"Blizzard of '01" is the fifth episode of the second part of the fourth season and the thirty-seventh overall episode of the HBO television series Oz.
Plot[]
Hughes causes trouble in Unit J; Schillinger welcomes his granddaughter into the world; a new inmate threatens Beecher's chance at parole. O'Reily is in for a surprise when a visitor reveals the truth about his past, while Cyril faces trouble for his difficult behavior. Meanwhile, Morales and Redding lay out plans that could lead to all-out war in Em City.
Narrations[]
A blizzard is coming, y'all. Heaps and heaps of snow will fall from the sky and bury everything. Sidewalks, cars, houses, the ground will grow frozen and slippery. Dangerous. But here in Oz, we're oblivious to the weather outside. Here in Oz, we're all toasty, cozy and warm.
(singing) Oh, the weather outside is frightful. But the fire is so delightful. And since we've no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
Currier & Ives, Norman Rockwell. They created images of America in winter. Ice skating on a lake, sleigh rides along a country road, fluffy white crystals of new fallen snow. Maybe there was a time when life was idyllic. And children didn't go to school and kill other children. We see the paintings now and we grow nostalgic. Nostalgic for a place we've never seen. We long for a time that we've never actually been part of.
Prisoner number 01G359, Colonel Edward Galson. Convicted February 16th, 2001. Rape, assault. Sentence: 15 years, up for parole in 7.
Fahrenheit and Celcius. Two ways of measuring the same thing. Of course, most of the world is on Celsius, but we Americans remain defiantly committed to Fahrenheit! We'd like to learn the other way, we'd like to change, but we just can't seem to accept that zero degrees is actually warmer than we think.
Prisoner number 01D251, Carlton Daniels, AKA Tug Daniels. Convicted February 20th, 2001. Attempted murder in the first degree. Sentence: 28 years, up for parole in 14.
When I was a kid, I used to like reading Jack London. You know, "Call of the Wild", "White Fang". I remember one story where a man was in the middle of Alaska, or somewhere isolated and cold. He lost his dog team, his legs were broken, he realized he was gonna freeze to death. So, he buried himself in the snow and simply went to sleep. Terrifying, and yet beautiful. Acceptance of one's fate. The way any man should die.
They say that every snowflake is different, but how can they really be sure? I mean, think about all the snowflakes that have fallen all over the world, throughout Earth's history. Law of Averages dictates that at least two of them had to be similar. Like human beings, like the men in Oz, even if they start out unique, they end up the same.
Deaths[]
Salah Udeen- Stabbed to death by Carl Jenkins
Crime Flashbacks[]
Edward Galson - Rape, assault
Carlton Daniels - Attempted murder in the first degree