When Cyril arrives in Oz he is put in Unit B, where he is approached by Aryan leader Vernon Schillinger, who promises to take Cyril to see Ryan. Nathan and Unit Manager Tim McManus know that Ryan is responsible and demand that he confess, but Ryan says nothing and Cyril arrives in Oz. Although Cyril is mentally disabled, he knows enough not to implicate Ryan in the crime as he worships his brother. Cyril does as he's told, and is sentenced to life in prison. Ryan feels that the only thing preventing a potential relationship with her is her husband, Preston, so he asks Cyril to murder him.

Gloria Nathan, the prison doctor who helped save his life. After recovering, Ryan falls in love with Dr. Cyril is upset because their mother had died of cancer. He first appears when Ryan has surgery for breast cancer. Although Cyril is normally placid, he is prone to violent attacks on people when enraged, often showing great strength, which has earned him the resentment, but also the respect, of many inmates.įictional history Season 2 Ĭyril O'Reily is the mentally handicapped brother of Ryan O'Reily, an Irish American sociopath serving time in Oz. In the last season of the show, Cyril is executed despite Ryan's multiple attempts to save his brother, and despite Cyril's intellectual disability.

After Schillinger rapes Cyril, however, Ryan gets his brother transferred to his own cell. Arriving in prison, Cyril is originally housed with Vernon Schillinger, head of the Aryan Brotherhood. Gloria Nathan on orders from his brother, who is in love with Dr.

In the second season of Oz, Cyril murders the husband of Dr. Cyril was Ryan's lieutenant and bodyguard in the Bridge Street Gang until he was injured in a fight, suffering brain damage. Convicted in 2002 of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death.'Ĭyril was a hoodlum like his brother Ryan (who is actually his half-brother, as was revealed by Suzanne Fitzgerald). Sentence: Life imprisonment, up for parole in 60 years. He is also mentioned in the companion book Oz: Behind These Walls: The Journal of Augustus Hill. Cyril O'Reily is a fictional character, played by American actor Scott William Winters, on the HBO drama Oz.

Cyril & Methodius by Jerry McCollough