"Medium Rare"

Episode #:33 (4.09) Medium Rare
Season:4
Air Date:1/7/01
Producers:Levinson/Fontana/Finnerty
Writer:Tom Fontana & Sunil Nayar
Director:Alex Zakrzewski
 
Synopsis:
Emerald City has a brush with the fourth estate when shrewd TV newsmagazine producer Lisa Logan unleashes her cameras on the cell block. During preliminary tapings, she begins her focus on Beecher, but several prisoners drop hints about a cover-up in the violent death of Simon Adebisi and Logan smells a sure-fire ratings hit. But it's Jack Eldridge who ultimately gets the story when the pompous talking head has an unexpected reunion with the O'Reily brothers--his interview subjects for a piece 20 years earlier.
 
Starring:
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:
REG E. CATHEY as Martin Querns
CHRISTOPHER MELONI as Chris Keller
GEORGE MORFOGEN as Robert Rebadow
SCOTT WILLIAM WINTERS as Cyril O'Reily
MICHAEL WRIGHT as Omar White
GRANVILLE ADAMS as Zahir Arif
ROBERT CLOHESSY as Officer Sean Murphy
TOM MARDIROSIAN as Agamemnon "The Mole" Busmalis
MUMS as Arnold "Poet" Jackson
KRISTIN ROHDE as Officer Claire Howell
DAVID ZAYAS as Enrique Morales
 
Guest Starring:
ROGER REES as Jack Eldgridge
ALLY SHEEDY as Lisa Logan
 
With:
PETER BENSON as Reporter
CARL DiMAGGIO as Officer Len Lopresti
JUSTIN HAGAN as Horowitz
JON KORKES as Officer Tom Robinson
DAVID LAUNDRA as DeGroff
MICHAEL POTTS as Reinhardt
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
 
Special Thanks to:
GORDON ELLIOTT, EARTHA KITT, DON PARDO, JOHN CARPENTER
 
Notes:
Ryan sets up White to kill Eldridge, but he messes it up and White ends up in solitary.
The prisoners begin watching a new TV game show called "Up Your Ante," hosted by Gordon Elliott.
This episode introduces:
#01W711 Omar White. Convicted January 4, 2001. Murder in the first degree. Sentence 75 years, up for parole in 20.