"Next Stop: Valhalla"

Episode #:44 (5.04) Next Stop: Valhalla
Season:5
Air Date:1/27/2002
Producers:Levinson/Fontana/Finnerty
Writer:Tom Fontana & Sunil Nayar
Director:J. Miller Tobin
 
Synopsis:
Velez tries to follow Alvarez, but ends up dead; Penders, Hill and Alvarez are given a chance to train seeing-eye dogs; Martinez gives Brass a "cocktail" he definitely didn't order; the love triangle between Beecher, McClain and Keller becomes more complicated when McClain agrees to represent Keller; two new young inmates become pawns in a battle between Blacks and Aryans, Robson gets a new playmate and Beecher tries to protect a friend of the family; unable to cope with his mom's death, Hill returns to drugs; Omar begins singing lessons; Glynn gives Redding control of the cafeteria.
 
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:
BETTY LYNN BUCKLEY as Suzanne Fitzgerald
ANTHONY CHISHOLM as Burr Redding
CHRISTOPHER MELONI as Chris Keller
GEORGE MORFOGEN as Robert Rebadow
LAUREN VÉLEZ as Dr. Gloria Nathan
SCOTT WILLIAM WINTERS as Cyril O'Reily
B.D. WONG as Father Ray Mukada
MICHAEL WRIGHT as Omar White
GRANVILLE ADAMS as Zahir Arif
ROBERT CLOHESSY as Officer Sean Murphy
MIKE DOYLE as Adam Guenzel
TONI LEWIS as Alicia Hinden
EDDIE MALAVARCA as Peter Schibetta
TOM MARDIROSIAN as Agamemnon Busmalis
MUMS as Arnold "Poet" Jackson
PEPA as Officer Andrea Phelan
SANDRA PURPURO as Katherine McClain
KRISTIN ROHDE as Officer Claire Howell
DAVID ZAYAS as Enrique Morales
CHUCK ZITO as Chuck Pancamo
 
With:
JEROME PRESTON BATES as Officer Travis Smith
TIMOTHY L. BROWN as Officer Jason Armstrong
ANTONI CORNACCHIONE as Frank Urbano
MICHAEL DELMARE as Jia Kenmin
CARL DiMAGGIO as Officer Len Lopresti
MTUME GANT as Reggie Rawls (#01R391)
CHRIS GARDNER as Ahmad Lalar
NELSON LEE as Li Chen
CARLOS LEON as Carlos Martinez
JOHN LURIE as Greg Penders
ELLEN McELDUFF as Eleanor O'Connor
ANDY POWERS as Franklin Winthrop
CHRISTOPHER RIVERA as Jaime Velez
BLAKE ROBBINS as Officer Dave Brass
R.E. RODGERS as James Robson
DANNY ROGERS, JR. as Aryan (#97D899)
OTTO SANCHEZ as Chico Guerra
JOEL WEST as Glen Shupe
EMANUEL YARBROUGH as Clarence Seroy (#02B821)
 
Notes:
Naïve Jaime Velez goes after Guerra, but he's the one who ends up dead.
Beecher knows Guenzel's family and has known Adam since he was a child.
Cyril stabs Li to death when Shupe tells the O'Reilys that Li was going to rape Ryan's mother (Li was actually going to kill Ryan and Cyril). He's sent to adseg.
"Miss Sally" has been canceled.
This episode introduces:
#02W562 Franklin Winthrop. Convicted January 14, 2002. Rape, Attempted Murder in the first degree. Sentence: 28 years, up for parole in 7.
#02G561 Adam Guenzel. Convicted January 14, 2002. Rape, Attempted Murder in the first degree. Sentence: 28 years, up for parole in 7.
#02U672 Francis Urbano. Convicted January 7, 2002. Murder in the first degree. Sentence: Life, up for parole in 25.