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Antonio Nappa is a fictional character in the HBO prison drama series Oz, portrayed by Mark Margolis.

Character overview
''Prisoner number 98N744, Antonio Nappa. Convicted June 4, '98 - Murder in the second degree. Sentence: 80 years, up for parole in 50.''

Nappa is an Italian mob boss sentenced to prison for shooting a man in the head with a pistol in a strip bar. Once he arrives in Oz, he takes control of prison's Italian gang after Peter Schibetta is sent to the psych ward. Also, his primary workplace in the prison is the kitchen. His role as the Italians' leader comes to a halt when Simon Adebisi, leader of the rival Homeboys gang, infects him with HIV to avenge the murder of Kipekemie Jara, which Nappa had ordered. He is sent to the HIV ward of the prison, where he is suffocated in his sleep.

Season 2
Upon his arrival in Oz, Nappa is immediately told by Leo Glynn and Tim McManus that he must not seek revenge on the man who raped Peter Schibetta. Nappa, who is in fact Schibetta's godfather, gets the Italian staff member Lenny Burrano to convince Glynn to conduct a random drug test - for which Simon Adebisi, Schibetta's rapist, is selected. Adebisi, a heroin addict, is subsequently taken to a long and painful rehabilitation process.

Once weaned off heroin, Adebisi plots revenge against the Italians until a fellow Nigerian Yoruba inmate, Kipekemie Jara, arrives in Oz and begins to dissuade Adebisi from his old ways. Nappa, realizing that he can not control Adebisi with Jara around, makes an agreement with Kenny Wangler - he and the rest of the Homeboys are made partners in the drug trade if Wangler kills Jara. Wangler agrees and later fatally stabs Jara in the kitchen. The death of his "mentor" and the stress of change cause Adebisi to suffer a severe nervous breakdown and psychosis, getting him sent to the prison's psych ward. With Adebisi out of the way, the Italians and the Homeboys now jointly dominate the drug trade in Oz.

Season 3
Adebisi is released from the psych ward and apologizes to Nappa for raping Schibetta. Nappa, believing that Adebisi is sincere, rejects the other Italians' idea of killing him, stating that if he has indeed changed he could be of use to the Italians. Adebisi then acquires an HIV infected needle from the prison's AIDS ward and uses it to stab Nappa without his knowledge. In the kitchen, Wangler attempts to recruit his friend and fellow Homeboy, Malcolm Coyle, into the drug trade business. Nappa, however, is suspicious of Coyle and has him beaten by the entire Homeboys gang in the prison gym as a loyalty test. Coyle shows no resistance, earning him the confidence of Wangler and the Homeboys, but Nappa is still not convinced, sending Coyle to work at the barbershop instead. Later, Augustus Hill turns Coyle in for murdering an Italian-American family for which he never got caught, resulting in Coyle being transferred to death row. Fearing revenge from Wangler, the Muslim leader Kareem Said manages to enlist the help of the prison's Italian, Latino and Aryan gangs to protect Hill from the Homeboys. To demonstrate his loyalty and because the family murdered was Italian-American, Nappa has Coyle murdered. Shortly after the Hill case, Dr. Gloria Nathan tells Nappa that he is HIV positive, and is therefore moved to the prison's AIDS ward.

In the AIDS ward, Nappa initially scorns his homosexual cellmate Nat Ginzburg, but later seemingly befriends him. Nappa then decides to publish an autobiography about his years as a mob boss before his death, with Ginzburg working as his secretary. This alerts Chucky Pancamo, who reluctantly pays Ginzburg to murder Nappa for going against the mafia code of silence. Later that night, Ginzburg suffocates Nappa in his sleep.

Season 6
In the final season, Nappa returns as a spirit to narrate the episode "A Failure to Communicate".

Murders committed

 * Unknown man - Shot in the head by Nappa with a silenced pistol.
 * Kipekemie Jara - Offered Kenny Wangler partnership in the drug trade if he kills him in revenge for Simon Adebisi raping Peter Schibetta.
 * Malcolm Coyle - Ordered his death for the deaths of the Ciancimino family and to protect Augustus Hill.

Category:Oz (TV series) characters