The Tightening
Piscatella stalks the halls of Litchfield. He encounters Flores. She fights him but he overcomes her.
Red gets premonitions that Piscatella is in Litchfield. She tries to tell Nichols but she doesn't believe Red. Nichols goes to get some ice for Red and gets abducted by Piscatella.
Red gets the backstory spotlight. The flashbacks are to a few decades before when she was a factory worker in Russia. She was dating a guard at the factory but pretty soon she leaves him and started dating a guy who sold blue jeans which were illegal in Russia.
Mendoza uses Caputo's phone and presses the button he told her to press. It speed dials the head of MCC. She talks to him and tells him about her son. He says he can't do anything for her unless she frees the hostages. She can't agree to that and hangs up on him abruptly.
Aleida goes to Litchfield. She sees Dayanara getting put in handcuffs. She tries talking to her daughter but the guards won't let her through.
The negotiations with Figueroa resume. Figueroa refuses to accept the claim that there isn't an education program.
Angie and Leanne steal supplies, terrorize Warren, and then try to scare Cindy.
Red goes looking for Nichols. She talks to Morello who doesn't know where Nichols is and doesn't seem concerned.
Taystee and Watson free Caputo from the porta-john. They want him to negotiate with Figueroa on their behalf. He agrees to help them explain the situation with the education program which is more like forced manual labor.
Boo gets abducted by Piscatella. Linda gets scared. Red tries to convince Chapman and Vause that Piscatella is in the prison but they think she's acting paranoid.
Some of Red's acquaintances in the flashbacks start to disappear. Red becomes convinced that it isn't just a coincidence but her new boyfriend doesn't believe her. She leaves him. Red, in the present, finds a piece of paper that has a map. It was put there by Berlin but Red thinks it is a clue that Piscatella left her.
Linda goes looking for Caputo only to discover that he is no longer in the porta-john. Mendoza gets friendly with the inmates who are guarding the hostages. Chapman and Vause are abducted by Piscatella while they are in the shower together.
Morello gets freaked out when she sees a pregnancy test in the pharmacy. She notices that Warren is overdue for medication. She goes and finds Suzanne tied up and frees her.
Caputo negotiates with Figueroa. Linda tries to interrupt. He explains that Linda is one of the psych patients. One of the Dominican inmates starts to suspect that she's seen Linda somewhere before.
Red, in the past, leaves her new boyfriend and makes a deal with the guard whom she dumped. They plan to immigrate to the United States together. Red, in the present, continues to look for her friends and Piscatella. She finds them (Flores, Nichols, Boo, Chapman, Vause) all tied up and gagged. She starts to try to free them when Piscatella shows up.
Thoughts
This episode felt very much like a horror movie. Piscatella was the bad guy. He shows up in the shadows quite frequently and doesn't have many lines.
Linda seems to have lost interest in pretending to be an inmate. First Boo disappears and then other inmates start to question her identity. I love how she claims to have been played by Alyssa Milano in the TV movie about her life.
Leanne and Angie didn't do themselves any favors in my eyes by treating Suzanne the way that they did. They are pretty disgusting.
There are a few moments when it seems like Cindy is about to get abducted by Piscatella but that does not happen.
There seems to be hints that Mendoza is going to free the hostages but it isn't clear to me that this is how things will play out.
I love the cliffhanger ending to this episode. Red and Piscatella are about to go at it. The ending music sounds like a Russian cover of California Dreaming.
This was a pretty good episode. I like the pacing, the way it is all put together and the level of tension in it.
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