"Family Bizness"

Episode #:13 (2.5) Family Business
Season:2
Air Date:8/10/98
Producers:Levinson/Fontana
Writer:Tom Fontana
Director:Kathy Bates
 
Synopsis:
With their enmity at a boiling point, Adebisi poisons Schibetta -- but not fatally. Schillinger asks Said to represent him in the conspiracy to commit murder trial; Now that his brother has turned himself in for murder, Glynn no longer owes Schibetta any favors; Poet, now a published author, gets his parole, but Governor Devlin still takes away funds for McManus's high-school equivalency program; McManus shys away from Diane after she admits what happened with Scott Ross; When Beecher learns his wife committed suicide, Keller offers comfort, but his advances are rebuked; Sister Peter Marie figures out that Giles witnessed who killed her husband. Meanwhile, O'Reily is in love with Dr. Nathan, and gets his brother Cyril to have her husband killed.
 
Starring:
KIRK ACEVEDO as Miguel Alvarez
ERNIE HUDSON as Warden Leo Glynn
TERRY KINNEY as Tim McManus
RITA MORENO as Sister Peter Marie
HAROLD PERRINEAU as Augustus Hill
J.K. SIMMONS as Vernon Schillinger
LEE TERGESEN as Tobias Beecher
EAMONN WALKER as Kareem Said
DEAN WINTERS as Ryan O'Reily
 
Also Starring:
ADEWALE AKINNOYE-AGBAJE as Simon Adebisi
EDIE FALCO as Officer Diane Wittlesey
GEORGE MORFOGEN as Robert Rebadow
LAUREN VELEZ as Dr. Gloria Nathan
B.D. WONG as Father Ray Mukada
 
Guest Starring:
AUSTIN PENDLETON as William Giles
ZELJKO IVANEK as Governor James Devlin
CHRISTOPHER MELONI as Chris Keller
KATHRYN ERBE as Shirley Bellinger
EDDIE MALAVARCA as Peter Schibetta
J.D. WILLIAMS as Kenny Wangler
MUMS as Arnold "Poet" Jackson
GRANVILLE ADAMS as Zahir Arif
TOM MARDIROSIAN as Agamemnon "The Mole" Busmalis
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE as Grandmother Beecher
SCOTT WILLIAM WINTERS as Cyril O'Reily
 
With:
BRYAN CALLEN as Coushaine
SEAN DUGAN as Timmy Kirk
CORTEZ NANCE JR. as Mark Glynn
LIEF RIDDELL as Mark Mack
PAUL SCHULZE as Officer Rick Heim
LOUIS SONES as Steve Dawkins
CHUCK ZITO as Chuck Pancamo
BRET BAILEY as Officer
TIM BROWN as Officer Jason Armstrong
PHILIP V. SCOZZARELLA as Officer Joseph Mineo
 
Notes:
Poet is the valedictorian of the graduating class of 1998, which also includes Timmy Kirk and Mark Mack.
O'Reily's mentally retarded brother, Cyril, is played by Dean Winter's real life brother, Scott.