Mondo Browne

Raymond "Mondo" Browne
First appearance	"Gray Matter" (episode 4.05)
Last appearance	"You Bet Your Life" (episode 4.08)
Reason/Cause	Murdered by Chris Keller
Details
Prisoner No.	00B563
Aliases	Mondo Browne
Gender	Male
Age	31 (Deceased)
Date of Conviction	April 10, 2000
Date of Death	August 30, 2000
Affiliations	The Homeboys
Children	None
Relatives	None
Kill Count	1
Episode Count	4 Episodes (But was seen before actual 'introduction')
Portrayed by	Gano Grills

Raymond Browne, better known as Mondo Browne, was an African American inmate featured in Oz. Portrayed by Gano Grills.

Life Before Oz

Mondo Browne is a criminal who is sent to Emerald City. Like most characters in Oz, Browne's life on the outside is riddled with mystery. What is known from his flashback is that he either worked as a butcher, worked for a butcher, or knew a butcher. In his flashback, he is seen pulling in what appears to be the skinned torso of a pregnant woman on a butcher rack. Other than that, his outside life is left ambiguous.

After Conviction

"Prisoner number 00B563, Raymond Browne AKA Mondo Browne. Convicted April 10, 2000 - Murder in the first degree. Sentence: 27 years, up for parole in 11."

―The Narrator

Browne's first formal appearance is with his friend, Leroy Tidd. They watch another inmate, Bruno Goergen, exercise, then decide to confront him. Browne provokes Goergen by calling him "white trash", which leads to Goergen calling Browne and Tidd "jive-ass n****s"; they then assault him. As a part of Adebisi's takeover of Em City, Browne and Tidd were both transferred to Em City. As their first action in Em City, they decide to try to orally rape Cyril O'Reily. Tidd trips O’Reily, the other Homeboys circle around to keep a lookout for guards and to block the view and Browne attempts to get O’Reily to give him fellatio, but he completely snaps, attacks his attackers and is able to fend off both Tidd, Browne and the other Homeboys before the Correctional Officers break up the fight. Later, O’Reily’s brother, Ryan, pays a visit to Adebisi to express his outrage towards Tidd and Browne. Adebisi ensures O'Reily that Tidd and Browne won't try anything like that again. In the showers, Browne gets "permission" from Keller to use Beecher for sexual favors, which he does later in the night. Later, Browne gets into a confrontation with a Sicilian Mafia inmate named Don Zanghi, who calls Browne a racial slur, but before a fight can break out, Zanghi is hauled off to solitary by the guards. As Browne and Tidd are playing a game of chess, they are confronted by Supreme Allah, who tells them that they are not selling enough drugs. Tidd then asked Supreme Allah who sold more than them, and Supreme Allah tells them that Desmond Mobay was out-selling them both. They confront Mobay, but he tells them that he isn't afraid of either of them. This causes Browne to attack, but before he can fully act, C.O. Adrian Johnson pulled him back and told him that he is needed for questioning about the murder of Bruno Goergen. Browne insists he knows nothing of Goergen's demise, but he is taken away to be questioned anyhow. During his interrogation, he discovers that the only reason he is there is because of his and Tidd's altercation with Goergen. Browne still insisted that he didn't know who killed Goergen, but he remembered that Mobay was the only one grieving Goergen's death. After his return to Em City, he and Supreme Allah get into an intense stand-off, O'Reily and Keller notice their argument and decide to take advantage of this incident. Later, while Browne waits for a truck shipment, which got a flat tire, Keller shows up and offers to give him oral sex. Browne gladly accepts Keller's offer and successfully seals his own fate. Meanwhile, O'Reily visits Supreme Allah while in the showers, after stating to Supreme Allah how troublesome Browne is, O'Reily steals Supreme Allah’s signature necklace. After Browne accepts Keller’s offer for oral sex, he is killed off-screen by Keller. After Browne is killed, O'Reily places Supreme Allah’s necklace at the crime scene in an effort to frame him for Browne's murder.

After Death

After Browne is killed by Keller, Supreme Allah is taken to a meeting with Querns and Adebisi. They confront Supreme Allah about the murder of Browne. Supreme Allah denies having any involvement in Browne's murder, but is then shown his signature necklace, which was found at the crime scene. Meanwhile, Keller takes the shank he used to kill Browne and places it in Supreme Allah’s cell. As Supreme Allah is shaken down by Adebisi and Querns, Officer Johnson finds the bloody knife in Supreme Allah’s pod, which puts an end to Supreme Allah’s pleads of innocence. Adebisi, upon seeing the murder weapon with generous amounts of Browne's blood still on it, assaults Supreme Allah much to the amusement of Querns. Ultimately Supreme Allah ends up in solitary.

Appearances

Episodes	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
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Season 4b
Season 5
Season 6

Kill Count

Personal

• Unknown Person: Killed then chopped apart and skinned. (2000)

Gallery

Browne able to be seen on the left side as a background character in Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise

Browne as seen in his Crime Flashback

Browne's mugshot

Browne in his brawl with Chucky Pancamo after punching Don Zanghi in the face.

Browne with Poet and Tidd in his beef with Supreme Allah

Raymond Browne's final moments, while with Chris Keller

Trivia

• Despite his date of conviction being in the year 2000, Browne can be seen in the backround a few times during Season 1 of Oz, which takes place in 1997. He may have been in Oz previously for a prior crime and paroled before being convicted of murder
• Browne's nickname, Mondo, may take some inspiration from the mondo film genre. While Mondo is a common nickname for people named Raymond, mondo films usually feature scenes of intense real graphic violence. Browne's crime flashback shows that he skinned a pregnant woman (probably, it's so mutilated that it's hard to tell for sure) and hung her up on a butcher's rack, which may hint at how he earned his nickname.
• Browne is one of three prisoners to introduce himself in his crime flashback. The other two are Augustus Hill and Eli Zabitz.

The Homeboys
Simon Adebisi - Burr Redding - Jefferson Keane - Kenny Wangler - Poet - Junior Pierce - Supreme Allah - Tug Daniels - Leroy Tidd - Mondo Browne - Reggie Rawls - Malcolm Coyle - Paul Markstrom - Desmond Mobay - Johnny Post - Curtis Bennett