Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise

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Season 1, Episode 2, "Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise". Directed by Nick Gomez, written by Tom Fontana.

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[edit] Brief Synopsis

Schibetta stops all illegal activities within Oz until Dino Ortolani's killer is found. The chief investigator of the case, Lenny Burrano, figures out one of the killers (Jefferson Keane) and who set it up (Ryan O'Reilly), but has no proof until Johnny Post is found and confesses; however, he is brought to justice the old-fashioned way by the Italian gang after being given up by Keane and O'Reilly.

Meanwhile, Beecher has a conjugal visit with his wife and is further tormented by Schillinger. James Devlin, the Governor, stops all conjugal visits to inmates, which angers them even more than the ban on smoking. Father Mukada convinces Miguel Alvarez' grandfather to help convince Miguel to take parental responsibility for the child his girlfriend is birthing in a women's prison.

[edit] Extended Synopsis

The show opens up to one of Hill's surreal narrative segments, where he details such four-letter words as "Fuck," "Rape," "Wife," and especially "Love."

Nino Schibetta walks into the morgue, to identify the charred corpse of Dino Ortalani. Glynn asks the staff how a prisoner got into the hole to torch Ortolani, and McManus raises the point that a CO had to let the person in. Glynn puts Lenny Burrano on the case, asking him to find out the killer before Schibetta does, before the Governor does, and before the incident starts a riot. The first prisoner that is seen questioned is Schillinger, who correctly proclaims that "the niggers did it" (the Homeboys). He has no evidence, but cites several racial biases instead. Racial tensions are indeed on the rise in Oz, as interracial prison fights are breaking out more and more often.

Unit Supervisior Diane Wittlesey gently questions Beecher in his pod as to why he hasn't come out in days; he's still in his depressed stupor from his branding and raping by Schillinger during his first days in Oz. Schillinger tries to interrupt, but Whittlesey kicks him out. Beecher reveals that he's terrified, especially because Ortolani couldn't protect himself. She gives him some slightly harsh but good advice as to how to survive, and suggests that he ask Sister Pete for a conjugal visit with his wife, Genevieve. Sister Pete is more than glad to set up the visit, but Schillinger berates him for not asking his permission before asking Pete's and forces him to shout "Please, sir, may I fuck my wife?!"

Genevieve comes into the prison, and has a hard time calling Tobias her husband in there. She surrenders her picnic basket and purse to be searched, and nervously asks a few questions before being admitted to Room 1. Tobias meets her in there with flowers; she offers to make him spaghetti, but he asks her simply to hold him. Afterwards, he and the other man who received a conjugal are strip-searched for contraband, and the other man is found with a condom of drugs (presumably heroin) in his anus. His wife is detained, much to Genevieve's fear. Back in the pod, Schillinger taunts Beecher by threatening his family. He insinuates that, if Beecher were to screw up (or even if not), then he might have his two sons pay a visit to his family, especially his wife and daughter. To protect them, Beecher tears up the pictures and throws them away.

Augustus Hill appears in another narratorial segment, once again dealing with love, this time explaining the concept of Oz's prag: a dominant sexual slave to a more powerful inmate, illustrated by Schillinger lovingly stroking a naked Beecher.

Burrano interrogates Donald Groves, the killer who killed his parents and ate his mother, who was in solitary next to Ortolani the night he was killed.

The inmates discover, while watching one of the Governor's press briefings, that he is again lowering the State's budget by trimming down the prison system, this time by eliminating conjugal visits. The prisoners fill McManus' office with outrage, and line up outside Sister Pete's office to squeeze in one last conjugal visit before they are elliminated completely. Hill flashes back to having sex with his wife the night he was arrested; he didn't hear the police breaking his door down due to their own loud noises and banging the headboard against the wall. He escapes naked out the window with a gun once they come inside, and he shoots an officer on the rooftop running away. Once the officer who is arresting him finds out that the officer Hill shot is dead, he pushes Hill off the roof, which breaks his back binding him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Back in prison, he has a conversation with Adebisi where he reveals that he is still able to become fully erect, but like everything else below the waist he can't feel it and gets no pleasure from orgasm, but continues conjugal visits just for his wife's pleasure.

Burrano questions Jefferson Keane, who did indeed kill Ortolani, but finds out very little. The Italians reveal that the drug trade inside Oz will cease until Schibetta learns who killed Ortolani. Maevis, Keane's girlfriend, walks outside the jail for him flashing him several times. Hill narrates the flashback of the two murders which had Jefferson Keane sent to Oz for life, of a couple on their wedding day, and then Keane asks McManus for permission to marry Maevis. Glynn denies the request, but to McManus' anger approves it when Kareem Said asks on Keane's behalf later. However, Glynn will only let the marriage go through if it is done by proxy, meaning, Keane was not allowed to see Maevis on his wedding day.

Glynn invites McManus to dinner, possibly to apologize, but McManus turns him down. At the same time, Whittlesey reveals her money problems to Lenny Burrano, and the fact that she's been working double shifts to make ends meet.

Father Ray Mukada meets Miguel Alvarez for the first time and tries to set it up so that Miguel would be there for the birth of his child. Glynn reveals to Father Mukada that Alvarez' grandfather, Ricardo, is in solitary confinement, and that his father, Eduardo, had his tongue cut out decades previously; Mukada convinces Ricardo Alvarez to get Miguel to accept parental responsibility for his child. In the visitation room, Ricardo hits Miguel, after which he immediately figures out who he is.

When Burrano questions Rebadow, who correctly states that Ortolani was self-destructive and purposely set up the circumstances to have himself killed, and claims that God passed this information to him. He tells Burrano to tell Schibetta not to seek revenge; when Burrano asks why Rebadow didn't tell him this himself, he says "just because I talk to God doesn't mean I'm crazy." Peter Schibetta meets with Nino, his father, to reveal that his mother is sick and to discuss Dino's funeral. McManus grants Schibetta permission to see his dying wife.

O'Reilly is transferred into the Emerald City from GenPop (General Population), ironically inhabiting Dino Ortolani's old cell. Schibetta requests O'Reilly's presence, and asks for his help in finding Ortolani's murderer (though he is the one who set up Ortolani's death, as Dino was sent to jail partially for shooting him). O'Reilly tries to get Keane to give the Italians Johnny Post to cover their own tracks, but Keane refuses. Burrano talks to O'Reilly, revealing that he "knows" that Keane and another person killed Ortolani, and that O'Reilly arranged for it to happen; however, he doesn't have any proof, and O'Reilly walks away unscathed, after which he goes to Schibetta to give up Johnny Post, not however confessing that it was he who orchestrated Ortolani's death. Schibetta's wife dies, and he sets up a grand funeral for her before breaking down crying in a hallway. The Italians kill Johnny Post and cut off his penis.

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[edit] Flashbacks

  • Augustus Hill - Having sex with his wife, the door is broken down by the S.W.A.T. team forcing Augustus to run to the top of the rooftop. As he is being arrested, he shoots and kills a S.W.A.T. team member who dies as he is being cuffed. Another officer then vengefully pushes Augustus off the rooftop leading to his paralyzation.
  • Jefferson Keane - A couple who ripped off a drug package of his are married where Jefferson and fellow gangsters wait outside the church. As they come out, Jefferson murders both of them with a handgun.
  • Nino Schibetta - Outside of an Italian restaurant or opera house, Nino and his wife are leaving where undercover police escort him away on conspiracy to commit murder charges.
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