's falling apart. When I ran the Brotherhood, we were feared. Now we got fucking fags looking tougher.
• Beecher: Hey, Vern they let you out of the hole already? You're mad at me, aren't you? Sure, you're mad and I understand why. I fucked up your chances for parole, you're facing ten more years in Oz, all because of me. Oh, man! I manipulated you like the dumbass, white trash neanderthal you are. You know, you get to know a lot about a man while he's fucking you in the ass.
• Beecher: We voted you sexiest.

Sister Pete: Sexiest, sexiest what? Beecher: Woman in the prison. Sister Pete: Oh, come on. Really? Beecher: Uh-huh!

• Hill: I'd fuck Dr. Nathan in a second.

Busmalis: Me too. Beecher: How about Wittlesey? Hill: Shit, yeah! Busmalis: Me too. Beecher: You know who I think is sexy, Sister Peter Marie. Hill: Yeah? Busmalis: That's disgusting! She's a nun.

• Adebisi: You think you're going to disrespect me, huh? You forget who your friends are Kenny? You not my friend, then you're my enemy, understand?

Wangler: Yeah.

• Hill: (narrating) Bad men have their impact too. But you gotta be really bad. Ivan the Terrible, Jack the Ripper, Adolf Hitler. Yeah, old Adolph was an evil fuck. And let's face it. Evil is the only thing that has survived intact these past thousand years.
• Peter Schibetta : Look, I can persuade Alvarez to give up the name of the prick who did this.

Glynn: No, thanks. Peter Schibetta: Why not? Hey, why not? Why not? Glynn: First, I don't want to owe you any more favors. And second, and I know you won't understand this, but it's not right. Peter Schibetta: Right, wrong, right, wrong. There's such a fine line between it.

• ) Glynn: Tell me who raped her.

Alvarez: I ain't telling you dick. You got all the power, huh? I mean, you think that you can just shit on people, shit on people and you get away with it? Not this time. And you can go fuck yourself. Father Mukada: Miguel, for God's sake, tell him what you heard about his daughter. Alvarez: What? That she's a lousy lay?

• Alvarez: Hey, Rebadow. You know, I think I got you. I think I got a piece of information before you.

Rebadow: Really? Alvarez: Mmm-hmm! It's about Glynn and his daughter. Rebadow: You mean that she was brutally raped and is in the hospital? Alvarez: Shit! How'd you know that?

• (Hanlon is coming in to report details of a rape)

Mukada: Come in Richie. What's up? Hanlon: I love to take it in the ass. Mukada: (pauses uncertainly) Uh-huh.

• Hill: Aw, fuck.

Beecher: What? Hill: Beecher! Beecher: WHAT!? Hill: You farted! Beecher: No, I didn't! Hill: Pee-fucking-ew! Beecher: I didn't fart! Hill: Damn, man, five hours til dawn and I gotta be in a glass box with the king of stink. I'm gonna get Gulf fucking War syndrome!

[edit] trivia

Trivia

• The newscaster says that Shirley killed her 4 year old daughter, however in s4e4 "Works of Mercy" he says " the murder of her 8 year old daughter".

• When Kareem and Augustus are talking to the assistant district atturney there is a pen on the table in the first scene, but in the next scene, it's gone. In the fourth scene, back to The atturney, the pen is back