“A Shot in the Dark” is the fourth episode of the first season of the American police drama television series Homicide: Life on the Street. It originally aired on NBC…
“Son of a Gun” is the third episode of the first season of the American police drama television series Homicide: Life on the Street. It originally aired on NBC in…
Three generations of Alvarezes–all prisoners at Oz–are united when the partiarch, Ricardo, is found face down in his cell, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Meanwhile, Tobias Beecher, who as the neo-Nazi…
The infiltration of drugs into Oz has reached unprecedented levels; and the undercover efforts of McManus and Glynn to find out who’s smuggling it in backfires in a deadly way….
Governor Devlin has reinstated capital punishment in the state; and the first Oz prisoner scheduled to die is Jefferson Keane, who killed a Latino in a skirmish set up by…
Friction grows in the wake of two deaths–first Ortoloni and now Johnny Post–so Wiseguy leader Schibetta, Muslim leader Said, and Homeboy Jefferson Keane are brought together by Warden Glynn, who…
With Schibetta and the prison brass in a race to uncover Ortolani’s killer (for very different reasons), we see how inmates react to visits from both their wives and, in…
In the “Emerald City” experimental unit of Oswald State Penitentiary, we meet some of the diverse inmates who live within a pecking order of Homeboys, Latinos, Muslims, Irish, Aryans, and…