This episode has Byers and Jimmy going undercover as inmates to try and prove that a false conviction was the result of a conspiracy.

First post-episode post! Yippee! What could i say about this epsiode except it certianly didn't turn out like I expected. I actually expected the guy they were sent in after to be innocent and all that cliched stuff. The twist was certainly interesting though.

And how about that outfit huh? *wink wink*

I was disapointed that no one made an Oz reference.

Brian, funny you mentioned Oz references. If you watch "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", there are at least five guests from OZ so far that I can remember who've been on L&O:SVU as guests, except for regular cast member Chris Meloni, who plays Det. Elliot Stabler. On OZ he's Chris Keller. The guests from Oz were JK Simmons (Vern Schillinger), as a child psychologist, Kristin Rohde (Oz's Claire Howell, Corrections Officer), Lance Reddick (Johnny Basil, aka Desmond Mobay, who got hooked on heroin in Oz, and threw a guy down an elevator shaft), Philip Casnoff (the Russian, Nikolai Stanislofsky) and I forget the last one at the moment, ever after I looked on HBO.com}.

One of my least favorite episodes--I don't know why. Sure, it was predictable (oooh, the lawyer--how do these paranoid guys get through life if they can't even identify a crooked lawyer on sight?) and hackneyed (Langly was making a self-reference, but it IS true).

Still, it did have whiffs of things to like and potential (I thought the prison was going to be more surrealistic, especially at the beginning; the guy who loves cockroaches; the lisping killer; the fact that the guy really DID do it [which they spoiled by having another guy NOT do it]; and the whole first act). So, chalk this one as a nice try.

Great line:"And none of you thought of going
in as a prison guard,his lawyer or a relative?"

Byers goes through a lot of trouble just to get
close to Pfeiffer only to discover he really IS
guilty.Talk about taking one for the cause!

Ok,so how many people out there really care
THAT much about injured cockroaches?

DAD GUM FRICKIN BASEBALL GAMES...

forgive my rant but I just sat down to watch "Maximum Byers" and much to my dismay, it was pre-empted by a DAD GUM FRICKIN BASEBALL GAME. I did however get to see the last half. Dunno how Jimmy was able to smuggle in that little eye/earpiece.

Wasn't the dude that was in the infirmary with Byers on an episode of the X-Files?

speakin of the infirmary... they're healing him so he'll be all nice and well FOR HIS EXECUTION? Do they still sterilize the needles for lethal injection and rub your arm with alcohol too?

? Do they still sterilize the needles for lethal injection and rub your arm with alcohol too?

Yep, that's one of life's imponderables... "Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injection?"

Actually, they do it in case the Governor calls. That way, if the guy gets a reprieve, he doesn't get an infection from the I.V. Same thing with the healing in the infirmary. Until they open the "valve" and let the stuff flow, the guy can get a reprieve.

Well, the African American convict (the roach guy) was clearly a parody of John Coffe from The Green Mile. Nice mention of The A-Team and The Jeffersons.

Wow, I guess Pfeiffer comes from a family that just can't seem to stay on the good side of the law. Either that guy who blew up the bank a few times then accidentally shot his girlfriend in "Monday" is a look-alike relative or they're doing that nature makes copies after a while theory from that X-Files ep with the twins who created chaos. Now there's a run-on sentence if I ever saw one.