Sean Murphy (Oz)

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Sean Murphy is an Irish American Correctional Officer on the HBO drama Oz, played by Robert Clohessy. A fair and honest officer, Murphy is handpicked by Tim McManus to act as the head CO of Emerald City as he and McManus are lifelong friends. Throughout the series, he is highly regarded by both McManus and Warden Glynn as he displays honesty, integrity, a lack of bias, and a belief in justice much more than the rest of the Correctional Staff. As a result he is one of the best COs in Oz and does a better job commanding the COs than most anyone else. He does, however, form a relationship of mutual respect with fellow Irish American Ryan O'Reilly, an inmate. While he at times shows preferential treatment to O'Reilly, he also discovers Ryan's scheme to drug his brother's boxing opponents and puts an end to it.

Contents 1 Season 3 2 Season 4, part I 3 Season 4, part II 4 Season 5 5 Season 6 6 References

[edit] Season 3

As Diane Wittlesey was transferred by Tim McManus to another unit, Emerald City was without a Head-CO. McManus convinced Warden Leo Glynn to let him pick the new Head-CO. McManus hires his childhood friend, Sean Murphy. As soon is nominated Head-CO, Murphy befriends Irish inmate Ryan O'Reily at a respectful relation. The Boxing Tournament begins and O'Reily pays Christian inmate William Cudney to steal chloral hydrate from the hospital, so he could spike the water of his brother Cyril's opponents, making him win all the fights. When Cudney decides to stop selling the substance to O'Reily, he arranges Cudney's death with Russian inmate Yuri Kosygin. Meanwhile, Russian inmate Nikolai Stanislofsky gives CO Murphy a tip about O'Reily acts. At the gym, Sean discovered O'Reily spiking the water and prohibited him to do that. Although, Sean did not tell anyone about it to not destroy the Boxing Tournament. As the racial tension grows, Murphy wants to clean Emerald City. He prohibits and confiscates all the erotic magazines. Homeboy leader Simon Adebisi gives paraplegic inmate Augustus Hill a magazine, which is confiscated and Hill, thrown in the hole. As the racial tension grows more, Oz is locked down and Murphy confess to fellows white COs he is afraid.

[edit] Season 4, part I

Adebisi's domination plan continues as Black ex-CO Clayton Hughes smuggled Adebisi a gun (in the previous season). The Homeboys Kenny Wangler, Junior Pierce and Arnold "Poet" Jackson are constantly mocking and stealing from new French inmate Guillaume Tarrant. Adebisi hides the gun in Tarrants' things and when Wangler, Poet and Pierce mocked him again, Tarrant shot Wangler and Pierce to death, alongside Black elderly CO Joseph Howard before committing suicide. Angry, Glynn fires McManus and hires a Black man called Martin Querns to conduct Emerald City. Querns' only rule was "no violence", so Adebisi could do whatever he wanted- with the condition that there was no fighting or deaths in Em City. Adebisi made Italian leader Chucky Pancamo and Latino leader Enrique Morales his trustees. Angry, Murphy left Emerald City to work with McManus at Unit B. When Adebisi died and Querns was fired, McManus and Murphy returned to Emerald City.

[edit] Season 4, part II

A new way of punishment is installed at Emerald City, a cage where the inmate must stay in the middle of Emerald City. McManus challenges NBA star inmate Jackson Vahue at a Basketball Game. With Vahue, elderly inmate Agamemnon Busmalis is playing against McManus, who chooses talented CO Dave Brass as his partner. At the first game, McManus and Brass are defeated. They win the second match. When knowing he will lose money, Enrique Morales orders Unit B Latino hitman Carlos Martinez to cut Brass's achilles tendon. So Martinez did. Unable to play for his whole life, Brass was substituted by Murphy. They lost the last match.

[edit] Season 5

When Brass stole elderly Bob Rebadow's lottery ticket, Murphy tried to convince him to leave Rebadow the ticket, but he was unsuccessful. Then, Murphy tried to make Martinez confess he injured Brass.

[edit] Season 6

Martinez is dead and Brass says that, before Martinez dies, he confessed Morales ordered him to cut his tendon. Murphy throws Morales in the hole and, alongside Brass and Claire Howell, cut both Morales's tendons. Feeling guilty, Murphy confessed to Glynn that he, Howell and Brass cut Morales's tendons. Glynn then fires Brass and takes a part of Murphy and Howell's payment.

[edit] References

v • d • e Oz Episodes • Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4 • Season 5 • Season 6 Prison administration Warden Leo Glynn • Tim McManus • Sister Peter Marie Reimondo • Father Ray Mukada • Dr. Gloria Nathan • Martin Querns Correctional Officers Sean Murphy • Diane Wittlesey • Claire Howell • Clayton Hughes • Rick Heim • Karl Metzger • Eugene Rivera • Dave Brass Visitors Governor James Devlin • Hank Schillinger • Pierce Taylor • Alvah Case Undercover Police Paul Markstrom • Johnny Basil Muslim inmates Kareem Saïd • Zahir Arif • Hamid Khan • Nacim Bismilla • Sanjay Afsana • Huseni Mershah • Ahmad Lalar • Jamel Yusef Homeboy inmates Simon Adebisi • Burr Redding • Jefferson Keane • Poet •Bricks • Junior Pierce • Malcolm Coyle • Supreme Allah • Reggie Rawls • Tug Daniels • Mondo Browne • Johnny Post • Leroy Tidd Aryan inmates Vernon Schillinger • James Robson • Mark Mack • Wolfgang Cutler • Franklin Winthrop • Carl Jenkins Biker inmates Scott Ross • Jaz Hoyt • Max Sands • Steve Pasquin • Skezz Henke • Fred Wick • Frank Manhardt Italian inmates Nino Schibetta • Peter Schibetta • Antonio Nappa • Dino Ortolani • Chucky Pancamo • Frank Urbano • Salvatore DeSanto • Joey D'Angelo • Don Zanghi • Mario Seggio Latino inmates Miguel Alvarez • Carlos Rodrigo • Carmen Guerra • El Cid • Carlo Ricardo • Enrique Morales • Carlos Martinez • Jaime Velez • Louis Bevilaqua Irish inmates Ryan O'Reily • Cyril O'Reily • Padraig Connolly • Timmy Kirk • Seamus O'Reily • Patrick Keenan • Liam Meaney Christian inmates William Cudney • Jeremiah Cloutier • Jonathan Coushaine • Robert Sippel • Samuel Gougeon • Jim Burns Gay inmates Billie Keane • Fiona • Richie Hanlon • Jason Cramer • Nat Ginzburg • Alonzo Torquemada • Tony Masters Other inmates Tobias Beecher • Augustus Hill • Chris Keller • Bob Rebadow • Agamemnon Busmalis • Omar White • Shirley Bellinger • Andrew Schillinger • Nikolai Stanislofsky • Jia Kenmin • Donald Groves • William Giles • Greg Penders • Alvin Yood • Henry Stanton • Moses Deyell • Mark Miles • Ricardo Alvarez • Lemuel Idzik • Jackson Vahue