
During this meeting, however, Schillinger is under surveillance Wittlesey had never intended to kill Beecher and had reported Schillinger’s request to her superiors, who arranged to hide Beecher until they could get Schillinger on tape incriminating himself. Beecher disappears and Schillinger subsequently meets with Wittlesey to discuss their deal. Wittlesey reluctantly agrees to get rid of Beecher if Schillinger will keep quiet. Finally, Schillinger seems to find somebody willing to do the deed: guard Diane Wittlesey, whom he blackmails with knowledge that she had shot a prisoner during the riot. Frightened, Schillinger unsuccessfully seeks other people to kill Beecher for him. Upon his release from isolation, Beecher begins taunting Schillinger, threatening to ruin his chances at parole. Beecher has by now learned to fight back, however, and bites the tip of Robson’s penis off. Beecher finds himself sharing a cell with James Robson, an Aryan member who tries to make Beecher perform oral sex on him. In the aftermath of the riot, Beecher and the other prisoners housed in Em City are sent to other sections of the prison. When a riot erupts in Em City, Beecher sides with O’Reily in the chaos, defending Ryan from an attack by the Muslims, as neither belongs to any strong gangs. This earns him respect from inmates such as O’Reily, Miguel Alvarez, and even Adebisi. He incapacitates Schillinger by kicking him in the groin and assaulting him with a piece of gym equipment, then defecates upon him in front of many of Emerald City’s fiercer inmates. Beecher almost jumps to his death immediately afterward, but is restrained by guards and thrown in the isolation ward.Īfter being released, he confronts Schillinger (who is now sporting an eyepatch) in the prison gym’s basketball court. Beecher snaps and, emboldened by PCP, attacks Schillinger, smashing the acrylic glass wall of Schillinger’s cell and sending a broken shard flying into his eye. Eventually, Schillinger tires of him and forces him to leave the cell wearing a Confederate Flag t-shirt. Among other tortures, Schillinger makes him beg to see his wife, eat pages of a law book, and tear up pictures of his family. Schillinger then has him get a “makeover” by one of Em City’s drag queens. Beecher is regularly sexually humiliated by Schillinger and develops an addiction to heroin (with help from Ryan O’Reily). Schillinger, the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, then “brands” him by burning a swastika design into one of his buttocks. Inmate Vern Schillinger offers to be his new cellmate. When he was convicted of killing a young girl while driving drunk, the judge sought to make an example of him and sentenced him to fifteen years in prison.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.


Beecher, a graduate of Harvard Law School, was a successful attorney, husband and father, but also an alcoholic. Tobias Beecher is a fictional character on the television show Oz, played by American actor Lee Tergesen. Driving while intoxicated, Vehicular Manslaughter.
