"The Routine" is the pilot and first episode of the television series Oz. See also List of Oz (series) episodes.
The events and narration of this episode are centered around the introduction of Oswald State Maximum Security Penitentiary.
Narrator Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau, Jr.) introduces the viewers to Oz and its experimental Cell Block E, commonly referred to as Emerald City, or Em City. The violence of Oz is demonstrated right away as ne...
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"The Routine" is the pilot and first episode of the television series Oz. See also List of Oz (series) episodes.
The events and narration of this episode are centered around the introduction of Oswald State Maximum Security Penitentiary.
Narrator Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau, Jr.) introduces the viewers to Oz and its experimental Cell Block E, commonly referred to as Emerald City, or Em City. The violence of Oz is demonstrated right away as new inmate Miguel Alvarez (Kirk Acevedo) is shanked before even being brought to a cell, while fellow new arrival Tobias Beecher (Lee Tergesen) is horrified by the incident. Both men had been assigned to Em City, and news of the violence startles Em City's idealistic unit manager, Tim McManus (Terry Kinney), even as he asks Warden Leo Glynn (Ernie Hudson) to allow the cannibalistic parent-killer Donald Groves (Sean Whitesell) to be brought to Em City as well. Glynn reluctantly agrees on the condition that drug dealer Paul Markstrom (O. L. Duke)...
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