Caputo, unable to keep up with his administrative work, brings Taystee into the office. Piper enlists her new, resentful bunky to be her "Secret Service." It goes badly. Judy King checks out the garden, which makes Alex and Lolly very nervous, and upsets Red's authority. Poussey and Brook grow closer. Lorna learns a secret about her new husband.
This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
- A Day in the Limelight : Brook's back story as a community advocate is shown.
- Badass Boast: Piper to Maria and the Dominican girls.Piper: I decide who knows about Felonious Spunk. I decide who gets hired. I am the prison pussy panty business.
- Basement-Dweller: Morello discovers Vinnie is one as she tries to have phone sex with him, only for him to tell her it's not the right time and place since his roommate is his little brother.
- Broken Pedestal: Poussey loses both idealization of Judy King and loses interest in Brook after learning of Brook's lie to Judy about her being born from a crack shore.
- Call-Back : Tastee reminds Caputo that she won the job fair.
- Do Wrong, Right: Two of Piper's pantie sellers quit because they think Piper is getting too dangerous.
- It's All About Me: Maria calls Piper out on this.
- Love Triangle: Red complains about this between her, Healy and Judy King.
- N-Word Privileges : Discussed after Boo calls Brook and Poussey "lesbians" and Poussey points out that Brook is not. The latter then tries to invoke this trope with the "N-word", to some side-eye from Poussey.
- Older Than They Look : The neighbourhood sex offender asks Brook how old she is before he invites her in to talk to him about Walmart moving in.
- Pansexuality: Brook is revealed to be pansexual when mocked by the other lesbians.Brook: I'm attracted to people, not genders.
- Poor Communication Kills : The sex offender, whose sentence was for having sex on a beach, has had nothing but rumors have destroyed his life. Later, Brook humiliates herself by making assumptions about Poussey.Brook: I watch The Wire a lot.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Maria warns Piper about this.Maria: Somebody's getting a little big for her panties, I think. You're talking shit out of a paper asshole, Chapman. But when an actual hard-ass bitch decides to call you out on it...
- Shout-Out : To The Shawshank RedemptionTaystee: I won't crawl through piss and dookie.
- Also to Say Anything... when Brook tries to win back Poussey. With Eminem.
Brook: It's not a presumption about you liking rap. AM 700 is the only station that comes in clear.- Vinnie has a poster of Scar Face on his bedroom wall.
- Taystee says "Winter is coming, bitches"
- Soapbox Sadie : Brook. So much Brook. The results are alarming.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Red puts eye drops in Judy King's food as payback.
- The Food Poisoning Incident: Judy King stress-eats food that Red put eye drops in, and ends up running to the bathroom and defecating violently.
- Unusual Euphemism : Lorna describing to Vinny how she found his "Cock-a-doodle-doo" over the phone.
