To sum up the complex finale storylines:

Two new drug peddlers arrive in Oz and try to scrape out a market between the Sicilians and the homeboys, with two different results. Who's side is Keller really on? he pledges loyalty to both Beecher and Schillinger, with a kiss for each. McManus has one last chance to save Omar. Ryan keeps faith as Cyril's execution nears. Alvarez tries to right wrongs and keep in the straight life. Glynn continues digging into the web of the Mayors murder, but his investigation will come to an end, one way or another.

Keller is rejected by Beecher and strikes up an alliance with Schillinger. Idzik is transferred to Em City, where he has an unusual request for Omar. Glynn gets closer to who murdered Mayor Loewen as the feds seem to lose interest. One of the infirmary staff has a suspicious record of deaths. Cutler's widow visits Alvarez again. Redding has a plan to get the homeboys out of bookbinding and back under his control. Cyril's execution is set for today... will he get a reprieve?

Cyril's execution date approaches, while Hoyt is ruled insane and is prepped to be sent to the institution. The Muslims struggle to cope without Said and to run his bookbinding business. Alvarez is bewildered to discover Cutler left him all his possessions. Robson rejoins the Brotherhood. Glynn investigates the murder of the Mayor. Busmalis visits Norma and the baby and they get engaged... again. Keller betrays Beecher to bring him back to Oz.

Ryan despairs about Cyril unsuccesful appeal as a friend from Suzanne's radical days arrives in Oz. Beecher returns to Oz as a visitor and get's Keller off Death Row. Arif reluctantly takes control of the Muslims and the bookbinding buisness as Burr has troubles of his own keeping the homeboys in telemarketing. Martinez didn't die of poisoning, he was murdered; Penders threatens to sue about the condirions in solitary and Omar agrees not to, in echange for a ticket back to Em City. Robson thinks up a way to get out of being Cutler's prag.

Beecher leaves Oz. Someone has the Mayor assassinated ... but whom? Cyril begins Electro-convulsive therapy to combat sever depression and schizophrenia. Glynn meets the press about the solitary poisonings. Said attemps to start a bookbinding business and meets with a reporter with a surprise up his sleeve.

Beecher finally gets parole. The reconstruction ends up making the inmates in solitary sick. Telemarketing arrives in Oz, Burr sees it as the perfect alternative to drug slinging and enlists the homeboys. Alvarez tries to make contact with his old girlfriend Maritza. Schiabetta tries to curse the O'Reily's, but Ryan has powers of his own.

Augustus wrote memoirs before he died, and McManus gives them to Said and a regretful Redding. Suzanne proposes a production of MacBeth instead of a talent show, Meehan gets the role before dying of natural causes. The Mayor goes on trial for a racially motivated double murder and racial tensions rise. Alvarez and Guerra try make peace after Alvarez. Schillinger and Stanton are released from solitary. Winthrop gets out of being a prag and into the brotherhood by killing Beecher's father.