McManus is given complete control of cell block 5 aka Emerald City by the state prison commissioner. Nevertheless, McManus is given autonomy when managing his cell blocks regardless of mutual agreements between him and the COs he supervises. Amongst the rest of the staff, he finds support from Sister Peter Marie and Gloria Nathan on most issues but is sometimes seen as being too self-centered and idealistic when pertaining to some specific issues. He also conflicts with Claire Howell whom he broke off a sexual relationship with and Adrian Johnson when it is discovered that he helped kill Warden Glynn. He finds dissent from Officers Mike Healy and Eddie Hunt who are arrested and killed while working at Oz.
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Throughout the series he seems to get along best with Officers Sean Muprhy (a long time friend of his that McManus personally recruited), Jason Armstrong, Joseph Mineo, Rick Heim, Diane Whittlesey and Andrea Phelan. Throughout the series, McManus while respecting his coworkers questions the CO actions more than the higher ranking staff members.
In Season 5 we learn that McManus was married to Eleanor O'Connor who left him because he became too self-righteous when things did not go his way. Later McManus goes out with a woman from the state department that is helping some Chinese refugees get situated in Oz. The breakup with Wittlesey puts Tim on a self-destructive path that results in him being fired as Unit Manager of Emerald City. He then attempts to get with Wittlesey again buying her an engagement ring only to be rejected when she gets married overseas on a vacation from Oz. Dating Howell turns out to be problematic as she sues him for sexual harassment when he no longer wants to date her. Gloria Nathan as she is separated from her husband and then CO Diane Whittlesey followed briefly by Claire Howell. McManus has several sexual relationships in Oz with almost every female staff member there except for Sister Pete. While McManus is sometimes lax in disciplining inmates, he is sometimes successful in pushing inmates to better themselves. While he doesn't see eye to eye with Warden Glynn on several issues, Glynn admires his vision and often allows McManus to do what he wishes in managing Emerald City. McManus however does take steps in the right direction as a unit manager by setting up GED programs, assigning the inmates in his unit to various work details, setting up an Emerald City council with one inmate from each of the ten groups, promotes drug and substance abuse counseling programs, and does what he can to make inmates in his unit eligible for parole. This is the point at which McManus' idealism gets him in trouble as he makes himself prone to set ups. As he believes in the inmates more than the rest of the staff, he is somewhat naive at times believing that he can help the inmates even if they are plotting against him. His goal is to make inmates in his unit become more productive citizens even if they are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. In one episode, McManus claims that he has dedicated his life to Emerald City, and this is seen throughout the show. McManus loves Emerald City, the unit he manages as he wants to make it an ideal prison where people of all groups learn to live together and improve themselves.Īs a Unit Manager, McManus strives to rehabilitate prisoners with a very persistent attitude that doesn't give up that easily. From a positive standpoint, McManus believes in justice, morality, the goodness of people and is helpful and persistent to the point where his idealism can work. From a negative standpoint, McManus is over-zealous, egotistical, overly idealistic, naive, and self-righteous.
Overall, McManus exhibits many different traits, of both positive and negative natures. McManus also has multiple sexual relationships with several female staff members throughout the series which ends up being problematic in season 3. McManus is often questioned by Warden Leo Glynn with some of his motives but he usually comes on top of any situation he encounters. Throughout the series, McManus believes that he can rehabilitate the prisoners hoping to turn them into better citizens. Instead of him celebrating, he had to go with his family to the funerals, leading over-all to McManus wanting to change the prison system for the better. As McManus birthday was near, the riot in Attica broke out, leading to 39 deaths, of which 10 were COs. His father was a diner owner, who was friends with COs in Attica. McManus was born in September 1961 and grew up in Attica, near Attica Correctional Facility. 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 people more than the rest of the staff.
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