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Whatcha reading? Mein Kampf? I'll tell you how it ends: The Nazis get their asses kicked.
~ Tobias Beecher provoking Vernon Schillinger.
You hate the law? Well, I love the it. I love the law, even if it didn't turn out in my favor. You know why I love the laws we have in this state? Because it keeps people like Schillinger, Adebisi and Hernandez away from my kids.
~ Tobias Beecher to Kareem Said.
I prefer to be happy, but self-hate will do in a pinch.
~ Tobias Beecher to Kareem Said

Tobias Beecher is the main protagonist of the TV show Oz. Though often depicted as the "good guy" and one of the better people in prison, he still does his fair share of morally reprehensible things throughout the series.

He is portrayed by Lee Tergesen, who also portrayed Chet Donnelly in the TV series Weird Science, Joe Owens in the TV series The Purge, Dale Schrader in Criminal Minds, Billy Skags in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Richard Beck in Chicago P.D., and George Pissedofferson in The Boondocks.

Biography[]

Season 1[]

Beecher is a wealthy, well-respected lawyer and family man, but also an alcoholic. Beecher is sent to Oz for vehicular manslaughter after accidentally running over a young girl with his car while driving drunk.

The privileged, white collar Beecher is immediately out of his depth in Oz, and is almost raped by gangster Simon Adebisi. He is "saved" by Aryan Brotherhood leader Vernon Schillinger, who tells him to ask unit manager Tim McManus to transfer him to his cell. When Beecher does so, Schillinger shows his true colors and makes Beecher his sex slave and whipping boy, subjecting him to repeated rapes and severe humiliation, such as making him loudly beg permission to have a conjugal visit with his wife.

Beecher develops a friendship with inmate Ryan O'Reily after agreeing to try to help him appeal his case, and O'Reily tries to help him cope with Schillinger's abuse by supplying him with marijuana. When Beecher talks about the impending execution of Jefferson Keane with O'Reily, he realises O'Reily set Keane up by sending the man he killed to attack him. Beecher states Keane shouldn't be executed if it was self-defense, but O'Reily threatens Beecher into silence.

When Schillinger finds Beecher in the library reading up on the death penalty, he realises he's trying to help Keane. As punishment, Schillinger makes Beecher eat pages out of the law book he was reading. After Keane is executed, Beecher feels guilty about failing to save him and begins shooting heroin, supplied by O'Reily, in order to numb the pain. Meanwhile, Schillinger humiliates Beecher by making him wear women's makeup and perform in the prison talent show.

Schillinger eventually grows tired of Beecher and tries to get him killed by making him wear a t-shirt with the Confederate flag on it. Beecher runs to O'Reily's cell and asks him for help. O'Reily supplies Beecher with PCP to "calm his nerves". Under the influence of the drug, Beecher throws a chair at Schillinger's cell, temporarily blinding him when shattered glass gets in his eye.

After being released from solitary confinement, Beecher gets further revenge on Schillinger by attacking him in the gym and defecating on him. This gains him the respect of O'Reily, Miguel Alvarez and even Adebesi.

When a riot erupts in Oz, Beecher is put in charge of guarding the hostages by O'Reily. He also gives O'Reily his protection from the Muslims when they attack his friend.

Season 2[]

Beecher is forced to share a cell with James Robson, Schillinger's right-hand man. Robson attempts to force Beecher to perform oral sex on him. Beecher seems to comply but then bites the tip off of Robson's penis. He is briefly sent to Solitary Confinement.

Beecher repeatedly taunts Schillinger, threatening to ruin his chances for parole. Schillinger then tries to blackmail guard Dianne Whittlesly into killing Beecher, but it is revealed that Whittlesy had set Schillinger up and that Beecher knew he'd try to have him killed. This results not only in Schillinger losing his parole but getting 10 years added to his sentence as well.

Beecher gets a new cellmate, Chris Keller, and the two bond after Beecher saves him from being beat up by Aryan member Mark Mack. When Beecher's wife commits suicide, he turns to Keller for comfort and realizes he is in love with him. Keller - who is secretly working with Schillinger - tries to tempt Beecher to drink, but Beecher refuses to break his sobriety.

Schillinger arranges for Keller to get himself sent to solitary confinement so that Beecher will turn to drink in his absence. When he is caught, he refuses to implicate Keller.

Beecher contributes to the fund to send Bob Rebadow's dying grandson to Disney World.

When guard Karl Metzger, a neo-Nazi, brings Beecher to the gym, he sees Schillinger and Keller, who taunt him about the betrayal. Keller, Metzger and Schillinger then break his arms and legs.

Season 3[]

Keller realises his feelings for Beecher have become real and asks for his forgiveness, but Beecher refuses unless Keller informs on Metzger and Schillinger. After Keller goes to confess, Metzger tries to kill Beecher, who then kills him in self-defense.

Beecher still withholds forgiveness from Keller and attacks him in the gym. Initially, Keller assumes Schillinger was behind the attack but Beecher would later tell him the truth and taunt him over it.

When Schillinger's son and fellow Aryan Andrew arrives in Oz, Beecher gets back at Schillinger by manipulating McManus to let him share a cell with him. Andrew comes to like Beecher and renounces his father and his beliefs, leading Schillinger to arrange for him to overdose on heroin. Andrew's death is revealed to have been Beecher's intention the whole time with Keller and O'Reily as his co-conspirators. Beecher is the only one of the three to show remorse for what happened to Andy.

He gets advice from Muslim leader Kareem Said, who advises him to forgive both Schillinger and Keller. Beecher approaches Schillinger in the gym and offers to help him find his missing son, Hank. Schillinger is infuriated by this and tries to kill Beecher, but he is saved by Keller's interference. Beecher forgives Keller and has McManus transfer him back to his cell.

Season 4[]

Beecher tries to make peace with Schillinger by having his father hire a private investigator to find Hank. Schillinger discovers Beecher was behind the visit but thinks Beecher is messing with him and pays Hank to kidnap Beecher's son Gary and daughter Holly. Schillinger has Hank kill Gary and mail the boy's severed hand to Beecher.

Schillinger pays another inmate to tell Beecher that Keller was behind the kidnapping. This leads to Beecher making an attempt on Keller's life, causing another rift in the relationship. Father Ray Mukada speaks with Schillinger and gets him to release Beecher's daughter by making him realise Beecher really was trying to help him when he reunited him with Hank.

After Beecher discovers the Schillinger family was behind Gary's death, he tries to apologize to Keller, who refuses to forgive him. After this Beecher has sex with Mondo Brown and Nate Shemin out of spite.

When Hank is found innocent of murder due to a technicality, Beecher arranges a hit on him through mobster Chucky Pancamo. After talking with Said he decides it will just lead to more pointless bloodshed and tries to call the hit off, but he is too late.

When Keller's old friend Ronnie Barlog is sent to Oz Beecher discovers he is working for the FBI and trying to set Keller up for a death sentence. Despite their feuding Beecher tells Keller about this who then kills Barlog. Beecher never shows any guilt or remorse about his part in Barlog's death.

After Hank's body is found, Schillinger realises Beecher was behind his son's death. He arranges for Beecher's brother Angus to be stabbed and tells Robson he plans to kill Beecher's entire family. Keller saves Beecher by falsely confessing to ordering the hit on Hank. Schillinger assures Beecher that his family is safe and says he wants to believe in something other than hate. He tells Beecher he is sorry for Gary's death, and Beecher expresses the same remorse for Hank's death.

After Beecher's parole is denied, he is attacked by Schillinger and Robson. Said intervenes to defend Beecher and almost kills both of his assailants.

Season 5[]

Keller is implicated for several murders he committed before he was sent to Oz and is put in death row.

When a family friend, Adam Guenzel, is put in Oz for rape, Beecher tries to protect him from being raped by the Aryans. At first he asks Said's help in keeping Gunzel safe but he refuses. Beecher gets Pancamo's assistance, as he hates Schillinger.

Schillinger has his new sex slave, Guenzel's former fraternity brother and fellow rapist Franklin Winthrop, inform the homophobic Guenzel about Beecher's sexual encounters with other men. A disgusted Gunzel then turns on Beecher.

Schillinger then offers to give Beecher a job in the mailroom(which would allow him to see Keller on death row) if he retracts his protection for Gunzel but he refuses. However Beecher changes his mind after Gunzel attacks him and gets Guenzel transferred to Unit.B, where he is raped by Schillinger and other Aryans. Beecher, stricken with guilt, asks prison psychiatrist "Sister Pete" Raimondo to talk to Guenzel. After Schillinger sets Guenzel up to die. Beecher feels even worse and rats on Schillinger in an effort to spare Winthrop the same fate.

Season 6[]

Beecher is transferred to Unit. J for his own safety. He is able to make parole without interference from the Brotherhood after he saves the life of Schillinger's father figure, Mayor Wilson Lowen, when he stops him from choking on his own food.

Beecher shows his gratitude to Keller by using his legal knowledge to help him escape death row. Soon afterward, however, a lonely Keller manipulates Beecher into getting sent back to Oz by telling him that his ex-wife needs illegal medicine and then giving the cops an anonymous tip. Beecher realises Keller set him up and refuses to have anything to do with him. To try to earn his forgiveness, Keller engineers Schillinger's death by giving Beecher a real knife instead of a prop during the prison production of Macbeth, resulting in Beecher, who is playing MacDuff, to stab Schillinger, who is playing the title role, to death.

Beecher tells Keller he will never take him back. Keller then commits suicide by throwing himself backwards over a railing and breaking his neck. On his way down, he yells "Beecher don't." in order to implicate Beecher in his death. In the series finale, Beecher is then transferred to a different holding facility, presumably to death row, to await trial for first degree murder. While he awaits transfer in a prison bus, he watches the prison be evacuated during a suspected anthrax attack, and realizes that Keller was responsible. He is last seen smiling to himself as he is transferred.

Personality (To Be Added).[]

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Navigation[]

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Main Characters
Tobias Beecher | Vernon Schillinger | Ryan O'Reily | Bob Rebadow | Kareem Said | Miguel Alvarez | Cyril O'Reily | Chris Keller | Simon Adebisi | Arnold "Poet" Jackson | Kenny Wangler | James Robson | Shirley Bellinger

Other Inmates
Mark Mack | Mark Miles | Scott Ross | Jaz Hoyt | Jim Burns | Robert Sippel | Jefferson Keane | Jackson Vahue | Junior Pierce | Malcolm Coyle | Supreme Allah | Mondo Browne | Leroy Tidd | Moses Deyell | Reggie Rawls | Timmy Kirk | Padraig Connolly | Seamus O'Reily | Nino Schibetta | Dino Ortolani | Peter Schibetta | Antonio Nappa | Carmen "Chico" Guerra | Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez | Carlo Ricardo | Enrique Morales | Carlos Martinez | Donald Groves | Richard L'Italien | Jiggy Walker | Guillaume Tarrant

Prison Staff
Leo Glynn | Lenny Burrano | Karl Metzger | Clayton Hughes | Claire Howell | Martin Querns

Others
James Devlin | Heinrick Schillinger | Hank Schillinger

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