"Exeunt Omnes" "I'm innocent." "I'm innocent." "I am innocent!" "Innocent ." "too." "I'm innocent." "you ask any guy who's serving time and he'll tell you he's inn-o-cent." "I was in Toledo visiting my mamma." "you'll hear a whole pack of lies. the one who really is innocent?" "His voice is buried so damn deep beneath the others he's gonna grow hoarse just trying to be heard." "Leo!" "the reality just hasn't sunk in." "you know?" "He and I hadn't been getting along lately." "but he was the best man for the worst job." "Amen." "I spoke to his ex-wife at the cemetery. would I pack up Leo's belongings." "I don't think she has a clue about my relationship with him." "Mary knew." "She said she was happy Leo had someone." "She hated the idea of him being all alone after the divorce." "I talked to the Governor about naming you the new warden." "I'm sure Devlin jumped." "he didn't say no." "Doesn't matter." "Don't want the job." "Tim." "That's you." "Stanton has some interesting hearsay." "Lionel Kelsch whacked the Warden and Willy Brandt" "And before that he helped Brandt waste Mayor Loewen." "How do you know this?" "and I hate braggers!" "take Stanton to protective custody." "Bring Kelsch to the hole." "All right!" "Kelsch?" "sir." "damp." "Then you piss and shit in a bucket." "24 hours a day." "right?" "When you see the hacks?" "Theoretically. especially to someone who's accused of killing the man they respected." "Strip." "wait!" "What are my alternatives?" "You can give me the name of the person that hired you." "I thought the Governor's eulogy of Glynn was very moving." "yeah?" "I nodded off." "What does McManus want to see me about?" "he just told me to find you." "Think he'll get the Warden gig?" "Never know." "officer Johnson." "I'm gonna have to read you your rights." "just tell me why." "Why--why'd you hire Brandt in the first place?" "Was it because of those little girls?" "I'm not saying word one until I get a lawyer juicy deal." "Leo trusted you." "man." "you remember back five years ago when you announced from this very stage that I was eliminating all high school and college equivalency programs? and naming the new program after Leo Glynn." "How the times have changed." "maybe I've mellowed." "We've just received a call from Detective Tarnowski." "Brandt and Leo." "What?" "Devlin." "Perry." "Cancel the press conference." "Let's get back to the mansion." "These charges are scurrilous." "It's a vain attempt to attack a fine young man. too." "I only" " Shut up." " I'll handle this." " How?" "except type out your resignation." "Loewen's ghost is gonna bring you down." "they send you here to Oz." "you coming?" "you little prick." "I accept your resignation." "McManus." "I'm not going anywhere." "We'll see about that." "Perry!" "Thank you all for coming." "Leo Glynn's untimely death has left an enormous void in Oswald's" "Commissioner." "Just tell us who's gonna be our new boss." "from when he worked here previously." "no." "More recently he's been doing a bang-up job at Lardner." "Martin Querns." "everybody." "I'm back." "come on down. but he sure as shit wants your head hanging off a spike on the north tower." "I'm out." "Consider this your months notice." "Fabulous." "a lot can happen in a month." "This murder scandal could mean the end of Devlin's days in office." "I don't know." "He's skated through worse and come out on top." "we have to wait and see." "you may not have to." "I wasn't lying when I said I was a big fan of the concept of Em City." "Did he fire you?" "I'm not sure." "Sister." "Get your buns in here." "This is a restraint chair." "It will be placed in the hole." "you will be placed in it." "to let you know I will not take any shit from anyone." "So remember..." "Don't fuck with Querns." "and it's true. by hiding in the back of a garbage truck." "crushed to death in the trucks trash tray." "Absun was only serving a three year sentence." "Three years." "That's how desperate he was to get the fuck out." "can't sleep? when the day still has possibilities." "Today is Stella's first day back after her breast surgery." "You're excited." "And afraid." "I told Stella that I loved her." "you old seadog." "But she said I didn't." "Which of course means she doesn't love me." "Stella?" "I got your flowers." "Did I hurt you?" "No." "I'm just not used to the new breast yet." "I can't tell the difference." "man can fix pretty much everything else." "Any problems? forgive me." "it's you who has to forgive me for my silliness for thinking we both shared the same feelings." "The same feelings?" "I don't know." "in my fashion." "It's all a matter of perspective." "It's To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower." "Hold infinity in the palm of your hand..." "And eternity in an hour." "Ms. Coffo!" "Adseg is a restricted area." "I want to see Pablo Rosa." "he's not allowed any visitors." "But I work here." "Those are the rules." "How do we get the rules changed just this once?" "I don't know." " Talk to someone higher up." " Who?" "I don't know." "but he's not." "Pablo's just another terrified kid." "sitting alone in that hellhole." "What would you like to happen?" "get him some books to read." "They'll never allow him to have books in the Hole." "But there's always a way to finagle something." "How much cash do you have?" "can you hear me?" "Ms. C?" "You're okay?" "I'm fine." "And you?" "I'm going sort of crazy." "I'm here to help you with that." "How? and hides." "Tom!" No answer. "Tom!" No answer." "I wonder?" "You TOM!" "'" "The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room;" "then she put them up and looked out under them." "She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy." "I just had another visit with Norma and the baby." "Fatherhood is a remarkable thing." "I wouldn't know." "What do you mean?" "You had Alex." "But I didn't raise him." "He never even knew I was alive until he was a grown man." "I was never a father to my son." "who I will help to raise." "for my own loins as it were." "please." "I've just eaten." "since we're not allowed conjugals." "And by the time I'm out Norma will be past her child bearing years." "There are alternatives." "for example." "and then overnight my sperm to Norma next day delivery." "you're brilliant." "The commissioner says no." "No?" "How can he say no ?" "he doesn't want to start an a avalanche of requests for prisoners to artificially inseminate." "and legal risks." "But I have a right to procreate." "not necessarily." "The United States Supreme Court guarantees a prisoner the right to marry and not to be sterilized." "the justices have never expressed an opinion on prisoners bearing children." "What can we do?" "We?" "Nothing." "have them assign you a lawyer." "Goddamn it." "Just because I broke the law doesn't mean I'm not a man." "not every man was supposed to be a father." "Every man should have a right to chose." "Agamemnon." "You're looking like an oil slick." "You're right." "I'm nervous." "The judicial panel is meeting today to decide if I can artificially inseminate Norma." "I could be a father by Christmas." "Have you talked this through with Dr. Nathan?" "time consuming and most often unsuccessful." "Why are you always trying to dampen my spirits?" "only to get your heart broken." "That's not true." "maybe it's a little true. hopes and dreams." "we have reached the following conclusion. we do not see restricting artificial insemination as unreasonable. the very purpose of punishment is to take away fundamental rights." "deny the plaintiff's petition." "We lost?" "I'm afraid so." "we--we'll appeal." "there's no appeal." "Busmalis." "No." "Don't give me any lip." "wait!" "This is my life we're talking about!" "My life!" "Back off!" "You cocksucker!" "Get this man off me!" "motherfucker!" "But it isn't fair!" "It isn't fair!" "Morning." "What's wrong with her?" "Claire asked me for a second opinion." "Is she sick?" "She's pregnant." "Father?" "sit down." "What's this about?" "Your being pregnant." "I'm not trying to insinuate myself into anything." "I just wanted you to know that if you want to talk." "right?" "Because I could loose my job." "I promise." "My relationship with men in general has been disastrous." "Yet here I am surrounded by them which is why..." "I have fucked a lot of men." "A lot of prisoners." "You're shocked." "no." "Now I'm pregnant by one of them." "You know which one? Little Havana?" "I am screwed." "because" "Father." "You Catholics aren't the only ones who are against abortion." "what are you gonna do? and from then on keep my fucking legs crossed." "I'll never be a father now." "we all got our problems." "and it's true." "an inmate was caught breaking into prison. where he was arrested by the C.O's. he didn't even get to keep the beer." "You know what I'm saying?" "Raise your arms." "Turn around." "Through here." "welcome to Oz." "Warden." "I know. lecturing the kids and gangs and stuff." "I'm happy you're here to do the same." "Younger prisoners look up to a big basketballer like you." "I hope they hear what I have to say." "After you." "I just ask you to use your time wisely and well." "you can pull your life back together... and get the fuck out of Oz." "can I get an autograph?" "you still dancing down these halls?" "Some of us ain't as lucky as you." "I had nothing to do with that tendon being sliced." "I know." "so I'll be at the arena every time you play." "meet the other players." "I don't think so. you ever wonder?" "Wonder what?" "man." "I'm not afraid." "you got huge studneens." "Nice to see you again." "fellas." "Dave." "you threw me off my game. or because I wanted everyone to see how great I could shoot." "Be adored by millions." "huh?" "I don't care about the fringe benefits." "I want to be famous." "old guard at a half ass prison." "I don't want to disappear." "what can you do?" "You play the hand life deals you." "I know you did what you think is right about Morales." "I admire you." "I always have." "huh?" "Why do I feel like you're saying good bye?" "I am." "I've decided." "I'm quitting." "To do what?" "play a new hand." "basketball star Jackson Vahue was shot at this afternoon duringpracticeat thearena." "has been working as a guard at the Oswald..." "Officer Murphy? though they did play opposite each other in a prison basketball game." "Come on over to the other side." "and it's true." "A municipal court Judge in Texas was indicted on four counts of sexual misconduct." "Seemed this Judge extorted sexual favors from the female relatives of criminal defendants or ordering their release." "you're horny." "thank you for coming to see us." "I'm Father Mukada." "How do you do?" "and this is Sister Peter Marie." "nice to meet you." "How do you do?" "This is my first trip to a prison." "you haven't visited Jaz before?" "I'm not exactly sure what it is that you want from me." "he needs to deal with certain emotional problems." "You can't blame Evangeline and me for the way the boy turned out." "We were good parents." "plenty of love." "But there was always something not quite right about the boy from the very first day that we brought him home from the orphanage." "Jaz was adopted?" "we adopted three." "Have you ever tried to find out more about Jaz's birth parents." "the father died in prison." "The mother lived in Morrisville." "who knows?" "could I have the information about Jaz's birth parents?" "Certainly." "Drink your juice." "Drink your juice." "Drink the goddamn juice." "bitch!" "Get the fuck out of my face!" "one of the hardest things about working in Oz is trying to separate the man from his crime." "you shouldn't be here." "as usual." "Let me make it up to you." "Are you free for lunch?" "actually." "I'm in the middle of trying to locate Hoyt's birth mother." "Why?" "I want to know where Hoyt came from." "In order to save him?" "yes." "Ray." "You are a saint." "Hardly." "how about dinner?" "You haven't eaten unless you've tasted my roast chicken." "I won't take no for an answer." "I'd be delighted." "Great. 7:30?" "He was only one day old when I gave him up for adoption. and my parents thought that I should have a chance at life. but he was a slimeball." "sweet man." "I'm real nervous about seeing my son." "I actually thought to call and cancel." "I'll be with you every step." "Thank you." "Jaz is in an extremely volatile mental state." "terrible things." "Father." "I only hope that" "I hope that my visit can help make my son whole." "Jaz?" "hello." "we'll see you at 12 noon tomorrow then." "Excellent." "Thanks again for everything." "goodbye." "Working late?" "yes. and the two seem to be intertwined." "Jessica." "I could help you." "then we would never see each other." "I'm certainly not your only reason for working in Oz. but I have so few close friends." "let me." "stop that." "Stop what?" "Stop touching me." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry that I can't be more to you." "What do you mean?" "I took a vow of celibacy." "Cel" " Do you" "How dare you?" "I am a good Catholic woman." "I have been all my life." " That's not what" " How dare you have such thoughts?" "!" "you are nothing but a fucking slanty-eyed mongrel!" "kill Timmy Kirk." "listen to this." "Jaz Hoyt really opened up." "He told me it was the Reverend Cloutier who ordered him to kill Timmy Kirk the first time." "how is that possible?" "Cloutier was in the burn unit." "let alone speak." "he says that Cloutier appeared to him in his cell looking completely normal." "An apparition?" "his biker buddies decided to take revenge." "They went to the burn unit and carried Cloutier away." "To where?" "Hoyt says that's the one fact he will reveal only to you." "Where did they take the Reverend Cloutier?" "they'll kill us both." "I need to know." "and it's true." "A male prisoner at the Muskegon Correctional Facility in Michigan sexually assaulted the three year old daughter of a woman who was visiting him." "most restrictive visiting policies even family members." "one man's fuck up fucked up everybody else's happiness." "I have to talk to you. telling them the book binding machinery was destroyed by accident." "Did you get your check from your insurance company? which you sure as shit would have when the company folded." "The money is not the issue." "and I'm benefiting from it." "I have to do something." "Whatever you do will destroy your reputation with your brothers over there." "Can you live with that?" "You gonna tell me what that was all about?" "to make a full confession." "as they say." "The accident which destroyed the book binding machinery was not an accident." "Burr Redding is responsible." "Why jabber now?" "Because I feel guilty." "I disgraced the memory of Kareem Said." "the words become more and more hollow." "My soul is in peril." "I have to punish you." "Officer." "Officer" "put him in the cage." "McManus." "I haven't been anywhere near that book binding machinery." "Arif says you sent someone." "Arif is delusional." "What's going on?" "Donna." "Redding's taking an early retirement in solitary." "You got no proof." "Arif's word is good enough for me." "Get him out of here." "I just signed a new contract with a major magazine publishing house." "I need Burr." "I'm sorry." "Isn't there some deal we can work out?" "this is Oz!" "and it's true." "The Wisconsin D.O.C. has banned all sexually explicit materials materials received by prisoners through the mail. as well as various motorcycle and fitness magazines." "Also banned was a photograph of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. impede rehabilitation." "Chucky." "You make the call?" "I made the call." "And our mutual friend?" "He gave the okay." "Angelo and I have done a lot of business together." "your nephew has been like a silent partner." "I don't intend to be so silent." "big man." "You ever done D?" "On me." "Pass it out to your boys." "dial me a dago." "Where'd you get that?" "From Torquemada." "You ever been to one of his clubs?" "Nope." "Never got past the velvet ropes." "man." "I got into Dino's once." "mortalache." "man." "The guard's gonna put your ass in the restraining chair." "man." "What's going on?" "What's going on?" "Where am I?" "Shit." "It's okay." "don't!" "Get it off!" "Get it off of me !" "...Pulse right away." "Shake down!" "You seem down." "A guy..." "overdosed." "Close friend? you don't have friends." "You have people that look the same as you." "I've mostly been a loner." "too. but I don't anymore." "motherfucker." "You've had your last meeting with Mary Jo Cutler." "The girl is being talked to right now." "If you hurt her" "What?" "You'll get your drugged out Latino pals to come at me?" "Carajo. stupid cunt who doesn't know her place?" "I had a little run in with the Aryans." "We worked it out." "I can see that. but it'd be better for me and for my parole if this little incident just disappeared." "Miguel." "the reason why we fought ain't gonna come back again." "Schillinger's gonna see to that." "it's gonna make matters worse." "Luis Ruiz has agreed to see you." "How'd you do that?" "through persistence." "baby." "It's okay." "I've got a new shipment of D-tabs coming in today." "So? hacks are making it tougher for me to move the merchandise through the system." "I need your help." "Why me?" "McManus trusts you." "Listen to me." "I don't know how many times I'm gonna have to tell you until it actually penetrates that little pinata you've got for a brain." "I don't want any part of your bullshit." "You're so fucking sexy." "Get your hands off of me." "I like straight boys best." "You know what?" "Here's one straight boy you ain't gonna be bending over." "Leave me alone." "That's disgusting." "you've got to convince Ruiz that you're sincere." "you ready?" "Mr. Ruiz." "Alvarez." "Say what you've got to say. that you would spend a few minutes getting to know each other." "Alone." "I'll be right outside." "I'm sorry I hit you at the last parole hearing." "Why are you sorry? deliberately provoking you to see if you could handle yourself." "You failed." "I know." "But..." "Alvarez?" "Sorry don't cut it." "I said three Hail Marys." Bullshit." "It's not bullshit." "I am improving." "Alvarez." "I grew up on the same streets." "I've seen hot headed dicks like you give every Latino a bad name." "the final score is this... not ever." "I can see how much you've ripened." "hit me again." "Go on." "Miguel." "Miguel." "Guess who's your new roommate." "I knew you'd be thrilled." "sugar?" "Let me tell you something. but there is no way Hear me?" "No way that I'm ever going to be your bitch." "I don't want you to be my bitch." "I have a little confession." "I'm a virgin." "fish or fowl." "I've heard about the orgies". but I myself never indulge. and I watch." "Lights out!" "I don't want to fuck you." "That would be too common." "I want to be you." "huh?" "You know what?" "You're welcome to it." "I'm so tired. the death." "I'm so tired." "You got one of those D-tabs?" "baby?" "Keep them D-tabs running." "and it's true." "The Oregon legislature passed a law authorizing the State D.O.C." "to charge inmates for costs associated with their imprisonment. which they estimate cost $65.00 dollars" "000 a year per prisoner. in order to make restitution could lead you back to prison where you'd have to pay." "Huh." "I guess you'd call that a vicious circle." "boys. this is Noel Behn from the Society for Prisoners' rights." "hello." "Sister." "Come on in." "I asked Noel here to talk over the Lemuel Idzik case." "What's to talk about?" "He confessed to the murder of Omar White." "He was sentenced to death." "I think the case should be reviewed by the appeals court." "Why?" "Idzik's lawyer slept through most of the trial and the judge said nothing." "Justice by assembly line." "And Idzik made no protest?" "The man's indifference to his own fate suggests some sort of mental instability." "We'd like you to determine the extent." "I will find it." "I wanted Omar White to exterminate me. that the state would do what Omar wouldn't." "So all of this is an elaborate way to commit suicide?" "You could say that." "Is that why you killed Kareem Said?" "that was revenge." "Revenge?" "What did Kareem Said do to you?" "clearly you have made a choice to die." "Don't go to your grave without anyone understanding the reason." "What did Kareem do to you that was so terrible?" "He bought me a cup of coffee at an outdoor cafe in Istanbul." "brilliant." "about... about how the universe would end." "He was laughing about it." "But his words...cut into my heart." "His words... ravaged my soul!" "His words...killed me!" "And you killed him. how one man's laughter can level someone else." "he probably forgot about what we discussed." "He certainly forgot who I was." "one of many for him. and I can't help think" "I kept myself from doing something far worse." "convicted of killing a fellow inmate at the Oswald Correctional Facility was overturned today." "Come in." "Come in." "Listen.." "I know you want to die." "suffocated..." "OD'd." "I was remembering at Leo Glynn's funeral why I wanted to create a better life for these guys." "they'll never have any other kind of life." "I've heard all about your doomsday scenarios." "man will become extinct." "so what?" "That won't happen for anther 10 billion years or so." "we live in the now." "We have to grab the now with both hands." "be warmed by the sun while we can." "And what about the darkness?" "I don't know." "someone or something set this whole thing spinning." "I've got to believe that there's a reason that we live and a reason that we leave." "Mr. McManus." "Consider yourself lucky." "Some days I do." "Dad's coming to visit?" "exactly." "huh?" "Look at me and my new best friend." "Don't use me to taunt your father." "man?" "You hate him as much as I do." "I never knew the man." "I just heard the stories from your mom." "she's just got the abridges version." "I've got 35 years of gory details." "You fucking asshole." "What's that word called for when a son kills his father?" "Patricide patricide." "I like the sound of that." "You always did look good in gray." "slut?" "I assume you've heard that Cyril's latest appeal was denied." "Yeah." "He fries on Sunday." "I want you to visit him." "I want you to tell Cyril how much you loved him." "You mean lie?" "That's something you've always been good at." "What do I get in return?" "The peace of mind that your son went to his death with a little comfort." "I'll leave the hand holding to you." "He'll get no comfort from me." "forget the verbal abuse growing up." "shall we?" " Putting Cyril through all that torment." "They said it was the best treatment." "Oh I am sure that was your concern." "Fuck you!" "is that you had two wonderful sons and you destroyed them both. there will be no one there who gives a shit." "Why don't you go suck off your nigger boyfriend?" "Skillinger." "Schillinger." "and I got the cash to pay for it." "Yeah. what job?" "Kill Jahfree Neema." "thanks." "I said I can pay!" "and I said no." "to do the deed." "Skillinger." "It's Schillinger!" "Just move the fuck on." "Seven card bill." "brother man." "I got no quarrel with you." "yes you do." "get off!" "Get off!" "We're almost finished." "There we go." "I'm keeping you in until we take the stitches out." "dad?" "Get the fuck away from me." "I got no interest in changing your bed pan." "I just thought you should know that tomorrow's Cyril's execution and so far the courts refuse to step in." "do you?" "I don't give a shit about anything I can't control." "Then you must not care about anything." "Will you get the fuck away from me!" "?" "Ryan!" "please?" "You tell me you want to be an orderly to help people?" "Not him." "alright?" "You can trace back all the shit that's come down and dear old fucking dad is at the center. no more then it did when you had Cyril kill my husband. terrifying look." "Ryan." "Help me to do that." "How?" "Promise me that no harm will come to your father." "Please." "Let's just both put the past in the past." "Here's a story and...it's true."