Augustus Hill

Augustus Hill is a fictional character, played by Harold Perrineau on the American television show Oz, serving as the show's narrator. Character overview Mentored by his godfather Burr Redding, Hill started selling and using drugs during his teenage years. In 1995, a SWAT team raided Hill's apartment while he and his wife were having sex. Finding himself cornered on the roof of the building as he tried to escape, he shot and killed one officer. The others threw him off the roof in retaliation, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, after which he began using a wheelchair. At the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary ("Oz"), Hill is a mostly neutral figure. Throughout much of his time in Oz, he remains one of the more consistently decent characters, struggling to avoid moral compromises while staying alive in the prison. Hill also serves as the narrator of the series, breaking the fourth wall in his monologues, even after his death at the end of the fifth season. Season 1 Hill is one of the inmates sent to "Emerald City," an experimental cell block designed to rehabilitate prisoners from differing backgrounds. He works in the dress factory with inmates Bob Rebadow and Tobias Beecher. When conjugal visits are allowed, Hill sleeps with his wife Annabella for the last time; as he is paraplegic, he has no sensation below his waist and cannot experience the pleasure received during sex. When Simon Adebisi asks why Hill even wants to have sex with his wife without sensation, he replies it is all for her. Despite being clean for almost two years, Hill started using again with the encouragement of his favorite NBA player, Jackson Vahue, after he arrives in Oz. After using twice and falling out with Vahue, he stops his habit again. Hill admires Eugene Dobbins, an inmate who has a gift for playing the cello. When Dobbins is harassed by Vahue for no apparent reason, Hill tells him stop and recognize the gift that Dobbins has. However, Vahue breaks into Father Ray Mukada's office and smashes Dobbins' instrument. When a prison riot erupts in Em City, Hill forces Vahue to tend to Dobbins after he is shanked by a black inmate. He hides with the rest of the prisoners as the SORT team recaptures the unit.