Tobias Beecher

Tobias Beecher is one of the main protagonists of Oz, a TV show taking place in a prison.
He is portrayed by Lee Tergesen.
Out of the protagonists, Beecher is perhaps the most unlucky. Once a respected lawyer from a wealthy family, he accidentally killed a young girl when he was driving drunk. He was sent to Oswalt Prison, known as "Oz" by the other inmates.
The meek, privileged Beecher has no "street smarts", which makes him the perfect target for the other inmates. He quickly becomes Aryan Brotherhood leader Vernon Schillinger's sex slave. After being abused and humiliated in every possible way all through season 1 (and taking drugs to cope with it) Beecher has a mental breakdown, then beats and humiliates Schillinger at his turn.
Most of Beecher's storyline focuses on his conflict with Schillinger, which becomes more and more personal and sadistic. It culminates to the deaths of their sons, despite all Beecher's attempts to make peace with his enemy. Finally, Beecher unintentionally kills Beecher by stabbing him what he thinks is a prop knife during a prison production of Macbeth, in which he is playing Macduff.
Beecher's story also focuses on his love/hate relationship with Chris Keller. Both deeply love each other, but Keller's sociopathy and Beecher's pride takes them into hurting each other for completely childish reasons.
Beecher evolves through his time in prison, and despite his growing violence, or all the tragedy his familly goes through, he never stops to try to be a good, or at least sensible person.
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