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'''Robert 'Bob' Rebadow''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[television series]] ''[[Oz (TV series)|Oz]]'' played by [[George Morfogen]], a drama series on [[HBO]] that portrays a maximum security prison and follows the lives of the inmates in the prison. He is the oldest inmate on the show and a member of "The Others", the group in Oz which generally stays away from trouble, unlike the other groups in Oz. If Rebadow does cause trouble, it is likely because he was following someone else. |
'''Robert 'Bob' Rebadow''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[television series]] ''[[Oz (TV series)|Oz]]'' played by [[George Morfogen]], a drama series on [[HBO]] that portrays a maximum security prison and follows the lives of the inmates in the prison. He is the oldest inmate on the show and a member of "The Others", the group in Oz which generally stays away from trouble, unlike the other groups in Oz. If Rebadow does cause trouble, it is likely because he was following someone else. |
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Rebadow was a successful young architect sometime in the mid-1960s. With a child on the way, he was planning a large-scale architectural project. The building manager disliked Rebadow's plans for the building and exploded at Rebadow, crumpling the plans up and throwing them in Rebadow's face; the enraged Rebadow snapped and stabbed the building manager to death. In spite of the abrupt nature of the crime, Rebadow was still convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by the electric chair. During Rebadow's execution, there was a power surge (attributed to the Great [[Northeast Blackout of 1965]]); the execution was botched and Rebadow was admitted to the medical unit for the injuries he sustained during the botched electrocution. During his stay, the death penalty was abolished and his sentence was commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Following Rebadow's release back into general population, he began claiming that he now received regular visits from God. Although written off as insane, Rebadow now possesses an uncanny ability to know everything going on in Oz, and in some instances even knows private details about prisoner's lives without having been told them. |
Rebadow was a successful young architect sometime in the mid-1960s. With a child on the way, he was planning a large-scale architectural project. The building manager disliked Rebadow's plans for the building and exploded at Rebadow, crumpling the plans up and throwing them in Rebadow's face; the enraged Rebadow snapped and stabbed the building manager to death. In spite of the abrupt nature of the crime, Rebadow was still convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by the electric chair. During Rebadow's execution, there was a power surge (attributed to the Great [[Northeast Blackout of 1965]]); the execution was botched and Rebadow was admitted to the medical unit for the injuries he sustained during the botched electrocution. During his stay, the death penalty was abolished and his sentence was commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Following Rebadow's release back into general population, he began claiming that he now received regular visits from God. Although written off as insane, Rebadow now possesses an uncanny ability to know everything going on in Oz, and in some instances even knows private details about prisoner's lives without having been told them. |
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Revision as of 19:12, 5 December 2006
Robert 'Bob' Rebadow is a fictional character from the television series Oz played by George Morfogen, a drama series on HBO that portrays a maximum security prison and follows the lives of the inmates in the prison. He is the oldest inmate on the show and a member of "The Others", the group in Oz which generally stays away from trouble, unlike the other groups in Oz. If Rebadow does cause trouble, it is likely because he was following someone else.
Background
Template:Spoiler Rebadow was a successful young architect sometime in the mid-1960s. With a child on the way, he was planning a large-scale architectural project. The building manager disliked Rebadow's plans for the building and exploded at Rebadow, crumpling the plans up and throwing them in Rebadow's face; the enraged Rebadow snapped and stabbed the building manager to death. In spite of the abrupt nature of the crime, Rebadow was still convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by the electric chair. During Rebadow's execution, there was a power surge (attributed to the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965); the execution was botched and Rebadow was admitted to the medical unit for the injuries he sustained during the botched electrocution. During his stay, the death penalty was abolished and his sentence was commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Following Rebadow's release back into general population, he began claiming that he now received regular visits from God. Although written off as insane, Rebadow now possesses an uncanny ability to know everything going on in Oz, and in some instances even knows private details about prisoner's lives without having been told them.
Season 1
In season 1, Rebadow is one of the 60 inmates let into Emerald City, an experimental cell block in the Oswald Prison. Rebadow spends his time listening to what "God" has told him and seems to know all of the events occurring in Oz ambiguously proving his supposed theory on what God has told him. Rebadow knows so much that the COs threaten him to expose him for his knowledge over the murder of inmate Jefferson Keane. Later Rebadow is attacked by young inmate Kenny Wangler, a move that angers Unit Manager Tim McManus. When a riot led by Muslim inmate Kareem Said breaks out, Rebadow stays low avoiding the COs wrath in the recapturing of Em City.
Season 2
As the inmates are moved to Gen Pop, Rebadow rooms with Tobias Beecher in James Robson's cell as Alvah Case investigates the riot aftermath. As Em City is reopened, Bob and three other inmates form the group "The Others"" as designated by Tim McManus. While in Em City, Rebadow becomes cell mates with Agamemnon Busmalis, and the two form a friendship, possibly because they are both much older than the typical Oz inmate. Busmalis is known for digging tunnels, and begins to dig in their cell. Rebadow also receives news that his grandson Alex Jr. is dying of Leukemia and his dying wish is to visit Disney Land. At the suggestion of Biker inmate Jaz Hoyt almost every inmate group donates to send Alex Jr. to his destination to the point that Rebadow's family can afford to send him. Later two Aryans find out about the tunnel and take the cell from Rebadow and Busmalis courtesy of CO Karl Metzger. Under Rebadow's orders, the tunnel collapses and kills the two escaping Aryans and Busmalis and Rebadow get off as McManus deems them as being threatened and non-violent, unable to maliciously cause harm to the bullying younger inmates.
Season 4
In season 4 Rebadow apparently goes insane; seemingly apropos of nothing, he enteres into an alliance with new Latino inmate Enrique Morales and murders Latino head Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez. In exchange for the murder, Rebadow requests that Morales grant him the authority to committ another murder (Morales doesn't have anyone else he needs killed and he doesn't understand what does it even mean to give authority to kill people he doesn't need killed, but he agrees to give him protection - whatever that means). That day during lunch, Rebadow has visions of machine-gunning the entire populace of Oz to death; later that night, Rebadow attempts to murder his cell mate Busmalis. In the aftermath of the attempted murder, a physical exam of Rebadow revealed a brain tumor affection the region of the brain which controls aggression. Once it was removed, Rebadow returned to his old self.