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Works of Mercy

  • Episode aired Aug 2, 2000
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  • 56m
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BD Wong, Ernie Hudson, and Kathryn Erbe in Oz (1997)
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Em City gets a new Unit Manager, Martin Querns, whose methods are hardly orthodox. Beecher's torment over his missing children is worsened when Schillinger presents him with an unexpected pa... Read allEm City gets a new Unit Manager, Martin Querns, whose methods are hardly orthodox. Beecher's torment over his missing children is worsened when Schillinger presents him with an unexpected package. McManus returns to Oz in a new capacity.Em City gets a new Unit Manager, Martin Querns, whose methods are hardly orthodox. Beecher's torment over his missing children is worsened when Schillinger presents him with an unexpected package. McManus returns to Oz in a new capacity.

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  • Writer
    • Tom Fontana
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    • Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
    • Ernie Hudson
    • Terry Kinney
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    • Director
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    • Writer
      • Tom Fontana
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      • Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
      • Ernie Hudson
      • Terry Kinney
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    Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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    • Simon Adebisi
    Ernie Hudson
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    • Warden Leo Glynn
    Terry Kinney
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    • Tim McManus
    Rita Moreno
    Rita Moreno
    • Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
    Harold Perrineau
    Harold Perrineau
    • Augustus Hill
    J.K. Simmons
    J.K. Simmons
    • Vern Schillinger
    Lee Tergesen
    Lee Tergesen
    • Tobias Beecher
    Eamonn Walker
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    • Kareem Said
    Dean Winters
    Dean Winters
    • Ryan O'Reily
    Robert John Burke
    Robert John Burke
    • Special Agent Pierce Taylor
    Reg E. Cathey
    Reg E. Cathey
    • Martin Querns
    Kathryn Erbe
    Kathryn Erbe
    • Shirley Bellinger
    Zeljko Ivanek
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    • Governor James Devlin
    David Johansen
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    • Eli Zabitz
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    George Morfogen
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    • Dr. Gloria Nathan
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      • Tom Fontana
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    • Trivia
      First appearance of Robert John Burke as Special Agent Pierce Taylor, the FBI agent in charge of the kidnapping case for Beecher's children. Burke is yet another of the many actors to appear in both Oz and the Law & Order universe; he was featured in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and also played an FBI agent in several episodes of the original Law & Order (1990). However, he is best known for playing the recurring character of Captain Ed Tucker on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), a detective with the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau who is an antagonist of Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), but then winds up dating her.
    • Goofs
      During the news broadcast before the hanging of Shirley Bellinger (Kathryn Erbe), the reporter states that she was on death row for the drowning death of her eight-year-old daughter. However, when the character was introduced in S2 E3 (Great Men (1998)), the news reporter at that time stated Bellinger was on death row for the drowning death of her four-year-old daughter.
    • Quotes

      [a severed hand coms through the X-ray machine in the mail room]

      #97R492 James Robson: Holy Shit. Vern, you'd better come over here.

      Vernon 'Vern' Schillinger: What is it?

      #97R492 James Robson: Package for Tobias Beecher.

      Vernon 'Vern' Schillinger: Shit. Officer Howell! You'd better get over here!

      Officer Claire Howell: What the fuck is that?

      Vernon 'Vern' Schillinger: A child's hand.

      [cut to Beecher bawling loudly in his pod]

    • Connections
      Referenced in Scrubs: My White Whale (2003)

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    • Release date
      • August 2, 2000 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production companies
      • Rysher Entertainment
      • The Levinson / Fontana Company
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    • Runtime
      • 56m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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