Eventually, Schillinger tires of him and forces him to leave the cell wearing a Confederate Flag t-shirt.

Among other tortures, Schillinger makes Beecher beg to 'fuck' his wife during a conjugal visit, forces him to eat pages of a law book, and orders him to tear up pictures of his family. In preparation for the prison talent show Schillinger has Beecher get a 'makeover' by one of Em City's drag queens. In attempting to deal with the trauma of his experience, Beecher turns to heroin and develops an addiction. Beecher is regularly sexually humiliated by Schillinger.

Beecher accepts the offer from the seemingly helpful Schillinger, but on their first night in the cell together the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood rapes Beecher and 'brands' him by burning a swastika design into his right buttock. Inmate Vernon Schillinger offers to be his new cellmate. He later remarks that, in Oz, he 'became the man he always was and never knew'.īeecher quickly learns that he is out of his element after being roomed with monstrous inmate Simon Adebisi during his first week in the titular facility. Arriving in Oz without any street skills and having a naturally timid personality, he became a target for abuse and was hardened by his experiences, particularly with his archnemesis, Vern Schillinger.

The effort fails and the judge, a family friend of the Beechers, decides to make an example of him and sentences him to 15 years in a maximum security prison with a chance for parole after four.īeecher's personal transformation forms the majority of the show's drama, particularly in season one. He is offered a plea bargain that would have allowed him to serve his sentence in a minimum security prison, but Beecher, not wanting to do any time in prison, instead goes to trial seeking an acquittal. One night, he drives drunk - something he had already been arrested for twice - and hits and kills a nine-year-old girl named Cathy Rockwell. Tobias Beecher, a graduate of Harvard Law School, is a successful attorney, husband and father, but also an alcoholic. Return to Oz later that year due to a parole violation. Convicted JDriving While Intoxicated, Vehicular Manslaughter.

Oz tv series love scenes