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Ryan O'Reily is a fictional character in the television series '' Oz ''. He is portrayed by Dean Winters . O'Reily is an Irish American Gangster sentenced to Life Imprisonment after he went on a drug and alcohol fuelled rampage through the city. His charges include possession of a weapon, possession of Narcotics , Parole violation and Vehicular Manslaughter , amongst other things. A cunning sociopath, O'Reilly manages to survive Oz in a manipulative fashion playing for a variety of inmate gangs to get whatever he wishes accomplished. SEASON 1 He was the primary cause of nearly every death in the first season of Oz:
All this led to Ryan becoming a major player in the Oz Drugs scene. SEASON 2 In the second season O'Reily was enjoying his new status in the Oz drug scene when he was diagnosed with Breast Cancer . He was helped through his treatment and Chemotherapy by Dr. Gloria Nathan, the Hispanic head Doctor in Oz. O'Reily fell in love with her and was so overcome with Jealousy of her husband that he got his Mentally Handicapped brother, Cyril , to kill him. Cyril was arrested and sent to Oz but was put in a different unit than Ryan. There, he was Raped by Vernon Schillinger and his Aryan Brotherhood gang. O'Reily was enraged but couldn't do anything about it. In order to protect Cyril, Ryan asked the manager of his unit, Tim McManus, to transfer Cyril into "Em City" with him. McManus says he will, if Ryan admits he told Cyril to kill Preston Nathan. O'Reilly refuses. Later, when a prison guard was blinded by Miguel Alvarez and needed a Blood Transfusion , it turned out that O'Reilly was the only prisoner in Oz to match his blood type. He used this fact to secure a place for his brother in Em City with him. However, O'Reilly steps up in telling McManus the truth so that he can remain in Oz to protect Cyril at all costs. SEASON 3 Still eager for revenge on Schillinger for Cyril's rape, Ryan manipulated Jaz Hoyt into attacking him, but he escaped unharmed. Furious, Ryan joins forces with Chris Keller and Tobias Beecher , two other inmates who are looking to get even with Schillinger. When Schillinger's son Andrew comes to Em City, O'Reilly tricks the young man, whom Beecher then befriends. O'Reilly Torture s Andrew even worse when he stops selling drugs to him and forces him to buy them through the non-white inmates. Because Andrew has been trained as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood , he cannot buy drugs from those inmates. When Andrew publicly embarrasses his father, Schillinger gives his son enough heroin to Overdose as a kind of test - which he fails, dying. O'Reilly has no Guilt whatsoever about this. Also in season three, a new C.O Supervisor is hired for Em City. Sean Murphy is a Black Irish like O'Reilly, and the two become friendly. When Murphy organises a Boxing tournament, O'Reilly enters his Mentally Handicapped brother Cyril. To ensure Cyril wins, he spikes the spritzers of his opponents. Not only does Cyril win, but O'Reilly makes plenty of money in the underground betting going on in Oz. However, when Murphy discovers O'Reilly has been cheating, he is furious, and threatens him with punishments. In order to allow Cyril to keep his edge and win the final fight against Muslim inmate Hamid Khan, O'Reilly forces his brother to think of their Abusive father. Pushed into a rage, Cyril beats Khan into a Coma , making him Brain Dead . SEASON 4 PART I O'Reilly still remains an ally of Simon Adebisi throughout the racial tension that happens within Oz. Later, he participates with Cyril in an interaction session with Dr. Nathan and her husband's parents. In it mainly to be verbally abused for causing the death of her husband Preston but he turns the tables on them when he says that she and Tim McManus were having an affair. She is later raped by an Irish hoodlum Patrick Keenan and she believes because of the Shamrock he was wearing that Ryan set up the raping. He did not, but tells her that he did so she can be whole again. In the meantime O'Reilly commits a murder on his own for once killing Keenan for causing the rape. Dr. Nathan takes a vacation for mental relief as a result. In Em City, White and Latino Inmates and COs are constantly being traded for Black COs and Black inmates who support Adebisi so O'Reilly and Keller unite to turn the tables on the Blacks. They murder inmates Nate Shemin and Mondo Browne framing Homeboy Supreme Allah for the murder undetected. Things go back to normal when Unit Manager Martin Querns is fired and McManus is rehired. SEASON 4 PART II A television crew comes to film events within Oz curious as to how deceased inmate Simon Adebisi corrupted the place. They are headed by Jack Eldridge , a reporter who once made a mockery of the O'Reilly brothers so Ryan is unwilling to help their story. Cyril ends up beating Eldridge and the staff is partially relieved. Ryan also has a scuffle with Nikolai Stanislofsky , resulting in Stanislofsky's demise at the hands of Officer Claire Howell. Later Dr. Nathan returns claiming that she does indeed have feelings for Ryan. Supreme Allah is released from solitary and tells O'Reilly that he knows who framed him so he and Keller go to Burr Redding and ask that he be eliminated. Supreme is stabbed and off O'Reilly's back as a result. The O'Reilly brothers volunteer for an aging pill experiment which is stopped after an Aryan inmate in the program dies from it. A woman named Suzanne Fitzgerald comes to visit claiming she is Ryan's birth mother. Ryan rejects this at first but accepts it after his father tells him about her. His mother is a 1960s radical on the run and looking to stop running. Later, Asian inmate Jia Kenmin and Cyril fight where Jia is placed into a coma. The staff is worried about Cyril and threatens to send him to a mental institution. Meanwhile IRA member Padraig Connolly arrives and plans with O'Reilly to blow up the prison. The blow up is unsuccessful but O'Reilly goes unbeaten. SEASON 5 Ryan's mother turns herself in and Governor Devlin reduces her charge to a two year community service at Oz. Ryan and Cyril go to work in the newly built kitchen later and have things going normally until another asian inmate Li Chen arrives and Jia Kenmin comes out of a coma. They get inmate Glen Shupe to lie about a plan to rape Suzanne and it is a setup to get the O'Reilly brothers on Death Row. Cyril O'Reilly stabs Chen and stands trial for murder. The O'Reilly family decides that Cyril is too mentally scarred to live so they do not oppose his trial at all. Ryan in the meantime is rooming with Father Daniel Meehan, an Irish American priest imprisoned for acting violent at a protest. Meehan is a good person at heart who helps Sister Pete fight for Cyril's life. Jia Kenmin constantly berates Ryan about his brother and Ryan sees that the Latinos also hate Jia. After finding out that Shupe was paid to lie, O'Reilly and the Latinos come to a deal, Jia Kenmin will die without the Latinos being found responsible and Glen Shupe will suffer a horrible injury that cannot be traced back to O'Reilly. Shupe has his arm removed and O'Reilly gets Jia Kenmin killed by the COs after a set up. Aryan Brotherhood member James Robson gets a gum transplant from a Black man, and Poet is paid to tell everyone he knows by the prison dentist Dr. Tariq Faraj . With the previous bad blood between Ryan and the Aryans, he does not think twice to spread the word and he tells everyone in the cafeteria during lunch that day about Robson's "ghetto gums." Because of Poet and O'Reilly, Robson is kicked out of the Brotherhood. Father Meehan gets Ryan to open up about things that scarred him as a kid from his family and church and after a while, Ryan finally gives in and gets on the wagon to save Cyril. Cyril is sentenced to death however and Ryan vows to be there in the appeal process. SEASON 6 Suzanne Fitzgerald is setting up a prison production of MacBeth and Father Meehan auditions for the lead role. While Cyril's execution date has been set, Ryan gets Glen Shupe to tell the truth to Cyril's attorney Arnold Zelman, who is unable to get him to testify after it is concluded that Shupe is a cumpulsive liar. In the meantime Father Meehan dies and Peter Schibetta is assumingly responsible for giving him the evil eye. Schibetta will curse everyone Ryan loves since it has been proven to Peter that Ryan killed his father in 1997. Ryan asks Chucky Pancamo about the evil eye and he claims that Schibetta will give it to all the Italians after his mother's car keys are stolen. Schibetta is killed after the Italians prove it is true. Throughout this season, Zelman is appealing the case with not too much luck. Inmate Jahfree Neema, a former Black Panther Party member, is sent to Oz and is connected to Suzanne. He initially hates O'Reilly so Ryan tries to get Burr Redding to murder Neema. Neema however lets Ryan know that he supports his cause to save Cyril and he organizes every inmate from the Aryans to the Italians to the Homeboys to protest the death of Cyril and as a result a last second stay of execution is granted. Meanwhile, their father Seamus arrives in Oz, tries to kill Neema, and as a result ends up in the hospital. As Cyril finally dies, Seamus finally makes peace with O'Reilly. |
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