OZ Season 6 Episode 8

Busmalis's Lawyer from the Alliance for Prisoners Rights, Noel Behn, is named after a writer friend of Tom Fontana. The real Noel Behn was a writer who wrote several episodes of Homicide:Life on the Street. He passed away in 1999 and the Oz episode Napoleon's Boney Parts is dedicated to his memory.

Hill: Peace...

The final words spoken on Oz.

There was some footage of this episode that didn't make it to the final airing, but is on the extended cut on the DVD. One scene involves Seroy forcing Robson to have sex with him. It turns out Robson let this happen so that Seroy could get AIDS. Then, he tells both Schillinger and Seroy that he's HIV positive (Seroy hits him in the face out of anger) and taunt Schillinger with his blood,laughing as he moves to Unit F (The AIDS ward). Another scene is after Busmalis is sent to the hole, Murphy goes to Rebadow and tells him about his new cellmate, but Rebadow doesn't care since he's had so many cellmates, he doesn't even remember them. Hell, he says he may not remember Busmalis in a couple of years. Another scene is after Beecher confesses to Sister Pete what his options are of turning Keller in, he goes to the maze and thinks about what to do. The last one is Ryan O'Reily thanking Naema for setting up the pod banging in "A Day In The Death..." If this footage made the final version, the last episode would've been better.

An interesting footnote to the Torquemada/Miguel plotline is that Bobby Cannavale previously played a character named Bobby on the NBC dramatic series Third Watch. Kirk Acevedo guest-starred as a childhood friend of his who directly led to Bobby's death. Since Miguel basically gave his life over to Torquemada, you could say that this was Bobby's revenge.