Franklin Winthrop
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Franklin Winthrop is a fictional character in the HBO series Oz, played by Andy Powers.
A well-off, educated, suburban white male, Winthrop is imprisoned because he assisted his best friend Adam Guenzel in beating and raping a woman while intoxicated. Inside, he is immediately targeted as weak and becomes the sex slave of Vernon Schillinger and the Aryan Brotherhood. Later, he offers Schillinger a deal to join the brotherhood, and gets in. He dies at the hands of Chris Keller shortly afterwards.
[edit] Season 5
Winthrop arrives in Oz with Adam Guenzel for raping a woman. He is sentenced to 28 years, up for parole in 7, and sent to Unit B. Guenzel is sent to Em City as he is friends there with inmate Tobias Beecher. He and Guenzel are both unfit for prison and thereby ideal prags for both black and white inmates. Inside Unit B, Winthrop is approached by an overweight black inmate named Clarence Seroy, who attempts to rape Winthrop, but is stopped by Aryan Brotherhood members Vernon Schillinger and James Robson. As Winthrop is new to prison, he does not realize that the Aryans in Oz are sexual predators themselves who pull this routine often to turn naive white inmates into their sex slaves. He is told that he will be protected, but the protection will cost him in the form of sexual servitude to the Aryans. Still in shock, Winthrop realizes he has no choice and allows the Aryans to rape him. In the cafeteria, Robson parades him with a tied up shirt, pigtails, and makeup. He is whistled at by various inmates as Adam Guenzel sees him in disgust.
Beecher is then warned by the Aryans that Guenzel is next in line to be raped and Beecher enlists the Italians, who are at war with the Aryans, to protect him. Inside the gym, Robson attempts to rape Guenzel but Frank Urbano who is running the Italians for the time being defends him. Inside Unit B, Schillinger forces Winthrop to get Guenzel to turn against Beecher so that he can be unprotected as well. Winthrop meanwhile serves the Aryan's sexual needs as it is the only way he can live in Oz. When Guenzel is transferred to Unit B, he insults Winthrop and is raped by Schillinger shortly afterwards. Beecher feels bad about this so he testifies against Schillinger after Schillinger causes Guenzel's death. Vern is sent to the hole while Winthrop remains as the Aryan's main girlfriend.
[edit] Season 6
Schillinger is released from solitary and Winthrop is delivering mail for the Aryans. Schillinger rapes Winthrop upon release and then Winthrop offers him a deal. Winthrop states that he can be of better use to the Aryans than as a prag because of his education, and pure white heritage amongst other things. Vern initially refuses because he thinks that a prison bitch will always be a bitch no matter what. Winthrop points out that Schillinger wants revenge on Tobias Beecher for testifying against him. He offers to kill Beecher's father, who is helping inmate Christopher Keller appeal a death sentence. Because this is a good revenge opportunity where Schillinger is free of any blame, he accepts Winthrop's deal. Winthrop pays off a CO to lock the hall door as Beecher's father is walking down it and Winthrop stabs him to death. Winthrop is then let into the Aryan Brotherhood as a solider. Later, disgraced Aryan James Robson is begging for protection from Italian inmate Chucky Pancamo and Winthrop pushes him away. Robson insults Winthrop for being a prag, but Winthrop points out that he is now more fit as an Aryan than Robson and is no longer a prag. Meanwhile, Keller has his death sentence appealed. He seduces and lures Winthrop into a closet and murders him for killing Mr. Beecher.
