Cyril O'Reily
Season 5
### Season 5

Ryan's birth mother Suzanne Fitzgerald turned herself in after being on the run with a radical group for more than 30 years. Governor Devlin however reduces her charges to 2 years of community service at Oz where she can see Ryan and Cyril. While Cyril was in Protective Custody, it was determined that he and Ryan were half\-siblings with different mothers but Ryan and Suzanne keep this secret from him. They enjoy seeing her on a daily basis but this is short lived when [Jia Kenmin](/wiki/Jia_Kenmin "Jia Kenmin") and new Asian inmate [Li Chen](/wiki/Li_Chen_%28Oz%29 "Li Chen (Oz)") attend some of the performing arts classes. Jia offers peace to the two of them which Cyril accepts but Ryan remains cautious about. In an attempt to set up the O'Reily brothers, Kenmin pays inmate [Glen Shupe](/wiki/Glen_Shupe "Glen Shupe") to tell Ryan that Chen plans to rape Suzanne and as a result, he and Cyril attack Jia. Cyril picks up a knife from the two Asians during the fight and stabs Li Chen to death defending Ryan. Furious, [Tim McManus](/wiki/Tim_McManus "Tim McManus") sends Ryan to the cage and Cyril to solitary but not before stating that Cyril will either be sent to the insane asylum or death row as he is growing tired of Cyril's behavior. As Ryan is in the common room cage, Kenmin informs him it was a set up in order to eliminate the two brothers. 
On trial for murder, Cyril is represented by [Katherine McClain](/wiki/Katherine_McClain "Katherine McClain") who claims that she will do everything she can for Cyril but does not seem to be the best lawyer for this case. In a meeting with other family members to raise money for a better lawyer, Ryan, their Aunt Brenda, Suzanne, and abusive father Seamus decide that Cyril is better off dying than staying the rest of his life in Oz or a mental institution. A new inmate, [Father Daniel Meehan](/wiki/Daniel_Meehan "Daniel Meehan"), offers to help and riles up Sister Pete and some anti\-death penalty activists to protest that sentencing a man in Cyril's mental state to death is cruel and unusual. Meanwhile, Ryan exacts revenge by getting the Latinos to injure [Glen Shupe](/wiki/Glen_Shupe "Glen Shupe") and manipulating the COs to kill [Jia Kenmin](/wiki/Jia_Kenmin "Jia Kenmin"). Cyril's trial does not go well and he is found guilty of murder in the first degree. When being transferred to Death Row, Cyril attacks Officer [Len Lopresti](/wiki/Len_Lopresti "Len Lopresti") and is then sedated by three additional COs. After a long talk with Father Meehan, Ryan finally agrees to protest Cyril's death by any means necessary.


What was Suzanne Fitzgerald's involvement with a radical group?