Oz — Season 1, Episode 8: A Game of Checkers

Episode synopsis

Beecher is released from the hole and Schillinger is left eyeless and weak. A riot breaks out after two white punks get into a fight over checkers. Frustration, sexuality, hate, revenge, racism all rear their ugly heads, causing the violence to escalate.

About Oz

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Routine
• E2Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise
• E3God's Chillin'
• E4Capital P
• E5Straight Life
• E6To Your Health
• E7Plan B