Claire Howell
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Claire Howell is a fictional character on the HBO drama Oz portrayed by Kristin Rohde.
A sadistic, violent sexual predator, she preys on all the men in the eponymous prison, prisoners and guards alike, as human sex toys to be dominated. She first has a relationship with Tim McManus, the Em City unit manager, that ends with her filing a sexual harassment charge against him after he broke off the affair. With the inmates, she is extremely aggressive and has sex with many of them throughout her tenure as a guard. Some of these inmates include Ryan O'Reilly, Chris Keller, and Carlos Martinez.
On the last episode, she reveals the fact that an inmate, most likely Latino, has impregnated her. From this she learns to control herself as she will be raising the baby alone.
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[edit] Season 3
Officer Howell reports for duty and immediately makes her dubious mark on everyone. She first dismisses Wittlesey's offer to show her the ropes by making it clear she needs no help from anyone. Howell continues by making a move on Tim McManus, resulting in them sleeping together. In a brief conversation, Howell confirms her suspicions about Diane and Tim, when Diane gives Howell the rundown on Tim's dating system. Howell, in an attempt to one-up Wittlesey, reveals how it only took her one date to get Tim in bed. Howell's deeply vicious jealous streak comes out when she sees Tim comforting Wittlesey in the staff lounge after he tells Wittlesey that her mother died. She quickly confronts Tim in his office and the conversation escalates to a shouting match and then to a tussle with Tim having to physically subdue Howell. What's worse, the entire incident is witnessed by some of the inmates. Even though an angry Tim demands that Glynn fire her, Glynn only transfers her to another unit. She finds out and it's back to Tim's office for more screaming. She then files a sexual harassment suit against Tim which results in her reinstatement. Upon returning, she begins taking her anger out on the prisoners. While in the staff lounge, Wittlesey who's now fed up with Howell's attitude and tirades, socks Howell in the jaw and a fight ensues.
[edit] Season 4
Howell begins season 4 working as the main officer in solitary where she witnesses one inmate commit suicide (by eating himself up) and one get killed during recreational time. She is then transfered to Em City by Warden Glynn who notices that no White COs are left in the unit under Martin Querns' command. While on duty in the cafeteria, Howell steps in to break up a fight involving Ryan O'Reily. She tells the other officer that she'll take him in herself. Howell actually has other plans for Ryan as she leads him into the bathroom where she proceeds to fellate Ryan. This leads to Howell and Ryan's frequent and well-hidden sexual relationship - thanks to Howell's position as a CO, she can often force Ryan away from the public areas of the prison and into hidden rooms and CO bathrooms for sex. After a while, Ryan's mentally handicapped brother Cyril and then-roommate is able to deduce what is happening between Ryan and Howell, with Cyril eventually able to guilt Ryan into breaking the relationship later in the season (to which Howell does not take kindly, and their erstwhile relationship turns sour and Howell threatens to sexually molest Cyril). During the height of their sexual relationship, Ryan requests that she kill Nikolai Stanislofsky, who had become a problem for Ryan. Howell offers a bathing Stanislofsky (a bath had been the condemned Stanislofsky's last wish) some sexual comfort and, during the distraction, she electrocutes the tub and kills him.
After Cyril tells Ryan he knows about Howell and his relationship, Ryan decides to call it quits with her and be a good brother. She threatens him by claiming she'll decide when it's over and later tells Ryan that sh'e been considering Cyril for her next sexual victim. She approaches Ryan with a deal that she'll stop forcing her sex onto him in exchange for the rights to molest Cyril. Ryan obviously denies and becomes enraged, deciding to plan another way of getting Howell off his back. Ryan convinces inmate Yood to let Howell have an "accident" in exchange for extra food. While Howell and Yood are walking down some stairs, he trips her up, she falls and breaks her pelvis which puts her out of commission for a while.
Howell returns to Oz after taking that brutal fall down the stairs. Following this Howell, goes back on duty to solitary confinement.
[edit] Season 5
Claire's duties this season were relegated to keeping inmates in protective custody safe. When Keller's returned to Oz to await a murder trial, he's placed in protective custody. Howell decides since he's the only one in that unit, she can have some sexual escapades with Keller, who at first is willing. After a while, he tires of her and tells her he's no longer interested. This angers Howell who beats him badly and covers it up as though he attacked her.
[edit] Season 6
Howell continued her detail in solitary and still found other inmates willing to have sex with her just to keep her from harassing them. Of course, one tryst was too much as Howell confided to Father Mukada that she was pregnant and unsure of who the father is (possibly Carlos MartÃnez). Although she decided to keep the baby she had to decide if she should continue working at Oz or if she should move away. Before she can make a decision, the alarm sounds for all in Oz to evacuate.
