Beecher is released from the hole and Schillinger is left eyeless and weak. A riot breaks out after two white punks get into a fight over checkers. Frustration, sexuality, hate, revenge, racism all rear their ugly heads, causing the violence to escalate. Finally, after several prison officers are taken hostage, tear gas is thrown into the Emerald City and the SORT team arrives,balloons blazing.

Oz Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - The Routine
• s01e02 - Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise
• s01e03 - God's Chillin'
• s01e04 - Capital P
• s01e05 - Straight Life
• s01e06 - To Your Health
• s01e07 - Plan B
• s01e08 - A Game of Checkers

Oz Show Summary

OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.