"Dead Man Talking"

Episode #:49 (6.01) Dead Man Talking
Season:6
Air Date:1/5/2003
Producers:Levinson/Fontana/Finnerty
Writer:Tom Fontana
Director:Adam Bernstein
 
Synopsis:
McManus opens a box which contains Hill's memoirs of the past six years; Redding's boys get out of control while he mourns Augustus; Alvarez and Schillinger are released from solitary and placed back into the general population; Omar is sent to the hospital ward with a mysterious illness; McManus forces Guerra and Alvarez to try to work things out; Meanwhile, a mourning Rebadow's spirits get a lift when he is transferred to the library and meets the new librarian, Stella Coffo; Father Ray returns to Oz as Timmy Kirk is transferred to death row and claims to be possessed by the devil; Father Ray is suspsended when Kirk claims sexual abuse; Suzanne Fitzgerald begins working on a prisoner production of Shakespeare's "MacBeth"; Arnie Zelman arrives to help with Cyril's appeal; Peter Schibetta is released from the Psych Unit into Gen Pop and confronts O'Reily about his father Nino's death; Meehan dies of an aneurysm in his sleep; Transferred to Unit J, Beecher and his father work on an appeal for Keller; Winthrop carries out a plan to move up from prag and join the Aryan Brotherhood; Oz is locked down after race riots erupt outside the prison due to the trial of a city mayor.
 
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 (RIP)
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
LEON as Jefferson Keane (RIP)
PATTI LuPONE as Stella Coffo
MALACHY McCOURT as Daniel Meehan
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
ROBERT CLOHESSY as Officer Sean Murphy
SEAN DUGAN as Timmy Kirk
EDDIE MALAVARCA as Peter Schibetta
TOM MARDIROSIAN as Agamemnon Busmalis
MUMS as Arnold "Poet" Jackson
KRISTIN ROHDE as Officer Claire Howell
DAVID ZAYAS as Enrique Morales
CHUCK ZITO as Chuck Pancamo
EDWARD HERRMANN as Harrison Beecher
 
With:
PETER BENSON as Reporter
TIMOTHY L. BROWN as Officer Jason Armstrong
JACK DAVIDSON as Monsignor Slon
CARL DiMAGGIO as Officer Len Lopresti
CARLOS LEON as Carlos Martinez
TOM LIGON as Alvin Yood
JOHN LURIE as Greg Penders
LARRY PINE as Arnie Zelman
ANDY POWERS as Franklin Winthrop
OTTO SANCHEZ as Chico Guerra
PHILIP V. SCOZZARELLA as Officer Joseph Mineo
EVAN SEINFELD as Jaz Hoyt
THOMAS G. WAITES as Henry Stanton
JOEL WEST as Glen Shupe
 
Notes:
This episode takes place 6 months after the events in the season 5 finale.
This episode is narrated by deceased prisoners Augustus Hill and Jefferson Keane.
Winthrop kills Harrison Beecher as an initiation into the Aryan Brotherhood.
This episode gives background information for:
#99S917 Glen Shupe. Convicted April 22, 1999. Manslaughter. Sentence: 15 years, up for parole in 8.