While in the middle of intense labor pains, she reads Daya and Aleida for filth, saying they fight like they’re in a telanovela and are a walking cautionary tale about NOT having kids. It seemed weird that it took so long for them to even acknowledge that she was in labor, right? Her friends tried to help her with their homemade pregnancy advice (“Drink pineapple juice” and “Play with your nipples to get your hormones going you gotta just twiddle them, you wanna try it?”), but she mostly walks around suffering through the pain. The inmates may starve each other out and threaten each other with violence, but the men running the Litch have a dangerous and unwieldy power.Įveryone seems to have the flu this week Piper crafted face masks out of maxi pads and two hair ties for herself and a reluctant Miss Claudette, but everyone else is puking, sneezing, coughing, or, like Maria, in labor. Yael Stone (the actress who plays Lorna) deserves an armful of Emmys for this scene, eyes welling up with beefy tears and her face paralyzed with terror, certain that Mendez was about to sexually assault her. I was levitating above my couch with tension when he drove Lorna into the woods, not at all sure of what would happen next. It’s interesting to watch Mendez do this tap dance he’s always been a bit of a bastard, but the lighthearted goofiness behind most of his actions has been replaced with a real, deep anger. The jig is basically up, even though no one knows who to blame. Tricia is sent to SEG with an extended sentence, and Caputo wonders how she’s just now going through withdrawal after being in prison for ten months.
Red is pretty good at the scorched earth (or “two strikes”) approach to life rather than help Tricia, she boots her from the crew (using Nicky as the messenger) and makes an example of her.
He almost can’t wait to tell Red that one of her girls, Tricia, is in withdrawal, and blackmail her into helping the girl get through it without anyone from the prison catching on.
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Mendez is hell-bent on moving drugs into the prison via her kitchen, and is resorting to threats and scare tactics to get information from her crew on how to do it. We learn in a flashback that Red was responsible for getting Neptune produce in prisons after suggesting to the owner that he look for a larger, recession-proof operation that would allow him to keep laundering money. Healy is basically acting like a scorned lover, performing vindictive little actions in order to make it clear that he’s over her. He goes out of his way to get a copy of the New York Times featuring Larry’s article, only to toss it in the trash and pour hot coffee over it. He is PISSED OFF, and wants to make it clear to Piper that their relationship is no longer friendly. Piper has made a powerful enemy in CO Healy. But even that statement sounds unfair in the past few episodes, Piper has been settling into her incarcerated reality a bit more, and in this episode her sadness feels heavier and more relatable. Or at least she would be, if she could stop feeling sorry for herself. It’s only when she’s in close quarters with people who have had wildly different experiences that she’s able to manage her expectations. Prison culture makes it easy for people to dislike Piper on the outside, her privileged behavior would not only be tolerated but would probably be the norm. In this episode, everyone is sick or at war.