Augustus Hill
| Augustus Hill | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | "The Routine" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Exeunt Omnes" (episode 6.08) |
| Portrayed by | Harold Perrineau |
Augustus Hill is a fictional character, played by Harold Perrineau on the American television show Oz, serving as the show's narrator.
Prisoner #95H522. Convicted November 6, 1995 - Possession of illegal substances, murder in the second degree. Sentence: Life imprisonment, up for parole in 20 years.
Mentored by his godfather Burr Redding, Hill has been selling and using drugs since his teenage years. In 1995, a SWAT team came after him on a drug warrant on a tip from a friend named Kevin Ketchum, who gave up Hill's location to avoid going to jail on an old warrant himself (this wasn't revealed until the fourth season of the show). The details of his capture are revealed in the second episode of the show. The SWAT team busted Hill's apartment door down while he and his wife were having sex. He escaped out the window and raced up to the roof. Cornered there, Hill shot and killed one of the SWAT officers. In retaliation, he was thrown off the roof by another cop and was left paralyzed from the waist down.
In prison, he remains a neutral figure until Redding shows up and takes charge of the black inmates. As Hill uses a wheelchair and is not associated with any gang members, he remains one of the more consistently decent characters on the show, struggling to avoid moral compromises while staying alive in the dangerous world of Oswald Maximum Security Prison. In the fifth season finale, Hill accidentally sacrifices himself to save Burr Redding from the Italian inmates, although he continues to show up in narration segments.
Hill is one of the inmates let into Emerald City. A wheelchair user, he poses no threat to any inmate or guard and remains a neutral figure, getting along with everyone for the most part. In Em City, he works in the dress factory with inmates such as Bob Rebadow and Tobias Beecher. Hill does not really like Beecher, as he was a lawyer on the outside, a profession Hill despises. When conjugal visits are allowed, Hill sleeps with his wife Annabella for the last time. Being paraplegic, he has no sensation below his waist so he cannot experience the pleasure received during sex. When Simon Adebisi asks him why he even wants to have sex with his wife without sensation, Hill claims it is all for her.
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