Tobias Beecher is a main character on the television show Oz, played by Lee Tergesen. He is one of only eight regular characters (both prisoners and guards) to survive the entire run of the show. The others are Bob Rebadow, Ryan O'Reily, Miguel Alvarez, Arnold "Poet" Jackson, Sister Peter Marie Reimondo, Tim McManus and Dr. Gloria Nathan. Character overview Beecher, a successful attorney and family man, is an alcoholic who hits and kills a nine-year-old girl while driving drunk. He is offered a plea bargain that would have allowed him to serve his sentence in a minimum security prison, but Beecher, not wanting to do any time at all, instead goes to trial seeking an acquittal. The effort fails and the judge, a family friend of the Beechers, decides to make an example of him and sentences him to 15 years in the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary ("Oz") with a chance for parole after four. Beecher's personal transformation forms a major part of the show's drama. Arriving in Oz without any street skills and having a naturally timid personality, he becomes an easy target for abuse and is hardened by his experiences. He later remarks that, in Oz, he "became the man he always was and never knew". Despite having done terrible things while in Oz, Beecher often tries to atone. Season 1 Beecher quickly learns that he is out of his element when he witnesses fellow arrival Miguel Alvarez (Kirk Acevedo) getting shanked right before entering Cell Block E, or "Emerald City." He is roomed with monstrous inmate Simon Adebisi (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) during his first week in the titular facility. Approaching him in friendship, inmate Vernon Schillinger (J.K. Simmons) offers to be his new cellmate. Beecher, completely unaware that Schillinger is the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, naively accepts the offer, only to be "initiated" into prison life when Schillinger rapes him and burns a swastika onto his right buttock. Beecher is routinely abused as the Brotherhood's sex slave, or "prag". In attempting to deal with the trauma, Beecher starts using heroin and develops an addiction. This is quickly noticed by prison psychologist Sister Peter Marie Reimondo (Rita Moreno), who arranges for Beecher to attend group drug counseling. In preparation for a prison talent show, Schillinger has Beecher get a "makeover" from one of Em City's drag queens. At the show, Beecher sings a rendition of "I Got It