
The majority of Oz 's story arcs are set in " Emerald City", named for a setting from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).


Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Moreover, most of the series' story arcs are set in " Emerald City", a wing named after a setting from the fictional Land of Oz in L.
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The nickname "Oz" is also a reference to the classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939), which popularized the phrase, "There's no place like home." In contrast, a poster for the series uses the tagline: "It's no place like home". Hoyt had earlier succeeded in brutally murdering Kirk, and is himself later murdered by another Biker in retaliation for revealing Cloutier's killing."Oz" is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a fictional level 4 maximum-security state prison. After discovering Cloutier's body, Father Mukada re-seals the wall, telling no one what he found. No explanation was ever given for his disappearance and he was never seen or heard from again until the final episode of the series when Jaz Hoyt reveals Cloutier's fate: he had been carried off by the bikers and sealed into another wall. Nathan and Father Mukada go to Cloutier's hospital room, they discover that he has disappeared. Hoyt is haunted by a vision of Cloutier in which Cloutier tells him to kill Kirk. At the end of Season 4, there is an explosion in the cafeteria, which Cloutier miraculously survives.Įven though Cloutier is in the hospital and burned beyond recognition, this does not stop Kirk from trying to kill him. Later, Kirk, Hoyt, and others trap Cloutier inside the wall of the cafeteria, burying him alive. Hoyt humiliates Cloutier by stealing his towel while he is in the shower, forcing him to walk naked back to his cell. To get revenge, Timmy enlists the help of Jaz Hoyt and the other bikers. Kirk, meanwhile, is still causing trouble and as a result, Cloutier casts him out of the congregation. When the war between the Muslims and the Aryans gets ugly, Glynn has Cloutier calm Schillinger and his Aryan troops. Schillinger, who had been receiving counseling from the pastor, allows Cloutier to escape vengeance in this matter with a warning not to interfere with Brotherhood business. When Robson and Schillinger discover Jenkins plans to turn Robson in, they threaten Jenkins, who subsequently takes his own life. Said asks Cloutier to convince Jenkins to reveal Robson's role in the attempted assassination of Said and the murder of Tidd. Carl Jenkins killed inmate Leroy Tidd at the behest of James Robson (Said was the actually target of the killing), but refuses to implicate Robson. Said also begins to see Cloutier's sincerity asks him for a favor. With the help of Muslim leader Kareem Said and a local Rabbi, the four hold an ecumenical service. Cloutier is appalled at this behaviour, which shows Mukada that Cloutier is in fact true to his faith. Soon Timmy Kirk's religious convictions become more and more zealous and he begins to use his new faith as justification to physically attack other inmates who don't share it.

With Cloutier poaching prisoners and constantly challenging the Catholic faith, bad blood develops between the two men. Cloutier then successfully converts Biker Jim Burns and Irish inmate Timmy Kirk (who was a Catholic altar boy).

However, members of the Aryan Brotherhood warn Cloutier to back off they don't want to lose their leader. He begins usurping control of the Christian inmates, engaging in a "competition of souls" with Father Ray Mukada, a Catholic priest who serves as Oz's Chaplain.Ĭloutier attempts to counsel Aryan leader Vern Schillinger into focusing on the birth of his granddaughter, and turning away from a life of hatred and brutality. On the outside he was a famous and well respected pastor and as a result Warden Glynn allows him to work in the Chaplain's office while in Oz. From there the Bikers take and hide his body again, where he then dies.Ĭloutier arrives in Oz and immediately begins religious services for Oz's Protestant inmates. After disagreeing with a convert named Timmy Kirk, Cloutier is subjected to violence from the Biker gang and ends up with third degree burns across the majority of his body. Cloutier was still a good person at heart, though, and did what he could to convert and comfort many inmates while in Oz. Sentence: nine years, up for parole in five.Ĭloutier came to Oz in Season 4 when he is caught embezzling funds from his church. Convicted DecemEmbezzlement and petty larceny.
