Max Sands, played by Mike Arotsky, is a Biker inmate on the 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...

. A background member for the most part, he appears as one of the Bikers in Emerald City throughout his stay on the series. He is known for having colorfull tatooes over his cheeks, a long black beard, wearing a black bandana over his head and black sunglasses all of which gives him an intimidating look.

Season 4

Sands is seen in Em City at the beginning of the season as the racial tension is high and a shooting in Oz occurs. Shortly afterwards, 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...

 is fired as Unit Manager and replaced by an 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...

 named Martin Querns

Martin Querns

Warden Martin Querns is a fictional character on the HBO drama Oz, played by Reg E. Cathey.-Character overview:He is an African American prison unit manager who has a vast experience of handling various prison units. He is hired by Warden Leo Glynn after he is asked to find a competent black unit...

. In the meantime, the Bikers are paid cash by inmate Nikolai Stanislofsky

Nikolai Stanislofsky

Nikolai Petrovich Stanislofsky was a prisoner character played by Philip Casnoff on HBO's Oz in Season 3 and 4.-Character overview:Prisoner 99S233. Convicted February 14, 1999 - Possession of stolen goods with intent to sell. Sentence: 15 years, up for parole in five.-Season 3:Nikolai was a...

 to murder Ralph Galino

Ralph Galino

Ralph Galino played by Domenick Lombardozzi was a character in the HBO series "Oz".-Character Overview:An Italian-American contractor, arrested when one of his buildings collapsed and killed two people. An honest, law abiding citizen who was a victim of circumstance, Galino was extremely out of his...

 over a cell phone dispute. Shortly afterwards, Querns empowers Black inmate Simon Adebisi

Simon Adebisi

Simon Adebisi is a fictional character played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on the HBO dramatic series Oz, set in an experimental prison unit.-Character overview:Prisoner #93A234. Convicted May 2, 1993 - Murder in the first degree...

 and his followers and begins transferring the White inmates out of Emerald City starting with the Bikers and the Aryans. Sands goes to Unit B where he, Hoyt

Jaz Hoyt

Jaz Hoyt is a fictional character played by Evan Seinfeld on the television program Oz.-Character overview:Prisoner #98H432. Convicted August 12, 1998 - aggravated assault in the first degree. Sentence: Eight years, eligible for parole in four. Later, confessed to four counts of murder in the first...

 and the other Bikers reside until 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...

 is rehired in Emerald City. When back in Emerald City, the Bikers are allied with the Aryan inmates to destroy the Muslim inmates led by Kareem Said

Kareem Said

Kareem Saïd is a character played by British actor Eamonn Walker on the American television show Oz.-Character overview:Prisoner #97S444. Convicted June 6, 1997 - Arson in the second degree. Sentence: 18 years, eligible for parole in five...

. As this is happening, several of the Bikers such as Jim Burns

Jim Burns (Oz)

James "Jim" Burns is a character at HBO drama Oz played by Peter James Kelsch.-Character Overview:Prisoner 96B632, Jim Burns. Convicted in 1996 for murdering his brother A background Biker, Jim Burns can be seen in background until season 4, where he is converted by Reverend Jeremiah...

 are converting into Reverend Jeremiah Cloutier

Jeremiah Cloutier

Reverend Jeremiah Cloutier is a fictional character on the HBO prison drama Oz, portrayed by Luke Perry.-Character overview:Prisoner #00C966. Convicted December 27, 2000 - Embezzlement and petty larceny. Sentence: nine years, up for parole in five....

's Christian flock. This angers Hoyt who with the help of Timmy Kirk

Timmy Kirk

Timothy "Timmy" Kirk is a fictional character from the HBO prison drama Oz played by Sean Dugan.-Character history:Prisoner #96K423. Convicted April 16, 1996 - Manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child. Sentence: 12 years, up for parole in seven...

 has the Bikers seal Cloutier into a caféteria wall. From there Sands spends the rest of the season helping the Aryans try to destroy Tobias Beecher

Tobias Beecher

Tobias Beecher is a main character on the television show Oz, played by Lee Tergesen. He is one of only eight regular characters to survive the entire run of the show...

's chances of parole until they are warned by Kareem Said

Kareem Said

Kareem Saïd is a character played by British actor Eamonn Walker on the American television show Oz.-Character overview:Prisoner #97S444. Convicted June 6, 1997 - Arson in the second degree. Sentence: 18 years, eligible for parole in five...

 not to interfere. On a lighter note when Agamemnon Busmalis

Agamemnon Busmalis

Agamemnon "Aggie" Busmalis a.k.a. The Mole is a fictional character of the television series Oz, portrayed by Tom Mardirosian. He is also referenced in OZ: Behind These Walls: The Journal of Augustus Hill.-Character's backstory:...

 proposes to his lover in the visiting room he nods in approval.

Season 5

The Aryans and Bikers are still allied but the war with the Muslims is called off. As a result, the Bikers are more concerned with the issues pertaining to Reverend Cloutier, as he was still stuck in the wall during a gas explosion that took place destroying the cafeteria. Jim Burns

Jim Burns (Oz)

James "Jim" Burns is a character at HBO drama Oz played by Peter James Kelsch.-Character Overview:Prisoner 96B632, Jim Burns. Convicted in 1996 for murdering his brother A background Biker, Jim Burns can be seen in background until season 4, where he is converted by Reverend Jeremiah...

 then gets a vision to kill the other Bikers and Timmy Kirk

Timmy Kirk

Timothy "Timmy" Kirk is a fictional character from the HBO prison drama Oz played by Sean Dugan.-Character history:Prisoner #96K423. Convicted April 16, 1996 - Manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child. Sentence: 12 years, up for parole in seven...

 proposes his murder to Jaz Hoyt

Jaz Hoyt

Jaz Hoyt is a fictional character played by Evan Seinfeld on the television program Oz.-Character overview:Prisoner #98H432. Convicted August 12, 1998 - aggravated assault in the first degree. Sentence: Eight years, eligible for parole in four. Later, confessed to four counts of murder in the first...

. Hoyt kills Burns then gets similar visions to kill Kirk and then after a murder attempt, he confesses to a series of murders that the Bikers committed as a means of saving his own soul. Kirk lives though and Hoyt now on death row testifies that Kirk proposed the murder to him. When Kirk sets up a murder attempt on Father Mukada

Father Ray Mukada

Father Ray Mukada is a character on the HBO television series Oz, played by B. D. Wong.right|thumb|B.D. Wong as Father Ray Mukada.-Character history:...

, Warden Glynn

Warden Leo Glynn

Leo Glynn is a fictional character on the HBO drama Oz. He is the warden of the Oswald state correctional facility-Character overview:...

 takes it personally and works with the Bikers to send Kirk to death row. Sands corroborates Jaz Hoyt

Jaz Hoyt

Jaz Hoyt is a fictional character played by Evan Seinfeld on the television program Oz.-Character overview:Prisoner #98H432. Convicted August 12, 1998 - aggravated assault in the first degree. Sentence: Eight years, eligible for parole in four. Later, confessed to four counts of murder in the first...

's version of the truth to give Glynn hard evidence of Kirk's involvement in Burns' murder successfully moving him to death row. In the interim, Sands leads the Bikers in Emerald City and helps Vern Schillinger try to lure inmate Adam Guenzel into one of the Aryan's traps.

Other appearances

Sands appeared in the Saturday Night Live sketch "Seinfeld in Oz". He is seen as fellow inmate Vern Schillinger is planning an attack on Tobias Beecher in front of a group of Bikers and Aryans when Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld , which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show's final two seasons,...

approaches.

Trivia

While in a conversation (season five, "Variety"), Guenzel tells Sands that the woman he raped was an ex-girlfriend. Sands responds "You know, I never raped a woman I knew", implying that he might be serving his time in Oz for a rape crime himself (although this could have been a ruse to gain Guenzel's trust). Although this could simply have meant that he had committed crimes before his trial and subsequent trial which were not rape, i.e. assault, possession of drugs etc.