Rebadow spends his time listening to what "God" has told him and seems to know all of the events occurring in Oz ambiguously proving his supposed theory on what God has told him. In season 1, Rebadow is one of the 50 inmates let into Emerald City, an experimental cell block in the Oswald Prison. He is also notably one of two prominently featured inmates to have been in Oz prior to the opening of Emerald City, and survive the entire run of the show, the other being Arnold "Poet" Jackson. The other four are Miguel Alvarez, Ryan O'Reily, Tobias Beecher and Arnold "Poet" Jackson. Rebadow is one of only five regular Oz inmates to survive the entire run of the show.
In episode 2 of season 5, in a conversation with Miguel Alvarez, Rebadow makes references to his past, explaining the differences between his and later generations, during which he alludes to growing up when "18 year olds went off to war" and being scared as "landing craft hit the beach," perhaps alluding to his own military service. Although written off as insane, Rebadow now possesses a certain mystic knowledge about everything going on in Oz, and in some instances even knows private details about prisoners' lives of which he had no prior knowledge. Following Rebadow's release back into general population, he began claiming that he now received regular visits from God. During his stay, the death penalty was abolished and his sentence was commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. During Rebadow's execution, there was a power surge (attributed to the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965) the execution was botched and Rebadow was admitted to the medical unit for the injuries he sustained during the botched electrocution. In spite of the abrupt nature of the crime, Rebadow was still convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. Enraged, Rebadow stabs his partner in the neck with his salad fork, killing him. Rebadow committed his crime at a business lunch where he was displaying his blueprints to his business partner who laughs and mocks his designs.
With a child on the way, he was planning a large-scale architectural project. Rebadow was a young architect sometime in the mid-1960s. His age as well as experience in Oz makes his interactions with several other inmates dynamic some see him as a mentor, others a survivor, and a few a vulnerable old man. Commuted to life.īob Rebadow is one of the oldest inmates on the show and a prominent member of "The Others", the group in Oz which generally stays away from trouble and gang related warfare. Convicted SeptemMurder in the first degree.