Season

Season 1

by Harold Perrineau, Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters, Eamonn Walker, Ernie Hudson and 12 others

Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or "Oz." As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glynn. Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or kil

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Characters

Tom Fontana (8)Harold Perrineau (7)Augustus Hill (7)Tony Musante (1)Nino Schibetta (1)

“Do we care for people when they're sick because we actually care about them? Or do we care for them because when our time comes, we want someone to care for us?”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com

Tagged: sickness, Dying

“There's some pain that you don't share. Some pain like your fingerprints that's all yours. All alone.”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com

Tagged: Pain, fingerprints

“If sex is sweet and death is bitter, love is both. Love will always and forever break your heart.”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Sex

“In the beginning, God was nothingness. So he started making stuff. He made the dirt, he made the sky, he made the water, he made things that swim, things that slither, things with legs. I mean, God turned himself into a big shot. Then, in a couple of days, or a couple of million years, he breathed l…”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com

Tagged: God, Religion

“Fuck is a four letter word. Rape is a four letter word. Wife is a four letter word. So is love. Fuck is a curse. So is love.”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Sex, Rape

“What the fuck's wrong with this country? In the old days, murder was murder. You killed someone, it was business. You sure as Christ didn't eat them.”

— Tom Fontana, Nino Schibetta, Tony Musante, imdb.com

Tagged: Murder, Cannibalism

“Timmy boy believes he can save every one of us, from each other, from ourselves, from the system that dumped us in here. Only thing he don't get is, you gotta want to be saved.”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com

Tagged: Saving Someone, the system

“Oz. That's the name on the street for the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary. Oz is retro. Oz is retribution. You wanna punish a man? Separate him from his family, separate him from himself, cage him up with his own kind. Oz is hard times doing hard time.”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com