Oz, Season Three

Yuri Kosygin:
Unlike you, in Russia I was not a criminal. I was an educator. After the Soviets fell, things got so bleak in Moscow I decided to leave, to come to America.

Nikolai Stanislofsky:
For a better life, right?

Yuri Kosygin:
Yes, for me and my wife. But we did not find a better life. I couldn't get employed teaching.

Nikolai Stanislofsky:
Must have been terrible.

Yuri Kosygin:
Then I got this job painting a house, the house of Leonid Rodzinsky.

Nikolai Stanislofsky:
He was in the Organizatsya.

Yuri Kosygin:
Yes. He treated me like shit, always making fun. Calling me "professor" and ordering me to clean his toilets. One day, he kicked me with his boot in front of my wife. I strangled him on the spot.

Nikolai Stanislofsky:
It's closing time?

Yuri Kosygin:
Yes.

Nikolai Stanislofsky:
All right, I'll go.

Yuri Kosygin:
Not till I finish my story.

Nikolai Stanislofsky:
Strange. All this time, you've barely said two words. Now you're a regular bottum.

Yuri Kosygin:
It takes me time to warm up to people. I feel very close to you. I was possessed by guilt for killing Rodzinsky but I got a reputation for being ruthless. The Organizatsya hired me to exterminate someone else. The second time was easy.

Nikolai Stanislofsky:
Yuri, please. I don't want to hear this.

Yuri Kosygin:
The third time, no problem at all.

Nikolai Stanislofsky:
Yuri, please.

Yuri Kosygin:
At last count, I murdered at least 49 people. You have the honor of being my 50th.