Burr Redding - Season 4 Part II

Season 4 Part II

When Redding arrives in Oz, the Homeboys have been in disarray since the death of Simon Adebisi, and unit manager Tim McManus believes that Redding will bring them back into the fold immediately. Introduced to Kareem Said and McManus, Redding congratulates Said not for his intents to change Black men but for murdering Adebisi. He lets McManus know that he knows the prison routine better than anyone given his criminal history. Upon arrival, he meets Augustus Hill who tells him that the Homeboys are being led by inmate Arnold "Poet" Jackson. Poet is not cut out to be a leader and is in no position to deny leadership from Redding. Redding is met by Chucky Pancamo and Enrique Morales and offered a third of the drug trade, but Redding is stubborn and refuses to work with the two of them. When some Chinese refugees are temporarily placed in Oz, Morales frames him for the murder of one of them. Because of his time served in Vietnam, McManus believes Redding is racist towards Asians in general and does not think twice about throwing Redding in the newly constructed cage (According to the journal of Augustus Hill however, Redding's anger never developed towards Asians while serving in Vietnam but instead towards the government and authority figures who deployed many poor African Americans to lose their lives overseas in battle). Warden Glynn releases Redding when he realizes that there is no evidence to convict Redding. This causes tension between the Homeboys and the Italian and Latino inmates.

Redding later sees another problem in inmate Supreme Allah, a Five Percenter who has been excommunicated from the Homeboys. Redding already dislikes Supreme because he is the reason why Augustus Hill is serving time to begin with. Redding tells Augustus that after the police arrested Supreme on an old warrant, he gave them Hill's location so that he could get off on the charge. Hill attempts to attack Supreme but is thrown out of his wheelchair and beaten in the shower room. Because of this Redding calls in Tug Daniels, the brother of the man Supreme murdered and is serving time for killing. Daniels is in the visiting room with Poet and uses a toothbrush shank to attack Supreme. Supreme lives and Daniels is charged with attempted murder. The charge however doesn't bother Daniels since he will have a spot in Redding's gang when inside of Oz. Redding then with Daniels, Poet, and the other Homeboys devise a plan to eliminate all of their enemies.

Burr lays out a plan for the Homeboys and Asian inmate Jia Kenmin to murder the Italian and Latino inmates in the gym and for Omar White to murder Supreme in the hospital. Augustus Hill does not feel right about this and tells Officer Murphy about the plan and the S.O.R.T. team breaks it up. Redding is angered by Hill betraying him so he excommunicates Augustus from the Homeboys but lets him live only because of their history. In the mean time Supreme is told by Pancamo and Morales that he can be their partner if he kills Redding. Supreme plans for Augustus to murder Burr and also is secretly working with Tug Daniels who decides that Supreme is a worthy ally after he lived from the stab wound. Redding finds out the information regarding Daniels from his cell mate, a marine colonel imprisoned for rape, Edward Galson, and murders Daniels in the gym after Poet pays off the COs. Poet is later told by Hill about Supreme's severe allergy to eggs, and they use this information to prepare a special meal for Supreme. Because Supreme dies, Redding offers Hill forgiveness and a place back in the Homeboys. Hill declines but is happy that he and Redding are on good terms again.