OZ: A COCK AND BALLS STORY {FOURTH SEASON PREMIERE} (TV)

Summary

The fourth season premiere in this series of dramas set in the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary, nicknamed "Oz." In this episode, Glynn lifts the lock down he imposed for the last two weeks, on the condition that no more race-related violence occurs. Khan is taken off life support and warns Cyril in a dream that he and Gloria's husband will haunt him forever. These nightmares worry Ryan, who tries to enroll Cyril in Sister Pete's interaction program, but Gloria wants no part of it. After one of the inmates in solitary gnaws himself to death, Glynn institutes a short period of daily recreation time in order to give the inmates of that ward something to look forward to each day. "El Cid" decides that this is the perfect time to revenge the murder of his cousin Ricardo by having Bevilaqua kill Alvarez, but the plan backfires when Giles steals the murder weapon, kills Bevilaqua, and stabs Alvarez. Mukada suggests that Beecher come up with a plan to mend the rift between him and Schillinger in order to keep the peace, a plan that Keller adamantly opposes. Beecher asks his father to find Schillinger's remaining son Hank, a request that leads to a blowup between Beecher and Keller, landing Keller in the hole. Bellinger returns to death row after a suspicious miscarriage, and Governor Devlin's campaign manager suggests that Glynn may want to run for lieutenant governor in the upcoming election. Sister Pete reports to McManus that Diane fell in love while on vacation and got married, news that causes him extreme distress, especially since he was planning to propose to her on her return. Three new prisoners enter Em City. Desmond Mobay is actually an undercover narcotics agent; he begins buying drugs from Wangler to establish credibility. Ralph Galino, convicted of manslaughter when the housing project he constructed collapsed and caused multiple deaths, gives his cell phone to Nikolai, who uses it to make illegal deals on the outside. Guillaume Tarrant, a small-time felon out of his element in Oz, is repeatedly harassed by Wangler, Poet, and Pierce. He is driven to the breaking point. Finding a gun planted by Adebisi for mysterious purposes, he goes on a shooting rampage.

(This program contains adult-oriented language.)

Details

NETWORK: HBO
DATE: July 12, 2000 10:00 PM
RUNNING TIME: 0:57:16
COLOR/B&W: Color
CATALOG ID: T:60876
GENRE: Drama
SUBJECT HEADING: Murder - Drama; Prison administrations - Drama; Prisons - Drama
SERIES RUN: HBO - TV series, 1997-2003
COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

Barry Levinson … Executive Producer
Jim Finnerty … Executive Producer
Tom Fontana … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
Bridget Potter … Supervising Producer
Mark A. Baker … Associate Producer
Irene Burns … Associate Producer
Adam Bernstein … Director
Sunil Nayar … Writer
Bradford Winters … Writer
David Darlington … Music by
Stephen Rosen … Music by
Kirk Acevedo … Cast, Miguel Alvarez
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje … Cast, Simon Adebisi
Ernie Hudson … Cast, Leo Glynn
Terry Kinney … Cast, Tim McManus
Rita Moreno … Cast, Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
Harold Perrineau … Cast, Augustus Hill
J.K. Simmons … Cast, Vern Schillinger
Lee Tergesen … Cast, Tobias Beecher
Eamonn Walker … Cast, Kareem Said
Dean Winters … Cast, Ryan O'Reilly
Kathryn Erbe … Cast, Shirley Bellinger
Luis Guzman … Cast, Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez
Christopher Meloni … Cast, Chris Keller
George Morfogen … Cast, Robert Rebadow
Austin Pendleton … Cast, William Giles
BD Wong … Cast, Father Ray Mukada
Lauren Velez … Cast, Dr. Gloria Nathan
Granville Adams … Cast, Zahir Arif
Lothaire Bluteau … Cast, Guillaume Tarrant
Charles Busch … Cast, Nat Ginzburg
Philip Casnoff … Cast, Nikolai Stanislofsky
Robert Clohessy … Cast, Officer Sean Murphy
Erik King … Cast, Moses Deyell
Domenick Lombardozzi … Cast, Ralph Galino
Pepa (see also: Sandra Denton) … Cast, Officer Andrea Phelan
Tom Mardirosian … Cast, Agamemnon Busmalis
muMs (see also: Craig Grant) … Cast, Arnold "Poet" Jackson
Dana Reeve … Cast, Wendy Schultz
Kristin Rohde … Cast, Officer Claire Howell
J.D. Williams … Cast, Kenny "Bricks" Wangler
Scott William Winters … Cast, Cyril O'Reilly
Edward Herrmann … Cast, Harrison Beecher
G.A. Aguilar … Cast, Louis Bevilaqua
Male Baby Alexander … Cast, Junior Pierce
Peter Benson … Cast, Reporter
Timothy L. Brown … Cast, Officer Jason Armstrong
Carl DiMaggio … Cast, Officer Len Lopresti
Todd Etelson … Cast, Mario Seggio
Ra Hanna … Cast, Nacim Bismilla
Ernie Hudson Jr. … Cast, Hamid Khan
Jon M. McDonnell … Cast, Prison Guard
John Palumbo … Cast, Don Zanghi
Michael Quill … Cast, Mark Miles
Lance Reddick … Cast, Desmond Mobay
R.E. Rodgers … Cast, James Robson
Otto Sanchez … Cast, Chico Guerra
Philip V. Scozzarella … Cast, Officer Joseph Mineo
Evan Seinfeld … Cast, Jaz Hoyt
Tessell Williams … Cast, Nurse
Chuck Zito … Cast, Chucky Pancamo