Tim Mc Manus - Season 6

Season 6

The final season of Oz starts out with the bi-annual solitary review to determine whether or not the solitary inmates should be released. At this review, McManus begs for Miguel Alvarez to be released but does nothing for Omar White whom he believes he cannot save. Alvarez comes back into Em City where McManus then warns Latino inmate Carmen Guerra. Seeing that Guerra and Alvarez are enemies and that Guerra has been in some way tied to every discipline problem that has occurred with Miguel, McManus states that if anything happens to Miguel, Guerra will be held responsible. Surprisingly enough, Miguel and Carmen call a truce and for the time being there is no internal conflict between the Latinos. McManus helps Alvarez further by getting Luis Ruiz, the head of the parole board to eventually meet with Alvarez.

Augustus Hill's death stuns McManus who paints a maze in the gymnasium and finds a journal that has been kept in Augustus' footlocker. The journal deals with everything that has occurred in Oz during Augustus' stay and legal issues arise when they try to publish it. Kareem Said takes care of these issues by starting a book publishing and binding business in Oz with the help of the other Muslims. However, Said shortly afterwards goes to talk with a man Lemuel Idzik who shoots him in the visiting room. Said dies and Idzik comes to Oz. Other businesses develop in Oz though when a telemarketing firm wants to use prisoners to campaign for a senator who wishes to be re-elected. Burr Redding has the Homeboys do this as he no longer wants to be in the drug business as it is what got Augustus killed. The Homeboys aren't too enthusiastic though and eventually figure out a crooked way to make extra cash on the job. Redding is thrown in solitary as well once it is discovered that he destroyed the Muslim's printing press to repopulate the telemarketing business.

A city mayor Wilson Loewen comes to Oz for involvement in a 1963 murder that creates a lot of controversy. First Loewen is the reason that Governor Devlin got elected in the first place, so Devlin demands that he go to prison safely. Second, the murder was that that assisted the Ku Klux Klan so Loewen must be placed in a part of Oz with none of the Black inmates who are 78% of the population. Third, Loewen blackmails Devlin for a pardon that ends up in murder. Devlin handpicks homicide detectives to clear him of the murder but as Glynn and McManus see that CO Adrian Johnson was paid by an African American assistant to Devlin to cause these murders, Glynn is targeted for murder as he knows too much. As Glynn dies, McManus finds his killer Lionel Kelsch courtesy of inmate Henry Stanton. After informing Kelsch of the realities of serving time in Ad Seg where the COs who were at Glynn's command are free to starve Kelsch amongst other things, Kelsch asks for his alternatives which are only to give up the people who hired him to kill Glynn. Kelsch gives up Johnson who gives Loftus, the Governor's assistant and then has all the evidence he needs to charge Devlin.

During the staff meeting with the commissioner, who attempts to give a long speech about Glynn, McManus tells him to can it and tell the staff who their next boss is going to be. The commissioner says that the staff has worked with this man before and that the new boss is doing a great job runner Lardner. Murphy utters "Oh no" at McManus because he knows that the new warden of Oz is Martin Querns. Murphy is right as Querns walks in and says "Hello everybody. I'm back!" The scene then cuts to a staff review with McManus and Sister Pete waiting outside. Querns calls on McManus to come into his office. Martin informs Tim that he doesn't know what Tim did to make the Gov. Devlin really angry and that Devlin wants McManus's head "hanging off a spike on the north tower". "So this means I'm out?" McManus asks Querns. Querns tells him to consider this his month's notice, but a lot can happen within a month meaning the Loewen scandal could mean the end of Devlin's days in office. McManus cautiously tells Querns that Devlin has skated through worse and come out on top. Querns then tells McManus that they will have to wait and see and if Devlin is out, McManus stays. As McManus is about to leave, Querns tells him that he wasn't lying when he said that he was a big fan of the concept of Em City. After McManus leaves Querns's office, Sister Peter asks him if Querns fired him. McManus replied "I'm not sure."

Later that day, Busmalis asks McManus if he is allowed to procreate, McManus calls the commissioner who says no and explains to Busmalis that the commissioner doesn't want to start an avalanche of requests for prisoners to artificially inseminate. He says that it opens up the state to safety, security, and legal risks. Busmalis counters and says that he has the right procreate. McManus says not really. The U.S. Supreme Court guarantees a prisoner the right to marry and not to be sterilized, but the justices have never expressed an opinion on prisoners bearing children. He then tells Busmalis to contact Society for Prisoners' rights and have them assign him a lawyer. Busmalis says he will and just because he broke the law doesn't mean that he is not a man to which McManus replies that some men were never meant to be fathers.

A couple nights later, McManus and the staff attend the opening (and only) night of Macbeth. Things were going well until the final scene of the play, when Beecher, as Macduff, stabs Schillinger, who was playing Macbeth. As Beecher yells for Dr. Nathan and Kenniah yells "That motherfucker's dead!", the inmates went wild and McManus goes on stage and tells them to calm down. The next day, McManus, Nathan, Sister Pete and Querns start an investigation into whether Schillinger's death was an accident or on purpose. McManus asks Keller, the prop manager, how a real knife got on stage. Keller, ignorantly, answers that he doesn't know. After the investigation is done, the board tells Beecher that they ruled Schillinger's death accidental and McManus tells him that he is coming back to Em City.

Later, after a mysterious package (more than likely, an Anthrax bomb) was opened, killing all the Aryan inmates and two C.O.s in the mail room, Oz has to evacuate. As the inmates were running out the door Murphy asks where will they will be housed. McManus says that he doesn't know and that the move is only temporary and that we will be back someday. The final shot of McManus has him sitting in the passenger seat, shutting the shutter window, and wondering if he'll ever come back to Em City.