Chucky Pancamo
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On the television series Oz, Charles Pancamo aka "Chucky The Enforcer" is an Italian inmate played by Chuck Zito serving 35 years for murder in the second degree. Extremely muscular, he is primarily an enforcing member of the Italians until he is asked to take over by Antonio Nappa. Pancamo runs the gambling and drug businesses while inside Oz amongst other things and often works with whoever is willing to do the best job making their businesses work most effectively.
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[edit] Season 2
Pancamo mainly acts as second in command to Peter Schibetta. He does not really like the Black inmates who work in the kitchen and often calls them "Moolies". He helps Peter in trying to murder Simon Adebisi when Peter is told that unless he kills Adebisi, he will lose his leadership position. Adebisi is able to defeat both of his attackers and knocks Pancamo out with an industrial kitchen tool and a can of fruit. Adebisi rapes Schibetta but Pancamo will not confirm that it has happened since he feels it would be too embarrassing to talk about. The Black inmates especially Kenny Wangler and Junior Pierce make fun of him often for being beaten by Adebisi and berate him by calling him a Guinea on a regular basis. Things look up for Pancamo when mob boss Antonio Nappa arrives and brings the Italians back into full swing. After taking Adebisi off of Heroin for the time being with the help of staff member Lenny Burrano, Nappa and Pancamo steal the Homeboy's drugs and offer them a deal. Nappa, Pancamo, and Zanghi tell Wangler that if he kills Jara, an African man who has Adebisi under control, that he can work as their partner and they will call a truce. Wangler kills Jara and the Italians accept the Homeboys not under Adebisi's leadership as their partners.
[edit] Season 3
This season starts with Adebisi being released from Psych and coming back to work in the Italian's kitchen. Pancamo is often cautious with Nappa and advises him on matters pretaining to how to deal with the Homeboys. He often reminds Kenny Wangler not to get too cocky whenever he deals with ordering around the Italians. When Nappa gets infected with HIV, he turns control over to Pancamo. In the meantime, Chucky finds out that Nappa is publishing a book telling all the mob hits and criminal acts that have taken place over the last century. With authority from the outside family, Pancamo has the book destroyed and has Gay inmate Nat Ginzburg murder Antonio. While in charge, Simon Adebisi comes to him asking to be partners in the drug trade claiming that he was a strong enemy who can make an even stronger ally. Chucky is convinced by Adebisi and tells him that if he takes the other Homeboys down, he can be their partner. Adebisi with the help of the Latinos burns Poet and Pierce first and then Wangler is left without any help and at Adebisi's mercy. As a result, Pancamo, Adebisi, and Hernandez now are three way partners in the drug trade. Pancamo also represents the Italians in the boxing tournament. After easily knocking out a Biker in round 1 of the first fight, Pancamo somehow loses to Cyril O'Reilly, the younger and mentally handicapped brother of Ryan O'Reilly. Wondering how he lost to an inmate who he had over 60 lbs. on, he is told that the fight was fixed by a Russian mobster Yuri Kosygin who is serving time in Oz. With advice from O'Reilly, Pancamo gets Kosygin placed in Isolation by informing him that Nikolai Stanislofsky has informed people of his involvement in drugging the water. Later, racial tension brews in Oz, and Pancamo tells Adebisi to cool the rhetoric or else they will be unable to push drugs if the prison is locked down. Adebisi refuses and Hernandez points out that he is in a Loco state. Vern Schillinger also calls Pancamo and all the other White inmates to a meeting claiming that they must all stick together because they are bound by the color of their skin. Warden Glynn however locks Oz down going into the new millennium.
[edit] Season 4 Part I
Oz is no longer locked down and things for the time being go back to normal until a shooting takes place in Em City. In Em City, Pancamo then sponsors new Italian inmate Ralph Galino a contractor who is imprisoned for his alleged part in a building collapse. Galino then reveals that he has no criminal connections, works an honest job, and despises Italian-Americans like Pancamo who give the rest of them a stereotypical criminal image. This has Pancamo cause the Italian inmates to ignore Galino as he is unable to provide any use to them. Hernandez decides that the Latinos will join the White inmates side of the racial tension issue and snitches on Adebisi for getting the gun inside Oz. In the meantime a new Latino inmate Enrique Morales arrives in Oz. Because Morales comes in with credibility and Pancamo thinks Hernandez is on the verge of a mental breakdown, he prefers that Enrique run the Latinos in the drug trade giving him Hernandez's third if Raoul is eliminated. Morales agrees that Hernandez is going "Loco" and then has Bob Rebadow kill him. In the meantime, a new inmate Desmond Mobay, a Jamaican inmate wants into the drug game. Unknowing to Morales, Adebisi, and Pancamo, Mobay is actually an African American narcotics detective named Johnny Basil. They all ask Mobay to do a variety of tests to prove that he can be a gangster such as taking punches from Pancamo and snorting heroin (which undercover police are forbidden to do) amongst other things. A straw poll is then taken to determine if Mobay is worthy where Pancamo votes yes, Adebisi votes no, and Morales abstains. They resolve that he is a worthy ally under the condition that he kills an inmate. Mobay does so and for the time being has Pancamo's support. Things get even better in the drug trade when new unit manager, an African American named Martin Querns comes to Oz. Querns likes Adebisi and his followers and tells Adebisi that they can have unrestricted drug dealing if his supporters prevent violence from happening. He enforces this by making Pancamo, Morales, and Adebisi trustees. Pancamo likes this system because it can allow Em City to be like Little Italy was in the old days. In the mean time, Hank Schillinger, son of Aryan Brotherhood leader Vernon Schillinger beats a murder charge for killing the son of Tobias Beecher. Beecher comes to Pancamo and hires him to arrange a hit on Hank, which he does after Beecher promptly pays him. Things get complicated however when several of the White inmates and COs are transferred out. All the new COs are Black and all the new inmates are Black and allied with Adebisi. When Pancamo's podmate Zanghi is thrown into the hole, Pancamo is beaten by the Black COs for protesting. Pancamo and Morales both talk to Adebisi about how they are disappointed with the way things are set up as a result. Adebisi tells them that he now controls the drug trade completely, and when they threaten to go to war, Adebisi first points out they will both lose since Em City is now overwhelmingly Black and then tells them that he and Querns have arranged for the Italian and Latino inmates to also be transferred out. In Unit B, Schillinger suggests to Pancamo and Hoyt that an All White unit should be created which Tim McManus ardently rejects.
[edit] Season 4 Part II
Adebisi has been killed by Kareem Said and Em City is running back to normal. With no leader the Homeboys are out of the drug trade so Pancamo and Morales are both cruising comfortably with the drug trade. Things get complicated when the Homeboys are brought back into the fold by Burr Redding. The Italians and Latinos offer a partnership that Redding rejects. As a result, Pancamo and Morales tell ex-communicated Homeboy and Five-Percenter Supreme Allah whom Redding despises that he can be their partner if he kills Redding. Supreme says yes with time so that he can get the approval of the other Homeboys. In the meantime, Morales frames Redding for murdering a Chinese refugee and as a result Redding plans his own attack on the Latino and Italian inmates. The Italians and Latinos are playing basketball in the gym when the Homeboys ambush them and there would have been a number of dead inmates had Augustus Hill not tipped off the S.O.R.T. team. Supreme Allah then says to Pancamo he will get Hill to kill Redding since they are not on good terms for the time being. Things backfire though when Supreme Allah dies and Redding is back in full swing against the Italian and Latino inmates.
[edit] Season 5
This season starts off with a newly rebuilt Em City and Cafeteria. Peter Schibetta finally comes out of the Psych ward so things are looking better for the Italians. Chucky is then called to an interrogation by FBI Agent Pierce Taylor. Taylor tells him that an Italian hitman named Gaetano Cincetta who has just been admitted into the Witness Protection Program has implicated Pancamo in a hit on Hank Schillinger. Pancamo denies everything and then tells Tobias Beecher that if he is asked by Vern Schillinger what has happened, he will not implicate Beecher since the body was found. The Aryan Brotherhood furious with this attacks Pancamo after calling him a "Dego" in the gym. As Pancamo prepares to assault Schillinger, James Robson approaches him from behind shanking him in the side and puts him in the hospital. Peter Schibetta then tries for revenge but is unsuccessful and is gang raped by the Aryans. While in the hospital, new inmate Frank Urbano arrives to help manage the Italians. Beecher is afraid that the Aryans will rape a friend of his who is serving time for rape and Pancamo has Urbano defend him from the Aryans. In the gym Frank Urbano strangles and attempts to kill Robson after the Aryans pull an unsuccessful rape attempt on Beecher's friend Guenzel. Since all the Italian leaders are in the hole, hospital, or psych ward, Burr Redding is given control of the cafeteria by Warden Glynn. In the meantime the Latinos are working with the Homeboys while the Italians are in disarray. Things get complicated for both the Latinos and Italians though over the drugging of Black inmate Augustus Hill, Redding's stepson. To draw suspicion away from himself, Poet who did indeed sell the drugs to Augustus frames Italian inmate Salvatore DeSanto for the drugging using Busmalis to say he witnessed it. Furious, Redding drugs DeSanto's food with LSD and at dinner that night, DeSanto dies as the Italians discuss how to kill Redding. When the DeSanto's innocence is proven, Poet coerces Busmalis to say that Carmen Guerra sold Augustus the drugs and the Homeboy/Latino alliance then comes to a close. Morales asks to be partners again and is charged 10% of the drug trade which is only acceptable if the Italians kill Burr Redding. Meanwhile, Chucky nearly dies in the hospital from a staph infection brought on by poor medical treatment but Dr. Nathan pulls him through and he lives.
[edit] Season 6
Chucky is out of the hospital and the drug trade is flowing smoothly since Burr Redding is in shock after Frank Urbano accidentally kills Augustus Hill. Ryan O'Reilly lies about Peter Schibetta wanting to curse the Italians with the evil eye but Pancamo and Urbano believe him and kill Peter by brutally and physically removing his eye. Pancamo also sees that James Robson has been ousted from the Aryan Brotherhood so he attacks him with intent to kill in the library. Robson, scarred goes to the extreme form of protection as being the prag of Wolfgang Cutler so that the Italians cannot kill him. Robson is in drag in the cafeteria and is verbally berated by Pancamo who tries again to kill him. Cutler stands up for Robson and prevents Chucky from killing him. Since Burr Redding takes the Homeboys to work as telemarketers Glynn gives Pancamo control of the kitchen under the condition that he stays away from the Aryans. In the gym, Pancamo, Urbano, and the other Italians approach James Robson with an offer. They tell him that if he kills Wolfgang Cutler, that they will become his allies and forgive him and that the Aryan Brotherhood will most likely allow him to rejoin. Robson does so by hanging Cutler since he is tired of being sodomized on a regular basis. Pancamo is then approached by Burr Redding who asks him to stop any attempt the Homeboys do at dealing drugs so they can come back to work as telemarketers. Chucky gladly does so and kills a connection of Poet named Skybar on the outside. The Italians then discover a new inmate selling Marijuana brownies and they kill him (since they believed that he would steal all of their profits while selling the brownies). The Italians continue to run the drugs in Oz until it is evacuated.
