"music stimulates us." "it stimulates us." "play on." "Hey!" "You're supposed to be having a farewell conversation." "Use your lips for talking." " Asshole." " You girls got one minute." "asshole." "come on." "Forget about him." "There's a lot I want to say before I go." "I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around the reality of you being paroled." "I won't fully comprehend it until I'm sipping my first martini." "I'm..." "I'm..." "What?" "I'm glad...you're finally going to get some time to spend with your kids" "Come on." "What's really on your mind?" "Don't forget me." "Never." "I'll be doubling my efforts to overturn your death sentence." "I'm going to see you more then before." "don't forget me." "You're not going to die." "I almost believe it's true." "It is true." "Time." "Time!" "Asshole." "don't!" "you got anything for me?" " Nope" "I love my Rosie." "Maricon!" "Thanks." "Mayor Loewen." "I wondered when you'd pop up." "sir." "Is that mail for me?" "yes." "you comfortable got everything you need?" "mm-hmm. when I heard you almost choked to death." "When's the doctor releasing you?" "I go back to unit J tomorrow." "Christ." "Sir?" "Another hate letter." "Some nigger says I got off too easy." "He says he's got a cousin here in Oswald who's gonna airhole me." " What does airhole mean?" " Kill" "Black bastard." "I'm not gonna let anything happen to you." "huh?" "the Aryans in Oswald are a sorry bunch." "Beecher." "I hear you've been trying to airhole him for about six fucking years and all you have to show for it is that little scar above your eye there." "I did have his son killed." "And his father." "an idiot?" "Saying shit like that out loud?" "I've got to tell you I never thought you were the brightest bulb in the chandelier" "You always had this huge ego with nothing to back it up." "You always had these big plans with no balls behind them." "I wouldn't have given you the time of fucking day." "You're an embarrassment to the brotherhood." "I have balls." "I can't hear you." "sir." "How'd your meeting with the mayor go?" "Fuck him." "it's been nice knowing you." "Yood." "Yood?" "you're in such a cheery mood" "I'm not sure if I should burden you with the little info I just learned." "I know who killed your father." "Who?" "Franklin Winthrop on orders from Vern Schillinger." "I knew it." "Fuck." "I thought you might want the facts now in case you decide to do something before you leave." "Like what?" "Schillinger murdered your father." "Wilson Loewen's like a father to Schillinger" "Tooth for tooth time." "you tell Nancy to keep her panties on." "And did he?" "the great communicator had no voice at all." "but I have a meeting over at Lardner." "I have to run as well." "could you stay just two more minutes?" "yeah." "I'll see you again." "darlin'." "You fucking cocksucker." "You swore to me that you would never let me serve a day... they were burning down the city. their businesses." "spreading- rubber bullets." "What you don't do is betray a life long friend. especially when that man knows where the bodies are buried." "and I want it fucking today." "I'm not going to spend another night in this cesspool." "Do you understand me?" "I don't care what kind of political typhoon it causes." "Jimmy tales of voter fraud." "you'll be sitting right next to me in unit J playing par-fucking-cheesi." "I'll figure out a way." "that's why you're my boy." "something that requires enormous discretion." "here we are. but I'm not saying goodbye because this is not goodbye." "have decided to do pro bono work for the prisonners." "I'm going to coordinate the office." "That's great." "Tobias." "I'm glad that some good will come out of all the sadness you've suffered." "I want to thank you both for always being there." "Thank you." "I'll see you tomorrow." "do not come back tomorrow." "Be with your family;" "take the time to play with your children." "And comfort my mother." "I will find who killed your father." "uh-huh." "sign here." "Okay." "You're free to go." "Free to go." "Free." "Free." "Be well." "when it hits you feel no pain." "So hit me with music." Bob Marley." "Wilson Loewen is dead." "Oh." "Well... well." "Oh." "Well." "It amazes me some of the books the prisoners read." "Henry James?" "They had to force feed me James in college." "thought it odd that Pablo Rosa would want to barrow "The Ambassadors"." "in for murdering a classmate." "Nice to know he's expanding his horizons." "Turn the book over." "Is that blood?" "He clubbed his cellmate with it." "huh?" " What cellblock's he in?" " Why?" "but you can't reach a kid like that." "Which is exactly why I should try." "you coming in here every day?" "Is that your not-so-subtle way of asking if I'm "involved"?" "Yes. men are like books. sometimes maybe a trashy novel to take to the beach." "I want a classic." "it's back on the shelves and on to the next." "no." "Then maybe you're reading too fast." "I'm voracious." "2002." "up for parole in 10." "Pablo?" "Come on in." "What do you want?" "I've been reading through your records." "with 18 years left on your sentence." "I get parole in 10." "how do you want to spend that time?" "Fast as fucking possible. any more then this is a weapon." "if you ask me." "Not the job it was meant to." "can you read?" "Sure." " Do you enjoy it?" " No" "Books are just shit teachers give you." "you did go to school." " Sometimes." "right ? what I'd like us to do is find a book that's right for you." "Why?" "and that's what you want." "Tell me some of the things that interest you." "Like what?" "Like pussy and baseball?" "we're cookin'." "checking out more then just books." "I don't really care to dignify that with a response." "you know?" "right ?" "she won't even so much as fart my way." "You and Busmalis should switch places." "but he won't see her." "let me know the next time she comes by." "man." "Norma's here today." "For some reason she asked for me." "share the love." "Share the love." "Damn." "but I can't." "He's impenetrable." "come on." "We both know Agamemnon." "What looks like a wall is only an inch thick over the tender little heart of his." "I'm no cardiac surgeon." "I'm not sure how to cut through the wall." "that I was crying. ...everyday." "I'll show up one last time. he'll never hear from Norma Clark again." "but I can't promise success. do your best." "See?" "Tears." "Where have you been?" "You know I hate playing solitaire alone." "Black four on that five." "And this is why." "my Norma ?" "calm down." "Went behind my back." "Is there a reason everyone's taking her side ?" "I'm of the mind you're both on the same side." "Dr. Love ?" "And what's led you to such a learned diagnosis?" "you called her 'my Norma'." "You've got 12 years left in Oz." "Do you really want to spend that time angry and desolate?" "what do you know?" "You're busy mooning over that librarian. about Betty." "and extraordinary life. and I'm just beginning to make up for lost time." "You... you're choosing to lose the time you and Norma have together." "Red queen on that king." "I see it." "what was that bullshit?" "You didn't like 'Of Human Bondage'?" "I thought it was an instruction manual." "It's about some crippled kid." "even." "Sorry." "How about 'Macbeth." "The story of a brutal Scottish warlord who kills mercilessly to gain power." "sounds all right." "man." "don't forget my cookie." "huh?" "Is it dick suck red?" "we heard you're working receiving and discharge." "Uh-oh." "Pancamo." "I'll use my bad hand to beat you" "Even it up a little." "Bitch!" "I was only talking." "Since when is that against the rules?" " Since right now." " Since right now." "what did I just say?" "This is the problem." "You got zero listening ability." "and either nod or shake your head." "Got it? I'm giving you back the kitchen." "I want you to stay the fuck away from the Aryans." "Got me?" "Now this is the part where you say thanks." " Thanks." " You're welcome." "what'd you give those Nazi fucks?" "you shut up again." "White." "White." "what?" " How you feeling?" "thank God." "How about you?" "not great." "They tell you what we got?" "only dribs and drabs of shit." "Me too." "It can't be that terrible if Nathan sent us out of the hospital that quick." "I want to hear quiet!" "when's Martinez coming back?" "I don't know." "Did they tell you what's ailing us yet?" "I don't know!" "see?" "Quiet." "Carlos Martinez..." "He's one nasty man." "His liver is deteriorating rapidly." "Let's up his Aldactone 25 milligrams." "you look like fucking Hell." "always." "Listen up." "Morales is worried you're going to tell Brass the truth about how his ankle got cut." "I swear on my life." "That's what Morales had in mind." "He wants me to shank you." "Chico." "(spanish) hermano." "Stay strong." " Is it done?" " No he's not gonna jabber on you." "I told you to kill him." "That was an order." "He's a compadre." "You want him whacked?" "Do the deed yourself." "I will." "And I won't fuckin' forget this." " Grace!" " He's dead." "What the hell happened?" "I was in the office out report sheets." "I never heard him code." "How do you not hear the code?" "now you're not." "You're fired." "Carlos Martinez is dead." "Goddamn it." "Leo." "And now he's dead." "and this time I am not lying." "I am not covering anything up." "full fucking disclosure!" "Jesus." "I'm still not sure this is the best solution to the problem. the truth will come out anyway." "But shouldn't you just wait until the autopsy's done?" "He who creates the news has the best chance of controlling it." "Here's to full disclosure." "Thank you for coming." "We have discovered that toxic chemical elements residing in the air ducts Carlos Martinez." "I take full responsibility for Martinez's death." "my beloveds." "Got a news flash for you." "Your pal Martinez bought the farm." "Farm?" "What farm?" "stupid." "What'd he die from?" "too." " Are you sure?" " That's the scuttlebutt." "Shit." "I'd pay up my insurance premiums." "right?" "why does that have to mean dying ?" "Omar." "now that don't make no sense." "but..." "Omar!" "That don't make no goddamn sense." "I've been looking for you." "Here I am." "Want to get a beer after work?" "and I'm buying to celebrate the death of that spic Martinez." "but it's too bad he 10-7ed before he ratted on Morales." "he did." "always at him to tell me the truth. because last night he spilled." " A death bed confession?" " Yeah." "Martinez pinned the tail on Morales' donkey ass." "and you didn't say anything until now?" "That's why I'm looking for ya." "I want Morales in solitary ASAP." "come on." "Take the cuffs off." "What the fuck do you want?" "What is this?" "Half-Time entertainment." "you think Morales is going to get his farm foreclosed?" "shh. you'll walk fine." "I see the Devil everywhere." "And you say this started when?" "The moment Kirk died." "It's as if whatever possessed him came into me." "all right? right over your shoulder." "It sounds like he's going for an insanity defense in his appeal." "I'm not crazy." "but he doesn't." "I'm not sure that he should be executed." "Would you talk to Hoyt?" "what are you hoping to get out of this?" "me personally?" "Nothing are you trying to assuage your guilt by helping Hoyt?" "You told me yourself that you prayed for Timmy Kirk to die. that Hoyt acted on his own volition and that I had nothing to do with Kirk's demise." "And yet down deep you're happy the boy is dead." "you're trying to burn off excess guilt by making Hoyt into a cause." "Just be sure he is the proper recipient." "What do you mean?" "Jazz Hoyt is not the victim here." "but I'm not like the Reverend Cloutier." "I won't just disappear." " Mrs. Kirk?" " Yes" "I'm Father Mukada." "I have Timothy's belongings." "I just need you to sign this form." "Did you know my son?" "yes." "sweet face." "Who knew there was so much bad inside?" "He left his own baby to die in a dumpster." "Then he came here. shocking things... about Jesus." "He called me Satan's whore." "would you hear my confession?" "What could you possibly have to confess?" "I stopped loving my son that day." "and I stopped loving him." "I need God to forgive me for that. and that which cannot remain silent." Victor Hugo." "Cyril." "There's something I want to talk to you about." "Sister don't you want to say hello to me?" "Jericho." "how are you feeling lately?" "He's fine." "okay?" "Yes." "Give me the puppet." "you cunt." "and now I want him back." "now let go." "Let go." "Officer!" "I need help!" "Let her go!" "Jericho made me do it!" "Jericho made me do it!" "Get off me!" "Give me that thing." "Get up." "Jericho." "shut the fuck up." "Sobbing like a chick over a stupid puppet?" "or else." "I warned you." "Matt!" "What the fuck?" "Douse the little prick." "too?" "Lights out! the first person executed under the state's new definition of mentally retarded." "We have to be prepared for a backlash." "Reimondo and her happy band of do-gooders have been stirring up the press and the public." "how do we fight back?" "There wouldn't be all this breast-beating if the folks thought the 'tard was normal." "we have to make him normal." "Or appear normal. none of which has been successful." "Which is why I propose using ECT." "What's ECT?" "Basically the PC way of saying electroshock" "There's a nasty misconception about ECT." "It's not the horrible mind torture you see in movies." "It's really quite benign." "I'm not gonna sit here debating the pros and cons of electroshock therapy." "Cyril is Sister Peter Marie's patient." "A decision can't be made without consulting her. will meet with her tomorrow." "You'll also need permission from the O'Reily family." "Seamus O'Reily." "You agree with all this?" "It was my idea." "you okay?" "I just had a meeting with Don Rofe and... that I better shut up and like it." "Will you?" "that's what I'm trying to decide." "I just  raise high the battlements and charge." "in Cyril's case..." "I have failed completely. so I have to weigh my ego against what's best for my patient." "I don't want to say no just to keep somebody else from... succeeding where I have failed." "And you think a spin around McManus' maze will do the trick." "Can't hurt." "you wanted to see me?" "sit down." "too." "I just saw Cyril and he's so god damn sad." "why don't you just give it back to him?" "Ryan." "remember?" "but... the puppet has come to mean more then that to him." "It's become... a whole other personality." "I don't care about that." "I just want Cyril to be happy." "It's not that simple." "Cyril is suffering from severe depression and schizophrenia." "what can we do to cure him?" "Your father has already agreed to electroshock therapy." "My father?" "What the fuck does that old bastard have to do with anything?" "he is Cyril's guardian." "does it do any good?" "I have no experience with it." "then fell out of favor." "some mental health professionals swear by it." "Clinical evidence indicates that ECT produces a substantial improvement in 80% of patients." "Are there any dangers?" "memory loss." "Look an ordinary household current applied to the brain for half a second" "10 to 15 times within a period of 2 to 3 weeks and no one knows if there's permanent damage." "can't we stop them?" "The truth is that they have conspired to make this happen." "We are taken out of this decision making. he says we wouldn't win." "That's genus." "Devlin wants to electroshock Cyril to make him normal enough to electrocute him." "Music is the brandy of the damned." George Bernard Shaw." "Cyril." "Why don't you hop right up here?" "this one's going to be a piece of cake." "This is going to prick just a bit." "one that puts you to sleep and the other relaxes your muscles." "That's going to prick just a bit. they'll measure the current that's stimulating your brain." "Because we're going to do a little procedure today.." "put you to sleep." "Does it hurt?" "Not if you're asleep." "He's out." "Ready?" "Fire away." "How are you feeling?" "I have a terrible headache." "Did you tell your doctors?" "Who?" "Never mind." "the pain goes away." "Do you want me to hold you?" "Come on." "'Hush little baby" "Don't say a word" "Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird." "If that mocking bird don't sing" "Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring" "If that diamond ring turns brass" "Mama's gonna buy you a looking glass" "If that looking glass gets broke" "Mama's gonna buy you a horse and cart'" "Ryan." "I just had a call from Arnold Zelman." "They've denied Cyril's appeal." "Shit." "now what do we do? but in the meantime the judge has set the date for Cyril's execution." "What?" "When?" "Three weeks from Thursday." "That's not much time." "but..." "I think you ought to accept the fact... then my brother's gonna die." "This was Father Meehan's." "Sister." "For the first time in a really long time I have faith." "I still don't understand why we gave up running the cafeteria." "We got us some new jobs." "kitchen the best detail there is." "I got the belly to prove it. something that will get us out of the muck and mire." "we ain't down in no shit." "Kenaniah." "We in so much shit you can't even smell it no more." "what's your brainstorm?" "Gonna be telemarketers." "Tele who?" "I'm serious. something that'll make you more cash then you're making over there in the kitchen." "Not more than slinging tits." "Ain't gonna be no more slinging." "nigger?" "ain't no mother fucking way going- Burr?" "gentlemen." "Our charge is to rise up and face it." "And rise we shall." "And this is the nerve center of our operation." "very nice." "And it runs like any other telemarketing firm. increases call volume and fills those .?" ". coffers." "no difference." "we get right to work." "And nobody knows they're talking to convicts." "Not unless you want us to tell them." "that would be the last thing that Senator Lakin would want his constituents to know." "bible-toting motherfucker?" "His legislation is the main reason why half the men in here are doing twice as much time." "that my company is non-partisan and will be committed to whatever it is you want us to do." "Can the editorials." "sir." "I don't mean any offense." "That's all right." "Everyone is entitled to their own point of view." "after all." "And this program is working in other prisons?" "It's thriving." "A Situation like this benefits everybody." "Nobody loses." "somebody always loses." "But I will take your proposal back to my people. driller." "See-you-from-the-side schemer." "Mounting like Kilamanjaro just wait until tomorrow When things get right with me." "Step off easy. '" "what's up?" "gentlemen." "Contract got signed today." "why that put you in such a fine fucking mood?" "man." "that attitude is the first thing you gonna get rid of." "I ain't doing it." "Funny how you think you got a choice." "we giving up the tit trade just like that?" "too." "okay?" "Just ready by 9:00 tomorrow morning." "man." "And you don't have to believe that I'm right because I'm gonna show you how right I am." "Whatever man." "when do you expect to publish Augustus Hill's book?" "but that's why we needed to see you." "There's been a bump over who owns the rights." "Augustus had a will clearly stating all moneys from the book like the fortune society." "Annabella... she divorced him." "she is claiming the divorce was not final at the time of Hill's death and that she is the rightful heir to his royalties." "we've been served an injunction by the family of Lawrence Hudack." "The officer that Augustus killed?" "That state has a son of Sam law." "All of the money from the book is supposed to go into a victim's trust. maybe years of legal battles." "What are you saying to me?" "You're not gonna publish this book? it's not a best seller. cut your printing costs?" "How are you gonna do that?" "I had an inspiration." "back up." "You want to start your own company?" "book binding." "I've done the research." "Perfect size business to run from Oz." "I presume you're not looking to the state to for the money to start this little venture." "we Muslims will pool our bank accounts." "It's a small risk." "My publishers have agreed to let me produce Augustus' book for them." "They've introduced me to several potential clients." "I thought you were against the whole concept of prison labor." "the way it's practiced." "I'm not gonna drive some local competitor out of business in that I do not have any local competirors." "I will pay the decent wage." "Minimum wage." "you're gonna fork over $5.25 an hour out of your own pocket." "but with projected earnings I expect we'll be making it back within six weeks." "I can't think of a good reason to say no." "You? Oz is gonna end up on the cover of 'Fortune 500'." "my brothers. what has been written;" "the glorious work before us." "we're going to lead the way for the world to see how workers can be treated fairly. can be treated respectfully. how human beings pulling together can be a force for good and celebrate it in the spirit of Allah." "I'm asking for your dedication." "I am asking for your absolute commitment." " Are you with me?" " Yes are you with me?" "YES!" "All praise is due to Allah." "minister. the entire population of Oz will be rejuvenated." "and the Hudack family." "I'm trying to settle their legal claims." "Who's that?" "He's a reporter." "He's gonna do a story on our new venture." " Wait here." " Alright." "Kareem Said." "Mr. Idzik." "don't harm him." "man." "please... to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. when all you hear is silence? nothing at all."