Thank you, Askia. That’s way better than mine.
As for my take…
[spoiler]I think Keller chose to commit suicide in order to ensure Beecher never got out. If Beecher was convicted of his death, then he’d be in OZ forever – and if Keller can’t get out, then Beecher shouldn’t either. We’ve seen on multiple occasions that Keller couldn’t care less about what’s best for Beecher, only that he gets what he whats.
I think it was one last act of revenge from the master manipulator himself, Keller.[/spoiler]
The best part of this is that none of us may be right. It’s so ambiguous that every person will read something different into it and the truth may never be known.
I think I was trying too hard, Lord Ashtar… but thank you for the compliment. Your own summation was quite succinct.
I read (maybe on the Television Without Pity boards) that Christopher Meloni gave an interview in which he confirmed Nichol_storm’s interpretation. Let me go see if I can find it…
I watched the 1st season of Oz back when it was originally aired, and have been watching the rest of the series now on Amazon. Good God, is this show a joke. I watch it for the laughs this ridiculous show puts before us. A bunch of Chinese illegals washes up on shore and the state chan’t figure out a better place to put them than the state’s version of Super Max? The daily murders, the out of the way alcoves, the totally unsupervised time, leaving staple guns around, in one of those unsupervised areas, where a gang of prisoners can murder one of those illegals. The doctor, whose husband is murdered at the behest of a prisoner, falling in love with said prisoner. A pill that ages a person…W…T…F…? And on and on. Just as ridiculous and soap opera-ish as Sons of Anarchy.
OZ was intentionally over-the-top. It was not meant to be a documentary.