OZ: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramas set in the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary, nicknamed "Oz." As this episode opens, Said tries to defend Schillinger against charges of conspiracy to kill Beecher, but Diane and Tim lie at the deposition, thus nullifying the case. Bellinger and her secret pen pal, Adebisi, trade love notes, and Raoul Hernandez, "El Cid," takes over as the new leader of the Latino prisoners. Schibetta is released from the hospital ward after being poisoned by Adebisi. He and Pancamo try to corner Adebisi the next day, but he knocks them both unconscious and rapes Schibetta for revenge. New prisoner Jiggy Walker brags that he sold drugs to Governor Devlin. Said leaks this information to the press in an effort to ruin Devlin, but the plan backfires. Sister Pete discovers that Giles murdered the man who killed her former husband, but she cannot find a motive for the crime. Cyril, Ryan's brother, is imprisoned for killing Gloria Nathan's husband, and she bitterly confronts Ryan over the incident. Ryan breaks off with his wife Shannon in order to pursue his obsession with Nathan. Keller teams up with Schillinger to get Beecher hooked on alcohol again. Keller gets drunk, the two declare their love for each other with a passionate kiss, and the guards haul Keller off to the hole when he resists their attempts to break up the amorous embrace. Beecher, distraught over both his feelings for Keller and his loneliness now that Keller is gone, turns to booze after all.
(This program contains nudity and adult-oriented language.)
Details
- NETWORK: HBO
- DATE: August 17, 1998 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:14
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:60916
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Murder - Drama; Prison administrations - Drama; Prison gangs - Drama; Prisons - Drama; Asian American Pacific Islanders Collection
- SERIES RUN: HBO - TV series, 1997-2003
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Barry Levinson … Executive Producer
- Tom Fontana … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Jim Finnerty … Co-Executive Producer
- Bridget Potter … Supervising Producer
- Adam Taylor … Director
- David Darlington … Music by
- Stephen Rosen … Music by
- Ernie Hudson … Cast, Leo Glynn
- Terry Kinney … Cast, Tim McManus
- Rita Moreno … Cast, Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
- Harold Perrineau … Cast, Augustus Hill
- Eamonn Walker … Cast, Kareem Said
- Edie Falco … Cast, Diane Whittlesey
- J.K. Simmons … Cast, Vern Schillinger
- Lee Tergesen … Cast, Tobias Beecher
- Dean Winters … Cast, Ryan O'Reilly
- Kirk Acevedo … Cast, Miguel Alvarez
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje … Cast, Simon Adebisi
- George Morfogen … Cast, Robert Rebadow
- Lauren Velez … Cast, Dr. Gloria Nathan
- B.D. Wong … Cast, Ray Mukala
- Zeljko Ivanek … Cast, Governor James Devlin
- Tim McAdams … Cast , Johnny Post
- Austin Pendleton … Cast, William Giles
- Kathryn Erbe … Cast, Shirley Bellinger
- Christopher Meloni … Cast, Chris Keller
- Eddie Malavarca … Cast, Peter Schibetta
- Luis Guzman … Cast, Raoul Hernandez "El Cid"
- Skip Sudduth … Cast, Lenny Burrano
- Pat McNamara … Cast, Dr. Gustopnick
- Scott William Winters … Cast, Cyril O'Reilly
- muMs (See also: muMs the schemer; see also: muMs da schemer) … Cast, the Poet
- Tom Mardirosian … Cast, Agamemnon Busmalis
- LL Cool J … Cast, Jiggy Walker
- Annika Peterson … Cast, Shannon O'Reilly
- Danton Stone … Cast, Fortunato
- Bryan Callen … Cast, Coushaine
- Doublas Crosby … Cast, D'Agnasti
- Sean Dugan … Cast, Kirk
- Leif Riddell … Cast, Mack
- Otto Sanchez … Cast, Guerra
- Chuck Zito … Cast, Pancamo