| Junior Pierce | |
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| First appearance | "Great Men" (episode 2.03) |
| Last appearance | "A Cock and Balls Story" (episode 4.01) |
| Reason/Cause | Murdered by Guillaume Tarrant |
| Details | |
| Prisoner No. | 98F498 |
| Aliases | None |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 21 (Deceased) |
| Date of Conviction | Sometime in 1998 |
| Date of Death | July 12, 2000 |
| Affiliations | The Homeboys |
| Spouse | Unspecified |
| Relatives | Unspecified |
| Kill Count | 0 |
| Episode Count | 10 Episodes |
| Portrayed by | Malé "Baby / Big X" Alexander |
Junior Pierce was an Moorish African-American inmate featured in Oz. Portrayed by Malé-Lexington Alexander.
Plot Summary[]
Season 2[]
Pierce is seen as a background prisoner hanging around Wangler and Simon Adebisi. When Adebisi snorts too much heroin after getting his heart broken, Pierce is concerned about Adebisi taking away their profits. When Sicilian Mafia inmate, Antonio Nappa comes to Oz and slows down Adebisi, Pierce, who hates the mobsters, encourages Wangler and Adebisi to go to war. The Homeboys have their drugs stolen by the Sicilians when Adebisi is being advised by an elderly African inmate named Kipekemie Jara, and they are then told by Nappa that they can be partners in the drug trade if they whack Jara.
Wangler stabs Jara to death and has Pierce dispose of the evidence by cleaning the knife. The shock of Jara's death causes Adebisi to lose his mind. He is also blamed by the Homeboys and the correctional officers for killing Jara, so he is sent to the psych ward. Poet also comes back to Oz. With the support of Pierce and Poet, Wangler takes control of the Homeboys and the drug trade with the Wiseguys, leaving Adebisi out of the loop.
Season 3[]
A new inmate, Malcolm Coyle, arrives and is tested out by the Homeboys on Nappa's orders. While he gains the confidence of the Homeboys, Nappa does not trust him enough to keep him around in the prison kitchen. When inmate Augustus Hill testifies against Coyle, Pierce and Wangler are ready to get revenge, but Kareem Said has the Muslims, Sicilians, Latinos and even the Aryan Brotherhood ready to defend Hill from the Homeboys.
In the meantime, Adebisi has been released from the psych ward and Pierce is wary of what will happen. He states that the Homeboys need to eliminate him, but Nappa has ordered them to stand back for the moment. Nappa then goes to the AIDS ward courtesy of Adebisi stabbing him with an AIDS-infected needle and Chucky Pancamo takes over the Sicilians. Meanwhile, Wangler's girlfriend is cheating on him with a man whom he hates and Pierce sets up the execution of the two of them without Wangler being suspected of the murder. Wangler's girlfriend and her lover are both killed and Wangler briefly leaves Oz to attend his girlfriend’s funeral.
With Pancamo in control, Adebisi offers to be his business partner and pledges that he will take down Wangler, Poet, and Pierce to take their spot in the drug trade. Adebisi then gets assistance from the Latinos led by Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez to take down Poet and Pierce while Wangler is gone. Adebisi then burns the two of them with hot soup and gets them sent to the hospital until the last episode of the season.
When they are released, they have burn marks that have temporarily destroyed their skin pigmentation, making it appear whiter than it actually is. Poet, upon seeing his white skin, remarks to Pierce, “I might be able to get a cab now.” They are then transferred out of Em City and into general population in Unit B, where Wangler has also been transferred to. The black inmates as a whole are also organizing to start a riot and when Hill is sent to the isolation ward, Poet, Pierce, Wangler and all the other black inmates, Muslims and Homeboys, start repeatedly yelling "Set Hill Free". The Aryan and Biker inmates, led by Schillinger and James Robson, respond to the black inmates with a repeated chant of "Shut The Fuck Up" as Oz is locked down approaching the millennium. As Oz is locked down, Clayton Hughes, a sympathetic black guard, gives Adebisi a gun.
Season 4[]
The End of Junior Pierce.
The lockdown ends and Wangler, Poet and Pierce for the time being are going with a plan set forth by Adebisi. Because Adebisi intends to make Em City all black, they are agreeing with him temporarily as they hope to live in an all-black cell block. Adebisi proves his sincerity getting the three of them transferred back into Emerald City against the wishes of Tim McManus.
In Em City, Wangler, Poet and Pierce bully a white, French inmate named Guillaume Tarrant. Adebisi sees this and leaves Tarrant his gun inside Tarrant’s cell, as he still needs Wangler to be eliminated by a white man. When Wangler, Poet and Pierce bully Tarrant once again, he pulls out the gun and opens fire on them, killing Wangler, Pierce and a black guard, among others.
Appearances[]
| Episodes | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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| Season 1 | ||||||||
| Season 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Season 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Season 4a | ✓ | |||||||
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| Season 6 |
Kill Count[]
Proxy
- Kipekemie Jara: Stabbed to death by Kenny Wangler, murder assisted by putting the knife in a boiled water pan. (1998)
- Ronnie Smith: Shot to death. Murder ordered from Oz in the request of Kenny Wangler. (1999)
- Laura Wangler: Shot to death. Murder ordered from Oz in the request of Kenny Wangler. (1999)
| The Homeboys |
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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 |