Oz - Season 1 - Eps 8: A Game of Checkers
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.
About Oz
Title: Oz
First Air Date: 1997-07-12
Last Air Date: 2003-02-23
Status: Ended
Rating: 8/10 (from 764 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 7
Total Episodes: 56
Network: HBO
Genres: Crime, Drama
Production Companies: The Levinson/Fontana Company, Rysher Entertainment
Synopsis
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Cast
Lee Tergesen
Tobias Beecher
Harold Perrineau
Augustus Hill
Dean Winters
Ryan O'Reily
Eamonn Walker
Kareem Saïd
Ernie Hudson
Leo Glynn
Terry Kinney
Tim McManus
Rita Moreno
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
J.K. Simmons
Vernon Schillinger
Kirk Acevedo
Miguel Alvarez
Craig muMs Grant
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