"Secret Identities" is the seventh episode of the third season and the twenty-third overall episode of the HBO television series Oz.
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"Know thyself". That's what Socrates said, or Aristotle, or one of them dead white men. To know yourself is the hardest thing any one of us can ever do.
Clark Kent is the secret identity of Superman. I never understood why Superman needed a secret identity. Listen, if I'm invulnerable, right, all the chicks want me. Why would i disguise myself as a four-eyed wimp? The truth? Superman is schizophrenic. Mm-hmm, yeah. Superman's id is fuckin' with his super-ego. The man's conflicted, no doubt about it.
I knew a man. Worked on Wall Street. Wore a bra and panties under his Brooks Brothers suit. Every day he'd sit in meetings, making harsh decisions and cold business deals. Yet underneath, he felt pretty. Oh, so pretty.
Good citizens of Gotham City have to be the dumbest fucks on the planet. They got Batman and Robin saving their asses from the Riddler and Joker and such. They also got millionaire Bruce Wayne and his ward, Dick Grayson, in the headlines every day. Batman and Robin, Bruce and Dick. Now, you mean to tell me nobody ever put two and two together?
People live their whole lives thinking they know who they are. Husband, mother, son, lawyer, doctor, pizza delivery boy, Baptist, Jew, Muslim, Italian, Irish, WASP, black, white, yellow, male, female. Then something comes along and blows all those illusions to shit, and you're left with the truth. The lonely, terrifying truth.
People are defined by three things: Their heads, how they think. Their hearts, what they feel. Their dicks, who they fuck. At the end of the day, each of us has to answer one question. One not-so-simple question. Who am I?
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- Antonio Nappa - Suffocated with a pillow by Nat Ginzburg
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(There were no flashbacks in this episode)