Leo Glynn - Season 4 Part I

Season 4 Part I

Glynn ends the lock down telling the Black and White inmates separately that if one more racially motivated incident occurs, Oz will be permanently locked down. The Latinos in the mean time are not warned as they are somewhat neutral throughout the racial tension. Governor James Devlin's campaign manager then talks with Glynn telling Leo that he has been chosen as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor as their current Lieutenant Frank Feeley has throat cancer and will not be running for re-election. Glynn immediately asks if this is because Alvah Case, a fellow African American has announced that he is running against Devlin. Devlin's campaign manager Wendy Schultz says it is a strong reason why Glynn has been chosen as there is a bad history between Devlin and the State's African American community. Racial issues aside, Schultz states that their office figures that someone as conservative and publicly known as Glynn would be a great candidate for Lieutenant Governor and Glynn then says yes suspiciously. In Oz, Glynn wants to stop the drug traffic as the Homeboys, Latinos, and Italians for the time being are allied so he gets a narcotics detective Johnny Basil to pose as a Jamaican drug dealer named Desmond Mobay. Glynn is the only one who knows Basil's true identity and informs him of the dangers associated with Oz as another undercover detective Paul Markstrom died many years earlier in Oz. Throughout the season Basil is somewhat convincing as Mobay to the point where he ends up snorting a lot of heroin and murdering an inmate to get in the good graces of all three gangster groups.

Adebisi then asks Glynn to move Black inmates Arnold "Poet" Jackson, Kenny Wangler, and Junior Pierce out of Unit B and into Em City as a means of ending some of the racial tension within Oz's walls. Tim McManus opposes this mainly because he hates Wangler for lying about a sexual harassment charge. Glynn is interested in eliminating racial issues within Oz and overrides McManus' objection. More racial issues arise however as those three inmates harass a new White inmate unfit for prison. Adebisi wanting revenge on Wangler gives a gun to this inmate Guillaume Tarrant who then shoots Wangler, Pierce and a Black CO Joseph Howard amongst others. Glynn is now under intense pressure to fire Tim McManus and solve the gun smuggling quickly as a means of making the prison look well managed during the election campaign. Adebisi and Muslim inmate Zahir Arif point out that McManus must go and a Black unit manager must be hired. Glynn does not yet give in as he still thinks McManus is competent and mentally sound enough to run Emerald City. McManus however is on a self-destructive path following recent relationship problems and sings De Camptown Races, a blackface minstrel song at the funeral of Joseph Howard, the Black CO who died in the shooting. As seen through earlier issues regarding race between McManus and Glynn, Leo draws the line with McManus here and immediately fires him as Unit Manager of Emerald City.

A problem arises when inmates Agamemnon Busmalis and Miguel Alvarez escape Oz through a tunnel and Glynn asks Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez, the Latinos leader who despises Alvarez to help find him. El Cid orders a hit on Alvarez who is now on the run. Meanwhile, when investigating the gun smuggling, Glynn is told by El Cid that Adebisi got the gun from Clayton Hughes on Hughes' last day of work. Glynn furiously calls in Clayton who admits to smuggling the gun and he has Hughes arrested as a result told to shut up in the meantime. Since being fired, Hughes has become a Black Militant and is giving speeches that condemn Governor Devlin on a routine basis. Busmalis is then captured and the Republican party then is looking better in the preliminary polls. The Muslim inmates then convince African American community leaders to pressure Glynn into hiring a Black unit manager for Em City, and he begins to listen more and more as a means of becoming Lieutenant Governor with the Black vote. Glynn then hires Martin Querns a Black man to run Em City appeasing the general public.

Martin Querns has experience working in several state detention centers and federal penitentiaries and is also from the ghetto like several of Oz's African American inmates. Querns is told he may run Em City any way he wishes as long as racial tension and violence are eliminated. Querns immediately reduces the violence by more than 92% and eliminates the racial tension element altogether. Although he has done this by empowering Simon Adebisi and his followers and sending most of the White inmates out of Em City, Glynn does not care as for the time being the Unit looks better managed. In the meantime Tim McManus undergoes psychiatric therapy and wants to run Em City again but the only available job in the Unit Manager position is Unit B which he reluctantly takes. During the campaign as order is maintained in Oz, Glynn stops paying attention to what changes are being made in Em City and is more focused on becoming the Lieutenant Governor. At a staff meeting, Tim McManus points out what has happened in Em City and Glynn turns a deaf ear as the violence has been almost eliminated from Em City. At a press conference shortly afterwards, Clayton Hughes goes psycho and tries to kill Governor Devlin. Devlin nearly dies, Hughes is charged with attempted murder, and Glynn drops out of the election race to stand by Clayton as he goes to trial.

Out of the election campaign, Glynn is brought more up to what has happened inside of Oz. Detective Johnny Basil turns himself in for the murder of Bruno Goergen as his conscience kicks in and tell him to stop doing what he is to prove that he is not undercover. Two inmates then die, both residents of Em City and Glynn begins to get angered with Querns. McManus points out that Querns has empowered Adebisi and the Homeboys in Em City turning a blind eye to their behavior as long as order is maintained. He points out the lack of diversity as all the COs are now Black and White inmates are also scarce. Finally he points out drugs are out of control as stopping the drug traffic is not a priority of Querns. Glynn isn't convinced of this until McManus with the help of Kareem Saïd brings him a videotape of a party inside of Adebisi's pod. Glynn is disgusted by the acts involving drugs, alcohol, and sex that the Black inmates are committing unpunished. As a result, Querns is immediately fired and Leo realizes he hasn't paid enough attention to what has happened in Oz. He reinstates McManus as unit manager of Em City, and Adebisi then dies making a murder attempt on Kareem Saïd.