Perry Loftus is a fictional character at HBO drama Oz

Oz (TV series)

Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes . It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by premium cable network HBO. Oz premiered on July 12, 1997 and ran for six seasons...

 played by Christopher Neal Jackson.

Character Overview

An intelligent African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

 young man, Perry Loftus studied with Oz's CO Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson, played by Cyrus Farmer, is one of the African American corrections officer on the HBO drama Oz.-Character overview:He first appears as one of the several African American corrections officers to work in Emerald City under the management of Martin Querns...

. After getting out of the University, Loftus became Governor James Devlin

Governor James Devlin

Governor James Devlin is a fictional character on the HBO drama Oz, played by Željko Ivanek.-Character overview:Devlin, the governor of the state, is hated by most of the inmates and some of the staff members at the Oswald State Correctional facilities as he proposes several anti-prisoner acts of...

's assistant.

Season 6

When Mayor Wilson Loewen was convicted, Governor Devlin told he would take him out of Oz. At the hospital, an angry Loewen blackmailed Devlin, saying that if Devlin doesn't take him out of Oz he will tell about Devlin's political crimes. Devlin ordered his assistant, Loftus to kill Loewen. Loftus found his old friend Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson, played by Cyrus Farmer, is one of the African American corrections officer on the HBO drama Oz.-Character overview:He first appears as one of the several African American corrections officers to work in Emerald City under the management of Martin Querns...

 working at Oz and ordered him to kill Loewen. Johnson paid inmates Willy Brandt

Willy Brandt (Oz)

William "Willy" Brandt is a fictional character at HBO drama Oz. Willy Brandt is played by Matthew Cowles.-Character Overview:Prisoner 96B339, William "Willy" Brandt....

 and Lionel Kelsch to kill Loewen. During the night, Kelsch started screaming. When everyone was distracted, Brandt sliced Loewen's throat, killing him. While being interrogated, Brandt told Leo Glynn about CO Johnson. Detective Tarnowski interrogated Johnson, but found him innocent. So, Glynn started to search about Johnson and discovered that he and Loftus attended the same University. Glynn told Loftus he knew about the conspiracy to Loewen's homicide. Afraid, Loftus ordered Johnson and Kelsch to kill Brandt and Glynn. In the next morning, Brandt was dead. At the same night, during an award at Oz, Kelsch stabbed Glynn to death. Tim McManus

Tim McManus

Tim McManus is a fictional character on HBO's prison drama Oz, played by Terry Kinney.-Character overview:McManus, the idealistic manager of Emerald City, is unlike the rest of the staff members at Oz as he has never been a CO, has a college education, and generally believes in the inmates as...

 started the investigation and discovered by Henry Stanton

Henry Stanton (Oz)

Henry Stanton is a character at HBO drama Oz played by Thomas G. Waites.-Character Overview:Prisoner 99S131, Henry Stanton.Stanton was one of the many characters who was manipulated by Irish inmate Ryan O'Reily.-Season 4, part I:...

that Kelsch killed Glynn. Kelsch was thrown in the hole, where he confessed. Then, McManus told Devlin and Loftus they are going to be caught. His destiny is unknown, as the series ended before something could be done.