| Family Bizness | |
|---|---|
| Oz episode | |
| Episode No. | Season 2, Episode 5, #13 |
| Directed by | Kathy Bates |
| Written by | Tom Fontana |
| Original Air Date | August 10, 1998 |
| Episode Guide | |
| Previous Losing Your Appeal |
Next Strange Bedfellows |
"Family Bizness" is the fifth episode of the second season and the thirteenth overall episode of the HBO television series Oz. Written by Tom Fontana with the teleplay by Tom Fontana & Bradford Winters and directed by Kathy Bates, it originally aired on August 10, 1998.
Plot[]
The high school program comes to a permanent end after graduation. Poet, whose poetry was published, is released. McManus discovers the truth about Scott Ross' murder. Hill wants to join in with Busmalis' escape. Leo Glynn gives his brother up to stop Peter Schibetta from taking power over him. Beecher and Keller's relationship deepens when Beecher's wife commits suicide. Sister Pete learns that what Giles is saying has something to do with her husband's death. O'Reily wants to prove his love for Dr. Nathan by having his brother kill her husband.
Synopsis[]
TBA
Narrations[]
Family! Our families determine who we are, determine what we're not. All of our relationships with everybody we ever meet for the rest of our lives, is based on the way we relate to the members of our family! No wonder the world's so fucked up.
You see what I'm saying? People move the way that they do because they're still working out some shit with their fathers. They're still pissed at their mothers for not potty-training them properly. Shit like that. People wanna get back at their parents for making them be born. Bad baby.
In Oz, you don't get to see much of your real family, your blood relatives. Sometimes the things you do inside, you do for them. To keep them alive, to keep them around you. Even if only in your head.
Older brothers. Older brothers get to fuck up first, break in the folks.
The Jackson Five. The Kennedy brothers. The Marx brothers. When brothers work together, amazing shit happens. When they don't, life sucks.
Husbands and wives, man. We come into this world looking for unconditional love from our parents. And when we don't get it, we find someone, anyone, and we marry them. And we spend the rest of our lives together beating the shit out of each other trying to prove that we didn't deserve unconditional love in the first place. In a marriage, you pay for crimes you never committed. Beyotch. What? Motherfucker.
Because we share the same blood with our family, we can ask them to do anything. Anything. Lie, cheat, take a bullet. Only don't ask to borrow the new Lexus, because then, my man, you are crossing the line.
Every once in a while, I remember something I did when I was a child. Or something that was done to me. By my father or my brother or a cousin. Some injury, some humiliation. And it seems like it happened to another person a century or two ago. I'm not really sure if what I remember really took place at all. You can't build your life relying on the perception of a little boy. On the echoes of some memory, no. You got to let all that shit go. You got to start fresh. Every single day, you have got to start again.
Deceased[]
Unnamed (flashback) - Beaten and shot to death by Mark Glynn for the Mafia.
Genevieve Beecher (offscreen) - Locked herself in garage with car running.
Crime Flashbacks[]
Mark Glynn- Murder in the first degree