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Wishing to keep his mind clear, he refuses to take medication because of the side effects. New Muslim inmate Huseni Mershah's violent nature causes problems for Said. Mershah tries to undermine Said to Arif and the other Muslims. Said has a heart attack. Podmate Husani Mershah, trying to wrestle the Muslim leadership from Said, said it was the "will of Allah" and left him to die. A recovered Said ostracizes Huseni Mershah for turning his back on him when he was dying--and orders all the Muslims to cast him out.

Mershah tells McManus and Glynn that Said is causing a riot. When that goes nowhere, he tells Adebisi that Said got Jefferson Keane executed. Mershah is transferred to Gen Pop, where he is later found dead of apparent suicide. Warden Glynn proceeds to ban the Muslim's religous articles media interviews.

The Riot erupts. Said quickly takes control of the situation and gathers the other leaders to form a council to come up with their demands. Said and the rest of the riot leaders are sent to ad-seg while Alvah Case heads a special committee appointed to investigate the riot.

Case's Commission determines that no one in particular was at fault for the riot and Said is sent back to gen-pop. When Augustus Hill's judge is convicted of accepting bribes, Said takes up Hill's case and tries to get him a second trial.

The appeal is denied. Being a published author, Said contacts his publisher, who publishes Poet's book of poems. When Said sees alcoholic inmate Tobias Beecher start getting drunk again, he tries to intervene, but Beecher shouts out one of his crazy "nursery rhymes" and tells him to go away.

Said is considered for clemency by Governor Devlin to show respect for Ramadan. At the press conference he refuses to accept the Governor's "gift" and returns to Oz, where the other prisoners cheer and chant his name. Said organizes a civil suit against Oswald to support the families of the inmates who died during the riot.

Tricia Ross, sister of Scott Ross, immediately takes a liking to Said. To take his mind off Tricia, Said decides to go on a fast, which would only allow him to eat fruit at sunset after praying.

When McManus turns down Said's request to keep food in his cell while fasting, he goes on a hunger strike instead. When all of the Muslims decide to begin hunger striking one after another, Glynn and McManus agree to Said's request. When Augustus Hill decides to testify against Malcolm Coyle, who brutally murdered an entire family, Said organizes a meeting with Nappa, Schillinger, and Guerra. Said urges them to protect Hill against Wangler and the others. Nappa goes one further and has Coyle killed.

Said begins to have a conflict of faith over Tricia Ross. It begins to seriously affect his standing with Arif and Khan. Poet publicly humiliates Said -- and the other Muslims -- after Poet sees Said and Tricia Ross holding hands in the visitoring room. It turns out he drove Idzik to despair by telling him, before his conversion to Islam, about how the universe was doomed, and he was killed in revenge. It is not clear whether his last words were because he recognizes Idzik and felt guilty, or just didn't want his killer harmed in return.

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