orange is the new black season 1 episode 9

She's absorbed everyone else's experiences and finds herself in the exact same place. She then gets a burger from Storky's-where Taystee worked-and grabs a 40 instead of cheap champagne. Piper leaves her brother's wedding/grandmother's funeral to go to Red's market, only to find it closed down. But the resigned melancholy that pervades the end of the episode elevates her resignation to her situation. What Piper learns in her time on the outside is nothing really new: prison changes people and you can't really go back home. Piper's father tells her why he doesn't come to visit her in prison, Larry ultimately admits that he slept with someone else, and after all of that she doesn't even get to go to The Spotted Pig (which, for what it's worth, is a really good choice for a furlough meal). After all, she's there to mourn her grandmother, and things with Larry are tense. As one might predict, things do not go so smoothly for Piper out of prison. Overall impressions: This episode does, for the most part, belong to Piper's experiences in the outside world. But when Red's importing business is successful, Vee turns on her, and has her lackeys beat her up.

Vee began, it seemed, as an ally to the nervous Red, instructing her to use her connections to make life better for herself. Very Important Prisoner: Though the episode devotes flashbacks to show the relationship between Vee and Red, the episode mainly belongs to Piper, who gets a chance to leave prison behind for furlough.įlashback: We're taken back to an earlier era of Litchfield when both Vee and Red were new inmates (and with different hair).

Orange is the new black season 1 episode 9