"The Routine" | ||
Episode #: | 1 (1.1) | |
Season: | 1 | |
Air Date: | 7/12/97 | |
Producers: | Levinson/Fontana | |
Writer: | Tom Fontana | |
Director: | Darnell Martin | |
Synopsis: | ||
In the "Emerald City" experimental unit of Oswald State Penitentiary, we meet some of the diverse inmates who live within a pecking order of Gangbangers, Latinos, Muslims, Westies, Aryans, and Wiseguys. No clear-cut leader emerges--with the possible exception of Kareem Said, a Muslim author who preaches non-violence and abstinence. Said's arrival doesn't prevent a short-fused Mafia inmate named Dino Ortolani from ticking off just about everybody--a habit that ends up burning him. A lawyer struggles to endure his first terrifying week in prison; an Irish gangster seeks revenge on the inmate who shot him. | ||
Starring: | ||
ERNIE HUDSON as Warden Leo Glynn TERRY KINNEY as Tim McManus HAROLD PERRINEAU as Augustus Hill EAMONN WALKER as Kareem Said | ||
Also Starring: | ||
KIRK ACEVEDO as Miguel Alvarez EDIE FALCO as Officer Diane Wittlesey LEON as Jefferson Keane RITA MORENO as Sister Peter Marie TONY MUSANTE as Nino Schibetta J.K. SIMMONS as Vernon Schillinger LEE TERGESEN as Tobias Beecher SEAN WHITESELL as Donald Groves DEAN WINTERS as Ryan O'Reily B.D. WONG as Father Ray Mukada | ||
Guest Starring: | ||
LAUREN VELEZ as Dr. Gloria Nathan GEORGE MORFOGEN as Robert Rebadow O.L. DUKE as Paul Markstram ADEWALE AKINNOYE-AGBAJE as Simon Adebisi GOODFELLA MIKE G as Joey D'Angelo STEVE RYAN as Officer Mike Healy JOSE SOTO as Emilio Sanchez JON SEDA as Dino Ortolani | ||
With: | ||
GEORGE E.M. KELLY as Travis Ballard TIM McADAMS as Johnny Post MUMS THE SCHEMER as Poet (Arnold Jackson) PHILIP V. SCOZZARELLA as Officer Joseph Mineo DERRICK SIMMONS as Billie Keane DESIREE MARIE VELEZ as Gintare Ortolani | ||
Notes: | ||
McManus created "Emerald City," which is Cell Block 5 in Oz (there are six cell blocks in Oz). Alvarez, Beecher, Markstram, Groves, Said, and O'Reily all arrive in Oz this episode. Schillinger burns a swastika on Beecher's ass. Johnny Post fries Ortolani, who ends up in the hole for smothering Emilio Sanchez. #97B412 Tobias Beecher. Convicted July 5, 1997. Driving while intoxicated, vehicular manslaughter. Sentence: 15 years, up for parole in 4. #97S444 Kareem Said. Convicted June 6, 1997. Arson in the second degree. Sentence: 18 years. Eligible for parole in five. #96C382 Dino Ortolani. Convicted December 12, 1996. 1 Count assault with a deadly weapon, murder in the first degree. Sentence: Life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole. |