Saturday, February 25, 2017

Orange Is the New Black 1.07

Blood Donut

The WAC meet with Healy for the first time. They get donuts, they make suggestions, but nothing changes. There's no money to implement the changes that they want.

Watson gets out of shoe, solitary. She figures out that it was Chapman who was responsible for the missing screwdriver but she doesn't tell on her. Watson also gets the backstory spotlight. She was a track star in high school but she wanted more. She wanted to be accepted. One thug tried to talk her out of hanging out with the wrong element but the next one she met wasn't as noble-hearted. She ended up taking the fall for a robbery.

Healey makes a deal with Chapman that if she can find the camera he will re open the running field. She leaps at the chance and turns in the cell phone she found. Healey doesn't deliver, instead he insists she tell him who had the camera. She refuses to tell him. What I want to know is how the camera had any juice if it was being kept in a hole in the wall.

Piper tries to be nice to Alex. Alex gives her the cold should but later on she stands up for Piper when Pensatucky keeps badmouthing her behind her back. On the outside Larry acts pathetic and flirts with a bartender. Things are definitely headed down that road.

Fischer, the new CO, knows Chapman from somewhere. Turns out Chapman used to buy groceries at the store where Fischer worked when she was a teen. Chapman bonds with Fischer somehow that connection leads to the field getting reopened. It is unclear exactly what transpired between Chapman and Fischer and Fischer and Caputo but there's a trail of bread crumbs that points to it. All that Healey knows is that Caputo uses the same reasoning for reopening the field that Chapman tried using on him. I think this spells trouble for Chapman. I think she's on Healey's shit list now.

Other stuff happens. Yoga Jones confronts Watson over her outbursts and ends up slapping her when Watson says something that is probably a little too close to the truth for Jones. Mendez finds out that Bennett has gotten laid but Bennett doesn't tell him the whole story. Red gets a visit from Mendez who wants her people to smuggle in some stuff for him. I really like the way these story threads get layered in together. It is hard to believe that I am halfway through the season.

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