wawamouse | Oz Rewatch 3: S4E15: Even the Score

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Storylines

Chico crime flashback, Tells McManus to do a shakedown, gets caught in his own sting and placed in the Cage; Omar is ordered to drug counseling where he freaks out
Beecher meets with the Rockwells and they agree not to oppose his parole
Hughes presents Glynn his manifesto which is immediately ripped up; Robson is let out of Solitary and he and Schillinger are beat up by Said, who is put in Solitary; tensions between the Muslims and the Muslims rise; Cloutier mediates peace by letting him talk to Carrie; Said refuses to leave Solitary
Basketball arc continues; McManus invites a Sacramento Kings scout to come see Bass; the COs injure Vahue’s knee but he insists on playing; Bass is invited to play with the Kings; aMorales orders Martinez to cut Bass’s Archilles tendons
Tug Daniels threatens Hill, Supreme Allah stepping in; the Colonel sees Daniels and Supreme Allah fraternising in the library; Daniels is killed by Redding and placed in a dumpster
Devlin wants Giles declared insane and have his sent to Connelly Institute instead; Giles is eventually place in Solitary instead
Ryan visits Cyril in protective custody; Henry Stanton is introduced; Howell keeps trying to blackmail Ryan; Yoots pushes Howell down the stairs and she breaks her pelvis
Cloutier casts Kirk out of his congregation after Kirk and Burns continue causing trouble, beating on Connolly
Suzanne visits and tells Ryan she plans to turn herself in for her past involvement; Gloria tells Ryan she won’t help him and Cyril escape; he goes to Connolly and wants in on his plan—he reveals he intents to blow up Em City

Me: This episode is called “even the score”.
Sister: If there’s no Miguel this episode, the score ain’t settled.

Sister: Dumb. And that’s your favorite guy? The guy with the meager mouse brains?
Me: I never said he was a role model...

Sister: I don’t even think that’s him.
Me: Yeah, I think they just stuck in archive footage for the later part of season 4. That’s why his lines sound so canned.
Sister: They're trying to give me crumbs! Boo! I sweep these crumbs away.

Sister: Unjust? They care about that? I thought he just kept people in there however long he liked. Miguel’s in there and he didn’t even kill anyone.
Me: I mean, neither did Omar.
Sister: Yeah, and they’re letting out the killer?
Me: ‘Cause they lost the proof.
Sister: That matters to him?!

Sister: I wouldn’t be so impressed if I was the scout watching him play against an old guy and a guy with a busted knee. I mean, I feel like I’d have a chance at beating them too.

Sister: Could he hear them?
Me: I think he just saw them. But It’d be kind of funny if he could, because everyone else in Oz is always conspiring at the same volume.

Sister: Why doesn’t he do any of the work? What can you do? Is this how you get to the top? Not being able to do things yourself?

Sister: (loud sigh) He’s going to make a BOMB….

Stray Thoughts

Why is Chico shirtless in his mugshot?
Drug counseling is at 1:00pm
Code 44 is for dead inmates, i guess
The Governor of Illinois is mentioned: George Ryan
Sister says Dave Bass looks like he’s supposed to be a white supremacist
Sister was very questioning of the choice for Ryan to name drop Newman’s Own popcorn of all brands. Something I've failed to mention maybe is that she tends to latch onto sometimes random points in the episode. Last episode it was the legal question of why Connolly would be detained at Oz and this episode saw her researching the pop culture relevance of various popcorn brands through the years, trying to figure out why Newman's Own got mentioned.

Final Thoughts

Me: Final thoughts?
Sister: No stakes. Didn’t see Miguel. Just a stock insert.
Me: No stakes?
Sister: I know there’s still more seasons, so i don’t feel concerned about this bomb thing.
Me: What if the bomb plot changes how it is going forward?
Sister: What, like there’s a breeze.?
Me: Yeah, what if there’s a giant hole in the prison for the rest of the show?
Sister: Well that’d be pretty nice. Get some sunshine. Set up a little camp, name it Camp Half Blood. Have the centaur walking around.
Me: Supreme Allah?
Sister: Yeah, him and his hind legs. …
Sister: Are they going to be playing this [basketball] game for much longer?
Me: They still have one more game, so yes.
Sister: (tortured sigh) …
Sister: Everyone needs to stop telling each other their plans. The only time it’s worked out was Mr Former Mutton Chops (Beecher) telling the parents his plan for parole and then telling them his sad story. Every other time, people tell someone their plan and then that person is like “Oh yeah? I’m going to make a different plan!” They need to tell their plans afterward, like “Did you see that cool bomb that just went off? Yeah, that was me.” Also, like, your guy with the lazy eye, he told [McManus] his plan and then that blew up in his face, too.
Me: He didn’t say his plan, though.
Sister: He made insinuations.
Me: He had a plan and then he executed part of it but forgot that he would also be there when the plan unfolded. So he attended his own plan as a popcorn eater.
Sister: Yeah, and it was a 4D movie.