"Level four." "I am." "I got a whole new perspective on things." "And I'm seeing a lot of familiar faces." "Fuck!" "Chill the fuck out." "this ain't so bad." "dying is a lot harder on the living then it is on the dead." "Death really only hurts those left behind." "what are you doing?" "come here." "What do you think?" "Picasso?" "it's not art." "It's a maze." "It's a meditative maze." "okay." "What's a meditative maze? which stimulates your powers of reason. hopefully you'll have figured the problem out." "I forgot." "You went to that New Age seminar last weekend. you know?" "But Augustus Hill." "that rocked me." "but ... if it works.." "right? these dinks are just gonna step over the line." "I found this box." "written on the lid is "Do not open until six months after my death"." "I decided to respect his wishes." "I looked inside." "And?" "I am having a premonition that today is the last day of my life." "everyday is potentially the last one." "I'm taking the precaution of sealing up this box. will find a manuscript which I've been writing over the past six years." "then my premonition was right and I am dead." "consider these pages my last will and testament." "My will to survive." "My testament to all I've experienced in Oz." "I ask you to read my memories and then do with them whatever you think is right." "Burr." "I don't want any fucking part of this." "Hey Baba." "all healthy and shit." "she pulled me through." "What's the latest? especially now that the niggers are out of the game." "Augustus Hill's death really shattered them." "Redding too? but Redding hasn't even tried to retaliate." "Redding's plotting something." "That's for sure." "but what?" "move on!" "are you watching this?" "Redding!" "While you're weeping and wailing your men are out of control." "They're upset over losing Augustus." "What do you expect me to do?" "I expect you to take charge." "Kareem." "I'd have thought you'd be glad to see me sit in the back seat." "Give you an opportunity to convert all my boys to Islam. they need a leader." "And you are their leader." "But right now you do not truly lead." "as well you should." "as well you should." "But what's the difference unless your emotions are backed by action." "If Augustus's murder was truly due to him slinging drugs fine." "Drag your men away from the drugs." "How?" "I don't know." "The answer lies within you." "completely be a leader." "'Till then you're just a waste of space." "Ahh!" "I want to talk to you about what happens after death." "The afterlife. crossed the river Styx and went to a place called Hades." "Now everybody went to Hades." "It didn't matter how good or how bad you were." "The place we all just got our groove on." "they understood. just having gone through the sheer shit of getting up and going through a whole day was enough to earn eternal reward." "boys." "Today's the big day." "All you yokels get to whine and snivel in front of the review board in hopes that we'll let you out of solitary." "Though God knows why you'd wanna leave this paradise." "you know." "I'd say my chances are 50/50." "Glynn's a fuckhead." "That motherfucker's never gonna let me out." "officer Howell?" "I'll suck your big fat hole!" "Where's breakfast?" "Breakfast!" "Martinez?" "You." "Step back." "Make me." "How'd you know I was in the mood for a little Mexican food?" "I'm Puerto Rican." "Same difference." "Strip." "Martinez is fucking Howell." "He's fucking her again?" "He must need to make a phone call." "Damn which I hate to admit is S.R.O." "So we either need to let some of these dinks back into Gen pop or ship their butts to another correctional facility." "Who's first?" "Henry Stanton." "He's in solitary for stabbing Martin Montgomery in the neck." "Talkin' no more!" "Montgomery didn't even die." "He just can't sing anymore." "Next." "for raping Franklin Winthrop and Adam Guenzel." "the sex was consensual." "Ask Winthrop." "Miguel Alvarez." "He smacked a member of the parole board." "Guess I got my hopes up too high." "I'm not gonna do that again." "Omar White." "He uh..." "Omar strangled an Aryan." "And then he saved the guy's life." "Next." "Greg Penders." "Trained his seeing eye mutt to attack officer Lopresti." "Lopresti's fine." "Not a scratch on him." "Carlos Martinez threw a cocktail in Dave Brass's face." "Motherfucker!" "and as a result the CO's beat the shit out of Martinez." "Jodense todos ustedes que son unas mierdes." "Martinez is scum." "We definitely should not let him out of solitary." "He and Penders both attacked CO's." "I won't let either of them back into Gen Pop." "Any recommendations regarding the others?" "Stanton and Schillinger could go." "Schillinger?" "No way." "he'll do something to screw up Tobias Beecher's parole hearing." "he's trying to change." "So is Omar White." "I don't hear you begging for him." "I can help Alvarez." "I can't do any more for Omar then I've already done." "Fuck." "Omar." "You and me get to spend a little quality time together." "What--what are you squawking about?" "McManus has left you here in my warm embrace." "let me talk to him." "Please." "what'll you do for me in return?" "I don't know." "Shine my shoes?" "I--I ain't no Pullman porter." "Strip." "you know." "Strip." "I have lunch plans." "Told you I was sick." "man." "Just coughing up all kinds of colors and shit." "And my--my piss is like it's on fire." "Any night sweats?" "Trouble sleeping?" "Hmm-mm." "Hmm." "I'd better admit him." "what's wrong with him?" "I'm not sure." "I'll do some tests." "I'm gonna eat your balls for breakfast." "we've decided to release you from solitary." "You're shitting me." "Miguel." "You're coming back to Emerald City." "Alvarez." "Don't fuck him over with more of your nonsense." "no." "I've got enemies." "I can't control their nonsense." "Enough!" "what was that little scuffle with Torres about?" "he's crazy. and I've been able to piece together some information" "I thought you'd find sort of interesting." "It's about Miguel Alvarez." "is somehow tied to you." "Me?" "No." "I'm gonna be looking to blame you. my first reaction to any trouble will be to ship your ass there." "Wait a minute!" "Unless you become Alvarez's new best friend." "Miguel." "We were just talking about you." "Guerra's got something to say to you." "we started out as friends. you know." "Chico." "Lost siento mucho si tradate de lastimart." "Agradezco que estas vivo." "Asi te lo puedo decir en la cara." "Yo Tambien." "Shake hands." "Lights out." "Sweet dreams." "I saw you and Alvarez making nice." "Were you serious? now I can't even remember why." "I almost got my throat cut." "That started me thinking." "you ever feel like you've lost your appetite for all of the bullshit?" "Yeah." "When my sister died in that bus accident." "That's right." "You were talking peace and patience back then." "What happened?" "OZ" "Oz is what happened." "Fucking Oz." "Now the Italians got a whole 'nother way of thinking about life after death." "This Dante dude describes Hell as a series of little circles where sinners are tormented by a punishment that reflects their crime." "Flatterers are buried up to their necks in shit." "Lawyers wear clothes that never stop itching." "Just think on it." "What would be the one thing that would torture you for all of eternity?" "Your mother-in-law?" "Brittany Spears' singing?" "it'd be a big pair of tits just hanging out of my reach." "Damn!" "Count!" "Bob." "Bob?" "You feeling any better?" "Hmm." "01R289." "65R814." "where's Rebadow?" "Grief's like a wave." "You've gotta ride it out. you're in better shape then you were the day your grandson died." "That's hard for me to accept because the sadness I feel keeps morphing." "I became consumed with the fact that the Rebadow name will die." "I was the only son." "My son is my only child." "His son was an only child. like some species of insect destroyed by pollution." "My pollution. as if that somehow justifies out existence." "so much of my heart." "His death has left an emptiness." "you know." "Focus on your job." "don't you?" "not at all." "The thought of hearing the hideous hum of those machines day in and day out." "I'll transfer you." "Where would you prefer to punch the clock?" "I'm not" " I love to read." "The library?" "So that's what's allocated in the current budget." "Can you get more?" "I can try." "Leo?" "sit down!" "Stella Coffo." "Tim McManus." "Hello" "Hi." "I heard you two were having a meeting." "Stella comes to us from Boston where she worked in the public library system for sixteen years." "I'm a little curious as to why you're here." "You mean why leave the comfort of Boston for the wilds of Oswald?" "it's simple." "I love to read. maybe their lives will be changed in some small way." "Admirable goal." "Tough task." "no only means try harder." "but I need a favor." "anything." "There's a prisoner named Rebadow." "Here goes." "first in line." "I guess you heard the John Grisham finally arrived." "I don't read that tripe." "I didn't mean to offend you." "You Mrs. Coffo?" "actually." "Name's Rebadow." "I've been assigned to work with you." "But I'm no acolyte." "I know where every decimal in the Dewey system is." "I'll point to it." "I'm not gonna sit on my ass and wait for the men to come to me. the ones who maybe even don't know how to read." "and finding the right book is the key." "That's where I'm gonna lean on you." "You have my full support." "Mr. Rebadow?" "Robert." "Though most of the jokers in Oz call me Bob." "and you can call me Stella." "I'm very pleased to have you on board." "Cyril." "We're meeting with your new lawyer today." "Some big hotshot that Meehan found." "Can I come with you now?" "alright?" "O'Reily." "I'm looking for?" "Forté." "can I get some fucking food?" "you hairy bitch." "everyone." "Meet the new member of our club house." "you fucking cocksucker!" "You should be dead you little fucking prick!" "Jazz-man." "It's not your fault I'm alive." "I can't die." "Bullshit." "Just give me another chance." "Won't do any good." "I can't die." "pumpkin?" "Because..." "I am Satan." "And Satan will never die." "Pete." "boy." "I'm so glad you're back." "but I'm not sure yet." "There's something you should know." "Timothy Kirk has been transferred to death row and he's asked to see you." "No chance." "now look. a fire that Kirk arranged and paid for out of spite and malice." "In a few weeks he's going to be executed." "He may need to make peace with you." "His soul His soul will rot in Hell." "only God can decide that." "Uh-oh." "Holy ghost on deck." "Jericho." "Hello Father." "Mukada." "See that fucking jizz ball sitting there?" "cocksucker." "Thank you so much for the meeting." "Don't get used to it." "before he comes back." "Who?" "Lopresti?" "Satan." "but it's not me who's done them." "I am possessed by the Devil." "Stop." "I am possessed." "You are the only one who can help me." "I need an exorcism." "I said stop!" "Do you think I can't see through this little performance?" "are you trying for an insanity defense on your appeal?" "Please." "He's coming." "By even suggesting what you're suggesting you make a mockery of my religion." "Kirk." "I'll see you the day you die." "but I'm not like the Reverend Cloutier." "I won't just disappear." "We work with criminals." "We try to understand the reasons why they broke the law so we can help them. if not a cure." "more stunning reality." "and we are powerless." "I believe that Kirk has no hope for salvation." "He is pure evil." "I don't disagree that there's evil in the world." "I do disagree that we're powerless against it." "you and I have dedicated our lives to overcoming evil through love." "God's love." "Come in." "Ray." "Vicar General of the Archdiocese." "How do you do?" "Nice to meet you Sister but this is a matter of some importance." "I have a session." "Pleasure." "or... thanks." "Let's sit." "Sure." "How's Cardinal Abgott?" "and that's why I've come." "Timothy Kirk." "you've got to understand there's a lot of history between Kirk and me." "Kirk claims you sexually abused him." "What? the church can't afford either spiritually or finically to have any more of our priests be suspect." "Kirk is lying." "I believe you." "So does the Cardinal." "we have to be ready." "I'm suspending you. you are no longer allowed to perform any functions as a Catholic priest." "Ray." "Pure Evil. and I'm hoping you'll produce another one." "Leo." "Macbeth"." "Sounds great." "Sounds expensive." "not necessarily because we would do the production in modern dress and that way the play will be more accessible." "Can you work up a budget?" "As a matter of fact...we have one here." "I don't want this to get bogged down in bureaucracy." "I'd like to start next week holding auditions." "And putting together a crew." "the hardest part's gonna be getting these jamokes to participate." "Tim." "We're not looking for Denzel Washington here. and not everyone has to be in front of the footlights." "the whole enchilada." "So I expect a strong representation from Em City." "Get involved." "what about you?" "Plays are for fags." "this is a chance to show everybody the new you." "I think I'd be a little embarrassed to be in front of people." "be a stage manager." "What the fuck do they do?" "Boss everyone else around." "I'm in." "how about props? Wreck'd as homeward he did come." "Poet." "What the fuck am I saying?" "You are telling your friends how you destroyed your enemy." "Really?" "Yeah can I get a real thumb?" "You got anybody in mind?" "cheeseball." "cum stain!" "?" "settle the fuck down." "Ma?" "if I can keep them from killing each other" "Ryan." "you'd be brilliant in the part." "no way." "O'Whitey?" "Pepe." "Dick." "it could be fun." "I did the part once at the C.Y.O." "and tell me more:" "By Sinel's death I am Thane of Glamis;" "A prosperous gentleman; and to be king Say from whence" "You owe this strange intelligence" "I charge you." "that was excellent." "How would you like to play Macbeth?" "Me?" "Yeah." "boys." "Amen." "it's about time." "Ryan." "when I was a kid I'd bend my knees and ask God to stop dad from beating on us." "God never answered his pager." "A prayers more then asking for something." "gives you peace of mind." "Pray with me." "I'm covered." "It would give me profound joy if some day you would join me in prayer. okay father?" "Naughty." "What you have to remember is that this is about power." "You can not let these people take your power away from you." "you are the center of the universe." "What the fuck you looking at?" "So you're the new lawyer. \ Arnold Zelman" "You want to explain to me why my brother is still sitting on death row?" "Eight months ago the supreme court ruled that executing the mentally retarded was unconstitutional." "Each state has the right to determine for itself how retarded is defined." "Our assemblymen have been squabbling over a definition all this time." "the finally managed to make an agreement." "Which is?" "basically to qualify as retarded as a person had to have demonstrated some sign of retardation before the age of 18." "18?" "But Cyril wasn't hit in the head until his late 20's." "that's why he can still be executed." "so what do we do next?" "Appeal Cyril's conviction." "the prosecution was able to make the case that Cyril's attack on Li Chen was premeditated." "but it wasn't." "we have to prove it wasn't." "I'm going to startby interviewing all of the witnesses." "they got no reason to help me." "Ryan." "Glen Shupe." "1999." "up for parole in 8." "you need a hand?" "Stay away from me!" "man?" "It's because of you I'm like this." "spics chopped you up." "On your say so." "mom." "Whether I did or didn't have anything to do with your-- know this:" "a lawyer's gonna be coming around asking people questions about the day Li Chen got whacked and unless you want to be dialing with your nose you'd best tell him what he wants to hear." "you stupid bitch?" "I'm here to talk about the day Cyril O'Reily attacked Li Chen." "Now I know you've had several conversations with various law enforcement officers and I know you testified that you saw nothing and know nothing in the circumstances surrounding Li's death." "I'm hoping you know" "I know exactly what happened." "You do? a knife fell to the floor." "Probably Li's knife." "And Cyril stabbed Li spontaneously to save his brother's life." "There was nothing premeditated about Cyril's actions." "Nothing." "have you talked to anyone else recently about these events?" "has anyone prepped you?" "sir." "It's what I saw and I want to testify to that in court." "Do you know that you can get five more years for perjury?" "I'm already serving 15." "I'm not afraid." "So how's it going interviewing the witnesses?" "not so good." "What about Shupe?" "He's not very credible." "Shupe is a compulsive liar." "The irony is that this time he's telling the truth." "then use him." "If I put Shupe on the stand the jury won't believe a word he's saying." "He'll do more damage then good." "you'll find a credible witness." "I'm down to my last few guys." "more op-ed pieces?" "press the public to show." "I'll use my contacts to network." "you out of the psych unit?" "Did you work out all your inner demons?" "I heard something from a very reliable source yesterday O'Reily." "yeah?" "What'd you hear?" "cut his insides up slowly." "You're responsible for my father being dead." "except for one little detail." "Adebisi did the deed." "It wasn't me." "I was your father's friend." "huh?" "Some nutjob from the whack shack?" "he's dead." "Fair enough." "But what if what you say is true?" "Which it isn't. huh?" "Now back the fuck away from me." "You stink like anchovies." "I have to admit I'm stunned. and now all of the sudden you want to see her." "I'm feeling better about myself." "With you and Father Meehan's help I" "I had a long talk with Rosalie yesterday." "right?" "no i just wait you to find the right time to tell her" "a drum." "Macbeth doth come. about: to make up nine." "Peace!" "the charm's wound up." "So foul and fair a day I have not seen." "How far is't call'd to Forres?" "shut up!" "Time's up." "But I barely got a line out." "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Agamemnon." "Here comes another volunteer." "Mr. Peter Schibetta." "Peter." "Ryan could use some help painting the scenery." "especially his." "I seen this play in high school." "It's got all those incantations." "our own spells." "The evil eye." "she can give somebody the evil eye from a mile away." "right?" "I thought I told you to back the fuck away." "cuz." "No problem. but sometimes we talk things through." "what's on your mind?" "Alright." "Peter Schibetta." "the hostility." "Schibetta's a corn hole. there's caring." "There's goodness in you." "and be the man that God meant you to be?" "father?" "I'll help you." "And we'll start with your laundry." "Now you think you'd know by now the colors will bleed. the vadzimu." "The Shone believe that all around the living there's an invisible community of vadzimu watching and caring for their descendents." "But there's also Ngozi." "Evil spirits. who avenge themselves on a family through sudden death." "Christ." "Father!" "Father!" "Father what's the matter?" "Father!" "Father!" "Shit." "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "help!" "Help!" "five." "Get the incubation tray." "How is he?" "Father Meehan's dead." "fuck." "An aneurysm." "He died almost immediately." "How did it happen?" "try to figure out the cause but... right?" "God chose the most peaceful." "right." "he'd taken a shit in his underwear." "So what does that tell you about us human beings?" "The last thing we do before we die is shit?" "have some respect for the man." "I do! he read the part of the gospel where after Jesus was pulled off the cross his friends took the body down and they washed it." "I'd like to do that." "I'd like to wash Father Meehan's body." "I don't know. despite all that he tried to do for me and Cyril." "please." "now preacher" "You ought to be there" "Sitting in God's kingdom" "To see old Jordan roll oh yeah" "Jordan roll" "I want to get to Heaven when I die" "To see old Jordan roll you ought to have been there" "Sitting in God's kingdom" "To see old Jordan roll yeah" "You're gonna ruin your eyes reading all that small print." "the small print's the best part." "Working on an appeal?" "for Chris Keller." "Trying to overturn his death sentence." "I've got my dad working on the case too." "You're a lawyer?" "Used to be." "Mail call." "Winthrop?" "Newsweek" and "Field and Stream"." "Where's my "Swank"?" "It got a little manhandled in the mailroom." "Beecher." "Enjoying life in Unit J?" "Beats bobbing for apples with the Aryans." "come on!" "Break it up!" "Break it up!" "What'd you expect?" "You got Schillinger sent to solitary." "For raping you." "I can take care of myself." "I have plans." "What plans?" "Have a nice visit with your kids." "How'd you know my kids were coming?" "Winthrop!" "we've decided to release you from solitary you will be sent back there permanently." "you were the one dissenting vote?" "Take him to unit B." "prag." "sir?" "wipe your mouth first." "I come from pure Aryan blood." "I have an education." "I can be of better use to you than this." "You want to join the brotherhood." "Yes." "That'd be unusual." "a bitch is a bitch is a bitch." "I have a plan." "That Ivy league minds at work?" "am I right?" "Yeah." "Yet revenge on that scumfuck is all you can ever think about." "Am I right?" "Your point?" "I'll kill Beecher's father." "What?" "pay off the CO's." "And if I'm caught I take sole blame." "if you promise me an upgrade." "Done." "is coming here today." "It's the first time I'll be seeing him in six years." "Six years?" "Yeah to live with them in San Diego." "Well why haven't you seen Harry in so long?" "everybody figured it was for the best." "even if his father is behind bars." "Hello son." "Dad" "Where are the kids?" "I--I need to talk to you." "Guess I'll take a nap." "Wake me up for shuffleboard." "Genevieve's parents have been staying with us for the past week." "but Jonah and Margaret have beenworking very hard to be- to ease Harry back into your life." "And?" "They're waiting in the parking lot." "Harry won't get out of the car." "no." "he's six years old." "his crying is upsetting Holly." "It's okay." "Don't force him." "We'll try again tomorrow." "okay?" "if I get paroled I can see him at home." "Are you sure?" "I can wait." "Just a couple more days." "Right." "This time I know the parole board is going to let you out." "I know it!" "In the bottom of my heart I know that you will be free." "my son." "well..." "like his father." "He has his mother's eyes." "you're going to see Chris to talk about the appeal right?" "Yes." "Will you give him my love?" "Our current strategy is to focus on the credibility of the prosecution's eye witness." "Jerry Heekin." "Who we've just discovered that he'd been arrested twice for dealing crack cocaine." "How come my other motherfucking lawyer didn't know that?" "he sucked." "Mr. Beecher." "Gum?" "thank you." "do you?" "That's beside the point." "I don't have to like you to defend you." "And my son- loves me" "Does that bother you?" "Yes." "That he loves a man or that he loves me." "We're finished for the day." "please instruct the witness to answer the question." "Alright." "I find you despicable." "Happy?" "Just another notch in my gun." "The trial of mayor Wilson Loewen continued today at the bank head state court house." "Loewen was indicted for his involvement of the 1963 murder of two 10 year old African American girls. aided and abetted members of the Ku Klux Klan in the brutal slayings." "I beg your pardon." "Guard." "Guard!" "Guard!" "Guard!" "No!" "Don't!" "These are live images from the east side of the city. sparked by Governor James Devlin's off the record comment that he would pardon Wilson Loewen if the mayor is convicted. though I sincerely hope there'll be no need to activate it." "never solved anything." "The only thing that's got me more confused then the rioting itself is the reason for it. your neighborhoods all based on hearsay." "trustworthy." "we must stop the violence." "trying to make it a better prison." "for my city." "We are doing more to damage our community than Loewen has." "There is no victory to be won when we address hate with hate." "Let us take back our city." "Our love... now preacher" "You ought to been there" "Sitting in God's kingdom" "To see old Jordan roll" "Jordan roll" "Jordan roll" "I wan to get to Heaven when I die" "To see old Jordan roll yeah" "Rest in peace."