6 Season
56 Episode
Oz - Season 1 Episode 8 A Game of Checkers
Life's not a word. It's a sentence.
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, guns blazing.
- Year: 2003
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Studio: HBO
- Keyword: prison, experiment, dystopia, revenge, betrayal, racism, drugs, inmate, catholicism, aryan, prison life, abuse of power
- Director: Tom Fontana
- Cast: Lee Tergesen, Harold Perrineau, Dean Winters, Eamonn Walker, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney