Tim Mc Manus - Season 4 Part I

Season 4 Part I

After Glynn ends the lockdown, Adebisi requests that Jackson, Pierce, and Wangler be transferred back to Em City, a move that McManus opposes. In Em City, McManus thinks order is maintained until the three inmates harass a new prisoner, Guillaume Tarrant. Meanwhile, McManus decides to propose to Whittlesey after she returns from her vacation in England. However, Oz's prison psychologist, Sister Pete, informs him that Whittlesey has married an English Royal Guard and subsequently quit work at Oz. News of Whittlesey's marriage sends McManus into a self-destructive spiral.

Adebisi is given a smuggled gun by a black corrections officer. He gives the gun to Tarrant, who shoots Wangler, Pierce, and several other black prisoners in Em City. This incident causes Glynn, who is running for lieutenant governor, to consider firing McManus. Shortly afterwards, an alcoholic McManus sings a racist song at the funeral of Joseph Howard, a black guard killed during the Tarrant incident. Glynn, who is present at the funeral and is offended along with the other African-American mourners, puts McManus on leave and orders him to seek therapy.

While McManus undergoes psychiatric counseling, Glynn hires African-American corrections officer Martin Querns as the new unit manager of Em City. McManus reluctantly accepts a tranfer to another cell block when he is allowed to return to work. However, McManus notices that the white staff members at Em City, including Murphy, have been replaced by black guards. McManus lets the white staff work for him while Glynn transfers Howell to Em City.

McManus remains unaware that Querns has allowed Adebisi and his followers may do whatever they wish — including drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and sodomy — as long as order is maintained on the cell block. Querns also tranfers Em City's entire white and Latino populations in exchange for black prisoners belonging to Adebisi's gang. McManus is aghast when Schillinger shows him the conditions. He is prepared to tender his resignation until Said stops him, stating that he needs McManus' help in bringing down Querns and Adebisi.

Glynn is forced to drop out of the race after Oz guard Clayton Hughes attempts to assassinate Devlin. Meanwhile, an undercover narcotics detective, Johnny Basil, has himself imprisoned in Oz to investigate the prison's drug trade. When two inmates die as a result of Querns' brutal rule, McManus urges Glynn to step in. It is only when McManus shows him a videotape of the conditions in Em City that Glynn fires Querns and reinstates McManus as Em City's unit manager. While McManus begins removing black inmates, Adebisi is killed during a botched assassination attempt against Said.