Orange Is the New Black 1.04

Imaginary Enemies

Chapman accidentally takes a screwdriver out of the electrical shop. Things go a little crazy in the prison as the guards search everywhere for the missing screwdriver. Chapman tries to return the missing tool but before she can someone takes it. For a moment it looks like that someone is going to use it to kill another prisoner but in the end she is shown using as part of a homemade sex toy.

Miss Claudette, Chapman's roommate, helps her hide the screwdriver temporarily but flips out after she learns that she didn't return it but instead lost it. Chapman grows a little closer to Miss Claudette but the closeness doesn't come easy. Chapman worries that she is going to kill her but in the end it seems like Miss Claudette is impressed with the way Chapman stands up to her, even if she doesn't let the younger woman know how impressed she is.

There is a little bit of drama surrounding a prisoner who is about to be released. She or her lover, most likely her lover, are the ones who I was concerned might be murdered by the inmate who took the screwdriver from Chapman's hiding place.

There is a little more of the budding prisoner guard/prisoner romance. I assume that eventually this will be a major plot point in an episode.

Miss Claudette gets the backstory spotlight in this episode. She came to the USA from a francophone country which I don't believe was identified. She started as a cleaning girl working for a service and worked her way up to the point where she was running the business. The employees were poor young girls, presumably from the same country as she. My first thought was Haiti but there are other countries it could have been. Her crime was killing a man who viciously beat one of the girls.

Nichols has a heart to heart with Alex. She can't get anything out of her about how she knows Chapman but she does manage to fool Chapman into revealing that she slept with Alex.

Larry was not in this episode. Unlike the previous three, with the exception of the flashbacks, this one took place entirely in the prison. There were no flashbacks to Chapman's past.

Overall a solid episode. I want to keep watching.