Lionel Kelsch

Lionel Kelsch is a fictional character at HBO drama Oz, played by Tom Hoty. He appears in only a few episodes in the series' sixth season, where he is involved in the conspiracy to kill the city's incarcerated Mayor, Wilson Loewen, as well as the prisons warden, Leo Glynn. (As ordered by Governor James Devlin by proxy)

Character Overview

"Prisoner 97K186, Lionel Kelsch."

Lionel Kelsch has been convicted in 1997, but participates only in 2003, when CO Adrian Johnson pays him to kill Willy Brandt and Leo Glynn.

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Mayor Wilson Loewen participation in a series of racially motivated crimes is made public, and he is eventually convicted in a series of racists homicides. Loewen is a good friend of Governor James Devlin, but, while in the hospital, blackmails the governor into taking him out of Oz or he will talk to the public about crimes committed by Devlin. Affraid, Devlin asks his assistant, Perry Loftus to kill Loewen. Loftus asks CO Adrian Johnson, his college friend, to kill Loewen. Johnson pays inmates Willy Brandt and Lionel Kelsch to kill Loewen in the hospital. During the night, Kelsch starts yelling. As everyone is distracted with him, Brandt enters Loewen's bedroom and slices Loewen's throat. Then, Glynn interrogates Brandt, who talks about Loftus. Glynn starts asking questions to Johnson and Loftus, who asks Johnson to kill Glynn and Brandt. In the next morning, Brandt is dead. In the other day, during a ward at Oz, Kelsch stabbs Glynn to death. Then, Henry Stanton tells Tim McManus that Kelsch is telling everyone that he killed Glynn. Kelsch is moved to the solitary and McManus tells him that the COs are angry because of Glynn's homicide and maybe they forget delivering food to Kelsch. Kelsch finally tells McManus that CO Johnson hired him.