"A Word to the Wise"

Episode #:30 (4.06) A Word to the Wise
Season:4
Air Date:8/16/00
Producers:Levinson/Fontana/Finnerty
Writer:Tom Fontana
Director:Keith Samples
 
Synopsis:
Querns receives some negative feedback from Said; Mobay pays a price for getting in good with Adebisi; Officer Claire Howell is transferred to Em City to address the increasing lack of diversity as Officers Murphy, Mineo, and Armstrong are moved to Unit B. Ginzburg's execution is moved forward; Beecher discovers who really ordered the kidnapping when Hank Schillinger is arrested by the FBI; Querns moves Keller out of Beecher's pod and Browne is moved in; Keller confesses past sins to Father Ray. Rebadow tries to kill Busmalis; Stanislofsky tells Querns about the cell phone; Cyril accidentally overdoses on the Haldol; Ryan has plans for Dr. Nathan's attacker.
 
Starring:
ADEWALE AKINNOYE-AGBAJE as Simon Adebisi
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:
ROBERT JOHN BURKE as Agent Pierce
REG E. CATHEY as Martin Querns
CHRISTOPHER MELONI as Chris Keller
GEORGE MORFOGEN as Robert Rebadow
LAUREN VÉLEZ as Dr. Gloria Nathan
B.D. WONG as Father Ray Mukada
GRANVILLE ADAMS as Zahir Arif
CHARLES BUSCH as Nat Ginzburg
PHILIP CASNOFF as Nikolai Stanislofsky
ROBERT CLOHESSY as Officer Sean Murphy
LORD JAMAR as Kevin "Supreme Allah" Ketchum
ERIK KING as Moses Deyell
TOM MARDIROSIAN as Agamemnon "The Mole" Busmalis
MUMS as Arnold "Poet" Jackson
PEPA as Officer Andrea Phelan
LANCE REDDICK as Desmond Mobay (Det. Johnny Basil)
KRISTIN ROHDE as Officer Claire Howell
SCOTT WILLIAM WINTERS as Cyril O'Reily
DAVID ZAYAS as Enrique Morales
 
With:
JEROME PRESTON BATES as Officer Travis Smith
PETER BENSON as Reporter
TIMOTHY L. BROWN as Officer Jason Armstrong
DYLAN CHALFY as Patrick Keenan
CARL DiMAGGIO as Officer Len Lopresti
SEAN DUGAN as Timmy Kirk
GANO GRILLS as Mondo Browne
RA HANNA as Nacim Bismilla
CONNIE NELSON as Detective Guinevere McGorry
JOHN PALUMBO as Zanghi
MICHAEL QUILL as Mark Miles
R.E. RODGERS as James Robson
OTTO SANCHEZ as Chico Guerra
PHILIP V. SCOZZARELLA as Officer Joseph Mineo
EVAN SEINFELD as Jaz Hoyt
JACQUES SMITH as Leroy Tidd
CHUCK ZITO as Chuck Pancamo
 
Notes:
Ginzburg requests that his execution be moved up, but he dies in his sleep the night before it is carried out.
Keller confesses to Father Ray that he murdered several homosexual men after having sex with them because he didn't want them to tell anyone about him.
Gloria goes on a leave of absence.