"Orpheus Descending"

Episode #:38 (4.14) Orpheus Descending
Season:4
Air Date:2/11/01
Producers:Levinson/Fontana/Finnerty
Writer:Tom Fontana & Sean Whitesell & Sunil Nayar
Director:Gloria Muzio
 
Synopsis:
McManus calls for a truce between Redding and Morales, and experiments with the ward's morale by challenging Jackson Vahue to a basketball tournament: McManus and Brass vs Vahue and Busmalis. Basil's wife visits, then Clayton Hughes kills Basil and stabs Yood; Kathy McClain moves forward with Beecher's parole hearing; Sister Pete sets up a phone conversation between Beecher and Keller; Schillinger hears a rumor about his granddaughter's lineage; Said asks Cloutier to speak with Jenkins, the boy who killed Tidd, and Jenkins confesses that Robson hired him to kill Said; Schillinger warns Cloutier not to interfere with the Brotherhood and Jenkins hangs himself; Moses Deyell dies trying to escape; Padraig Connolly, a member of the IRA, lands in Emerald City; Cyril knocks Jia Kenmin into a coma and is moved to protective custody; Ryan O'Reily poses a difficult question to Dr. Nathan.
 
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:
BETTY BUCKLEY as Suzanne Fitzgerald
JOHN DOMAN as Edward Galson
RICK FOX as Jackson Vahue
GEORGE MORFOGEN as Robert Rebadow
BRIAN F. O'BYRNE as Padraig Connolly
AUSTIN PENDLETON as William Giles
LUKE PERRY as Jeremiah Cloutier
LAUREN VÉLEZ as Dr. Gloria Nathan
SCOTT WILLIAM WINTERS as Cyril O'Reily
MICHAEL WRIGHT as Omar White
GRANVILLE ADAMS as Zahir Arif
ANTHONY CHISHOLM as Burr Redding
ROBERT CLOHESSY as Officer Sean Murphy
SETH GILLIAM as Clayton Hughes
LORD JAMAR as Kevin "Supreme Allah" Ketchum
ERIK KING as Moses Deyell
TOM MARDIROSIAN as Agamemnon "The Mole" Busmalis
METHOD MAN as Carlton "Tug" Daniels
MUMS as Arnold "Poet" Jackson
PEPA as Officer Andrea Phelan
SANDRA PURPURO as Katherine McClain
LANCE REDDICK as Johnny Basil
KRISTIN ROHDE as Officer Claire Howell
DAVID ZAYAS as Enrique Morales
CHUCK ZITO as Chuck Pancamo
MASTER P as Curtis Bennett
 
With:
DENA ATLANTIC as Floria Mills
JEROME PRESTON BATES as Officer Travis Smith
PETER BENSON as Reporter
ROSALYN COLEMAN as Abby Basil
DOUGLAS CROSBY as Officer D'Agnasti
CARL DiMAGGIO as Officer Len Lopresti
SEAN DUGAN as Timmy Kirk
MICHAEL GREGORY GONG as Jia Kenmin
JOSHUA HARTO as Carl Jenkins
PETER JAMES KELSCH as Jim Burns
JENNA LAMIA as Carrie Schillinger
TOM LIGON as Alvin Yood
LARRY PINE as Arnie Zelman
BLAKE ROBBINS as Officer Dave Brass
CHRISTOPHER G. ROBERT as Jiffy Karas
R.E. RODGERS as James Robson
OTTO SANCHEZ as Chico Guerra
PHILIP V. SCOZZARELLA as Officer Joseph Mineo
EVAN SEINFELD as Jaz Hoyt
TESSELL WILLIAMS as Nurse
 
Special Thanks to:
CHRISTOPHER MELONI as Chris Keller (voice only), GORDON ELLIOTT, JOHN CARPENTER
 
Notes:
"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" winner John Carpenter loses the $1 million question in Up Your Ante.
This episode introduces:
#01C972 Padraig Connolly. Arrested February 28, 2001. Illegal Entry into the United States. Being held pending deportation.