A Word to the Wise
Written by Tom Fontana

[The box.]

Hill:  There's all kinds of slang words for prison:  The joint, the slammer, the
big
house.  But my personal favourite is the clink.  That's because the word comes
from the sound the chains made back in the 1400s.  They had these big-ass
motherfucking iron chains.  The prisoners weren't allowed to talk, so when they
moved around the dungeon, all you heard was "clink".

[Em City.  Quad.]

CO:  Listen up.  The following are being transferred out of Emerald City:
96G333, Guccione, 91H481, Hardin, 94S727, Shirner.  Get your stuff, and follow
Officer Titon.

Poet:  Yo!  So long, suckers!

Adebisi:  Psst!  (He signals to his prag.  They go into Adebisi's pod.)  Blow
me.

[Laundry room.]

Querns:  You gotta fix this damn thing by noon.

Said:  Querns!  How can you condone what Adebisi is doing?  The drugs, the sex.
He even has a curtain across his cell to hide his sins.

Querns:  I don't have to explain why I condone what I condone to you.

Said:  No, you don't.  But, I can go to the Warden.

Querns:  I can send you to the hole.

Said:  You know, others have tried to silence me.

Querns:  Others ain't me, Said.  If you want to move to another unit, I can
arrange
that.  If not, do what you do best:  Pray to Allah.  The rest of the time, keep
your
mouth shut.

[Em City.  Said-Arif pod.]

Said:  Arif.  Look out there.  Look!  Can you see what's going on?

Arif:  Yes.

Said:  Then how can you just sit there?  You said you wanted to lead.  Well, in
the
name of all that's holy, lead.

[Em City.  Unit manager's office.]

Querns:  (into phone)  Alright, okay, bye-bye.  Bye.

CO:  You're on.

Arif:  I've been trying to get five minutes with you for days.

Querns:  Well, you got 'em now.  Don't waste 'em by complaining.

Arif:  First off, when you set up this new system, why wasn't I named one of the
trustees?  The Muslim population constitutes 18% of Oz.  As their leader, I
expect
some sort of representation.

Querns:  I know the Muslim population is large, but, as a force, you all seem
rudderless.

Arif:  You wait, Querns.  You'll feel the full force of our power.

Querns:  Are you threatening me?  Huh, huh, huh?  Are you threatening me?  Get
your ass out of here.

[Em City.  Said-Arif pod.]

Muslim prisoner:  But me and Supreme, we was just talking.

Arif:  I don't want you anywhere near him.

Muslim prisoner:  But I was just listening to what he had to say.

Arif:  That's an order!

Muslim prisoner:  Yes, sir.

Arif:  Now, go.  I must pray.

Poet VO:  And just then I heard a voice
A thunderous voice with like
like a Eazy-E type of nasalness saying
"Truth casts no shadows"

[Cafeteria.]

Poet:  "Because it soaks sun like fava sponges,
Do bungee-cord jumpings into the abyss.
Hold truth tightly in your fist."

Arif:  What did I tell you, Ketchum?

Allah:  My name's Supreme Allah.

Arif:  Your name is Kevin Ketchum.  You're nothing but a low-life corner boy.

Allah:  What are you, Arif?  Other than a Kareem Said wanna-be?

Arif:  I'm not warning you again.

[Em City.  Upper level.]

Arif:  Adebisi.

Adebisi:  That's me.

Arif:  We need to talk about this guy, Ketchum.

Adebisi:  Oh, yeah?  What about him?

Arif:  He's a danger to us both.

Adebisi:  Yeah?  How so?

Arif:  He's making all these converts of my people, yours.

Adebisi:  I'm not worried.

Arif:  You should be.  Pretty soon they'll be following his orders.

Adebisi:  Well, me and Supreme, we have an understanding.

Arif:  You can't trust him.

Adebisi:  What are you suggesting?

Arif:  You should do what you usually do when you face an enemy.

Adebisi:  You mean kill him?  I thought you Muslims were against murder.  Ah,
yeah, but it's okay if I kill him for you, eh?

Arif:  Adebisi -

Adebisi:  No.  I says no.  You want him dead, grab your knife, eh?

[Oswald front desk.]

Murphy:  Morning.

McManus:  Hey, Sean, what are you doing here?

Murphy:  The new guy running Em City, Querns, well, he and I came to a parting
of the ways.

McManus:  Oh, yeah?

Murphy:  The Warden reassigned me to reception, but I'll tell you, I'm not cut
out
for desk work.  My guess?  I'll be gone in a week or two.

McManus:  You know what I said, about being mad at you because you didn't quit
when I was fired?  That's bullshit.  Given my behaviour at the time, how could I
possibly pass judgment on what anyone else did?

Murphy:  Tim, you sound so enlightened.  You find God?

McManus:  Better, an affordable shrink.  Let's have dinner tonight.

Murphy:  Okay, but you're buying.

McManus:  Okay.

[Unit B.]

McManus:  Hey, Andrea.

Andrea:  It's morning already?

McManus:  Quiet night?

Andrea:  If you count two fistfights and some anal penetration as quiet, yeah.

McManus:  Who got in the fights?

Andrea:  That biker, Hoyt, and one of those Irish boys, Keenan.

(McManus opens the cells.)

Keenan:  Cocksucker.

Hoyt:  Fuck you, you fucking rapist.

(They fight.  A CO breaks it up.)

[Warden's office.]

Glynn:  Martin, what's up?

Querns:  As you know, Sean Murphy has been asked to transfer out of Em City
and I've made Travis Smith my new CO Supervisor.  The problem is, some of the
officers are loyal to Murphy, so I'm asking you to move these COs out and bring
these in.

Glynn:  Okay, done.  Uh, Mobay!  I need these transfers taken care of right
away.

Mobay:  Yes, sir.

Querns:  So, how's the campaign going?

Glynn:  Great.

[Staff break room.]

CO1:  I say we talk to the Warden.

CO2:  Nah, he's got his head up Devlin's ass.  He's not paying attention to our
problems here.  We ought to go to the union.

McManus:  Huh, go to the union about what?

Murphy:  My pal Querns is replacing all the COs in Em City with people of his
own choosing.

McManus:  That's his right.

CO2:  Yeah, only he's choosing all black guys.

McManus:  Oh, well, good news is, you can come work for me in Unit B.

Murphy:  Really?

McManus:  Yeah, I could use the muscle, believe me.  I'll go to Glynn, I'll make
the transfers.

Murphy:  Thanks, Tim.

McManus:  Hey, we were a great team, right?

[Warden's office.]

Glynn:  Okay, I'll put the paperwork through.

McManus:  Good.  Hey, Leo?

Glynn:  What?

McManus:  Doesn't it bother you that Querns is putting together an exclusively
black staff?

Glynn:  Look, I told the man he could run his unit any way he wanted, as long as
the violence was kept down, okay?  You know, since Querns took over, there's
been no significant nonsense in Em City.

McManus:  Yeah, how long is that gonna last?

[Staff locker room.]

Murphy:  There's that Romanian place around the corner.  It's a dump, but the
food's delicious, especially the chumala de mia.

Howell:  Well, well, Frick and Frack.  I hear you two choir boys are working
together again in Unit B.

Murphy:  That's right.

Howell:  I just got a transfer myself.  Seems the Warden was in a tizzy because
Querns has all black COs in Em City.

McManus:  You're gonna work in Em City?

Howell:  Yeah.  Life's full of ironies, isn't it?

[Death Row.]

(Ginzburg is violently ill.)

Miles:  For Christ's sake, Ginzburg, I can't take it anymore!  All day, all
night with
the vomiting!  Why don't you hurry up and die?  Jesus!

Sister Pete (VO):  I just came from seeing Nat Ginzburg.

Glynn (VO):  What's he want?

[Warden's office.]

Sister Pete:  You know he has AIDS.

Glynn:  Yeah, but he refuses to move to the AIDS ward.

Sister Pete:  Gloria tells me he hasn't got long to live, but, he's tired of
fighting the
disease, so he asked me to ask you if it would be possible to move up the
execution.

Glynn:  Move up the execution?

Sister Pete:  Yeah.

Glynn:  No one's ever asked to be executed early.  I mean, the court set a
specific
date, there's no legal precedent to change it.

Sister Pete:  So, let's start a precedent.

Glynn:  You're encouraging me to do this, given your position against capital
punishment?

Sister Pete:  The man is dying, Leo.  I believe, in this particular case, ending
his
life would be a, a blessing.

Glynn:  That's euthanasia.  I thought your church was against euthanasia.

Sister Pete:  My church is against a lot of things I'm not.

Glynn:  Okay, I'll call the lawyers.

Sister Pete:  Good.

[Em City.  Quad.]

TV announcer:  State Troopers closed Bear Mountain this morning after a
reported sighting of escaped convict Miguel Alvarez.  An extensive search has
been launched, but Alvarez, who has been missing for three weeks, once again
evaded capture.  In a related story, Superior Court Judge Mason Kossler today
granted the unusual request of convicted murderer Nathaniel Ginzburg, who
asked to be executed two months earlier than the court had ordered.  The
execution will take place next Thursday at the Oswald State Correctional
Facility.

[Death Row.]

LoPresti:  Sister Pete's here to see you.

Ginzburg:  How do I look?

Sister Pete:  You look like Susan Hayward.

Ginzburg:  Bingo, that's what I was going for.  Sister, I'm so grateful to you
for
everything you've done, but I've gotta ask you for one more favour.

Sister Pete:  Anything.

Ginzburg:  My nails.  I'm so excited, I can't hold the damn brush still.  Will
you do
me?

Sister Pete:  Sure.  Sit down.

Gizburg:  Yeah.

Sister Pete:  Okay.  Okay, that's it.  Are you alright?

Gizburg:  Yeah, yeah -

Sister Pete:  You know what, you know what?  No, no, no.  You'd better lie down.
We'll finish your nails later, okay?

Ginzburg:  Five a.m., I got me a date with an angel.

Sister Pete:  You rest.

Prisoner VO:  Ginzburg's dying tomorrow -

[Em City.  Pancamo's pod.]

Prisoner:  because he killed Antonio Nappa.

Pancamo:  Yeah?

Prisoner:  You wanted him to do it.

Pancamo:  Yeah.

Prisoner:  Doesn't that bother you a little?  He's dying 'cause of you.

Pancamo:  No.  This is the life we chose.

Prisoner:  Sure, but, Chuckie, are you afraid of dying?

Pancamo:  No.

Howell:  What the fuck are you doing with a cigarette, Pancamo?

Pancamo:  Smoking it?

Howell:  Put it out now, or I'm coming in there.

Pancamo:  Now her I'm afraid of.

[Unit B.]

Robson:  I heard Ginzburg picked the gas chamber as a way to die.

Schillinger:  That'd be alright.  One minute you're sitting there, breathing in
and
out, the stuff fills your lungs, the next thing you know, you don't know
nothing.

Robson:  A blow job.

Schillinger:  What?

Robson:  Instead of a last meal, they should give you one last blow job.  Yeah.

[Death Row.]

Glynn:  Ginzburg, it's time.  Ginzburg?

Sister Pete:  Nat?  Oh, my god - he's cold.  He's dead.

Glynn:  Get a doctor.

Father Ray:  Go figure.  He dies in his sleep of natural causes.

Sister Pete:  He looks so beautiful.

Glynn:  What are you doing?

Sister Pete:  I'm going to finish his nails.

[Em City.  Hill-Mobay pod.  Morning.]

Hill:  Mobay.  Mobay!

Mobay:  Yeah, yeah.  Coming.

[Em City.  Classroom.]

Adebisi:  Mobay, pay attention.

Pancamo:  Tomorrow, we get healthy.

Mobay:  Healthy?  What does that mean, healthy?

Poet:  It means we're getting a new shipment in.

Mobay:  Where?

Adebisi:  None of your business.  So, Mobay, Tidd, Brown, I want each of you to
bring me five new babies.

Mobay:  Babies?

Brown:  Some new customers, brother.

Mobay:  Babies, okay.

Adebisi:  Poet, you supervise.

Mobay:  I don't need supervising.

Adebisi:  What you need is to learn to take an order.

Mobay:  Yes, sir.

[Warden's office.]

Glynn:  Mobay!  You know Detective McGorry from Homicide?

Mobay:  Sure.  Hi, Guinevere.

McGorry:  John.

Mobay:  You're here about the death of Bruno Gergan?

Glynn:  Gergan may have been a bad cop, but he turned State's evidence in the
gun smuggling case.  The DA is pissed that his prime witness didn't last a week
in
Oz.

McGorry:  Any idea who killed him?

Mobay:  Well, I thought him falling down the elevator shaft was an accident.

(FB to Gergan's death.)

McGorry:  No, my gut says otherwise.

Mobay:  You think somebody whacked Gergan 'cause they found out he was a
cop?

McGorry:  No, this is something else.  I just can't figure out what yet.

(FB to Gergan's death.)

Mobay:  Well, if I can help your investigation in any way -

McGorry:  Yeah, well, you keep your ears open, you hear boasting, you call me.
Warden, I'm gonna set up some interviews, starting with Gergan's cellmate.

Glynn:  Okay.

McGorry:  Later.  (She leaves.)

Glynn:  So, you in good with Adebisi and the boys?

Mobay:  Yes.  They've got a fresh supply showing up tomorrow, only I can't find
out which door.  They also want me to recruit some new buyers.

Glynn:  As a police officer, you can't sell drugs.

Mobay:  I know.  I'll use the cash I have and pretend I found my 'babies'.

[Cafeteria.]

Adebisi:  Hey, there's your boy.

Poet:  Got him, got him.  Where you been?

Mobay:  Recruiting.  I got two babies.

Poet:  Who?

Mobay:  I don't know their names.

Poet:  Well, point 'em out to me, man.

Mobay:  They already left.

Poet:  Shit.  Well, give me that money, man.  Come on, come on, come on, come
on.

Mobay:  I want the tits.

Poet:  Alright.  Here you go.  Keep on selling, baby, keep on selling.

[Em City.  Hill-Mobay pod.]

Hill:  Hey, Mobay, give it a rest, man.  You been shovelling that shit up your
nose
since lights out.  I want to get some sleep.

Mobay:  So, sleep.

Hill:  What'd you say?

Mobay:  Nothing, sorry.

(FB of Mobay snorting tits.)

[Sister Pete's office.]

Mobay:  Sister Peter Marie.  I'm glad the Warden told you who I really am.  I
need
to talk, and I need this to be confidential.

Sister Pete:  Of course.

Mobay:  Oz is my first big undercover assignment.  A lot of the guys I work with
in Narcotics didn't think I could handle the job, but I knew I could.  I thought
I
could.  I left my wife and son, I told them I'd be gone I don't know how many
months.  Abby, that's my wife, she's worried, naturally, that I'll be found out,
that
I'll be killed.  Today's Robbie's birthday.  I thought I was close to busting
the drug
ring, but, I'm not.  Only, I've got to.  I blow this, my career's over.  I'm
back to
riding the subways, arresting bums, so, I gotta stay, I gotta see this through,
but -
Sister, I'm an addict.

[The box.]

Hill:  People in love sometimes say that they're head over heels, but if they
knew
what the phrase really meant, I'm not sure that they'd make the claim.  Back in
the
bad old days, as a warning to criminals, judges would order malcontents to be
hung by their ankles, heels over head.  The phrase came to mean a state of
helplessness, confusion.  Now that I think of it, that is being in love.

[FB.  Em City.  Beecher-Keller pod.]

Toby:  What should I do if I ever find out who killed Gary?

Keller:  You should whack 'em.

Toby:  Yeah?

Keller:  That'd be my pleasure.  What the fuck?

Toby:  You murdered my son!

[Ad Seg.]

(Keller, naked, pisses into a bucket.)

[Em City.  Beecher-Keller pod.]

Toby:  My son is dead, nothing can change that.  And Keller had Gary killed.
Nothing's gonna change that, either.

Said:  Beecher, killing Keller is no way to mourn your child.

Toby:  What, now you're defending that cocksucker?

Said:  No, he must be punished.  But, not by you.

Father Ray:  Tobias, the FBI found your daughter.  Holly's alive.

[Library.]

FBI Agent:  We investigated the lead you gave us.  Bob "Big Butt" Toland had
nothing to do with the kidnapping.  He'd been arrested two days before and was
sitting in the Crown and Shield Holding Centre, awaiting arraignment.

Toby:  But, if he didn't do it, that means -

Father Ray:  Chris Keller is innocent.

Toby:  Oh, Christ.  Oh, Jesus fucking Christ!

FBI Agent:  We arrested the real kidnapper this morning.

Father Ray:  Tobias, it's Hank Schillinger.

[Interrogation room.]

FBI Agent:  Sit down, Vern.  We got a couple of items to discuss.

Schillinger:  Oh, do we, now?

[Ad Seg.]

(A CO enters with Keller's clothing.)

[Em City.  Unit manager's office.]

Querns:  I've got a file just full of fights between you two.  Plus, I'm told
you like
to fuck each other up the ass.  Now, I'm not wild about either practice, so,
Keller,
I'm moving you to another pod.  But, if either of you touches the other, in love
or
war, I will transfer both of you to Gen Pop.  Understood?

Toby:  Yes.

Keller:  Yes.

Querns:  Keller, go pack.  Beecher, I have other business with you.  (Keller
leaves.)  The Warden tells me that an inmate from Unit B, Vern Schillinger, may
be responsible for your son's death, so we've decided for the time being, to
restrict
your movements through the rest of Oz.  No library or gym privileges, and you'll
eat your meals here at Em City.

Toby:  He killed my son, and I get punished for it?

Querns:  Well, given the fact that I have transferred all the Aryans out of Em
City,
this is the safest place for you.

Toby:  Safe?

Querns:  Relatively speaking.

[Em City.  Beecher-Keller pod.]

Toby:  Chris?

Keller:  Don't.  Don't even.

Toby:  My son died horribly.  I was out of my mind with grief.

Keller:  You actually thought in your heart that I could do such a thing?  Order
the
murder of a child?  Your child?  Yeah, you've got plenty of reasons to assume
the
worst about me.  But, I worked very hard to regain your trust, your love.  I
thought
I had, but this proves that I haven't.

Toby:  Chris.

Keller:  I don't, I can't.

Toby:  Please.

Keller:  I never will.

Toby:  Please!

Keller:  No, we're over, we're finished, we're done.

Toby:  Chris, you gotta forgive me.

Keller:  No.

Toby:  I forgave you.

Keller:  Well, I guess that makes you the better man.  (He leaves.)

Brown:  Howdy, I's your new neighbour.

Toby:  This is my bunk.

Brown:  It ain't no more.

Adebisi:  Hey, Mondo.  Play nice.

CO (VO):  Lunch detail!

Adebisi:  Follow me.

[Cafeteria.]

Robson:  Feds arrested Hank?

Schillinger:  After letting the girl go, the Feds surrounded him.

Robson:  Push comes to shove, with the Federal boys leaning on him, think your
son'll give you up?

Schillinger:  Honest to Christ, I don't know.

Keller:  Hey, Vern.  Four marriages, I never had any kids, so I don't know dick
about parenting, but you, fuck, you deserve some sort of prize.  One son, you
give
him drugs knowing he'll OD, the other you set up for lethal injection.  You're
father of the fucking year.  But you know what the best news is?  When both of
your sons are dead, that'll be the end of it, 'cause you ain't making any more
children, not in here.  So that when you die, your name dies with you. 
Everything
you are dies when you do.  And the world'll be a better place.

[Em City.  Shower room.]

Brown:  Well, well, well.  What have we got up in here?

Tidd:  Oh, I see, my man Keller.  What's up, dog?

Brown:  Hey, Keller, man, I gotta ask you a question, man.  You mind if I fuck
your girlfriend, Beecher?  You mind if she sucks my cock?

Keller:  I don't give a fuck what you do or what he does.

Brown:  You heard that, Leroy?

Tidd:  I did, Mondo, I did.

Brown:  Alright, 'cause we don't want no problems in Em City, so it goes on
record that I got Keller's permission to fuck Beecher up the yazoo.

Tidd:  Yes, you do.

Brown:  Peace.

(Toby, Brown, and Tidd leave the room.  Keller scalds his hand in the shower.)

[Cafeteria.  Confessional.]

Father Ray:  What happened to your hand?

Keller:  I was remembering what Hell felt like.  Bless me Father, for I have
sinned.  In the past year or so, I have committed numerous homosexual acts.  Do
you want me to elaborate?

Father Ray:  No.

Keller:  Before coming to Oz, I had sex with several men, and then I whacked
them.

Father Ray:  What?

Keller:  After sex, I murdered them.

Father Ray:  Why?

Keller:  I didn't want 'em to tell, I didn't want 'em to speak my name.

Father Ray:  You have to go to the authorities and confess.

Keller:  What?  You can't absolve me?

Father Ray:  I can absolve you, but the only way to show God that you are truly
sorry is to go to the police.

Keller:  Look, I'm truly sorry, okay?  So just fucking absolve me.

Father Ray:  No.

Keller:  Give me my fucking penance.

Father Ray:  No.

Keller:  Goddamn you.  Goddamn you to fucking hell you goddamn hack in black.

[Em City.  Beecher-Brown pod.  Night.]

Brown:  Come on, Beecher, suck my dick.

Toby:  Jesus, you're such a romantic.  That the way you talk to your women?

Brown:  Well, when I'm horny, the less talk the better.

Toby:  Okay, loverboy, pucker up.

[The box.]

Hill:  For centuries, part of any punishment was humiliation.  In England,
they'd
hang a criminal inside a cage a few feet off the ground in the middle of the
town
square.  The guilty fuck sat in his cage, looking like a canary, like a
parakeet, so
people started calling them jailbirds.  Only, the kind of chirping we do in Oz,
ain't
all that pretty.

[FB.  Em City.  Rebadow-Hernandez pod.]

(Rebadow stabs Hernandez.)

[Em City.  Quad.]

Rebadow:  Mr. Morales.

Morales:  Mr. Rebadow.

Rebadow:  My request.  You said you needed time to think it over.

Morales:  Ah, yes.

Rebadow:  Well?  When you asked me to kill Raoul Hernandez, you said I could
have anything I wanted in return.

Morales:  And now you want me to let you kill someone else?

Rebadow:  Yes.

Morales:  Oddly enough, there's no one I need exterminated at the present time.
Besides, as a newly appointed trustee I have promised Querns that there will be
no violence in Emerald City.

Rebadow:  You're going against your word.

Morales:  Ask for something else.  Cigarettes, money, drugs.

Rebadow:  I want to kill somebody.

Morales:  If you have your heart set on it, why do you need my permission?

Rebadow:  Not permission, protection.

Morales:  That you can have.

Rebadow:  No matter who I kill?

Morales:  You aren't gonna do anything crazy, are you?  Like waste Pancamo?

Rebadow:  Certainly not.

Morales:  Then, who are you gonna kill?

Rebadow:  Who, indeed?

[Cafeteria.]

(Rebadow dreams of killing everyone with a machine gun.)

Rebadow:  May I join you?  May I join you, Busmalis?

Busmalis:  You're talking to me?  You're actually saying words intended for my
ears?

Rebadow:  Yes.  I've been treating you badly, and I'm sorry.

Busmalis:  You mean, all's forgiven?

Rebadow:  That's right, all's forgiven.  Would you like my pie?

Busmalis:  Yes.  Thanks!

[Em City.  Rebadow-Busmalis pod.]

Busmalis:  I'm tired, but happy.  You're speaking to me again.  The chicken at
dinner was edible.  All in all, life is good.  I'm the happiest of men.

Howell (VO):  Lights out!

Rebadow:  I've been reading "The Art of War" by Sun-Tzu.  Fascinating stuff.
The instinct to kill is as common as the need to procreate.  Those of us in Oz
are
actually the normal ones, following nature's lead.  Funny, huh, Busmalis?
Busmalis?  (He takes a shank and tries to kill Busmalis.)

Busmalis:  Ah, ahh!  Jesus, Bob!  What are you doing?  Help, help!

(COs enter and restrain Rebadow.)

Busmalis:  Jesus Christ, he cut me!  What the fuck did he do that for?
Goddamnit, I'm all cut up here!

(Rebadow is taken to the hole.)

[Kitchen.]

Ryan:  (on cell)  Eddie.  Hey, yeah, no, it's me.  That's why I'm calling. 
Yeah,
right.  You'll get it done by next week?  Good.  No later than next week, right?
Okay, alright.  See ya.

[Protective Custody.]

Querns:  You called for me?

Stanislofsky:  Did you put Hoyt into solitary?

Querns:  No.

Stanislofsky:  He tried to kill me!

Querns:  I know.  But so far, neither of you will tell me why.

Stanslofsky:  It's personal.

Querns:  Fine.  You ask for protective custody, I set you up here.  But, sooner
or
later, I'm bringing you back, and Hoyt, or one of his biker buddies, will finish
the
job on you.  So, go ahead, keep it personal.

Stanislofsky:  Wait!  I will tell you, everything.

[Em City.]

(COs go through all of the pods.)

Stanislofsky (VO):  Galino had a cell phone.  After he died, I got hold of it. 
Now,
O'Reilly's got it.  He's hidden it somewhere in Em City.

Querns:  Where is it?  The cell phone?

Ryan:  What cell phone, Mr. Querns?

Querns:  You know which cell phone.

Ryan:  They're against the rules, sir.

Querns:  Mm-hmm.

[Protective Custody.]

Stanislofsky:  You didn't find it?

Querns:  No, and without that cell phone, I have no way of proving your story is
true.

Stanislofsky:  So what happens now?

Querns:  Well, I leave you here a couple more days, then I'm sending you back.

Stanislofsky:  To die.  Alright, Mr. Querns, I have two requests:  I would like
to
see my girlfriend, and a rabbi.

Querns:  I'll set it up.

[Visiting room.]

Stanislofsky:  I am soon very likely going to die.

Girlfriend:  Nikolai.

Stanislofsky:  There is one thing you must do for me.

Girlfriend:  Anything.  (Speaks Russian.)

Stanislofsky:  Tonight, at five pm, I want you to dial this phone number.  It
must
be five pm sharp.  (speaks Russian)

Girlfriend:  (Speaks Russian.)

[Em City.  Quad.]

Devlin (TV ad):  In my proudest moment as your governor, I signed the law that
reinstated the death penalty.  Together, we've made great strides in the war on
crime.  There's much more to do.  Let's finish the job.

Announcer (TV ad):  The courage to lead.  James Devlin, governor.

[The box.]

Hill:  A long time ago, if a man stole another man's cow or lamb or pig, and
butchered it, and was found with the animal's blood on his fingers, he was said
to
be caught "red-handed."  Of course, if the robber was too cocky to wash his
hands, maybe he deserved to get busted.

[Em City.]

CO:  Count!

(As the clock hits five, a phone is heard ringing.)

Ryan:  Shit.

(A CO finds the phone.)

Ryan:  Fuck.

[Protective Custody.]

(Stanislofsky smiles.)

[Interrogation Room.]

Hoyt:  I never touched the cell phone.

Ryan:  He never let me touch it.

Hoyt:  I didn't kill Galino.

Ryan:  Stanislofsky did.

Hoyt:  It's his word against mine.

Ryan:  I got five guys that'll back me up.

[Em City.  O'Reily pod.]

Ryan:  I want Stanislofsky dead.

Adebisi:  Protective custody?  No can do.

Ryan:  I thought you had some clout in this fucking place.

Adebisi:  Sorry, O'Reily.  Your brother, he sleep all day?

Ryan:  Nah, they just got him on this new medication to calm him down and stuff.

Adebisi:  If you ask me, he's too calm.  (He leaves.)

Ryan:  Cyril, psst.  Cyril?  Cyril, wake up.  Cyril!  Cyril, wake up!  Cyril,
wake the
fuck up!  Cyril, fuck!  Officer Smith, there's something the matter with my
brother.

CO:  What do you mean?

Ryan:  I don't know, hurry up, call a fucking doctor!

CO:  Central, this is 16, we got a possible OD here.

[Infirmary.]

Gloria:  Let's start two large IVs with normal saline running wide open.  We'll
need to tube him.

Sister Pete:  What happened?

Gloria:  He OD'd on the Haldol.

[Em City.  Entrance.]

Said:  O'Reily?

Ryan:  What?

Said:  Any news on your brother?

Ryan:  No.  The fucking hacks, they tell me to wait here, and I'm fucking
waiting
here, and there's nothing.  What's going on in there?

Said:  I'm sure he'll be fine.

Ryan:  You know, she did this.  This fucking Dr. Nathan.  She gives him too
much of the drugs on purpose.  It's her way of trying to get back at me.

Said:  I don't think she's capable of something like that.

Ryan:  Hey, Gloria fucking hates me.  Wake up.  I mean, she thinks I hired
Keenan to rape her.  Now she's got my brother back there in her clutches, and
there's not a fucking thing I can do about it.  I fucking hate this place! 
Fuck!
Cyril!

[Infirmary.  Dr. Nathan's office.]

Sister Pete:  Gloria, how's Cyril?

Gloria:  Well, we pumped his stomach.  He's breathing normally.  Problem is, we
don't know how long he was unconscious before they brought him in, so, the next
few hours will be dicey, but I think he'll be fine.

Sister Pete:  How does that make you feel?

Gloria:  Are we suddenly in session?

Sister Pete:  No.  No, I just want to be sure that he gets the best care that he
can.

Gloria:  Oh, and you don't think that I'm capable of separating my professional
obligations from my anger?

Sister Pete:  I think that right now you're so turned around you can't see which
way to go.

Gloria:  I have other patients to -

Sister Pete:  Gloria, Gloria, Ryan O'Reily did not hire that man to rape you.

Gloria:  He admitted that he did.

Sister Pete:  He told you what you wanted to hear.

Gloria:  Keenan raped me because of O'Reily.

Sister Pete:  The attack on you was random.  If Keenan hadn't raped you, he
would have raped someone else.

[Gym.]

Ryan:  Hey, Keenan.

Keenan:  Hey.

Ryan:  Hey, luck of the Irish, right?

Keenan:  Yeah.

Ryan:  Alright.  Hey, I want you to do something for me.

Keenan:  Anything.

Ryan:  I want you to tell me.

Keenan:  About what?

Ryan:  When you raped Dr. Nathan, I want to know what it was like to fuck her.

Keenan:  Okay.  She was heading into her apartment, looking so hot.

Ryan:  Yeah.

[Infirmary.]

Gloria:  How you feeling?

Cyril:  My head hurts.

Gloria:  That'll go away.

Cyril:  Where's Ryan?

Gloria:  I don't know, probably Em City.

[Gym.]

Keenan:  And then I just slammed my cock into her.  I slammed her.

[Infirmary.]

Cyril:  You don't like us, do you?  I like you.

[Gym.]

Keenan:  Till she couldn't scream no more, couldn't breathe no more.

[Gym.]

Cyril:  My brother, he does bad things, but, deep down he's not bad.

[Gym.]

Keenan:  I came inside her and she was moaning, oh.

[Infirmary.]

Cyril:  He loves you, with all his heart.

[Gym.]

Ryan:  Jesus, you sure did a job on her, huh?

Keenan:  Oh, yeah.

Ryan:  Yeah.  So, you say you wanna work for me?

Keenan:  Definitely.

Ryan:  I do things different here in Oz than the way we worked on the street. 
For
instance, when I want someone dead, I never grease 'em myself.  I always talk
someone else into doing the deed for me.  I make 'em believe the person I want
dead is their enemy.  That way the kill can't be traced back to me.

Keenan:  That's so cool.

Ryan:  You got, what, seven years till parole?

Keenan:  Uh-huh.

Ryan:  You think you'll go the distance?

Keenan:  Sure, I'll get out.

Ryan: Yeah, that's good.  You keep believing that, Patrick.  You know how I said
that I always get someone to kill for me?

Keenan:  Yeah.

Ryan:  Well, in your case, I'm gonna make an exception.  (He bashes Keenan with
a dumbbell, spits on him, steals his shamrock necklace, and leaves, never
noticing
that Arif has witnessed the murder.)

[Infirmary.]

Gloria:  Take him down to the morgue.  (She goes to her office and finds a note
containing the necklace and the words "All for you, Gloria, all for you".)

[Warden's office.]

Gloria:  My only real memory from that night was this shamrock.  I remember the
light from the streetlamp kept bouncing off it.  When they brought Keenan into
the ER I thought, "Good, he's dead, good."  You were right, I came back too
soon.
I need to take some time, you know.  Just put my anger back in its proper place.
Maybe then I can learn to forgive.  Myself more than anyone.

Glynn:  The job will be here, whenever you decide to come back.

Gloria:  If I come back, Leo.

[The box.]

Hill:  To seal one's fate.  Years ago, the death sentence could not be carried
out
unless the death warrent had the judge's official seal affixed to the bottom.
Imagine:  the only thing standing between you and death is a little lump of
melted
wax.

[Infirmary.  Dr. Nathan's office.]

(Gloria is packing her things.)

Hill (VO):  But that's the thing about life.  The big changes all come because
of
little lumps of wax.

(Gloria throws the shamrock into the garbage and then retrieves it, and goes to
see
Cyril.)

[Em City.  O'Reily pod.]

(Ryan stands naked at the door of the pod.)