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This ep was a real thigh-slapper. Except, you know, the part where the kid got mutilated and killed and Beecher was all sad.
We see Hill's box against a black background, and a floating gray model of a brain. Hill discusses the causes of violence-- environment or biology? "If we can find the cause, can we eliminate the effect? Can we end violence, now and forever?"
Rapsheet flashback for bad cop Detective Gurgen.
New inmate Bad Cop recognizes Mobay as narcotics detective John Basil right off the bat. He comes into Mobay's pod to let him know that he (Bad Cop) is Too Stupid To Live. There is dialogue. Mobay has long resented Bad Cop for being a crook and a bully. Bad Cop says two lonely law officers in prison ought to watch each other's backs. It's like the first Beecher/Keller shower scene, but without the rampant nakedness, thank god. Hill rolls in. Bad Cop calls him "Butch". Mobay lets Bad Cop know that he does knuckle under to threats of exposure.
"So who do you think Mobay's going to kill?" my sister says.
Echoes of Chris Keller: Bad Cop (who reveals his vast arrogance by telling Pete he won't experience the badness that is a cop's life in prison... although, come to think of it, he's mostly right) tells Sister Pete that his wife, an ex-nun, "fucks like a 500-dollar whore."
Schmuck.
Bad Cop treadmills in the gym while Mobay lifts weights nearby. Two black genpop inmates (new character Mondo Browne and his buddy, whose name I think is Tito, but don't quote me on that) flank Bad Cop and make smart remarks about white trash. Bad Cop makes an extremely stupid remark about "jive-ass niggers". Browne and Tito(?) start to beat the shit out of him. Mobay leaves the room.
"Come on, do him," I tell Mobay. "Everybody else is doin' it. You know you want to."
Dear reader, I hope you appreciate that I wore out my tape rewinding, pausing, and fast-forwarding so that I could bring you this accurately-timed Miss Sally Moment: DON'T BE A WET BLANKET. Look, here comes Bad Cop.
Now covered in gauze, Bad Cop confronts Mobay in the shower room and again threatens to blow Mobay's cover, complaining about what a shitty job Mobay did watching his back. He points to his owwies. Mobay called the hacks to stop the fight, but Bad Cop would rather Mobay had mixed in himself. Yeah, he's just lookin' for a knight in shining armor. Get a boyfriend, Bad Cop.
The drug-dealin' triumvirate (Pancamo, Adebisi, and Morales) put pressure on Mobay to accomplish his random murder soon, and with subtlety, so that Querns won't blame them for it and shut down the drug trade. (That for anyone who wasn't paying attention last week.)
Mobay wakes Hill in the middle of the night. "I'm asleep," says Hill. "Hear that? That's me snoring." Hill doesn't want to hear about how Mobay promised the Triumvirate that he'd kill somebody to prove himself to them. Hill doesn't want any part of Mobay's plan. "Shut up, Mobay. I'm tired of hearing your lips flap. Let me get some fuckin' sleep!" Amen.
Mobay tells Bad Cop that Hill knows that Bad Cop used to be a cop. They should tip Hill down the elevator shaft near the dress factory.
Hill shows up at the freight elevator, apparently having been summoned for a meet by Mobay. Bad Cop grabs Hill's chair and starts to push "Butch" to the ledge. But Mobay wants to do it himself; he gets between Hill and Bad Cop, and with one determined elbow-shove, knocks Bad Cop off the edge. Bad Cop screams. Thud. "Shoulda let me tell you the plan," says Mobay.
Shame on him for using Augie-baby like that.
Aw, fuck, I'm a sucker for misplaced cleverness: I like Mobay now.
Mobay tells the Triumvirate that he's done the deed. Hill is seriously considering getting another roommate, but the hard part is over.
Then Mobay gets a visit from his partner, Kina. He's incensed because she's disregarding his warning that Hill might recognize her. She's incensed about his erratic reports. Mobay's cocky as shit. Kina can tell he's using. Hill comes into the visiting room to see his wife, and throws a long look over at the narcs. He's not suspicious, no, not at all.
Mary Glynn comes to Oz. Mobay looks like his fever's breaking. Mrs. Glynn looks concerned for him, but he puts her off. Then she goes into Leo Glynn's office, where a crew led by Jonathan "Silence of the Lambs" Demme is shooting a Public Service Announcement. Either his career went straight to the toilet, or he's not playing himself. Mr. and Mrs. Glynn go into the Warden's bathroom, where the Mrs. tells the Mr. that the family secret (re: Mark Glynn's murder conviction) is about to go all kinds of public. Demme interrupts. "Warden, I'm sorry, we're trying to make our little movie, here."
Devlin says that the Mark Glynn scandal isn't such a terrible thing, 'cause after all, Warden Glynn was the one who got his bro to confess. No one has to know that Leo bent under Mafia blackmail for three months before he told Mark to turn himself in. Plus, John and Jane Q. Public will feel Glynn's pain when they learn about Ardith's rape. Glynn-- the candidate who knows all sides of crime.
Glynn says he won't exploit his daughter's rape. Devlin gets nasty and snarky. "Let 'em weep for ya." Then he goes off for a smoke, because all this politicking got his rocks off.
Press conference. Glynn holds his wife's hand as he talks about his brother's crime. And his daughter's rape. I hope Mary bitchslaps the fucker from here to Kansas. And back. The press pee themselves. Let's all eyefuck the Warden.
If I were Ardith, I'd throw myself on the grenade that is Clayton Hughes' schlong and load the ammo for him during his coming assassination attempt against Governor Devil. ("Hey, Claytie, you know you want to...") Just to punish Glynn. Yeah, I'm a bitch, but that motherfucker deserves this shit.
Hill says maybe some people are hardwired for violence. He's holding a couple big-ass cables that he touches to a battery. Then we superimpose a shot of another model brain, this one with a swastika'd ping-pong ball lobe nestled between the cerebral lobes and the hypothalamus. (My sister pointed out that the hypothalamus is the part of the brain that runs your instincts to breathe and other involuntary stuff. She's smart.) Maybe these people can't be held accountable, says Hill. Maybe there's a cure.
Goofy dissolve to Vern Schillinger. He's getting his kicks by watching an incipient brawl in Unit B. I'm sure we're supposed to have a knee-jerk revulsion to the suggestion that Vern, and the Nazis, should be excused because "anatomy is destiny", but instead I'm thinking about Nazi eugenics and their attempts to exterminate the criminally insane. (Among others.)
Now I need a bath.
McManus, who has no sense of fun, calls for a Unit B lockdown on his wimpy walkie-talkie (damn Em City for getting all the funding) and retreats to his office, where he gets a call from Diane Whittlesey. She's transcendently happy, and making fond little jokes about her "boys". She knows McManus runs her unit now. Did he get her letter? How's he doing? He says he's fine. He hangs up.
We believe him completely.
In the locker room, we don't get to see nearly enough of Murphy, who's naked to the waist, as he makes friendly overtures at McManus. McManus bitches that he's fucked up his life, and turns down an invite to go out for beer. Murphy prods him to admit he's mad. Which McManus does: "I brought you into Oz. When I was fired, you should have quit." McManus apparently never graduated from junior high.
It's night. McManus walks by the barred gates of Em City. All those guys wantin' out, and McManus stares longingly in.
Querns talks with Said to see if he's as much of an "incredible pain in the ass" as his rep says. They're both condescending. I like Querns here, simply because he can needle Said. "You don't mind if I quote you, do you?" I'm quite fond of Said, but he's been a little aimless since Khan pushed him out of the Muslim leadership. He is wearing The Sweater for which I have unnatural longings, so I'm happy.
Another rapsheet flashback. Kevin Ketchum, a.k.a. Supreme Allah, shoots a couple guys 'cause he doesn't like losing at craps. Said swallows his tongue when he learns Supreme's name. Hill, O'Reily, and Keller give a little exposition to introduce the Muslim sect known as the 5-percenters. I'm glad they're showing that Islam doesn't come in only one flavor. Poet looks like he's paying close attention to the exposition-- then he gets *pissed*, 'cause he suddenly realizes that God-boy is his new cellmate.
Poet hotfoots it up to his pod. He gets in Supreme's face and makes it clear that he doesn't want to hear any God talk. I check my watch and make a note of the exact date and time that I started waiting for Supreme to convert Poet. (8:17pm PST, 9 Aug 00.)
Supreme takes Poet's rant mellowly. Poet sits and puts pen to notebook.
"Ask about his poetry!" my sis says.
Supreme asks about Poet's poetry. Poet tosses _Unheard America_ at him and directs him to page 16. Supreme reads about three lines and then declares Poet is some good. Poet's pen has dried up.
"Offer him a pen!" I say.
Supreme tries to keep reading, but he's distracted by Poet's search for a pen. He pulls one from his pocket and offers it to his new podmate.
At what I presume is the regular Muslim study group, Arif tells Supreme he expects him to "fall in line behind us." Supreme feels he is under Allah's authority, not Arif's. Said reaaally sticks his foot in it by pointing out that Supreme's sect is a corruption of the One True Faith. Arif helps.
Murphy escorts Adebisi to Querns' office. Querns doesn't want Murphy to stay in the room for this. He shuts the blinds on both Murphy and Arif.
Adebisi wanders into the green-lit laundry room to invite Said to join his side (again). Does Adebisi want to fuck Said? But our deposed imam isn't that kind of girl. Adebisi warns Said that the earth is gonna quake soon. Said wonders why Adebisi won't just tell him what's going on. I wonder why Said uses these dumb lines on Adebisi. And I can't figure out what the point of this conversation is, 'cause I *still* don't get what our tilty-hatted friend is up to.
Querns abolishes the McManus democratic gesture otherwise known as the Em City council, and announces that, instead, three trustees will be in charge of keeping the peace and handling grievances: Adebisi, Pancamo, and Morales.
Arif, you know you're screwed, right? Screwed, screwed, screwed!
Furthermore, the bikers and Aryans are being transferred to genpop. Hoyt is not happy. The inmates who are taking their pods are pretty jazzed about it, though: Mondo Browne, Tito(?), and some other genpop guys show up at the gate. All non-Muslim blacks.
Murphy tells Querns that this new policy (trusteeship) is nuts. Querns rationalizes that transferring the bikers and Aryans is a good thing, and says that Murphy will just have to trust him regarding putting the drug cartel in charge of the cellblock. Murphy doesn't like the new policy and he doesn't like being left out of the loop. He and Querns agree that Murphy should transfer to a different unit, like, now.
I'm still trying to figure whether Querns is on the take. I don't think so, but... boy, I don't trust this guy.
Arif tries to question Adebisi, who walks off with Supreme. Then Arif approaches Querns, but Querns doesn't have time for him. He calls a CO to get Arif to back off.
Rape in a genpop cell. McManus breaks it up and calls for help. A medical team gurneys the victim to the infirmary. This is the first time that Dr. Nathan's had to treat a rape victim since her own attack. She hesitates a moment, then snarks when McManus gets all concerned, and pulls herself together right quick: "No, I'm fine."
Though the earlier Death Row sequences weren't bad, this next is the first one that I really like this year:
Miles Mack or Mark Miles or whatever the fuck his name is (I still hate him for it) bitches about Nat Ginzberg's TV being too loud. Ginzberg turns it off, because they have pre-empted his soap in favor of an endless loop of Governor Devlin's campaign spot. ("Mack just left Felicia. Again.") Miles says he's painting a mural, though it sure as hell looks like charcoal to me. *That's* why he yoinked Bellinger's mirror-- so that he could do a self-portrait. Make his mark on Death Row. Ooh, no, if his name really is Mark, then I just fuckin' punned. Thanks a lot, TF.
Lopresti's still around. He convinced Glynn that Bellinger was lying about doin' the nasty with him. I have lost *every* kind of respect I've ever had for Glynn.
Deyell misses Bellinger and her sweet psycho ways. So does Ginzberg. Ginzberg coughs, to Deyell's concern. Ginzberg should be in a hospital, but, he says, "I'd rather expire sinning myself on the Riviera with a 17 year-old Adonis." Wouldn't we all?
Miles complains that Ginzberg's coughing keeps him awake at night. Deyell continues to show compassion for his fellow Death Rowvian, but Miles provokes him, and then Deyell tries to punch Miles through the wall.
Dr. Nathan looks after Deyell's broken hand. Lopresti makes another remark. Die, Lopresti, die.
(So tell me, Gina, how do you *really* feel about Lopresti?)
Deyell directs Dr. Nathan's attention to Ginzberg. Dr. Perstopnik didn't visit Death Row while Dr. Nathan was on leave. She goes to Ginzberg's cell to check up on him and says he should probably be in the AIDS ward. Ginzberg says that he's been waiting to see which would kill him first, "the state or the disease. Guess the disease is winning."
Y'know, the transitions worked really well in this ep. First we had Mobay as the tie-in to Glynn; here Dr. Nathan is the common element that carries us from Unit B to Death Row to...
(Flashback to Dr. Nathan's rape. It goes on for a long time and I can only peep at the screen through my fingers. We see the perp's shamrock medallion, which may be a large part of the reason that Nathan glitched on O'Reily. Rapsheet. The perp's name is Patrick Keenan, which in the traditional Gaelic is spelled R-E-D-S-H-I-R-T.)
...the library, where that annoyingly happy red-haired little shit, Timmy Kirk, is chatting up Keenan. Ryan O'Reily wanders in and Kirk introduces them. Keenan's familiar with O'Reily's reputation as one of the brothers who ran the Brighid Street gang. Kirk has a hard-on to reveal to O'Reily that "Patrick's the one that did Dr. Nathan."
O'Reily asks Keenan why he raped her. Keenan says he was in the mood. O'Reily shakes Keenan's hand and says they'll have to do business sometime. Keenan seems thrilled. Starfucker.
On the Em City main floor, Tito(?) trips Cyril O'Reily and then grabs his head while Browne unzips. "Wanna suck some chocolate?" Cyril goes berserk. (Go Cyril!)
He gets strapped to a gurney in the infirmary, and Dr. Nathan sticks a needle in him. Fuck. Considering Nathan's prior unprofessional statements concerning Cyril, shouldn't she have Dr. Perstopnik at least review her treatment of the guy? Why don't Glo and Pete consider counseling a reasonable option for Cyril? Yes, he has the mind of a five-year old. They *have* effective therapies for five-year olds. Crack open your goddam reference books and help the boy, Pete.
(Didja spot the new blond female hack in Em City? I wonder what her name is. And where is Pepa?)
Ryan O'Reily busts into a classroom to yell at Adebisi, who says he is already taking Browne and Tito(?) to school. Browne looks unimpressed; Adebisi notices. Before stalking out, O'Reily points at the new G's to let them know he'll mark them for death if they heavy-breathe in his brother's direction again. Adebisi gets in Browne's face.
In their pod, O'Reily broods over his sleeping brother. (When they're asleep, the darling brain-damaged murderers are sooo cuuuute!) Stanislofsky wanders by and asks how Cyril's doing. O'Reily complains that the Haldol has put Cyril down for the count. Stanislofsky wonders if that's so bad. I suppose he can say stuff like this 'cause O'Reily already wants him dead. After Stanislofsky has gone, Querns approaches O'Reily. He wants to ask a question.
Querns calls Stanislofsky into his office to threaten him a little and tell him that he is the main suspect in Galino's death. Stan'y sits next to Hoyt in the cafeteria and tells him that they should have whacked O'Reily before O'Reily squealed about them whacking Galino. Hoyt should kill O'Reily as soon as possible now. But Hoyt says now is not a good time.
In the gym, O'Reily says, "Look, I know that Russian cocksucker's been talking schmack about me, Jazz." He spews bile about how untrustworthy Stan'y is. Hoyt is not inclined to get worked up about this until O'Reily mentions the cell phone.
Hoyt demands the phone. Stan'y hands it over. Then Hoyt says he's going to kill him. Stan'y leaps into action, knocking the phone from Hoyt's hand. While the CO's take down Hoyt and Stan'y, O'Reily grabs the phone off the floor and tucks it into his sock.
Hill says everybody's always looking for an excuse.
Hoyt gets Holed. Hot damn. I guess that's a Panty Alert, huh?
Stan'y gets thrown into a protective custody cell. Cut to O'Reily lying on his bunk, twirling the phone. Look at his thigh.
While Rebadow washes his face before morning count, Busmalis begs for a word of forgiveness, and recaps why Rebadow is mad at him. This can't possibly help Rebadow with the forgetting part of "forgive and forget", but I'm sure it's a big help to any viewers who missed last week's ep.
They walk out of their pod. Rebadow asks Keller, "How is he?"
"Not good," Keller replies.
Mineo (or whatever his name is, one of those hacks who's been around forever but never gets a storyline of his own) goes down the line, then stops in front of the Beecher/Keller pod. Beecher is still in bed, sitting up. Mineo harasses him to get his ass out for count. Keller tells Mineo to leave Beech alone. Mineo reminds us that he's an asshole.
"Fuck you," says Rebadow. (Twice in two episodes!) He points out that Beecher is having a breakdown for totally understandable reasons, and this small-minded adherence to the rules constitutes pointless torture.
Sean Murphy puts on his I-Know-I-Shouldn't-Be-So-Compassionate look and tells Mineo to let it pass.
(And-- what I said about great transitions. We're still in the Rebadow portion of the evening, but we've been beautifully prepared for the upcoming focus on Beech.)
The Em Citizens applaud Rebadow. Keller compliments his balls. Pan to Busmalis, who looks disturbed.
Rebadow paces around Sister Pete's office. He talks about fear, in relation to his fudge-related assault (see To Your Health) as well as his long-ago execution. He segues into El Cid's death, telling her that killing has made him feel alive. With the illuminated look of someone who has lost a terrible burden, he declares, "I'm not afraid to die!"
Now Sister Pete looks disturbed.
Rebadow approaches O'Reily in the gym to ask for boxing lessons. "I want to learn to defend myself." Isn't he cute in his sweats? O'Reily won't teach him, but Cyril will. Aw. Hell, Panty Alert. Cyril's naked to the waist.
A random cafeteria bully tries to get Rebadow to give him his pie. Rebadow smushes the pie in his face. Busmalis still looks disturbed.
Keller sneaks an orange out of the caf and passes it to Beecher in their pod. Beech is nonresponsive at first. Then he hurls the orange against the wall. You want to know whether Keller tried to comfort Beecher when he was keening for Gary in the previous ep? There's my answer. Keller can't be pretending to love Beech just for the fun of it. Beech isn't any fun.
Outside at a checker table, Busmalis comments that it's like being married. Rebadow has been taken over by aliens. After people reach a certain age, they shouldn't change. Rebadow finds Morales in the computer room. He's decided on what boon he wants as his payment for killing El Cid: He wants Morales to allow him to kill someone else.
Busmalis, watching from outside, continues to look disturbed.
Querns' deal with Adebisi to stop the violence sure is working out well. And you *know* all hell will break loose when Adebisi figures out that Mobay's a cop and decides Querns must have double-crossed him.
(Rebadow, I love you, even when you're bad. But if you kill Busmalis, I will hate you forever. For the moment, I'm living on the hope that it won't happen 'cause it's just too fucking obvious.)
(Right, TF? Right?)
Beecher dreams of his dismembered kids. Let's fast-forward, otherwise I will be forced to rant about the cheesiness of the FX and the total redundancy of the weird-assed-angled angsty!Beecher shots. Oops, too late.
Beech cries. Keller rubs his bullet wound.
Daytime. Keller, sounding congested, tells Father Ray about Beech's disturbed sleep. He worries that Sister Pete is staying away from Beech because of him. Father Ray thinks Keller's being self-centered, but in the next scene, Sister Pete says he's right. Because of Keller, she's unsure about her calling and her effectiveness as a therapist. If she goes to Beech, her facade will crumble, and that'll be worse than no help.
Oh, Pete baby, what are you afraid Beech'll see? Do you really think it'll do him harm to see that you have problems of your own? Or are you just addicted to the position of power as the psychologist? Of course, if a sociopath had sexually harassed me, I suppose I'd have control issues, too.
Even though I'm mad at Pete right now, I would like to state that Rita Moreno is immensely cool. Very fine emoting underscores this scene.
Schillinger contemplates himself in the mirror in his Unit B cell, stroking the scar by his eye-- his memento of Beech's little PCP incident (To Your Health). Robson reports that Beech hasn't left his pod in two days.
Schillinger calls Hank to tell him to drop off "the other package" at Mommy and Daddy Beecher's house. "Right. What we discussed."
In Ray's office, an edgy Daddy Beecher commands Father Ray "Marlboro Man" Mukada to stop smoking. Ray puts the cig out. Tobias Beecher walks in: calm, composed, and completely unhinged.
He knows they've summoned him to tell him the Feds found his son's dead body. He wants to go to the funeral, he wants Gary buried next to his mother, he wants to see the graves he's dug lined up one next to the other. Daddy B breaks down and holds Tobias, but Tobias can't cry. He doesn't have any more tears left. He walks out. Daddy B weeps. Father Ray lights another cigarette. I think I'll take up chain-smoking, too.
In their pod, a suited-up Beech puts on a tie while Keller watches with his hands folded. Beech asks if he's "the first man". Keller laughs. He straightens Beech's tie. Beech asks again, determined to know if Keller has ever felt this way about a man before-- but he's unable to believe Keller's answer.
Oh, you hopeless romantic. This would all be very sweet if it weren't so demented.
An officer uncuffs Beech.
"Sweet dreams, baby." He takes a shaky breath, dropping his head on Gary's coffin. His hands spread to encompass it.
Cut to a shot of Beech from behind: on his knees, head sagging, arms outflung.
Father Ray summons Schillinger into his office. Sucking on another cigarette, he tells Schillinger what Bellinger told him before her execution, and that Ray supposes Schillinger is the father of the child that Bellinger miscarried between seasons three and four. Vern denies having sex with her. I am simply grateful that we don't get a Vern/Shirley flashback.
Father Ray tells Vern that Beecher was the one who reunited him with his son Hank. Schillinger knows Beecher did it-- to fuck with him. Father Ray swears that Beecher's heart was pure. He implores Vern to let Beech's other kid go. Props to B.D. Wong; even though Ray doesn't mention that he urged Beech to pursue amelioration, Wong fills the scene with a palpable and wrenching guilt. Schillinger is looking away. He glances up as he leaves the office.
Whatsisfuck, the inmate that Beech asked to look into the kidnapping, says he has answers for Beech, if Beech will pay his daughter's dental bills. Beech agrees. The inmate names a guy that he claims was hired to do the deed. (Bob "Big Butt" Tolan.)
Beech wants the name of the guy who paid the guy who did the deed. Whatsisfuck says it was Chris Keller. Schillinger smirks, watching Beech go into a tailspin.
Beech tells the Fed-guy that he needs Fed to find out the truth. Fed has already made up his mind. "Guys like Keller are hunters. They kill for sport." Fed walks out, leaving Beech sitting alone, pigeon-toed, with his hands in his lap. Pan into the wall.
Tilt down from the ceiling. "You think you're a pretty cool customer, huh?" Fed interrogates Keller, who is in fine playful form a la season three. Keller denies murdering the three men that Fed names, even though, during the months between his arrival in "the city" and his arrest for armed robbery, he frequented the same gay bar that the victims did. "That doesn't make me a murderer any more than it makes me a fag."
Fed pounces on the opportunity to change the subject to Keller's sexual orientation and relationship with Beech. Keller giggles like a freak. He buys a vowel, and learns that Fed considers him a suspect in the kidnapping. He looks hurt.
Night. Keller spies Beech in the mirror. This scene is set up just like the "Happy New Year" shot from Out o' Time. Keller gives Beech a look of such tender concern, I find myself in a puddle beneath the TV. (Um. Slash Alert. Yeah.) Is Beech all right? He's been very quiet today.
Beech wants to know what Keller thinks he should do if he finds the guy that killed his kid.
"You should whack him."
Beech thinks this is a reasonable idea. He leaps at Keller with a knife.
"What the fuck?"
As the hacks open the pod, Keller punches Beech in the face: "You think I'd do that?" The hacks pry Beecher away. New blond female hack puts her hands on Keller's pecs. (Slut.) Keller leaps on Beech. The hacks pull him off. "You bitch!" The Em Citizens enjoy the spectacle. My sister scratches her head.
In Unit B, Whatsisfuck goes to Robson and Schillinger for payment. His daughter really does need the dental work.
Hill comments that we search for easy answers because the complex ones are terrifying. Maybe the truth is that the root of violence is pure evil, that evil is ingrained in our souls.
Schillinger calls Hank. He tells him to drop off the other package. "No-- alive."
Onscreen substance abuses -- 4 (Poet snorting while Bad Cop recognizes Mobay, Mobay "celebrating" the murder, and two instances of Father Ray puffing like a chimney)
Flashbacks -- 3 (Bad Cop's crime, Nathan's rape/Keenan's crime, Supreme Allah's crime)
Panty Alerts -- 2 (Hoyt in the Hole, Cyril's chest)
Obvious redshirt sightings -- 2 (Bad Cop and Keenan)
Deaths -- 2 (Bad Cop and Gary Beecher)
Slash Alerts -- 1 (visual reference to "The Scene" from Out o' Time)
Honorary McBoneheads -- 1 (Glo's "medical treatment" for Cyril)
"Cute" nicknames for Augie -- 1 (Butch)
New O'Reily activities:
Cyril -- 1 (giving boxing lessons)
Ryan -- 1 (using the word "schmack")