Tim Mc Manus - Season 4 Part II

Season 4 Part II

McManus' testimony on Said's behalf leads to his acquittal for Adebisi's murder. When television crew then comes to Oz to do interviews regarding Adebisi's brief reign, Glynn, Murphy, and McManus try to cover up the story in an effort to save the prison. The story is ultimately scrapped after Cyril assaults the reporter. Meanwhile, McManus is stabbed by Omar White, resulting in several trips to solitary confinement. McManus also makes a major addition to Em City known as the Cage, an isolation cell where inmates reside in full view of the public. Several inmates get sent to the Cage for punishment.

Adding to the mix also is Burr Redding, an elderly Black inmate who McManus feels will bring the Homeboys back into the drug trade. Redding starts a war with Pancamo and Morales which lasts throughout the whole half of the season even after McManus forces them to call a truce. Redding is at one point framed for murdering an Asian refugee that Oz has been asked to hold. The Asian refugees are all illegal aliens whose boat crashed and Oz has been asked to hold them temporarily. The man who arranged for them to come over Jia Kenmin comes to Oz and gets into a brawl with both the Latinos and Irish inmates. Cyril O'Reily nearly kills Kenmin and McManus asks for him to be transferred to the Connolly institute as a result. He is not transferred but his behavior does worry the staff still.

McManus offers inmate Jackson Vahue, a former NBA player, a position of prominence in Em City once if he agrees to play in a basketball scrimmage against him. McManus plays with corrections officer Dave Brass, who does so well that an NBA scout invites him to play for the Sacramento Kings. Unfortunately, Brass' career is prematurely ended when the Latino inmates, angered at having lost a bet against him, arrange for his achilles tendon to be cut. Brass is left with a permanent limp.

The Aryans and the Muslims nearly go to war over a comment made by Robson over the death of black inmate Leroy Tidd, then over Beecher's parole. Said delivers a brutal physical assault against Schillinger and Robson. Later, Padraig Connolly, an IRA terrorist awaiting deportation, enlists Ryan O'Reily in building a bomb intended to detonate in Em City. While the bomb itself proves to be a dud, Em City and a large portion of Oz are gutted by fire when a guard tries to light a cigarette near a stove Ryan had forgotten to turn off.